![]() ![]() ![]() After they sold the business, they started another focused on super elastic orthopedic implants. He and his brother worked alongside their father, an Italian immigrant, for 20 years in a metal working business, producing rocket motor cases for missiles. “What about a Keurig machine for ice cream?” one daughter asked.įonte’s background played a significant role in jumpstarting the process. He explained ice cream machines for the home aren’t typically efficient many require a bucket to be frozen overnight, a consistent mixing process and are a mess to clean up. “One day, they asked for an ice cream machine.” “We included new toys, toothbrushes and hoola hoops,” he told CNN Business. The idea started years ago when Fonte and his two daughters grew tired of reading the same books at bedtime and decided to write in “invention journals.” Air is sucked into the can to make the required loft in the ice cream. The company says the machine simultaneously pulls heat from the pod, creating a cooling effect on the liquid ice cream mix, and engages a part within the pod that churns the ingredients during the cooling process. “In the beginning, a lot of people didn’t think it was possible to create ice cream like this in about a minute or so.” “This is challenging and requires significant development and engineering expertise,” said Fonte, who has a PhD in mechanical engineering from Tufts University. Keurig and other one-time use pod makers have long been criticized for the inability to recycle their products.ĬoldSnap, a Keurig system for soft serve ice cream, is expected to start shipping early next year ColdSnap Matthew Fonte, the serial entrepreneur behind the product, said it’s been a big undertaking to create pods that are safe, convenient (little cleanup), cost effective and sustainable the pod containers are aluminum like a soda can. (The company said it aims to eventually bring it down by half.) But the price point is less sweet than the product: $1,000. The product, which is only in the prototype stage with plans to launch in select locations in the second quarter of 2021 and ship direct to consumers early next year, falls under the where has this been all my life? category. The machine reads a QR code on top of the pod’s label to find the specific freezing temperature for each product. The company is also working on pods for smoothies, frozen coffees, protein shakes, non-dairy ice cream and frozen cocktails, such as mud slides and daiquiris. The system is marketed as taking shelf-stable, recyclable ice cream pods of varying flavors and freezing them in about 90 seconds before dispensing it into a cup or cone. At a time when much of the event, like much of our lives, is focused on ways to adapt to the pandemic, the ColdSnap offers the promise of something sweeter, on demand. It’s a rocky road to disrupt the ice cream industry, but sundae you may get your soft serve from a pod.Ī new machine called ColdSnap, which looks and functions like a Keurig for soft serve ice cream, has emerged as one of the buzziest products of this year’s all-digital CES tech show. ![]()
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