cream guns and cream in general

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Thanks, . Do you have an online subscription to CI or was that quote just

there for the taking?

OK, so... I don't want to pay a lot for this muffler. I am the finder of

bargains par excellence, so eventually one will turn up. Not worried about the

cost of chargers - my time is worth sumthin, and we need them anyway for the

seltzer bottle (lime bubbly is the most successful soda substitute to date for

the man). And yes, I'm aware of their dark, er, light side... when I asked the

guy at the antique store where to get canisters for my vintage seltzer bottle,

he pointed me to the head shop down the street. We can buy in bulk from a gas

supplier and my husband can also order all manner of things through work at vast

discounts.

BTW - about soda substitutes - I've been wondering if there's a tasty herb

syrup that would work as a soda with the soda gun. I figure if he can drink

diet, he can drink an herbal preparation that's a little not like Coke. Better

yet, one with diabetes herbs. Is there an herbal syrup for diabetes/insulin

resistance out there?

Back to the cream gun, if the parts can go in the dishwasher, I'm not worried

about cleaning. It's OK if we just keep a pint in the fridge ready to go for

hot chocos through the course of a week, or have it for sledding (we like to eat

well on our outdoor adventures), or to top berries.

Also note that the shortie has not been eating butter so I've got to get the

cream into her somehow. Being able to spritz up a little " dessert " on demand

would be well worth the $$.

OK, and here's my other question. The cream that naturally separates to the

top of the bottle of milk, will that whip? Or do I need machine-separated

cream? Right now I just pour off some of the cream to make the milk more

palatable to my 2-3% preferences, and use the cream separately.

If I can get the milk and cream separated by the farmer, what do I do with the

skim milk? Soup? Cheese? I'm thinking if I use it with some cream added back

in a soup with other fats, maybe it's still worth something?

Yeah, and what happens if I use one of these monsters with egg whites?

Hmmm.... We like to serve gelato made with the yolks over meringue made with

the whites.

[Guest guest]

Mati-

>Thanks, . Do you have an online subscription to CI or was that

>quote just there for the taking?

I'm a subscriber, so I don't know whether that capsule review was

open to the public or not.

>Not worried about the cost of chargers - my time is worth sumthin,

>and we need them anyway for the seltzer bottle (lime bubbly is the

>most successful soda substitute to date for the man).

According to , though, cream whips take a different kind of

charger -- N2O instead of CO2. And a seltzer gun is a much better

deal than a cream whip, IMO, because you can leave the gun sitting

around filled with water and a cannister for a good while, while I

doubt you'd want to leave cream sitting in the whip indefinitely

until the urge for some whipped cream strikes you.

Also, how long does it take to whip some cream? I do it all the

time, and with a hand mixer it can't take more than, I don't know,

three minutes from the time I decide I want some to the time it's

ready. I'm not saying whipped cream on demand wouldn't be very

convenient, but until someone puts out a whip which can hold a charge

while the cream reservoir is being refilled, I'm not

interested. (And it shouldn't be hard to do that, either. I can

think of several ways right off the top of my head.)

>Back to the cream gun, if the parts can go in the dishwasher, I'm

>not worried about cleaning. It's OK if we just keep a pint in the

>fridge ready to go for hot chocos through the course of a week, or

>have it for sledding (we like to eat well on our outdoor

>adventures), or to top berries.

I think you need to clean part of any whip on the market with a

bottle brush or something similar. OTOH, if you're making whipped

cream all through the week every week, it might not be such a bad idea.

> BTW - about soda substitutes - I've been wondering if there's a

> tasty herb syrup that would work as a soda with the soda gun. I

> figure if he can drink diet, he can drink an herbal preparation

> that's a little not like Coke. Better yet, one with diabetes

> herbs. Is there an herbal syrup for diabetes/insulin resistance out there?

I've never heard of anything like this, but I guess you could make

something along those lines yourself. There are recipes for diet

root beer out there, for example.

> OK, and here's my other question. The cream that naturally

> separates to the top of the bottle of milk, will that whip? Or do

> I need machine-separated cream?

I believe it'll whip, but its density is affected by factors like the

temperature at which it's separated, so YMMV.

>Right now I just pour off some of the cream to make the milk more

>palatable to my 2-3% preferences

You haven't lost those preferences by now???

> If I can get the milk and cream separated by the farmer, what do

> I do with the skim milk? Soup? Cheese? I'm thinking if I use it

> with some cream added back in a soup with other fats, maybe it's

> still worth something?

The best use for skim milk is fattening pigs. I'm not sure how much

value it has at home. I suppose you could make yoghurt with it and

then drip the yoghurt to make a reduced-fat but also reduced-sugar

yoghurt cheese... Dunno.

> Yeah, and what happens if I use one of these monsters with egg

> whites? Hmmm.... We like to serve gelato made with the yolks over

> meringue made with the whites.

I don't know for sure, but I seriously doubt that a charger-based

dessert whip will whip egg whites. The way egg whites whip is

entirely different from the way cream whips even though the means are

essentially the same.

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Hee hee. my 2 cents...I never had those preferences at all! Ever since I was

little I'd drink straite table cream if I had the chance!! Still would!

On 12/7/05, Idol <Idol@...> wrote:

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> Mati-

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> >Right now I just pour off some of the cream to make the milk more

> >palatable to my 2-3% preferences

>

> You haven't lost those preferences by now???

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