The 14 Types of Ice Cream — And Why They Exist

Fourteen kinds of ice cream, every one invented for a specific reason — climate, religion, a broken machine, or someone trying to copy another dessert. Walk into any supermarket freezer aisle and you'll find a dozen tubs that look nearly identical. Around the world, people have been freezing dairy, water, and fat for more than two thousand years and invented something closer to forty genuinely different kinds. These fourteen are the ones that keep showing up — from a stretchy Turkish mastic ice cream pulled on a stick, to Alaskan Eskimo ice cream made with seal fat and wild berries, to a German dessert that looks exactly like a plate of spaghetti. Play along: count how many of the fourteen you've actually tasted. The average person gets four. Hit eight and you've eaten more ice cream than nine out of ten Americans. The 14 types of Ice Cream in this video: Akutaq · Dondurma · Spaghettieis · Dippin' Dots · Kulfi · Mochi Ice Cream · Halo-halo · Nitrogen Ice Cream · Nieve de Garrafa · Frozen Custard · Sorbet · Soft Serve · Gelato · American Ice Cream Chapters: 0:00 Why ice cream has 14 answers 0:43 Akutaq 1:27 Dondurma 2:13 Spaghettieis 2:50 Dippin' Dots 3:33 Kulfi 4:15 Mochi Ice Cream 5:10 Halo-halo 5:54 Nitrogen Ice Cream 6:34 Nieve de Garrafa 7:16 Frozen Custard 8:02 Sorbet 8:41 Soft Serve 9:27 Gelato 10:11 American Ice Cream 10:55 Why vanilla is just one answer How many of the fourteen did you get? Drop your number in the comments. Every Kind Of breaks down everyday foods and drinks variety by variety — what each one is, where it came from, and what makes it different from the rest. All videos are voiced by a professional human voice artist and edited by a human video editor. Subscribe for the next one — more foods broken down the same way. IceCream #FoodHistory #EveryKindOf