I like adding things to my icecream, usually peanut butter and frozen fruit. Got to thinking that if I added oats I could actually increase the volume without impacting the flavour all that much (I like oats). I could probably use floured starches or something like that.

Are there other things you “fill”? I think juice + water is the most familiar example. What about something like adding 20% dehydrated milk to fresh milk? Substituting some butter for oil?

Sometimes I find when I’m making my own stuff it ends up being more expensive than buying the packaged variety from the store, but maybe fillers are a way to balance that out.

  • @Delphia@lemmy.world
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    21 year ago

    In most cases its just the economy of scale at work. I cant make a pizza for what Dominos can because they buy every last one of their ingredients by the tonne.

    • The Snark Urge
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      31 year ago

      A simple margherita is cheap to make from scratch. the toppings are the real killer.