New Ice-Creamery Fluffy Torpedo Is Outstanding, Outlandish and Straight Out of Your Childhood Dreams

With sour-strap-paved floors, a lab-like open kitchen and a medley of experimental flavours, Fluffy Torpedo is the outlandish ice-cream shop we never knew we needed.

The idea first got off the ground at Stampede Gelato in Perth. But seeking a bigger market, co-owners Adam Semple and Cherry Rainflower have created an even more ambitious operation on Smith Street in Fitzroy.

Choose from in-your-face scoops like Mountain Dew-Oreo or more delicate options like a miso, cinnamon and white chocolate number. The menu is a wall-length patchwork tapestry.

“We like making flavours that are Australian, sentimental takes on traditional ice-creams,” Semple tells Broadsheet. “There’s beauty in traditional concepts, but being mired by tradition is a little boring.”

Though the range suggests otherwise, the duo has no formal culinary training. In a previous life, Rainflower was a professional ballerina and Semple was a professional cyclist, but he’s been infatuated with ice-cream for as long as he can remember. “I obsess over the science of it,” he says. “We learned on Google and through ice-cream science books,” adds Rainflower.

The marshmallow, grape Aeroplane Jelly and pink salt flavour is a testament to this – its whipped texture and subtle tang make for a combo that goes beyond gimmickry. Also find smoked Cherry Ripe, Vegemite-white chocolate (it works), and even blue Powerade.

Sustainability is a priority here, with laser-cut metal tasting sticks standing in for disposable varieties. Once you’re done tasting as many flavours as you like, send your sticks down the custom-made chute to be washed and reused. And that’s not the shop’s only mission – 50 cents from each scoop sold goes to philosopher Peter Singer’s The Life You Can Save.

Fluffy Torpedo
5/159 Smith Street, Fitzroy

Hours:
Daily 12pm–late

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