Massimo: "We're going muffin everywhere. Muffin Cremer, muffin spicyos, Muffin. Cigarette twills. I thought I could get a beautiful muffin flavored ice cream out of infusing muffins.

Later ... Massimo: "Soap goes into my batter. I can no longer make my muffin cigarette tuilles. I'll keep going with the muffin ice cream. Salted muffin ice cream. That's okay, though. I think I have enough muffin components to be able to pull off successfully my dish. You know what? This ice cream tastes like muffins."

Later still ... Massimo: "With 27 minutes remaining, I see that the ice cream is far away from freezing. This did not work. I may have to do an ice cream with liquid nitrogen. I've never made liquid nitrogen ice cream, but I have no choice."

Presenting to the Judges

"So there is a banana muffin cremeux, a chocolate muffin ganache, a speculous tuille, a meringue, and a roasted muffin and banana ice cream. It's not that easy to make ice cream with liquid nitrogen." 

Tom Colicchio: "See, if you were smart about this, you wouldn't tell us it was an ice cream. You would say it's créme anglaise.".