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by thsksbd 845 days ago
Hydrogenated oil milk solids and sugar?

The only real cream in an aerosol can Ive ever seen was in Canada (it probably had sugar) Everything else is vegetable oil.

Which is weird, whipped cream is so easy and so delicious to make at home!
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eru 845 days ago
> [...] spraying a tank of whipped cream into her mouth.

Because the original mentioned a 'tank' not a 'can', I assumed that original comment meant a restaurant grade whipped cream dispenser like eg https://www.amazon.sg/Otis-Classic-Stainless-Whipped-Dispens...

If you are fancy enough to use such a tank instead of a spray can, you would most likely load it with real cream, not sweetened vegetable oil.

(I don't know how likely sweetening of the cream in the tank is.)

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KennyBlanken 844 days ago
Starbucks et al use counter-mounted hoses fed from giant tanks and I highly doubt it's remotely real cream.
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Symbiote 844 days ago
Whipped cream is easy to make with a machine like that. You fill it with cream, and nitrogen dioxide bubbles through. Done.

They describe it as "whipped cream" in Europe, and there's no way they could do that if it wasn't. The alternative is "vegan whipped topping".

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Reason077 844 days ago
It's nitrous oxide (N2O), not nitrogen dioxide (NO2). NO2 is poisonous and corrosive, don't try to whip cream with nitrogen dioxide!
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huehehue 844 days ago
They may have changed it / it varies by location, but when I worked there it was just heavy cream and a canister of compressed air.
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Reason077 844 days ago
Typically nitrous oxide gas is used to whip cream, not compressed air. Compressed does work, apparantely, but produces an inferior whip with a less stable texture.
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Reason077 845 days ago
> ”The only real cream in an aerosol can Ive ever seen was in Canada”

Aerosol cream (“squirty cream”) is a fairly common product in most countries, in my experience. Usually sweetened with some additives and nitrous oxide propellant, but mostly made from real cream.

An example from the UK: https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/coffee-shop/anch...

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rootusrootus 844 days ago
> Hydrogenated oil milk solids and sugar?

Is that really a thing? I can only speak for here in the US, but all the normal whipped-cream-in-a-can I've seen has cream as the first ingredient. Even Reddi-wip.

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