Contradictory cow juice

[coorr]

Ok my cafeteria here at work has a ton of coffee available, different types, brands and flavors... its great, everyone loves it. There are also several options available for lightening said coffee. Skim milk and whole milk are provided as is half and half. So far, pretty normal. But the last container in that group is labeled "Fat Free" Half

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[treacle_well]

I can answer the why, but I haven't looked at the ingredients list recently enough to say what.

Why: Reduce fat in diet, while still giving a suitable "lightening" effect. Skim milk just doesn't give a nice color or flavor. There's also a texture thing--not sure if that really is that important once it's all mixed into the coffe anyway, but there's an "impression" of richness that you get with the fat-free half and half that you don't get with skim milk.

I, personally, use actual fatty half and half on a regular basis, but have occasionally been someplace where the fat-free stuff was what was available. It was okay taste-wise and felt more like the experience I have when using actual half-and-half. Skim milk in coffee is completely different (and IMO, pretty awful.)

[coorr]

I agree with your position on skim milk in coffee... it is a last resort to be sure. I guess I just don't understand what they are putting in this stuff to make it "rich" that isn't fat but i'm sure its some kind of olestra like garbage that will turn my intestines inside out.

Me, I'm just going to stay away from it... but for your case, what if you mixed light cream with skim milk? would that produce the right level of fat to be a less than full fat half and half?

humm... time for a science project.

[treacle_well]

If I had light cream, and skim milk, well I'd use the light cream and forget the skim milk. I actually don't like skim milk for anything, so probably the only reason I'd have any is because someone left it behind, or someone picked up groceries for me and assumed I wanted skim milk when I asked them to bring milk.

Cases where I've had the fake half and half, have been in someone else's home, and I didn't mind using it, so I did.

What I put in coffee, in order of preference (subject to change without notice):

half and half or light cream
whole milk
soy milk (though with some coffee and soy milk combos it curdles, and I don't like that at all)
non-dairy creamer of some sort (either liquid or dry) or fake half and half

Unless the coffee is itself pretty hideous, if all there is is skim milk, I'm likely to choose to drink it black.

[coorr]

Unless the coffee is itself pretty hideous, if all there is is skim milk, I'm likely to choose to drink it black.

Ditto. No blue milk in the coffee

[magid]

So no black and blue drinks for you, eh?