As part of the preshow, the audience leader, or "head mechanical, " walked through a series of pixel paddle moves, including circles and a flick-of-the-wrist action called the shimmer.

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Spinning the pot forces the product to the sides and it freezes, The frozen parts are scraped off the walls of the French pot with a mechanical corkscrew blade and by hand, with a paddle until it all comes together into a frozen mass.

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