Whipping up a home made ice cream in a matter of minutes may one day be possible thanks to the Ice Cream Concept Parlour from London based design student Ploenpit Nittaramorn. The project was designed to explore and investigate the process of eating ready made food and aims to make people think about their food consumption habits and appreciate the process of making.

So how does it work? The Concept Parlour comes equipped with traditional wooden tools (including paddles and a lemon squeezer) and a frozen marble board and requires simple DIY skills to create a batch of ice ream. It simply requires mixing whatever flavour ingredients you might like, pouring cream, sugar and milk onto the mixing slab, and churning it by hand using the paddles. The cold surface freezes the mixture within minutes, resulting in a perfect, fresh summer treat.

The project is an interesting look into our relationship with ready-made produce, and highlights the consumer's greater desire for knowledge about food provenance. As Ploenpit explains, 'People become less aware of their connections to food they eat, have less consideration of what and how the food is made of and where the food is from...as the shortcut is available in every local supermarket.'

While the Parlour is only a concept at the moment, we hope to see something like this available soon!