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Oh The Heavy Cream!!!!!
collegefbfan
Posts: 346 Member
I love me some heavy cream. So just wondering when you all say you put it in your coffee or other things, how much do you use? I use 6 tbsp in my shake each morning. Can anyone drink it straight like me?
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I use one or two tbsps if I have any, and that's only because I want to save most of my calories and fats for lunch and dinner. Then at the end of the day if I'm still low on fats I start adding butter to dinner or heavy cream to tea as a late night snack, lol.3
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I hate the coating in my mouth that tastes rancid to me after (not a milk fan....needs to be made into cheese for me, lol). Can't take it straight, but like it in recipes.0
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1tbsp per cup of coffee. I use it in a lot of my egg dishes too and cream sauces for seafood.0
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LOL. I use only a tablespoon but could drink it plain.
Old timers like me might see it as no different than what milk used to be. As a kid, I would walk to my neighbor's who had a farm and pick up a gallon of milk for a quarter from their spring house. No appointment needed. Just get the milk and leave a quarter.
Cream settles to the top (of what milk should be) so 1/3 to 1/2 of the jug was cream. We shook milk before we drank it to blend it.4 -
I log my morning coffee at 2TB. It might be more or less. I kind of just pour some in my mug and go with it.
I don't think I could really drink it by itself though. I am very short so I have to keep a bit of a check on calories.3 -
Well, I make ice cream that's about 90% cream. And I can very easily eat a whole cup of that...Lol2
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I put it in my coffee (no sweetener) and use it in sauces. Never tried it on its own yet.0
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Love heavy cream. As a kid I used to sneak into the neighbors farmland and milk myself a cup of delishioness sometimes.
My parents would also barter veg for milk and meat. I have always known exactly where my food comes from.2 -
I'm a 1 tbsp gal if I'm using double cream (a bit fattier than American heavy cream) or 2 tbsp if all I have is single cream (a bit fattier than American half & half). I limit myself to one cup of coffee with cream each day.1
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I will put 2-3 oz in a cup of almond milk. That will help top of a meal that may not have been quite big enough. I have also really decided I like the way scrambled eggs come out when using HWC instead of milk. I eat 18-20 eggs a week and scramble them at least 2-3 of the times each week.
In coffee, I generally just put about a tablespoon per cup but I may drink 3 or 4 cups or more in the morning.1 -
I have 1 tsp Goat Cream on a jello cup several times a day0
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Well, I enjoy drinking half-n-half straight. I haven't found any heavy cream that doesn't have carrageenan or disodium phosphate in it, so I haven't bought any. I guess I use 2oz of H-n-H in my coffee or tea.1
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we have completely replaced milk in our house with HC. I use about 1 Tbs in a cup of coffee, plus I put another Tbs in my scrambled eggs.
Every recipe we use that calls for milk, I use 50/50 mix of cream and water. More flavor, more fat, none of the sugar.2 -
Love it in coffee and, of course, whipped on just about anything!0
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Well, I enjoy drinking half-n-half straight. I haven't found any heavy cream that doesn't have carrageenan or disodium phosphate in it, so I haven't bought any. I guess I use 2oz of H-n-H in my coffee or tea.
That's a good point. A lot of that stuff is tainted by carrageenan, etc.
Sometimes you can score a good deal on organic HWC in natural food stores (try early in the week) w/o additives.1 -
collegefbfan wrote: »I love me some heavy cream. So just wondering when you all say you put it in your coffee or other things, how much do you use? I use 6 tbsp in my shake each morning. Can anyone drink it straight like me?
I'm not a big coffee drinker myself; however, I do love my HWC and I prefer to drink it straight even if it's a lowly tablespoon at a time. lol
But, I also make ice cream a lot and my ice cream bases are almost always 1/2 HWC and 1/2 unsweetened cashew milk among other ingredients. 0 -
collegefbfan wrote: »I love me some heavy cream. So just wondering when you all say you put it in your coffee or other things, how much do you use? I use 6 tbsp in my shake each morning. Can anyone drink it straight like me?
I have drank a little over a cup of heavy cream straight, in the past. I like it. In my coffee, if I use it, I have no idea how much I use. I pour it and don't worry about how much.4 -
I love my whipping cream in coffee. I can buy organic WC here, and it doesn't have all the nasty stuff in it - though it does take longer to whip (but so what?). And I use 2 TBS in my coffee (I only have one these days).
And of course I use it on berries as a dessert.1 -
I've been drinking my coffee black, but I've seen different people on here talk about HWC in coffee. I tried it last week and I've been drinking it that way since. Yum!!1
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2-3 tsp in BPC and also in a lot of sauces because I'm a fan of cream-based sauces. Oh, also in desserts and fat bombs.0
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Cream settles to the top (of what milk should be) so 1/3 to 1/2 of the jug was cream. We shook milk before we drank it to blend it.
There's a small dairy near my parents' house that sells low-temp pasteurized, non-homogenized milk in half-gallon glass bottles. We have to shake the jug to mix in the cream before pouring a glass. When my parents talked about doing that during their childhoods, I always thought it sounded gross...until I tried it.3 -
castlerobber wrote: »Cream settles to the top (of what milk should be) so 1/3 to 1/2 of the jug was cream. We shook milk before we drank it to blend it.
There's a small dairy near my parents' house that sells low-temp pasteurized, non-homogenized milk in half-gallon glass bottles. We have to shake the jug to mix in the cream before pouring a glass. When my parents talked about doing that during their childhoods, I always thought it sounded gross...until I tried it.
Still get this where I live... Fresh from the farm. I love it!1 -
I am from Wisconsin.... land of the cows and cheese... so needless to say... YES... LOVE me some heavy cream!!0
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Wisconsinite here, too. Parents farmed when I was small so milk came fresh from the barn as a whole food. DH worked at a cheese company when we were much younger and would bring home heavy cream from work sometimes. He also brought home lovely "test" plugs from various cheeses. Yum!
Today I have 1 to 2 TBL of cream in my morning coffee along with 2 TBL coconut oil. We don't even have milk in our home anymore (thanks for the "half and half" tip @silverfiend ). I make some sauces, our favorite being alfredo with cream, parm cheese and butter. I also whip it just for dessert adding some cocoa powder, a little double strength vanilla and sweetner (stevia). If my days carbs can accommodate it, I put a couple of tablespoons whipped on fresh berries. Sometimes I think about putting it on bacon...or putting bacon on it.
Maybe we need to start a cream sauce thread for recipes???2 -
I use it in my coffee, and in foods. Haven't tried it straight unless it's whipped with some unsweetened cocoa. This stuff has saved my life, imo!! I get nervous when the supply is getting low too! I also have my husband using it too!
Btw: I use a tbsp in ten ounces of coffee (without sweetener)!0 -
I whip the cream, then flavour it with coffee extract - put some nuts on top - best dessert in the world.1
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Okay, I found an additive-free heavy cream. I enjoy having a four ounce glass of it after I get home from work to brace myself for feeding the cats and dog. I always liked my ice cream melted, too, in the olden days.Well, I enjoy drinking half-n-half straight. I haven't found any heavy cream that doesn't have carrageenan or disodium phosphate in it, so I haven't bought any. I guess I use 2oz of H-n-H in my coffee or tea.
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Jay Robb - Whey Protein Shake with, 6 Tbsp HWC
That's my lunch entry 5 times a week.
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I use heavy cream when I can. It's so expensive, we often make do with half and half. Either way, I almost never buy coffee except for my 17yr old son.
BTW, if you're out of sweetener, an extra dose of cream or half/half really makes it drinkable. This coming from someone who started out on 6-8 pkts of sugar per coffee.0 -
LOL. I use only a tablespoon but could drink it plain.
Old timers like me might see it as no different than what milk used to be. As a kid, I would walk to my neighbor's who had a farm and pick up a gallon of milk for a quarter from their spring house. No appointment needed. Just get the milk and leave a quarter.
Cream settles to the top (of what milk should be) so 1/3 to 1/2 of the jug was cream. We shook milk before we drank it to blend it.
That milk/cream combo sounds dreamy...0
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