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defensiveness ahoy, food, otf can ruin anything, the mods hate otf so much, whipping cream is hard!

Cool Whip: It's a Floorwax and a Dessert Topping!
Over in the hip_domestics community, petrel asks the age old question, "Cool Whip is the same as whipped cream, right?" followed closely by "How do you make whipped cream anyway?" This draws some slight mumbling from the crowd on the evils of Cool Whip, nothing spectacular, really.

Anyhoo, domestic snark picks it up and upsets a friend of the original poster, coflower, who wouldn't have been upset if everyone knew what an IQ smart person [petrel] is.

Once again, short but sweet. (I should really stop looking at food comms when I'm hungry.)

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altoidsaddict
2007-12-05 07:50 pm UTC (link)

It is possible to fail utterly at the simple task of whipped cream while in possession of an otherwise dazzling array of cooking skills.

Seriously, I have not successfully made decent whipped cream ever. I have failed at whipped cream in the same meal where I have succeeded at risotto that would make Anthony Bourdain yank down his pants and start masturbating furiously RIGHT THERE AT THE TABLE (so I'm told anyway) and triple-layer pumpkin cheesecake and all the other Iron Chef-like trimmings... but for some reason, I have never been able to make proper whipped cream. *hangs head, and rightly so*

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snacky
2007-12-06 01:13 am UTC (link)

Heh, trust me, I know tons of people who have underwhipped or overwhipped or made butter in an attempt to make whipped cream.

It was just the idea of literally not knowing that whipped cream = cream + whipping that was cracking me up, especially coming from someone who knows how to cook.

I realize know that the recipe for whipped cream is not nearly so obvious as it always seemed to be.

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	vito_excalibur 2007-12-06 08:02 pm UTC (link)
	Then f you could get him to hold a whisk at the same time, maybe you could get your cream whipped after all! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	altoidsaddict 2007-12-06 09:07 pm UTC (link)
	And everyone would have a happy Thanksgiving! (Reply to this)(Parent)

shaysdays
2007-12-06 10:17 pm UTC (link)

If you have a stick blender and a clean jar that the stick blender fits into, it works well. Fill the jar about 1/3 of the way to 1/2 full, then put the stick blender in. After about three pumps up and down- viola- nicely whipped cream, soft enough for topping. Pump it more for harder creamohgodididn'ttypethat.

I usually use a salsa jar sans salsa- nice wide mouth, and if you still have the cap you can keep it whipped and ready for a day or two.

...now I can not make whipped cream without giggling like a madwoman, great.

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