I’ve made liquid nitrogen ice cream before, and the lumpy result was, put charitably, no better than supermarket brands. It’s kinda fun but definitely not worthy of cultish devotion.

If you normally spend more than $35,000 on a tub, then you could do both with the N2-G4 NitroCream, a rather startlingly priced ice cream machine which pumps liquid nitrogen into cream or yoghurt ...

“Liquid-nitrogen ice cream is a huge hit on the West Coast,” says Ruan, 33, who opened the store in September and is now in his first liquid-nitrogen summer. The ice cream cups sell for $6.50 ...

Liquid nitrogen. Named after the chemical element’s freezing point, Williamsburg, Brooklyn’s -321° Ice Cream Shop (288 Grand St.) makes the tasty scoop in front of customers by using machines ...

Naomi and Jerry Hancock, founders of Sub Zero Nitrogen Ice Cream, pose in their Provo location on July 10. (Megan Nielsen, Deseret News) ...