You can buy the aerosol can of whipped cream or the tub of “non-dairy whipped topping” but I’m totally going to make fun of you and turn up my nose at either of those offerings. I reject the canned and tubbed dessert toppings not because I’m a food snob (well, not just because I’m a food snob) but because it’s so easy to make homemade whipped cream and it tastes so much better.

Some people say there are two ways to melt chocolate: the right way with a double boiler and every other wrong way. While I won’t argue with someone who uses a double boiler to melt chocolate my preferred tool for melting chocolate is actually the microwave. Yeah I said it, the microwave, nuke that gearheads.