Last month I touched on the pseudo-mavens who proclaim (inadvertently or not) to set the ‘standards’ by which every food imaginable is to be judged as ‘correct’ in only the form and taste they deem proper and acceptable. And if we don’t agree with them, then apparently we have no idea what we’re talking about. Right. Citing pizza and steak as examples…I pointed out some geographical observations that always lead to major differences of opinion regarding those two culinary staples.
Using similar parameters of thought we have frozen yogurt. There is no “one” taste that’s universally accepted as perfect. Nor can there be. For example, different machines dispense the same products differently. That’s a fact. You can have two machines, same manufacturer, but one has an air pump while the other is gravity-fed. One is air-cooled, the other water-cooled. The product’s consistency will taste a bit different and will even look different, as the air-pump machine will “fluff” up the dispensed yogurt (or ice cream) like a tall Christmas tree, while the gravity machine’s product will lay lower in the cup because it’s not “pumped” with air. Then the ‘mavens’ weigh in and half declare the air-pump product superior, while the gravity-fed half extols the rich, solid taste, albeit no ‘air’. Which side is correct? Neither. Because you can take the same exact yogurt, put it in another entirely different machine (Electro-Freeze, Sani-Serve, Wellspring, etc.)…even an air-pump model, and that yogurt’s consistency will probably taste a bit different than it did in that first machine that excited your taste buds first time around. And you may even like it better in the second machine! (maybe). We saw this first-hand when we researched our Dannon product earlier last year. At their facility, their R&D department uses different make machines all lined up, dispensing the same product. We noticed variances in taste and ‘fluffy-ness’…yet all were terrific!
At Planet Yogurt, our machines don’t have air pumps, so our Dannon product swirls but doesn’t “fluff up” like a tall Christmas tree, pumped with air. It dispenses more naturally, and in fact, seems to actually harden a tad bit more when it’s actually in the cup for a moment after being dispensed, offering a more solid, richer texture. That’s what we do.
Planet Yogurt is located at 27023 McBean Parkway in Valencia at the Promenade Shopping Plaza. For more information, please call 661-254-2471 or visit www.planetyogurtonline.com today!