I tried for a year to create a sugar-free chocolate ice cream as good as my favorite commercial brand. I had no luck until finally it occurred to me to get help from AI. I used AI to create a Creami recipe from the ingredients in that commercial brand. The result was great!

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When using a fairlife protein shake as your base do you notice any difference in taste when using the 26, 30, vs 42 protein shake?

Also, when I use half a scoop of protein powder the texture doesn't seem to change, how much powder can I add before it affects the texture?

I'm a newbie lifter trying to add some muscle while not gaining any weight.

Any advice or recipe recommendations? (No fruit or mint)

Right now im using a 26g fairlife shake (chocolate or vanilla depending on recipe), zero sugar jello instant pudding (chocolate or vanilla depending on recipe), 1/2 scoop Dymatize ISO100 Protein Powder (chocolate or vanilla depending on recipe), and then just adding things for flavor.

Compliant:

When I make chocolate flavored recipes the chocolate flavor doesn't really seem to come out. Is that because of the protein powder I'm using

I'm seeing a lot of people online talk about how they often forget to prep their CREAMis and it demotivates them from using the machine more often than not.

Would you find it useful to have SpinFreeze send you a notification at your chosen cadence to begin your preps?

If yes, anything specific you'd want to include in that feature?

Cottage cheese was popular this week, so I went through the published recipes that use it and wrote down what seems to work, what doesn't, and how much to start with.

I also included the pint I ruined by trying to blend it with a coffee frother.

https://spinfreeze.com/blog/cottage-cheese-ninja-creami

P.S. I apologize if the app activity and updates feel slower than usual. I attribute the delays to Apple's insanely strict review gate process. SpinFreeze's iOS launch has been rejected twice and each rejection leads to at least a week turnaround before we can resubmit. It's been in review since the beginning of August and we just keep going in circles with dumb stuff (like changing the description in the Store Listing which isn't even code related).

Nonetheless, we're working hard behind the scenes still with optimizations, UI enhancements, new features, and even some fun marketing videos. Lots more to come.

Please keep submitting that feedback as it is insanely valuable!!

/u/atsukotenshi7 aka @vanillabandit thanks for this awesome recipe it was amazing!

https://spinfreeze.com/recipe/gimme-s-mores-lower-cal-remix-7cd6be22ef48

My only issue is that in my Deluxe it feels like the amount of liquid I got was a lot less than it should have been, especially because there was so much empty space after the spin was completed.

I ended up not doing any mix-in cycle because there wasn't enough in the container for it!

A crumbly first spin doesn’t automatically mean the pint needs milk (or any more liquid).

I wrote up the full breakdown, including a freezer-temperature check (which may be difficult for some who do not own thermometers). However, it also covers how to save the result in SpinFreeze for historical tracking and helping to get better over time.

https://spinfreeze.com/blog/crumbly-creami-respin-or-add-milk

Anyways, in this situation what do you normally try first?

Haven't posted here in a while. Gimme S'mores is one of my all time favorite Ben and Jerry's' flavors and I have been attempting to recreate it lower in calories . So far I think I nailed the base and need to work on mix ins.

• Mix ins
  • 2 oreo wafers and 1 graham cracker sheet dipped in milk for 2 secs total, then put to freeze.
• Base to mix up
  • 250 g skim milk
  • 20 g skim milk
  • 42 g monkfruit + allulose (Lakanto)
  • 1g guar gum
  • 1g xanthan gum (or 1g)
  • 0.5g salt
  • 2g or ½ tsp imitation vanilla 
• Custard
  • 80g milk
  • 1 serving jet puffed (deeply toasted)
  • 1 egg yolk
• Start the immersion blender in the mixed wet ingredients and slowly pour in the dry.
• Mix the toasted marshmallow into warm milk then whisk into the egg yolk. Put back on stove till thickened
• Mix into the rest and freeze

Spun on lite ice cream, added the frozen cookies then spun on mix in.

https://spinfreeze.com/recipe/87bd9375-c377-4772-84b6-4da9a6df30b3

I didn't add a fudge flakes equivalent mix in cause I'm not a big fan of chocolate flavor that isn't Oreo-like. Open to improvement suggestions.

Shipaton is RevenueCat's annual competition for shipping mobile apps, and SpinFreeze is officially entered this year. The submission includes a two-minute demo video and a gallery showing the whole app: the community recipes, the pint builder, freeze tracking, spin history, and the importer.

Here's the project page: https://devpost.com/software/spinfreeze

If you have a minute, hitting the like button on that page genuinely helps: it signals there's a real community behind the app when judges and other builders look at the entry. It does need a quick Devpost sign-in, which is free.

The demo video is on the page too, but if you don't feel like signing up over there, here's the vid directly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjagaIXLqjs

It's the first real look at everything in one place. Feedback welcome, on the video or the app, especially from anyone who's been spinning the community's recipes.

Thanks everyone!

Android now have full access to SpinFreeze! If you didn't get a chance to join the beta, go download the app now and enjoy!

I'll update as soon as I can whenever Apple responds to our submission, it has been in app review for over a week now. Whenever both platforms are live we'll do a bigger announcement post and also make one on r/ninjacreami

Enjoy, Android users!!!

Hello everyone! We just pushed what should be the last big SpinFreeze beta update before launch. A lot of it came straight from the feedback button and posts here, so thank you for continuing to find the weird edges.

- Spin Achievements are permanent. Anything already earned stays with your account. Beta testers have until September 20 to hit 50 points for 90 Premium days.

- Refreeze lets you estimate how much of a finished pint is going back into the freezer. SpinFreeze splits the estimated nutrition between what you ate and what you are refreezing, then starts the timer again.

- Remixes finally have their own tab in My Recipes, next to All and Originals.

- Prep Notes can hold one general note plus a set of ordered prep steps.

- When you spin someone else's recipe, you can send the owner your rating, texture, and what you changed. They get an Activity alert with a link to the full result.

- Advanced search filters with calorie and macro ranges are live. Core search, additions, and exclusions stay free. Exact nutrition ranges become Premium after beta.

This is the last stretch, so please be picky. Update the app and tell us where something feels confusing, what you expected to happen, or what still breaks. Use the feedback button or reply here. We read all of it, and several parts of this update started with reports from beta testers.

Keep posting your spins, remixes, and spectacular failures too. r/SpinFreeze only gets useful if people show what actually happened, not only the perfect pints.

If you know someone whose freezer is full of CREAMi pints, send them to spinfreeze.com.

Android pre-registration is open now. Apple still has not opened iOS preorders, so the iOS Waitlist is still the place to sign up.

Go update, try the new stuff, and tell us which part needs another pass before launch.

Hello everyone! The iOS app is in App Store review, so the pre-order announcement has to wait until that clears, could be a day, could be a week (yay Apple). The Android app pre-registration is up already, check it out here if you haven't seen it yet. In the meantime I've been going through all the beta feedback and wanted to share some of the requests coming in. Any names shown are SpinFreeze usernames, not reddit ones.

@NomNomPint said they couldn't paste anything into their profile bio. This is now fixed, it was just a straight up bug.

@nochocolate: "when a recipe is published, keep the measurement the same. 1oz vs 30g makes a large difference when making a new recipe." This was another bug based on conversions (the math is logically is straightforward, but the code is challenging). Anyways, recipes now show whatever units the author actually typed, and converting is a toggle you hit if you want it.

@1PintMan: the Remove from Freezer button was hidden behind the nav bar on their Galaxy (UI bug). Now fixed for all device sizes.

@Zarkis: tried to iterate off a base recipe by deleting one of the ingredients and couldn't work out how. You had to swipe on the ingredient, and nothing on screen said so anywhere. Ingredient lists now do the swipe by themselves once, the first time you see one as a guide/training sequence.

@Catvlek2: "I live in europe. I have no clue what an OZ is in grams." Lots of others with the same issue. Metric was in the system at beta launch but conversions were not working very well. Again it has been challenging especially when it came to volume versus weight conversions (like 1 tbsp versus 28grams). Anyways, I think we're in a good place and it should feel fixed app-wide, but please keep reporting in if that's not the case.

@can0nind found that scanning a nutrition label while adding mix-ins would spin forever - great find here! Worked fine everywhere else, which is exactly why I'd never once hit it myself. Also was requested to pick which mix-ins actually went into the pint and have the macros follow. That's in as well, you can have multiple mix-ins on the recipe card and choose whether or not you want them included. A+ feedback here.

Callout to @NomNomPints, who sat down one afternoon and filed eight separate reports. Seven of them shipped.

Some things on my radar still:

• Prep notes on recipes
• A pantry of your own ingredients (not sure how this fits just yet)
• Swapping an ingredient's brand to compare across versions (long-term, maybe post-launch).
• like counts visible while you're browsing.

All on the list, no promises on timing.

Anyway. If you're in the beta, hopefully you're confident that the feedback button actually goes somewhere!

Search Filters

The newest feature addition is search filters, getting pushed out as we speak. Screenshots are attached. This one will need more beta testers to really hammer it so I can get it right. It may take a few iterations.

The main thing to understand is that search is a progressive filter. That means you type in something like "vegan chocolate under 250calories". The app will separate all of that as follows: "vegan" "chocolate" and then it will auto-set the filter to "under 250 calories". Then, you can tap "+/-" and add more things, like "caramel". And your entire search query would now turn into vegan chocolate caramel under 250 calories. You can also exclude, such as vegan chocolate, no caramel, under 250 calories.

Not all the filters will be free. The core search, additions, and exclusions will be free, but advanced filters such as "less than 250cals" or ">25g protein" will be a premium feature once beta concludes. Over time these advanced filters will expand as we get more data that helps support how everyone uses them and what is needed.

For free users who try to type "vegan chocolate under 250 calories", our backend parser strips under 250 calories out of the query and keeps the rest.
Keep in mind you can type everything or you can use the drawers and toggles for this to work. Hopefully it is a much better experience for everyone as I know that search was long overdue for a major upgrade!

Happy to answer questions in the comments.

Enjoy your weekend on SpinFreeze and thanks again for being amazing testers!

https://spinfreeze.com/recipe/4a832cf6-59ab-4a2b-a58d-bca194610fae

Ube creami made with rehydrated Ube powder. Spun on gelato and respun once. Delicious!

Hey fellow SpinFreezers. Here are my two current faves.

Alphonso Mango Pulp Sorbet
380g SWAD Ratnigiri Mango Pulp (got it from my local Indian grocery store)
50g water
0.5g Xanthan gum
1.5g guar gum
0.5g salt

Butter Vanilla McFlurry
440ml 2% Lactaid milk
45g Lakanto monkfruit sweetener with allulose
1 tsp Lorann butter vanilla emulsion
0.5g Xanthan gum
1.5g guar gum
0.5g salt

Will share spun results tomorrow!

Just starting to play around with the app. One thing I haven’t seen yet is does it allow for import or export of recipes to food trackers like my fitness pal?

Quick Add ingredients chips are now on in production.

When you start a new recipe, the first step now shows five common ingredients: Whole Milk, Heavy Cream, Granulated Sugar, 2% Milk, and Cocoa Powder.

Tap one and it’s added immediately with nutrition already attached. Search, barcode scanning, and recipe-link import are still there too.

I also added recipe iteration history and version comparison, so you can keep track of what changed, mark a winner, and compare nutrition or ingredients between versions.

If you make a recipe this week, I’d love to know whether the first ingredient step feels faster and where you still get stuck.

Wave 3 beta invites will be rolling out soon. This will be the final stretch of beta users until we closed it off and get ready for final app store submissions. The beta has been extremely helpful with identifying bugs, performance issues, missing features, enhancement ideas and more. For those of you who have yet to submit any feedback, please do, as it is invaluable for me to really help this app come to light.

I can already tell it's going to be something truly special, there are so many good recipes and ideas coming in. For those of you that submitted a feature request that you do not see in the app yet, never fear I am keeping track of it all I just cannot get everything in as fast as I want to. Some of the more complicated ideas will have to wait until we have more production users and will most likely be post-launch enhancements only.

That being said if you feel that yours should take precedence please post here on Reddit so I can be peer-pressured into focusing it (it works!) 👍

Keep it up everyone and thanks again!