Anchor dairy 'squirty' cream - best before?

telly-addict

Apologies if this seems a very obscure post, but I needed this information and somebody else out there might too? I was confused by how long this product lasts and considered it rather expensive if it was a matter of days, like normal cream. Even UHT milk, once opened, lasts no longer than regular milk. I thought that the labelling on the packet wasn't clear, but perhaps that is just me?

Basically, it will last until the date on the bottom of the can, regardless of when you first use it. You need to rinse the nozzle each time though. I checked this with Anchor.

My children love it and I feel better that it lasts a couple of months rather than the days I thought it would.:j

spankymonkey_2

it doesnt even last a few days in my house! mmmmm jelly,fruit and squirty cream what heaven

Wig

Yes and if you inhale as you squirt it into your mouth with the can upright, you might find yourself laughing your socks off.

Savvy_Sue

Wig wrote:

Yes and if you inhale as you squirt it into your mouth with the can upright, you might find yourself laughing your socks off.

It's even funnier if it 'sticks' on first use and your son squirts it in his eye. :rotfl:

margaret_3

Savvy_Sue wrote:

It's even funnier if it 'sticks' on first use and your son squirts it in his eye. :rotfl:

You're wicked, Savvy_Sue. :rotfl:
By the way, I think you have Menières!

Margaret

N9eav

Truth is the can is never opened. The cream is propelled out by the gas inside and so air never enters the can. It should last for ages. But as the others have said, the kids eat it all within a few days

Debt_Free_Chick

hhmmmm....... it's "fresh" cream right? yeah

Why not just buy whipping cream & whip it? You'll get a wholesome, natural product at a fraction of the cost. Though, granted, you won't have the kind of "fun" described here

vansboy

I remember how much our German Sheperd would be REALLY obedient & would sit next to the fridge, every time he saw a can of this stuff around waiting for it to be squirted right down his throat!!!!

Kids n dogs n creeeeeeeeeeeme!!! Sounds like fun!!!

VB

jockettuk

Debt_Free_Chick wrote:

hhmmmm....... it's "fresh" cream right? yeah

Why not just buy whipping cream & whip it? You'll get a wholesome, natural product at a fraction of the cost. Though, granted, you won't have the kind of "fun" described here

hee hee not that kind of fun i was thinking abt lol

bigjohn

Anchor cream produced like that is over-manufactured crap!

I just happen to work for the "producer" who has owns the "right" to that label.

It's a con, with a higher profit margin. Check the actual contents (cream), I can't remember what else you get in the spray cans, but if you compare the actual cream content, and compare it with how much you pay, on a small pot of "normal" cream (single or whipping - price varies on fat content).

All you need is a mechanical (winding handle type) whisk and you get the same, if not more, whipped cream, that's lasting longer, because you have added the expanding agent i.e. air.

The spray can crap, well it's "accelerated" with whatever propellant they use these days, which once you've sprayed the cream starts to evaporate, so it ends up as a "white splodge" in no time at all (even worse if you put it on hot food).

Personally, I still have my local milkman (who is "the opposition"), delivering my milk etc (my place of work processes millions of litres of milk and cream per year).

The guarantee is that it's only been pasturised.

If you look at the stuff (whole milk) in the supermarket, it's "pasturised, standardised, homogenised" whole milk (IMO over manufactured).

It gets worse.

If you go to the doctors, and get told that you need to eat a low fat diet, low fat, is usually 4% or less (unless you have very very specific health requirements).

Normal whole milk is less than 4%, so if you rush out and start buying semi-skimmed, you're a mug. All you're getting is more of the water content of milk. Who gets to enjoy the profits of removing part of the butterfat content, the producers do - NOT YOU.

The suggestion that skimmed or semi-skimmed has a higher calcium content is also questionable (it looks to me, like a lot of dubious statistical number juggling). Apart from the difference in fat content (whole =>4%, semi=2% approx and skim=1% approx), the only other difference is that semi and skimmed milk will go off quicker, because the preservative (the fat) has been partially removed.

To return to the spray on cream, if it's been kept refridgerated (1 to 4 degrees C for dairy products), it should last (without input, or should that be output, of the kids) for a good while. Afterall I suspect that it contains some sort of preservatives (sugar? it is sweet, usually), and that it's not in contact with air, but the propellant in the tin, usually means that it takes much longer to "go off".

vansboy

BigJohn...It gets even WORSE than that!!

Believe it or not, it started off, floating around INSIDE a cow!!

Unpleasent or WHAT!!

VB