Add flavour to your cream dispenser.

July 25, 2011

Mastered the art of whipping cream, but want more from your culinary skills. Try adding flavoring to your whipped cream.  This can be done by mixing syrup into the cream. Add vanilla extract or flavoured syrups (chocolate, strawberry hazelnut, orange) that you would add to coffees into your cream whipper before adding the cream. After adding the cream be sure to shake the syrup and cream thoroughly to ensure a good blend. Then put the cream under the pressure of the nitrous oxide chargers via your cream dispenser. Whip the cream onto your coffe or hot chocolate to make your drinks extra special.

whipped cream dispenser

Add comment July 25, 2011

Minimoto Racing Schedules

Power up your minimotos and get out your nitrous oxide boost bottles. Minimoto season is upon us. Here is your schedule for following and participating in this trilling motor sport.

Add comment April 21, 2011

London Cream Tea Top 5 Locations

Delicate, delicious, devine, no matter how you slice it cream cakes are an English tradition. In hopes to inspire some home baking here is our top cream tea locations in London.

1. The Tea Rooms (The Tea Rooms, 155 Stoke Newington Church St, N16 0UH )   No Frills, but budget friendly. Reserved for the weekends, you will be provided with high quality tea selection and homemade jam. From just £10 per person.

2. National Dining Rooms (The National Dining Rooms, Sainsbury Wing, The National Gallery, WC2N 5DN) The grandeur of the location adds to the experience. A must to try is the Millionaire’s shortbread. From £14.50 per person.

3.  The Wallace (The Wallace Collection, Hertford House, Manchester Square, W1U 3BN  www.thewallacerestaurant.com) The quintisential British tea done with a French twist. Hey they cook! Enjoy traditional cakes and tarts along with fromage frais and homemade pâtés. From £21.50 per person.

4. The Lanesborough (1 Lanesborough Place, SW1X 7TA www.lanesborough.com). This is the place for proper tea connoisseurs, as they employ a  tea ‘sommelier’. Cakes are traditional, and gluten free cakes are available on prior request. From £33 per person

5. The Ritz (150 Piccadilly, London W1J 9BR http://www.theritzlondon.com/tea/london-,default-en.html). You knew it was coming. With a variety of 17 different teas and a champagne option as well, this is english afternoon tea at its best. From £40 per person.

Dust off that cream whipper and load it with fresh cream chargers and get back to baking. Summer is still a long way a way, so cheer up those gloomey afternoons with a homemade cream tea inspired by the greatest of what |London has to offer.

Happy New Year from the team at www.directcream.co.uk

Add comment February 2, 2011

Extra Cream Whipper / Dispencer Parts

Has it been while since you’ve decorated with your cream whipper and cann’t seem to find your decorating tips? Or do you use your cream dispencer all the time and have exhausted your dispencer parts. Well look no further, those hard to find whipper bits are now available at www.directcream.co.uk. Simply add that extra charger holder, decorating tip, or head gasket 0-ring on to your next cream charger order and have them next day. Feel free to share your decorating tips with our subscribers. www.directcream.co.uk also supplies Tulip tips and straight tips.

Add comment October 13, 2010

PME Cake Decorating Competition

Cake fanatics listen up. The Cake International PME finals are coming up. Dust off your cream whipper, icing tips, and cake pans. Its the finals! Starting Friday 5th of November at the NEC. This is a live competition so even if you don’t have top cake decorating skills you can come out to cheer on your favourite competitor, and learn some tips as well. The compeition goes on until Sunday with cash prizes for each competition. Its only £10 to enter and you must be entered by Friday 15th October, so get practicing.

Add comment September 16, 2010

How to use a cream whipper dispencer

Did you just get a new cream whipper? You want to impress your friends and family with gorgeous cakes, picture perfect hot chocolates, and rich fluffy cream and strawberries. But can’t figure out how to work the things! No fear brave bakers. Just follow these simple steps to using a cream whipper.

1. Get to know the parts of your whipped cream dispencer

Your cream whipper is made up of a bottle, a screw on headpiece, and pipping tip. Wash these throughly before use. You may need to buy the cream charger (nitrous oxide bulb) separate.

2. Insert the cream charger (cream cartridge/nitrous oxide bulb)

The cream charger goes into the cartridge holder which is opposite the handle. This piece screws off and the bulb fits perfectly inside. The round end goes in first as the tip will be punctured when screwed back on. This releases the gas into the cream to produce the whipped effect. You will need to replace your cream charger after every use, as typically they only hold enough nitrous to produce 1 liter of cream.

3. Add your cream

Pour your cream into the bottle. How much cream you pour in depends on what size cream dispencer you purchased. For this we will say 1 pint of cream and 2 tablespoons of confectioner’s sugar. At this time also add and flavouring syrup or vanilla extract.

4. Put it all together

Place the headpiece on the bottle and tighten. Also replace the cartridge holder on the headpiece and tighten quickly so that no gas escapes.

5. Shake Shake Shake

Now the best part. Shake the bottle so that the cream and sugar can mix, usually for 1-2 minutes. Now turn the cream whipper vertically and squeeze the handle. Immediatly fluffy whipped cream will be produced to garnish your favourite cakes, fruits, and coffee’s.

Add comment August 25, 2010

Summer Cream Slice Recipe

Looking for an easy and delicious summer pudding recipe? Well break out the cream whipper and put it to good use on this simple summer slice.

Raspberry Lemon Cream Slice: Roll prepackaged grocery store pastery out and cut into 8 rectangles. Put pastry rectanges on baking sheet.

Prick with fork, brush with milk, and put into fridge until pastry is firm.

Follow cooking instructions on packaging. Remove from oven and allow to cool before slicing each rectange in half.

Prepare whipped cream in your Liss cream whipper dispencer following manufacturer’s instructions, include lemon zest in your cream making.

Spread cream on pastry, followed by scattering raspberries on top.

Finish with sugar icing.  Enjoy!

Whipped Cream Slice

Add comment July 14, 2010

Recycle Cream Chargers

Whipped cream chargers are steel cyclinders rounded at one end & and narrow tip on the other. They are filled with 100% nitrous oxide. The cream canister’s wall is approx 2mm thick so that it can withstand the pressure created when using with a cream whipper. Once used they cannot be refilled, but these canisters are 100% recyclable. Metal can be recycled indefinitely without loosing ay of its properties.  However, the recycling rate of steel packaging is only 46%. Most recover of steel is done with a large magnet to separate it from other household waste at landfills. However, there are recycling locations that you can take your empty cream supplies. The best way to find your local steel recycling centre is visit www.recyclemetals.org. Simply type in your post code to find a centre nearest you.

Recycle cream supplies

Add comment June 29, 2010

Nitrous Systems

Dragsters’ pay attention. Nitrous Oxide N20 is a great way to super charge your car’s performance. It works as a oxidizing agent and allows more fuel then normal to burn.  Also know as NOS after the company Nitrous Oxide Systems. When using Nitrous Oxide to improve your cars speed, the nitrous is kept in liquid tanks with the goal of increasing the volumetric efficiency.  This interaction can be tough on a combustion chamber and lead to problems later such as cracked or distroyed pistons or crankshifts. Check in your area to make sure it is legal for street driving before setting out to impress your friends.

Example of a Nitrous Oxide System

Add comment June 1, 2010

European N20 Cream Chargers

Europe was where the nitrous oxide cream charger was originated. European manufacturers have high standards and regulations for health and safety and quality of the product. This includes repeated cleaning to remove machinery oil from the chargers. As with most areas of manufacturing some production has moved to china. It is true that the Chineses standards of production has not been proven to be lower standards, but past studies show that Europe has higher standards for consumable goods.  The UK has been bombarded with lower quality Chinese cream chargers. The price may be lower, but is the standard there?  EZ Whip is an Austrian manufacturer whose product is the leading retail seller in the American market. Liss is the second most popular European manufacturer and uses recycled metal to make the nos canisters. Isi  and Best Whip are the third and fourth most popular cream supplies manufacturers. Mosa rounds out the top 5 European manufacturers and tends to focus on medical grade N20.  No matter which brand of cream supplies you use, always use the product by following the manufacturer’s instructions.  For a UK retailer of Liss check out www.directcream.co.uk

1 comment May 28, 2010