Who invented whipped cream

Melissa Arkin and Casey McLaughlin set the record in By Justine Sterling Updated May 23, Save FB Tweet More. How to Make a Meringue Cake: Make whipped cream. All rights reserved. Close Sign in. Lapin was able to whip up plenty of enthusiasm for a product that appealed to America's postwar prosperity and its taste for convenience.

He became a multi-millionaire as the product spread across the United States and Canada, reaching full national distribution by The Whipped Cream King also devised a new valve more suitable for whipped cream. Its fluting created a pleasant pattern in the cream, and its tilt-to-open design popped back to the center to preserve the propellant gases.

He applied in and received a patent for " dispensing valves for gas pressure containers " in Lapin put shaving cream in a pressure can and called it Reddi-Shave, but decided he'd make better money selling his valves to other shaving-cream manufacturers. On the other hand, he got creamed on the unsuccessful Touch 'N Shake aerosol milkshake and on Touch 'N Spread, a cinnamon-flavored margarine.

In , when the Crown Cork and Seal Company introduced the first seamless, lined and lithographed aerosol canister—the Spra-tainer, Mr. He put his product in the aerosol cans under the name Reddi-wip, initiallly selling it through milkmen in St. Distribution quickly expanded throughout the United States and Canada.

He also founded another company that made and sold its own valves, even producing Reddi-Shave, one of the first aerosol shaving creams. Lapin sold his part of the company in and moved on, he writes. The empire he founded grew, though, and by the end of the twentieth century one in every two cans of aerosol whip cream sold bore the iconic Reddi-wip name.