I Ate The Chocodile

In honor of the late Charlton Heston, I went out and purchased my first gun–a nitrous oxide powered whipped cream gun!

The iSi Mini Whip holds a cool half pint (that’s a smart-assed way of saying “one cup”) of liquid, which expands to roughly the volume of an average 8 oz container of Cool Whip… but instead of that loathsome concoction of corn syrup and hydrogenated vegetable oil, you have real whipped cream to adorn those pancakes and Belgian waffles, and slices of pumpkin pie come Thanksgiving.

I’d long coveted the iSi one-quart affair that we use at work to top our mochas and frozen drinks. Coming from a job in management at a competing coffee shop, the difference in flavor of real whipped cream, made with only heavy whipping cream and a touch of Torani vanilla syrup, is quite noticeable. For St. Patrick’s day, we punch it up with a bit of crème de menthe. The mountainous display of fresh strawberries at our local grocery store was the final straw.  2/$5 cans of Reddi Wip be damned! It was time to invest in a new culinary toy.

My first home application was strawberry shortcake, but soon to be tried are chocolate mousse and tiramisu. I’ll be anxious to see how the ingredients incorporate, and I’m sure I could find a few extra uses for some mascarpone cream, or perhaps some ricotta cannoli cream.

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