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.
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.
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”.
Since cheese is oily, when heated anyway, seems like they were on the money saying 2/3
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Excuse me but salty is just another part of the cheese pyramid
call it what u want, i want it coursing through my veins
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.
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
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
whats an alternative that we should be using instead?
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.
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.