I don’t even know where to begin. Please don’t do this to yourself 🙁
Don’t buy this. Double cream (which is what we call heavy cream) should always be fresh and chilled, not shelf stable.
Well that sounds terrible. I’ve never seen long life cream before only milk, and that’s nasty.
I’ve never seen cream in a jar, this isn’t something you’d generally see in the shops here – I think it’s been created for export to your side of the pond, trading on whatever image of British produce people gave over there.
I doubt it will be any nicer than regular fresh cream.
You want the fresh stuff, cream from a jar is going to taste like artificial crap.
Best of British? That’s a lie and they should be sued for that claim.
Typically double cream would be poured over a dessert or cake or fruit of some sort. But it’s also usually refrigerated like milk. What you have there may be the work of the devil.
We use double cream for pouring on desserts like mince pies and cakes and tarts and stuff. Or for cooking into things that have a creamy base to them.
We wouldn’t ever buy it shelf stable though. Only fresh. I dont think I’ve even ever seen double cream in a shelf stable form.
That jar of cream would not be consumed here.
For context it’s basically like “heavy cream” in the US, thicker and more milk fat than “light” cream. We use “Single” or “Double” rather than light/heavy is all.
But seriously, don’t eat that, just don’t.
UHT long life double cream will not have a flavour anything like real, fresh, double cream. It should, above all else, be thrown in a skip or, as I believe you colonials say, “dumpster”.
Double cream is a bit thicker than your heavy cream i believe, this is long life though so will be crap.
Not sure if you can get it over there but clotted cream is what you want, it’s a consistency somewhere between whipped cream and butter but tastes of cream.
Fucking hell that looks grim. Double cream is meant to be chilled and fresh, not in a fucking jar
If you can get hold of the decent stuff, it’s good poured over a warm chocolate fudge cake
With a wide straw, like a milkshake.
Followed by a hearty dose of cyanide.
So many questions.
What is this?
Is it refrigerated or just on a shelf?
Why is it turning up here as a British product when I have literally never seen it on sale in the UK?
Like all dairy products, you shouldn’t:
* Cows need to be kept pregnant/having recently gave birth to lactate, which if it’s anything like human pregnancy, is very uncomfortable.
* Cows are artificially inseminated in ‘rape racks’ (an industry term) and have arms repeatedly inserted into their genitals/anus to assist insemination and monitor pregnancy
* Giving birth is painful and carries health risks
* The calves are separated from their mothers which the mothers find distressing
* Male calves don’t serve much of a purpose on a dairy farm so are killed immediately or live a little longer to be made into veal
* Cows have been bred to have as much milk produced as possible, which lead to engorged sore udders, which is why people say cows like to be milked, it’s relief from that discomfort
* Cows are then killed when their production slows down enough to no longer be financially viable
Even in some magical world where everybody claims to get their dairy from a local organic farmer (and thus doesn’t eat any mass produced products which include dairy), cows still endure varying degrees of the above and die early just for some literal baby milk.
edit: wow a lot of people sure like the result of abusing animals, dairy isn’t a dietary requirement people
Go buy some fresh double cream and source an apple pie/ crumble, delicious.
I’ve seen cream in a jar before (probably to reduce plastic waste) but it was fresh cream and was kept refrigerated. I don’t know what the hell this stuff is but it’s probably significantly worse than just getting some heavy cream.
Am I the only one who thought the title referred to Boston, Lincolnshire?
The clue is in the primary weight measurement – that wasn’t made in the UK.
What’s called double cream in the US in clotted cream. Double cream is the U.K. is pourable and can be whipped into chantilly or whatnot. Clotted cream can make good icecreams, or it goes well with sticky toffee pudding or a Tart Tatin. A spoonful with a decadent desert is delicious.
Clotted cream in the U.K. is never sold in a glass jar or called double cream (why there are a lot of folks in the sub here befuddled).
Over SPC tinned apricots.
Whipped and served with jam and proper Devonshire scones or between layers of spongecake.
Plopped into a baked potato.
Piped into a brandy snap.
I’m fasting before tomorrow’s blood test and am beginning to hallucinate ….
If you consume this your shit will be the same consistency 😂
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Long life cream. In a jar.
I don’t even know where to begin. Please don’t do this to yourself 🙁
Don’t buy this. Double cream (which is what we call heavy cream) should always be fresh and chilled, not shelf stable.
Well that sounds terrible. I’ve never seen long life cream before only milk, and that’s nasty.
I’ve never seen cream in a jar, this isn’t something you’d generally see in the shops here – I think it’s been created for export to your side of the pond, trading on whatever image of British produce people gave over there.
I doubt it will be any nicer than regular fresh cream.
You want the fresh stuff, cream from a jar is going to taste like artificial crap.
Best of British? That’s a lie and they should be sued for that claim.
Typically double cream would be poured over a dessert or cake or fruit of some sort. But it’s also usually refrigerated like milk. What you have there may be the work of the devil.
We use double cream for pouring on desserts like mince pies and cakes and tarts and stuff. Or for cooking into things that have a creamy base to them.
We wouldn’t ever buy it shelf stable though. Only fresh. I dont think I’ve even ever seen double cream in a shelf stable form.
That jar of cream would not be consumed here.
For context it’s basically like “heavy cream” in the US, thicker and more milk fat than “light” cream. We use “Single” or “Double” rather than light/heavy is all.
But seriously, don’t eat that, just don’t.
UHT long life double cream will not have a flavour anything like real, fresh, double cream. It should, above all else, be thrown in a skip or, as I believe you colonials say, “dumpster”.
Double cream is a bit thicker than your heavy cream i believe, this is long life though so will be crap.
Not sure if you can get it over there but clotted cream is what you want, it’s a consistency somewhere between whipped cream and butter but tastes of cream.
Fucking hell that looks grim. Double cream is meant to be chilled and fresh, not in a fucking jar
If you can get hold of the decent stuff, it’s good poured over a warm chocolate fudge cake
With a wide straw, like a milkshake.
Followed by a hearty dose of cyanide.
So many questions.
What is this?
Is it refrigerated or just on a shelf?
Why is it turning up here as a British product when I have literally never seen it on sale in the UK?
Like all dairy products, you shouldn’t:
* Cows need to be kept pregnant/having recently gave birth to lactate, which if it’s anything like human pregnancy, is very uncomfortable.
* Cows are artificially inseminated in ‘rape racks’ (an industry term) and have arms repeatedly inserted into their genitals/anus to assist insemination and monitor pregnancy
* Giving birth is painful and carries health risks
* The calves are separated from their mothers which the mothers find distressing
* Male calves don’t serve much of a purpose on a dairy farm so are killed immediately or live a little longer to be made into veal
* Cows have been bred to have as much milk produced as possible, which lead to engorged sore udders, which is why people say cows like to be milked, it’s relief from that discomfort
* Cows are then killed when their production slows down enough to no longer be financially viable
Even in some magical world where everybody claims to get their dairy from a local organic farmer (and thus doesn’t eat any mass produced products which include dairy), cows still endure varying degrees of the above and die early just for some literal baby milk.
edit: wow a lot of people sure like the result of abusing animals, dairy isn’t a dietary requirement people
Go buy some fresh double cream and source an apple pie/ crumble, delicious.
I’ve seen cream in a jar before (probably to reduce plastic waste) but it was fresh cream and was kept refrigerated. I don’t know what the hell this stuff is but it’s probably significantly worse than just getting some heavy cream.
Am I the only one who thought the title referred to Boston, Lincolnshire?
The clue is in the primary weight measurement – that wasn’t made in the UK.
What’s called double cream in the US in clotted cream. Double cream is the U.K. is pourable and can be whipped into chantilly or whatnot. Clotted cream can make good icecreams, or it goes well with sticky toffee pudding or a Tart Tatin. A spoonful with a decadent desert is delicious.
Clotted cream in the U.K. is never sold in a glass jar or called double cream (why there are a lot of folks in the sub here befuddled).
Over SPC tinned apricots.
Whipped and served with jam and proper Devonshire scones or between layers of spongecake.
Plopped into a baked potato.
Piped into a brandy snap.
I’m fasting before tomorrow’s blood test and am beginning to hallucinate ….
If you consume this your shit will be the same consistency 😂