Is Tillamook ice cream just as good as Haagen-Dazs?

[Anonymous]

It depends on the flavor but my family mostly loves Tillamook, including my very picky about ice cream husband. HD-same thing some flavors are great, others, not so much.

[Anonymous]

I’m not a fan of Tillamook as I find it too soft and creamy (which sounds counterintuitive, but it is), but I think of it as higher end ice cream than Haagen Das.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's way better.

+1

Especially the new chocolate series. Mmmmmmmm

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m not a fan of Tillamook as I find it too soft and creamy (which sounds counterintuitive, but it is), but I think of it as higher end ice cream than Haagen Das.

I know exactly what you mean. I mean I don't hate the Tillamook version, but there is something about Tillamook that I find a bit too soft and bland, regardless of flavor. I much prefer Graeters, Ben and Jerry's, or Breyers if I'm buying vanilla.

[Anonymous]

DH (who eats a lot more ice cream than I do) usually has the Tillamook mint chip in the freezer. He is pretty picky about ice cream.

I'll occasionally buy myself a pint of Haagen Daz (usually coffee) to make affogatos and sometimes pick up a pint of Dolcezza or Van Leeuwen if I see an interesting flavor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids like it. I like the Trader Joe’s vanilla and chocolate myself.

Read the ingredient list. Yuck.

Trader Joes vanilla and chocolate ice creams have very basic ingredients: milk, cream, sugar, egg yolks, vanilla (or cocoa), and some stabilizers/gums. That is better than most store bought ice cream ingredients

[Anonymous]

I don’t like it. Definitely too airy and fluffy.

[Anonymous]

Funny, you ask this because I feel like Tillamook ice cream has gone downhill. It used to be denser and now I feel it’s airy and fluffy. I like my ice cream with A little more mouth feel.
It’s still good though, and I prefer it to most of the ice cream brands.

Trader Joe’s vanilla is good and the ice cream that is in a small Plastic container with the brown lid is good too.

[Anonymous]

We are new converts to the Tillamook crew. It does get “soft” quickly but we happen to like that. We particularly like the Udderly Chocolate and, apparently, so do many of our neighbors as it’s often the one sold-out flavor.

Lol….we keep wanting to call it “Tee-mah-look” when “yummy” is the correct answer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just make sure you read the label. Some Tillamook flavors have junk in them your family should avoid. Vanilla bean, cherry, and peach seem to be pretty clean ingredients.

Strawberry for some reason has like 5 different 'gums':

"cream, skim milk, sugar, milk, strawberries, water, pasteurized egg yolks natural flavor, cornstarch, citric acid, red beet concentrate (color), pectin, tara gum, guar gum xanthan gum, locust bean gum, gellan gum, calcium chloride."

Neapolitan has peanut oil. Cookies & Cream has palm oil, palm kernal oil, soy lecithin. Cookie Dough has coconut oil, soybean oil. Rocky Road has corn syrup and safflower oil.

It actually doesn’t surprise me that the strawberry has more gums. I’m not a food chemist but I think the acid in citrus fruits (plus the liquid in berries) makes it harder for the fat molecules to bind. This is why you need something like clear gel when you make strawberry pie, and why lemon meringue pie is the hardest of the pies (getting the curd to thicken properly is challenging due to the acid in the lemon).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tillamook is based out of a dairy in Oregon. I love it. If you can find the marionberry pie flavor it’s amazing.

I love the marionberry pie ice cream but I can't find in anywhere. Has anyone seen it anywhere?

We order marionberry jam and other goodies on line. Love it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's way better.

It is!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just make sure you read the label. Some Tillamook flavors have junk in them your family should avoid. Vanilla bean, cherry, and peach seem to be pretty clean ingredients.

Strawberry for some reason has like 5 different 'gums':

"cream, skim milk, sugar, milk, strawberries, water, pasteurized egg yolks natural flavor, cornstarch, citric acid, red beet concentrate (color), pectin, tara gum, guar gum xanthan gum, locust bean gum, gellan gum, calcium chloride."

Neapolitan has peanut oil. Cookies & Cream has palm oil, palm kernal oil, soy lecithin. Cookie Dough has coconut oil, soybean oil. Rocky Road has corn syrup and safflower oil.

So? It makes no sense to look at this for ice cream.

[Anonymous]

And thanks to this thread I’m going to have a scoop of tillamook for lunch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just make sure you read the label. Some Tillamook flavors have junk in them your family should avoid. Vanilla bean, cherry, and peach seem to be pretty clean ingredients.

Strawberry for some reason has like 5 different 'gums':

"cream, skim milk, sugar, milk, strawberries, water, pasteurized egg yolks natural flavor, cornstarch, citric acid, red beet concentrate (color), pectin, tara gum, guar gum xanthan gum, locust bean gum, gellan gum, calcium chloride."

Neapolitan has peanut oil. Cookies & Cream has palm oil, palm kernal oil, soy lecithin. Cookie Dough has coconut oil, soybean oil. Rocky Road has corn syrup and safflower oil.

So? It makes no sense to look at this for ice cream.

It's crazy how the Insta influencer ingredient/wellness gurus have infiltrated normal society