Individual cream portions?

LadyDee

Hi, where is the best place to buy individual cream portions?

Not low-fat, half-fat, or "creamer" - I'm looking for lovely thick proper creamy cream to use in my occasional cup of coffee.

MMF007

Ooh, good question. I am low carbing and would love some cream pots to take with my flask and coffee jar!

If I find any I'll post, of course.

M

dlusman

LadyDee wrote: »

Hi, where is the best place to buy individual cream portions?

Not low-fat, half-fat, or "creamer" - I'm looking for lovely thick proper creamy cream to use in my occasional cup of coffee.

Could you not just buy full pots and then freeze in ice cube trays ?

jenniewb

Not sure if you were after UHT type cream but the pound shops seem to sell them. As with larger or fresher types I'd contact those who sell to caterers and hotels, It might not be very cheap though. A more MSE way could be to de-pot a larger pot into smaller containers.

LadyDee

dlusman wrote: »

Could you not just buy full pots and then freeze in ice cube trays ?

Cream has to be whipped before it can be frozen, and I don't really want to drop lumps of ice into a hot cup of coffee.

VfM4meplse

jenniewb wrote: »

A more MSE way could be to de-pot a larger pot into smaller containers.

Is there a non-messy way of doing this?

Having said that, I find it easy enough to demolish a 300ml pot of cream a week without adding to tea and coffee

AnnieO1234

I just read on another thread how Iceland used to do frozen sticks you could defrost first and add to food. Not sure it wouldn't curdle though. Could you try splitting it down in the freezer and taking out when you know you will use it that day?

jon81uk

I don't think they exist.

This is the closest UHT product, http://www.pritchitts.com/row/product/half-cream-uht but its catering size boxes so you may not get through it all before the use by.
Or there is this http://www.pritchitts.com/row/product/creamer-stick

honeythewitch

B&M often have the individual portions of single cream.

unforeseen

I consider a 125ml tub as a single portion

jenniewb

VfM4meplse wrote: »

Is there a non-messy way of doing this?

Having said that, I find it easy enough to demolish a 300ml pot of cream a week without adding to tea and coffee

Pour larger pot of whatever it is you want to portion off into a Pyrex jug (or any jug with a spout- IME glass retains less of the product-whatever it is, than plastic and the smaller the jog the less you lose). Or use a not-used-yet perfume decanter funnel (they are the smallest I know of).


Just make sure the pot you pour into is rooted to the surface of your worktop and is flat (Blue-Tak or a ring of masking tape can help but only if the pot is down flat once the pot is sitting ready on the worktop).


Another very studenty thing would be to pour your portioned amount into small sealable plastic bags (the type you'd have in a packed lunch in the '90s for things like nuts and raisins and so on, with the push-to-snap-and-seal-shut closure).
I think these much smaller types are sold with sandwich bags in larger supermarkets and Lakeland. (We used to do this as students to portion off larger meals like currys and ratattoi which we'd make in bulk- we'd use the larger sized bags though)
Once in the bags and sealed, stick them in a freezer and take out one at a time.
A bit like ice cube trays but without needing to worry about spilling them or losing space in the freezer when you only have maybe three ice-d cubes out of a tray of 20.