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#OnePumpOneCream
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Get your throwing bagels ready.
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Well I proudly proclaim myself to be a part of #CreamerNation. And on a completely unrelated offtopic note I love International Harvest.
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I love International Harvest.
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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).
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I like making some with evaporated milk, condensed milk, heavy cream and vanilla extract. splash some in to your liking
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I'm sitting here like "tf is a creamer?"
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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.
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Vegetable oil made to taste kinda like sweetened cream for coffee
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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.
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There will be quite a few disappointed gooners.
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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.
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Imagine gatekeeping caffeine
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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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Not everyone can get coffee beans within a few days of roasting. You need to cut the butter taste that builds up with something to get the same effect.
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... Do... you mean cut the 'bitter' taste?
Because... somewhat ironically, if you've indeed made that spelling error, I've also found that a tiny bit of butter (actual butter, not margarine), a teaspoon, stirred until totally melted into the coffee, can give a much more rich and varied taste to what would otherwise be too bitter and... 'sharp', I guess.
Probably wouldn't work so well with instant coffee... but I've always just gone with a darker roast of some kind, either grounds or beans that I grind with a cheap grinder, and then just use an old fashioned french press.
I guess I just prefer significantly more bitter and less sweet coffee than about 1/3rd of the people who've read this...
Oh well, works for me.
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Just a splash of oat milk for me, thanks.
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It's the only hashing I'll use #CreamerNation #CreamPies #NSFWCreamyDongs
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"Creamer Nation" does sound like a porn site from the 2000's specialized in creampies...
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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.
Sweet and oily is like 2/3 of an american's diet
How dare you. We also like salty and "cheese".
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 ?
Creamer is shelf stable.
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.
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.
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
Heavy cream / whipping cream works great
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.
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.