A Kid-Friendly Gadget for Whipping Up Summer Fun

Summer fruit is luscious and refreshing. Add whipped cream (and maybe some pastry), and you have a dessert to die for. But if you’re using that whipped cream that comes in a can, you’re denying yourself one of life’s great pleasures. Give up the chemical tang of the canned stuff and grab a re-usable whipped cream dispenser to make whipped cream like the pros. A cream whipper is easy to operate: pour fresh cream into the receptacle, put on the squirter, load in a nitrous oxide cartridge, and squeeze. It’s so easy, your kid can do it. And he will want to add fresh whipped cream to everything, believe me. Even better: the smaller cartridges and the reusable container mean that you’re contributing less waste to landfills.

For an educational component to your whipped cream endeavors, check out NASA’s page about the physics of whipped cream and perform some cream-based kitchen experiments with your kid. These kinds of experiments require lots of taste-testing. Mmm.

Reusable whipped cream dispensers can be found at specialty stores like Fante’s. We like the Espuma Donato DiGiacomo 1-pint Cream Whipper in silver, $34.99, or the Liss 1-quart Professional Cream Whipper, $89.99. Cartridges sold separately.