Nitrogen Ice Cream

One of my more recent adventures involved a Friday evening trek down to Mix ‘N’ Match Creamery a food cart over near Voodoo Donuts. After Yelp-ing nitrogen ice cream this was the closest place that came up. I almost gave up on finding it – instead of being a full food cart, it’s literally just a small cart.

Friday was a bit of a darker, more cloudy day than most have been in the past month.

I approached the cart, and young man working there – Kyle, he later said his name was – asked if I wanted some ice cream.

“I do – I heard about this whole nitrogen ice cream thing online in a news article, and ya’ll are the closest one.”

“In fact, the only one in town!”

I browsed the expansive list of flavors and ingredients.

These are the instructions for ordering at Mix N Match Creamery

These are all the flavors and add-ins they have available!

Finally, I decided on peanut butter flavor, and kit-kat as an add-in.

While chatting with me, Kyle mixed up all the ingredients, and set them under the nitrogen. A smoke rose from the cream mixture as he continued to stir. Another blast from the nitrogen and it was ready to serve.

The ice cream was good. I would have liked it to be a little bit more peanut butter-y and stay frozen longer, but those are just little things. I would definitely go again, especially with visiting friends, because it’s pretty fun. Right by Big Pink (Portland City Grill) and Voodoo Donuts, so why not? Grab a snack after happy hour and before getting in line!