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Nitro Ice Cream at London's Chin Chin Laboratorists

We’ll pretty much go to the ends of the earth for a great scoop of ice cream. Lucky for us, on our last ice cream hunt, we just had to hit the streets of Camden in north London for our latest find: Chin Chin Laboratorists.

Billing itself as “Europe’s first nitro ice cream parlour,” Chin Chin is half confectionery, half mad science lab. It’s that half we like the best. The staff—husband-wife owners Ahrash Akbari-Kalhur and Nyisha Weber—actually don lab coats, protective gloves and goggles reminiscent of high school chemistry class as they dramatically shoot vaporous nitrogen gas from metal tanks into the mixing bowls they fill with their ice cream solution. And, a quick chemical reaction later: you have a scoop of ice cream. If only all science had such delicious applications!

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