This is one real homemade scoop.
An Upper West Side woman went viral for attempting to make ice cream on her freezing cold fire escape — racking up over 800,000 views by Saturday.
Fashion designer Colette Komm began filming the video — of her KitchenAid stand mixer churning alongside a thermometer on her frigid fire escape — at 8 in the morning on Friday, when it was a teeth-chattering 4 degrees outside.
After an hour, she took the temperature of the custard base mixture — of cream, milk, egg yolks, sugar and vanilla — which was below freezing at 31 degrees.
Komm revealed to The Post that her sweet experiment eventually worked — with a little help from her local bodega.
“After three hours, I had to go buy a bag of ice from my bodega and some extra coarse salt and wrap it around the bowl to get down to a cold enough temperature, and the whole ordeal took six hours out of my day I’ll never get back,” she said.
“My cousin came over for dinner and we ate it over some apple crisp I made and it tasted great, but the texture was too light and aerated, probably from the five hours of mixing.”
Komm, who grew up in Vancouver, makes 20 different favors of ice cream every summer at her parents’ house.
“But in my tiny New York City apartment, I don’t have room to store an ice cream maker or room in my tiny freezer to even freeze the bowl that goes into an ice cream maker,” she explained.
“So when I saw that the temperature was going to be so low for such a long time, I got to thinking maybe I could just do this in my KitchenAid on the fire escape.”
She posted two additional videos on Saturday, taken two and three hours into the attempt — explaining that her fire escape was warmer than the forecasted temperature, so she hadn’t yet whipped up anything close to ice cream.
“It’s maybe like a milkshake, it’s not even at a Wendy’s Frosty stage,” she lamented in the second clip.
“So I’m just sitting here at my window, staring at my mixer.”
In the third video, she sampled the mixture, saying it was getting thicker, but “it tastes like melted ice cream.”
Although she hasn’t yet posted an Instagram update on whether her attempt was a success, she was still praised for it in the comments section.
“Greatest city on earth because of people like you,” one gushed.
“We love a woman in STEM,” another added.
Others thought she should start her own business.
“Make a company called ‘fire escape ice cream,’” one suggested.
“They’d charge you $500 just for a cup of it,” someone else quipped.
She captioned her original post with a poll, asking her followers, “Would you eat NYC fire escape ice cream?”
A wide majority — 70% — said yes.
However, some pushed back that they wouldn’t be able to stomach it — making comments such as “Does it taste like the exhaust fumes in the air?”
Others considered another hazard to public ice cream-making in the city.
“I can’t be the only one thinking about s–t falling in the bowl from above,” one noted.
“And risk a pigeon pooping in it, no thanks,” another added.
“All fun and games ’til someone throws something out of the window,” someone else replied.
Komm couldn’t help but laugh at all the online chatter.
“Put a KitchenAid on your fire escape and everyone’s on your case like they are the health department,” she said.
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