Make Fancy Foam With Cheap Cream Cheese
I like molecular techniques at times, but the foam has always been a little tricky to keep up with. There are simply not many foods that benefit from this flavor, according to my estimates. Processed cheese turns out to be one of them.
A few weeks ago, during the madness of millennia, I ordered what was described to me as “a fun game of cheese steak.” He arrived topped with what constituted a makeshift Easy Cheese, and self-loathing began to spread quickly.
Then I took a bite and realized that the slightly crumbly cheese was more than a gimmick. The carbonated dairy products were very savory and spicy, with a thick, creamy texture that I can only describe as “impossible to whip.” “I can cook this at home,” I told my lunch partner. “Cool,” he replied.
If you’ve got a whisk siphon, making your own fancy Easy Cheese-like product isn’t just something you can do, it’s something you should be doing. In terms of ingredients, all you need is a wrap of your favorite processed cheese slices – Laughing Cow is good, but I really love the ones Dubliner makes – and heavy cream for whipping.
Fancy Cream Cheese Foam
Ingredients:
- Your 8 Favorite Unwrapped Cream Cheese Slices (Obviously)
- 200 ml heavy whipping cream
Equipment:
- Whisk siphon (I use the 1 liter version. If you use 500 milliliters, you can cut the recipe in half.)
- 2 “creamy” nitrogen chargers (reduce to 1 charger if using a smaller siphon.
Combine the cheese and cream in a blender (or use a hand blender) and beat until smooth. Strain through a fine sieve into a whisk siphon. Screw on the chargers one at a time and shake vigorously 15 times. Place the siphon in the refrigerator for 2-4 hours; the longer it cools, the more structural your foam will be. Use it just like Easy Cheese, but make it trendy. I wouldn’t blame you for eating the entire batch of crackers – which is exactly what I did – but it makes an insanely good sauce for fried broccoli or crispy chips. Can you dispense it straight into your mouth like whipped cream from a can? Yes. Yes, you could, and I wouldn’t stop you.