Ice Cream on the Celebrity Summit

[Guppy99]

3 hours ago, Veinless said:

Anyone know what toppings are available these days? I recall sour patch kids in 2020. 

gummy bears, choc sprinkles, multi color sprinkles, choc syrup, strawberry syrup, caramel syrup

I don't recall sour patch kids or nuts.

[Guppy99]

On 5/16/2022 at 9:16 PM, Happy Cruiser 6143 said:

 

It's not self serve on M class.  The question was about Summit which is an M class ship.

mast grill ice cream on summit is most certainly self-serve unless it has changed in the past 6 months

[moneeman]

 

On 5/16/2022 at 12:56 PM, Cinderellie said:

That sounds great, kenb, "IF" we liked coffee. But thanks for the suggestion. Others may love it.

If you have the premium drink package, order an Affogato, but ask for the espresso on the side.  Eat the gelato, and leave the espresso.  Now you have free gelato!  (maybe that's why they took it off the menu?) 

[Guppy99]

21 minutes ago, moneeman said:

 

If you have the premium drink package, order an Affogato, but ask for the espresso on the side.  Eat the gelato, and leave the espresso.  Now you have free gelato!  (maybe that's why they took it off the menu?) 

all to cheat them out of a $5 fee?

[Cap_D]

After spending a few thousand dollars why does Celebrity insist on such insulting charges for not very good gelato?  There's almost zero difference between the milk fat content between what Celebrity calls ice cream vs gelato, and they are not keeping them at different temps.  It was a memorable and ridiculous experience to be told that there was a charge for unlabeled gelato vs the ice cream in the same case.  Even if it was somehow super premium ice cream (which gelato would never be) or served at a different temp (it should be) a charge makes no sense for an inclusive experience, or any other distinguishing package like the premium drink package. It would not be surprising to lean that all ice cream and gelato on the ships is made from the same multimix vanilla flavored base in the blue cartons that is used for soft serve and at most bars when they need a faux cream base. We looked it up while on the ship, and it's promoted by the foodservice companies as a value mix.  (It's perfectly fine for what it is, and may be less full of extra ingredients than some.  Celeb seems to avoid some ingredients in its purchasing, but that may be a function of picking supply outside the U.S., e.g., French fries are from some non-US company). The selection of toppings is also on the skimpy side compared to a real world ice cream stand.

 

On the plus side, the ice cream, gelato, and soft serve aren't very heavy and, in fact, probably on the low end of the milkfat scale, gums, etc.  So there are better and thicker frozen desserts comparatively speaking, but these are perfectly fine for 80-100 temps on a hot day when one is also ingesting a lot of other food.  We'd keep them as compared to going towards chemical tasting products.  The favors correlate to Monin syrups on board, e.g., lavender, so it's possible that's the source of the flavoring.  Those are higher quality mass produced syrups compared to many other name brands and seem "clean."

 

And, usually the ice cream attendants are some of the friendliest crew.  Reeza and on Edge this Spring memorized the names of everyone that shares one, and was a real ambassador to the ship.  He greeted everyone.   Far more engaged than the cruise activity team who seems to be going through the motions.  Though no one goes on a Celebrity ship for a loud and obnoxious cruise director and events team.

[Cap_D]

Here's the mix used on Edge in April from Ft. Lauderdale...https://instantwhip.com/products/frozen-dessert-mix/

 

[Guppy99]

28 minutes ago, Cap_D said:

After spending a few thousand dollars why does Celebrity insist on such insulting charges for not very good gelato?  There's almost zero difference between the milk fat content between what Celebrity calls ice cream vs gelato, and they are not keeping them at different temps.  It was a memorable and ridiculous experience to be told that there was a charge for unlabeled gelato vs the ice cream in the same case.  Even if it was somehow super premium ice cream (which gelato would never be) or served at a different temp (it should be) a charge makes no sense for an inclusive experience, or any other distinguishing package like the premium drink package. It would not be surprising to lean that all ice cream and gelato on the ships is made from the same multimix vanilla flavored base in the blue cartons that is used for soft serve and at most bars when they need a faux cream base. We looked it up while on the ship, and it's promoted by the foodservice companies as a value mix.  (It's perfectly fine for what it is, and may be less full of extra ingredients than some.  Celeb seems to avoid some ingredients in its purchasing, but that may be a function of picking supply outside the U.S., e.g., French fries are from some non-US company). The selection of toppings is also on the skimpy side compared to a real world ice cream stand.

 

On the plus side, the ice cream, gelato, and soft serve aren't very heavy and, in fact, probably on the low end of the milkfat scale, gums, etc.  So there are better and thicker frozen desserts comparatively speaking, but these are perfectly fine for 80-100 temps on a hot day when one is also ingesting a lot of other food.  We'd keep them as compared to going towards chemical tasting products.  The favors correlate to Monin syrups on board, e.g., lavender, so it's possible that's the source of the flavoring.  Those are higher quality mass produced syrups compared to many other name brands and seem "clean."

 

And, usually the ice cream attendants are some of the friendliest crew.  Reeza and on Edge this Spring memorized the names of everyone that shares one, and was a real ambassador to the ship.  He greeted everyone.   Far more engaged than the cruise activity team who seems to be going through the motions.  Though no one goes on a Celebrity ship for a loud and obnoxious cruise director and events team.

Very simple...don't buy the gelato. How easy is that?

[moneeman]

4 hours ago, Guppy99 said:

all to cheat them out of a $5 fee?

All in fun, Guppy.  It's not even on the menu anymore.  I always pay full price for my (infrequent) gelato.  I'm a numbers guy, and enjoy pointing out pricing discrepancies.  I remember a few years ago McDonalds had a breakfast special where you could buy 2 egg mcmuffins for $3.33 where a single one cost $3.79.  I only wanted one, but I pointed out that they were selling 2 for less, so I wanted to pay the lesser price.  It blew their minds.  They put two on my tray.  I handed one back to them and walked off laughing.

[Guppy99]

2 hours ago, moneeman said:

All in fun, Guppy.  It's not even on the menu anymore.  I always pay full price for my (infrequent) gelato.  I'm a numbers guy, and enjoy pointing out pricing discrepancies.  I remember a few years ago McDonalds had a breakfast special where you could buy 2 egg mcmuffins for $3.33 where a single one cost $3.79.  I only wanted one, but I pointed out that they were selling 2 for less, so I wanted to pay the lesser price.  It blew their minds.  They put two on my tray.  I handed one back to them and walked off laughing.

Ah... yup, it is amazing. What's utterly incredible is that when you explain no one gets what your talking about!

[davy jones]

On 5/29/2022 at 3:27 PM, Guppy99 said:

mast grill ice cream on summit is most certainly self-serve unless it has changed in the past 6 months

There was no self serve on the May 13 sailing.  Only hand scooped in the OV or the gelato.

 

 

[39august]

I believe there are self serve soft serve machines at the Mast Grill on both M and S class ships. There is also soft serve behind the ice cream case on S class that is served by the attendant there. 

[Guppy99]

43 minutes ago, 39august said:

I believe there are self serve soft serve machines at the Mast Grill on both M and S class ships. There is also soft serve behind the ice cream case on S class that is served by the attendant there. 

yup. Vanilla, sometimes chocolate & strawberry

[Happy Cruiser 6143]

1 hour ago, 39august said:

I believe there are self serve soft serve machines at the Mast Grill on both M and S class ships. There is also soft serve behind the ice cream case on S class that is served by the attendant there. 

 

You can believe anything you choose to.  However, several recent cruisers have reported that there was no soft serve available.  There was none on the April 25 and May 4 cruises on the Summit.  A poster above reported none on the May 13 cruise.

[Guppy99]

OMG... there must be a conspiracy to withhold ice cream from their passengers.

[Big_G]

I don't each much ice cream but I always know where to find my wife if the disappears on me. 😆

[Happy Cruiser 6143]

1 hour ago, Guppy99 said:

OMG... there must be a conspiracy to withhold ice cream from their passengers.

 

I don't believe anyone has alleged there was no ice cream available.