Choosing Whipped Cream Chargers Wisely

Whipped cream chargers are available in a variety of shapes and sizes on the market. With so many options available, it can be challenging to stay clear of confusion. The many names that the different formats go by might also be perplexing. Call them tanks, whippets, cylinders, or cartridges.

This article walks you through the most popular forms of whipped cream chargers while highlighting all of their key characteristics. Choose carefully!

8-gram Whipped Cream Chargers or Nitrous Oxide Cartridges  

You could observe the baker or chef using a cream dispenser to produce whipped cream or to top any dish while you're in a high-end restaurant or bakery. You immediately question how he can produce whipped cream with this bottle after that. The baker most likely using a N2O cartridge.

Cartridges, whippits, or whippets are 8-gram pressure-filled aluminum or stainless steel canisters that contain nitrous oxide. When fed into a cream siphon, N2O in this condition functions as a whipping agent for whipped cream or any other combination.

The 8-gram cream chargers are the most readily available variant, both offline and online, in terms of their functionality. Additionally, it is the smallest size available.  

You can buy N2O cartridges online in multi-unit packs, in boxes of 10, 24, or 50 pieces.

How to Use an 8-gram N2O Cartridge?

Prepare your heavy cream (with a minimum butterfat level of 35%) before inserting your cartridge in the cream siphon, and then pour the finished mixture into the dispenser. When it's ready, place one charger in the cream siphon's charge holder, then screw the dispenser back on. Screw until you hear the canister has been punctured and the gas is leaking.

After the gas has been added to the mixture, gently shake the siphon and position it upside-down next to the plate you wish to top. A gorgeous and consistent cloud of whipped cream ought to be the end product!

If you want to learn how to operate a whipping siphon, you may also look at this manual.

Chargers for 640 grams of whipping cream or nitrous oxide cylinders

The 8-gram N2O cartridges' equivalent, the 640g cylinder, is a high-end, luxury cream charger. Online, you may also discover cylinders with capacities as high as 640gr and as low as 580gr and 615gr. Consider 2, 4, or 10 kilograms. Better to refer to these last as "N2O Tanks."

What makes them so unique?

Beginning with the capacity More than two batches of whipped cream have already been acquired with 640 gr. One 640-gram bottle can replace up to 85 conventional canisters.

Not to mention that they are useful and time-saving. Bottle use cuts down manufacturing time by 50%. It decreases the time it takes to recharge.

Similar to this, 640g tanks adhere to high international standards for performance that is superior and constant, for quality, safety, and environmental responsibility.