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The original was posted on /r/askculinary by /u/Luxilious on 2023-09-09 02:51:17.

I am currently learning how to make chocolate mousse, but have run into a bit of a problem. It seems that people have several different ways of preparing a chocolate mousse, which is to them the absolute right way, but that becomes somewhat confusing when you are trying to learn. What I am looking for is the more traditional “French way” to do it, if there even is such a thing.

To me what I feel that looks like is mixing up egg yolk + sugar (Maybe kahlua, though not so traditional) until pale, then mixing that with melted chocolate + vanilla extract. Now combine the egg and chocolate mixture with whipped cream before finally folding in a basic French meringue. So we get something that looks like this:

Egg yolk mixture + chocolate mixture + whipped cream + meringue = Mousse.

Is this even remotely correct? If not, what is your preference?