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.
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Sweet and oily is like 2/3 of an american's diet
How dare you. We also like salty and "cheese".
Since cheese is oily, when heated anyway, seems like they were on the money saying 2/3
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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.
Sugar addiction and convenience culture AKA laziness.
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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.
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
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
whats an alternative that we should be using instead?
Milk
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.
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#OnePumpOneCream
Get your throwing bagels ready.
Well I proudly proclaim myself to be a part of #CreamerNation. And on a completely unrelated offtopic note I love International Harvest.
Back when I regularly drank coffee, I'd use a bit of this kind of stuff. A splash.
Still way, waaaaay too sweet.
Switched to a half gallon of wholefat milk in the fridge, used a splash of that instead.
Much better.
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Most Americans I've known seem to think they like coffee, when what they actually like is a milkshake with notes, hints, suggestions of coffee.
One former roommate of mine thought it was completely normal for 'a cup' of coffee to be 1/3 coffee and 2/3 this kind of pictured coffee.
I remember actually vomiting one time I mistook her cup of coffee for mine.
Imagine gatekeeping caffeine
If it tastes good it is good!
Everyone's entitled to as much caffeine as their bodies can handle, but it is pretty odd to 'love coffee' but actually love 'coffee-flavoured hot milkshake'. Like saying 'I love fruit' but really meaning 'I love apple jacks pop tarts', it's not wrong, just a bit odd.
Yeah that's still gatekeeping though. Coffee is coffee regardless of what you put in it. Even if it's gross according to my own individual taste, it's still coffee. Saying anything else is just "better-than-you" gatekeeping.
Edit: it's also nothing like your example at all, because coffee with creamer is still literally made with real coffee, while an apple jacks pop tart is almost definitely not made with real apples.
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I spent 6 months in Italy. I spent another 6 months in Jamaica. I spent another 6 months in 5 different European countries. I've had really fuckin bad coffee everywhere.
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This is the first time I've heard of creamer and everyone seems to be shitting on it.
I guess I haven't missed much.
Are there good ones? And do many people actually use this instead of milk?
Or is this just another one of those american culture things that us foreigners will never understand?
Shit's terrible. If you like coffee with cream and sugar you can put this garbage in your cup and have a chemical stew that resembles cream, sugar and some sort of flavor like "french vanilla" (which isn't).
I like making some with evaporated milk, condensed milk, heavy cream and vanilla extract. splash some in to your liking
I'm sitting here like "tf is a creamer?"
Vegetable oil made to taste kinda like sweetened cream for coffee
It's "cream" that is mostly sugar and flavor other than cream. Most of them are also non-dairy, hence why the first cream is in quotes. The word "creamer" generally refers to the non-dairy cream substitutions for coffee.
You are selecting a very small and relatively recent subset of the category and using that to describe the entire category.
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I honestly thought they were holding a container of little chocolates before I read the comments
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When I was in college one of my neighbors would light a candle on the porch and then sprinkle creamer on it. Made quite the fireball.
There will be quite a few disappointed gooners.
Can 2 girls share 1 creamer?
Only if they get a new cup for it.
Now we are more in mousse territory. 😐
Just a splash of oat milk for me, thanks.
It's the only hashing I'll use #CreamerNation #CreamPies #NSFWCreamyDongs
"Creamer Nation" does sound like a porn site from the 2000's specialized in creampies...