- Baked Choc Chip Cookie Chocolate Fudge
- Belgian Chocolate
- Cafe Grande
- Camarosa Strawberry
- Caramel Honey Macadamia
- Chocolate Brownie Custard
- Classic Vanilla
- Cookies & Cream
- Crunchy Peanut Butter Salted Caramel
- Derwent Valley Raspberry & White Chocolate
- Hazelnut & Murray River Salted Caramel
- Honeycomb & Australian Honey
- Jam Doughnut
- Matcha Green Tea
- Mint & Cookies
- Murray River Salted Caramel
- Plant Based Hazelnut Chocolate
- Vanilla & Caramel Brownie
Raspberry and White Chocolate ftw
Chocolate brownie custard. So good.
Try not to broden them!
This is hands down my favourite plain vanilla ice cream, does anyone have suggestions for better?
ALDI Indulge Vanilla Bean
or Kapiti Vanilla Bean if you like a bit creamier one
Been meaning to try the Kapiti, it's got a higher full cream percentage than the Connoisseur vanilla. Need to do a blind taste test of both…just to be sure.
So, one tub each? Or 5 tubs each as a proper scientific study?
ive had the coffee and salted caramel kapiti ice cream and to me they're better than any connoisseur.
The ALDI one is such great value, it's very similar to connoisseur imo but not as 'sticky'
Kapiti I have yet to try!
This one - https://norcofoods.com.au/product/norco-cape-byron-ultimate-…
You can get it at Coles (not sure about Woolworths sorry). I did a direct comparison on the weekend :P
Ooh I will have to try this!
I think that is the best out there.
However be careful as Norco have this one as well:(https://norcofoods.com.au/product/norco-100-australian-farme…)
The first ingredient is water and the second ingredient is sugar syrup. Don’t know how they can have the best and the worst offering in the market.
Oh… I haven't tried the Cape Byron variant. But I did buy the 100% farmer owned one the other week because it was cheap.
It tasted and felt in the mouth more like flavoured frozen water than a good ice cream. Do not recommend it either.
I think that one is the same as woolies homebrand one. Nearly the same ingredients in same order https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/281393
when the Norco ice cream factory got flooded in 2022, the ALDI indulge range went out for ages and only came back when the factory started operating again.
I suspect that Aldi's indulge is made by Norco and that maybe that Norco vanilla bean is very similar or even the same as the ALDI one. would love to know if anyone has compared them
i've tried them all and got to say the classic Vanilla flavour is still the best
Bulla slaps.
Of course Hagen Das. No fillers. Just cream, egg and sugar.
Get a Ninja Creami and make your own. You can’t make fluffy ice cream in it (because it doesn’t churn so no air is incorporated), but you can make really good dense sticky ice cream like this one.
I used to really dig the Blue Ribbon vanilla, but the last few times were disappointing. Someone mentioned on ozb that they changed the recipe so that it's not technically ice cream anymore, though this could be a conspiracy theory.
To be classified as ice cream it has to contain at least 10% milk fat, which Blue Ribbon no longer does. Woolworths now calls it "frozen dessert".
I notice that the description on the woolworths website for Blue Ribbon still describes, that the title on the Coles website call it a "Vanilla Ice Cream Tub" and that Choice even includes it as one of the "top ice creams in our test" in their Vanilla ice cream round-up.
Looks like these food standards have been in place since 2015/2016 - does that mean that they just continued to mislabel their product, or has the recipe actually changed?
@Dex: The recipe must have changed. I Googled to find some photos of the Blue Ribbon ingredient list and nutrition panel and this one shows the fat content as 10.8g per 100g and a different ingredient list to the one currently on the Streets website. Streets website has fat content as 7g per 100g and the ice cream ingredient list now includes vegetable oil, which is probably a cheaper fat than milk fat/cream. Maybe the Choice test was done before the change? Personally, I think Coles should be calling it "frozen dessert" or similar as Woolworths does.
@Dex: Quite a few complaints about Blue Ribbon in the last several months on Product Review mention a recipe change.
@mdsh: Yeah, I notice that Woolworths still has the old label in their product photos, whereas Coles has updated theirs
I tried the new Connoisseur 1L tub version of Murray River Salted Caramel a few weeks ago, as well as the new Honeycomb and Australian Honey flavour, the salted caramel one was ok, but the Honeycomb and Australian Honey was the stand out of these 2 new flavours for me, I thought it was quite nice:
https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/68608/conn…
https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/972948/con…
Are they actually new or just updated ones, I feel like we've had these flavours for ages?
They’re new flavours to the 1L tub range.
Australian Honey is definitely new and I think the Salted Caramel is reminding you of the Hazelnut and Salted Caramel flavour that has been around for ages. Not sure why they felt the need to do basically the same flavour again but yeah…
The old hazelnut and Murray river salted caramel flavour is vanilla ice cream with caramel sauce and chocolate hazelnut pieces through it, the new Murray river salted caramel flavour is caramel ice cream with caramel sauce through it, similar to the stick version.
Ah gotcha, thank you for the review! Might pick up a tub to try, haven’t been buying much connoisseurs since the quality dip and price hikes.
@SuperGreen: As a side note, I generally don't bother with connoisseur because I'm not a fan of nuts, and it seems like every flavour combo they had would add a dififerent nut to it. So, personally, huge fan of the change.
Not sure it'll make me a convert though
ah yep that might be the one I was thinking of that felt familiar
I wonder if they're going to quietly phase out the Hazelnut and Macadamia flavours. I assume the newer flavours are cheaper to make.
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Back in the days cafe grande had actual roasted beans in the ice cream, was awesome.
Yes that was gnarly! Didn't know they stopped
Holy I totally forgot about this
Fortunately it's easy to put them in yourself if you miss the experience 🙂
That’s 6 dollars extra
These used to retail for $6 in 2020, with sales bringing them down to $3.
These use to retail for $11 and dropped to $5.50 during sales back in 2020 (and $10 -> $5 prior to that).
Yea that’s my memory $5, on sale, maybe $4.5 back in 2017.
What I see more now is they go on sale but are still $8 or $9 often.
I'm still not over the enshittification of these, they were the last of the cheap ice creams that were decent but of course it's 2024 and we're not allowed to have nice things no more :(
Recipe / ingredients change? Are you saying they don’t taste as good as they did earlier?
Yes to both, someone provided a comparison in one of the previous deal posts.
I believe the percentage of cream used to be higher. And a very long time ago they contained only natural flavours; now they use both artificial and natural flavours.
I agree that they used to be better. They are still good though
Nooooo I have no freezer room :( Also last time I bought 4 tubs my mum ate all of them within 2 weeks.
Yo mama so…
Nvm, don't wanna join jv in the penalty box.
His mama
Pog. I like the Cookies & Cream, and the Vanilla & Caramel Brownie the most.