Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

Smart Stuff: The Ice Cream That Will Freeze Granny (2002x5)

Air date: Dec 30, 2002

What connects creating the perfect tasting ice cream with bringing people back to life after cryogenic freezing? Creating ice cream that will re-freeze time after time but still remains as tasty as the day it was made, is a major culinary conundrum. New ways of conjuring up this faultless cuisine may come from the most unlikely places - serving up the perfect ice cream may depend on understanding how Arctic fishes stop themselves from freezing in their icy homes. But if we can mimic this seemingly magical feat, could we do far more than make the perfect raspberry ripple? Could we cryogenically freeze your granny and then defrost her back to her radiant self again?