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Coffee creamer is bizarre. It makes everything you add it to taste sweet, oily and industrial yet it's so popular in some cultures that it's considered a no-brainer.
For anyone wondering about transatlantic definitions: US Heavy Cream is 38%, UK Double Cream 48% US “Half and half” is 12%, UK Single Cream 18%
They can basically be used interchangeably.
Milk is also basically the same, UK Semi-skimmed is 1.7%, so (obviously) closer to 2%.
Good coffee is good black
Sweet and oily is like 2/3 of an american's diet
How dare you. We also like salty and "cheese".
call it what u want, i want it coursing through my veins
Since cheese is oily, when heated anyway, seems like they were on the money saying 2/3
I'm oily when heated too
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Excuse me but salty is just another part of the cheese pyramid
I discovered creamer recently, I honestly don't get it. It tastes awful and why not use actual cream or milk in coffee than this thing ?
Well, there are over 5 billion lactose intolerant people out there. Coffee creamers do typically include a very small amount of milk derivative, but it's not enough to make a difference if you don't have a dairy allergy.
Five billion? So the majority of people are lactose intolerant?
Almost all adults develop some level of lactose intolerance as they age.
Yes. 60-70% are the estimate ranges I've seen.
Wow, I didn't think it was that widespread.
It tends to be geographic, so if you live in a region that's able to deal with lactose, you'd have the impression lactose intolerance isn't super common. But entire regions are lactose intolerant, like Southeast Asia (including China) and about half of India.
Basically anytime you see dairy as rare or non-existent in a region's traditional cuisine, that's why.
Creamer is shelf stable.
So is milk powder and sugar.
Remaking cream from milk powder isn't much better than creamer.
Sugar addiction and convenience culture AKA laziness.
I think a good approach is to only use it as a light sweetener, I only pour about 5g-10g of creamer into my lattes. Coffee mate's Hazelnut creamer is the only flavour I tolerate, the rest taste too synthetic.
I use plain creamer and it sweetens it up a bit but the bigger thing to me is it thickens it up ever so slightly giving it a much better mouth feel.
I’ve noticed different coffees blend better with different creamer flavors. And if you only add a little bit it takes the edge off the bitterness
The 3 options for regular coffee, commonly found in the US: heavy cream, half&half (50% milk & 50%heavy cream) , non-dairy creamer
I think most people use "half and half" in their coffee. Nondairy "creamer" is basically corn syrup solids and coloring. Its nasty.
whats an alternative that we should be using instead?
It's been said but heavy cream is a great alternaive, I use about one tablespoon per mug. Sometimes I add a tiny bit of vanilla extract and a small amount of powdered sugar to the cream and whip it with an electric frother.
A dairy free alternative is oat milk, the thicker store bought ones are great, but I usually make my own. Just blend a 1/4 to 1/2 cup of oats to 2 cups of water in a blender for 30 seconds and strain through coffee filters or some salvaged fabric from an old shirt. It can be heated and frothed, then poured over the top of your coffee for a nice foam.
To be honest though, usually if I'm not feeling like straight black coffee I just add 1/2 tbs of brown sugar and that's more than enough for me.
Milk
Heavy cream / whipping cream works great
no one in here use half and half? i never knew i was an outlier.
Half and half is the standard where I live. Or people say cream and get half and half because cream is a faster word to say.
I use like less than a tbsp of coffee creamer for coffee.
The flavour is so artificial that any more will make me feel sick. It just tastes like soap.
Many coffee creamers also taste terrible, I'm very surprised at the popularity of them overall.
I get a specific kind that I can bear and I put a very small amount and it works for me. I don't like milk. Black coffee is okay but I do like it with creamer more.