Ice Ed – The friendly Ice Cream Editor

Ice Ed is a free tool to create ice cream recipes and calculate the ideal mixture ratios with a focus on ease and usability.

• Editing and import/export of recipes and ingredient data
• Adjustable target parameters for consistency and serving temperature
• Accounting for Water, Sugar, Fat, MSNF, Solids, PAC, POD, kcal
• Matching of the recipe with the target parameters for different types of ice cream
• Additional checks for the recipe
  • Maximum milk powder amount
  • Usage of different sugar types
• Displaying the freezing graph
• Scaling of the recipe based on the total or an ingredients amount
• Automatic optimization towards the target parameters
• 60+ pre-defined ingredients
• Assisted data import from USDA FDC data base for ingredients
• Tools for PAC and POD calculation of an ingredient

How to use

Just download the html file and load it into your browser or run online. Ice Ed is making use of some contemporary web technologies and will not run in outdated browsers like the Internet Explorer. In general the usage of the latest stable release of the browser of your choice is recommended.

Support & Feedback

For any feature requests, bug reports or contributions, please visit the project page on GitHub or leave me a note via Google Forms (no login required).

Coding

Ice Ed is written in plain HTML5/CSS/JavaScript, without any external dependencies. Please feel free to tweak and extend it according to your taste.

Changelog

0.4.0 Beta

• Overrun calculation and scoop sizes
• Support for negative PAC values to account hardening of cocoa and nut pastes
• Egg yolk calculator
• Sorting for recipe columns
• Improved print layout
• Download button for newer versions
• Minor fixes and tweaks

0.3.1 Beta

• Fixed browser compatibility for WebKit browsers

Browser Compatibility

Tested

• Chrome 85.0
• Firefox 80.0
• Opera 70.0
• MS Edge 85.0

Not working

• Internet Explorer