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[–] [email protected] 79 points 21 hours ago (6 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Sweet and oily is like 2/3 of an american's diet

[–] [email protected] 18 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

How dare you. We also like salty and "cheese".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Excuse me but salty is just another part of the cheese pyramid

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Since cheese is oily, when heated anyway, seems like they were on the money saying 2/3

[–] rc__buggy 6 points 9 hours ago

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

whats an alternative that we should be using instead?

[–] zalgotext 11 points 11 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Heavy cream / whipping cream works great

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

no one in here use half and half? i never knew i was an outlier.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 minutes ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

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 ?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

So is milk powder and sugar.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

I use plain creamer and it sweetens it up a bit but the bigger thing to me is it thickens it up ever so slightly giving it a much better mouth feel.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

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.