We normally use full cream milk (blue top), but yesterday my wife brought home some semi (green top) as that was all the Coop had.
But it takes twice as much semi-skimmed as full cream to turn my tea the colour I like.
Pointless!
Try going off flavour, rather than colour 🙂
I love full fat, but it only takes a dab to taste lovely, need about 1/3 of a mug of semi for that.
Semi for cereal, full for brews
Higher protein content.
You can make better cappuccinos with semi-skimmed milk.
Full fat milk does not froth up so well.
Agreed, waste of time.
Can't remember the last time I had full fat milk, I'm sure it would taste like Elmlea these days.
Point is, well, it's kind of obvious .. it is er, lower in erm, whats the word... fat.
proper milk is silver top
gold top for cornflakes.
Milk is for Cows and babies
fully skimmed red top all the way
its what jesus would want me to drink.
It keeps her happy (& she not fussy about much else) & i've just got used to it, as it easier.
Funkymonkey is wrong, good god, diluted water on cereal???
Full fat for cereal no contest, though I've never actually tried gold top.
[s]Semi-skimmed[/s] milk - what is the point?
fixed it for you.
it smells weird.
it tastes weird.
the concept is weird.
it's a disgusting habit, i never touch the stuff.
Milk is for Cows and babies
Indeed.
Though you can't give cow's milk to babies.
And breast milk tastes really funny in tea.
Milk is for Cows and babies
Drivel. Milk is the best drink in the world, bar none.
I'd rather have a pint of milk than a pint of beer.
And it's an essential ingredient in soooooo many things as well. 🙂
Breast milk is far too sweet for tea.
I quite like those "filtered" skimmed milks, not sure why but they seem to regain some body vs a bog standard skimmed milk, which always looks & tastes like water that someone has cleaned paint brushes in, after painting with white emulsion.
I'm not a fan, minor lactose intolerance, cream makes me vom.
However the point of milk is that French people make cheese out of it ! Reason enough on it's own.
Fully skimmed milk - That's the stuff that comes out of white paint brushes after you've been running them under the taps for 20 minutes.
/edit oops, if I'd posted 3 post earlier, I wouldn't look like such an idiot 🙂
North Yorkshire, there's the place for cheese, The french know nothing.
You can make better cappuccinos with semi-skimmed milk.Full fat milk does not froth up so well.
Rubbish! It is the other way round (and the coffee tastes FAR superior with full moo in it).
The boring technical stuff...
[i]"Ice cold semi-skimmed straight from the fridge" I hear you cry, or so Joe Espresso down the round told you - "It's the only milk that will foam, you'll be there all day with any other". It is true that chilled semi-skimmed will foam very easily, but full fat or any other type of milk will foam readily if you have good technique. What chilled semi-skimmed does is mask poor technique - because it will produce a bit of foam even if you stick the steam arm right to the bottom of your frothing jug - but that's not foaming it's steaming![/i]
So you are *sort of* right, but only if you are rubbish and can't do it properly. 😉
Agreed on Yorkshire cheese 🙂
Fully skimmed milk - That's the stuff that comes out of white paint brushes after you've been running them under the taps for 20 minutes.
LOL! Also agreed!
bleurgh.. we've just moved back to full fat after 25 years on semi skimmed.. (baby needs blue top) everything tastes creamy and is greasy and tea is disgusting..
full skimmed however is equally as gross for the opposite reasons..
I also don't like canned veg if that sheds any light on the debate..?
all of you, buy one of these for christmas:
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it truly is the most wonderful stuff!
it's a little bit like chedder, in a way, a bit.
simply heavenly on a piece of christmas cake!
(or digestive biscuit)
Semi. Hur hur hur,
it's a disgusting habit, i never touch the stuff.
I assume you don't eat cheese, butter, cream or ice cream either then.
er, not really, i'm lactose intolerant.
(seem ok with sheeps milk / goats milk - but they're weird too. some sheep/goat cheese is nice - see above)
Fair enough! Surely that is bound to influence your opinion though.
and that's all it is.
And breast milk tastes really funny in tea.
You have tried it then? 😯
Semi-skimmed is fine, it just tastes like what you remember as normal milk after a while. Skimmed though always tastes like watery pish no matter how long you try and stick with it.
