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Piping cream or squirty cream?
Which type of cream do you prefer to put on top of cakes, piping cream like this: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-w4848yQUgg...pped+cream.JPG or squirty cream like this: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_XfOhdU9nu...600/anchor.jpg ?
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Squirty cream is just wrong, I can't stand the stuff and hate eating out and they use it on the sweets
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Squirty cream is just wrong, I can't stand the stuff and hate eating out and they use it on the sweets
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Squirty cream is just wrong, I can't stand the stuff and hate eating out and they use it on the sweets
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Squirty cream is foul. It just dissolves in your mouth. Fresh cream all the way.
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Used both as my mum had a serious dislike of proper cream so had to use squirty cream for her on some things . Ok as long as you don't need it to last too long or aren't trying to use it as proper cake topping etc I'd say proper piped cream as well.
Some places do actually use it though and we are talking proper restaurants so not entirely fair to say decent restaurants don't use it. It is a cop out but I have been is some really good places over the years that have then put a blob of it on the desert. That said I used to have a slight weakness for the chocolate anchor that was available but that was a guilty pleasure. |
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Some places do actually use it though and we are talking proper restaurants so not entirely fair to say decent restaurants don't use it. It is a cop out but I have been is some really good places over the years that have then put a blob of it on the desert. |
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Really? I find it hard to believe a chef/pastry chef would spend time creating desserts to then ruin them by adding a dollop of squirty cream.
As I pointed out it has happened to me, and I've been to plenty of what are classed as decent restaurants, but you were very quick to point out that I'm going to the wrong places
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Just because you find it hard to believe, doesn't mean it doesn't go on.
As I pointed out it has happened to me, and I've been to plenty of what are classed as decent restaurants, but you were very quick to point out that I'm going to the wrong places ![]() |
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We used to buy squirty cream for the cat
. He absolutely loved it and it kept longer than normal cream.To be honest, I'm not a fan of cream full stop unless it's in a sauce or something. I scrape it off my portion 1f I make a trifle etc. |
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We used to buy squirty cream for the cat
. He absolutely loved it and it kept longer than normal cream.To be honest, I'm not a fan of cream full stop unless it's in a sauce or something. I scrape it off my portion 1f I make a trifle etc. Unfortunately, over Christmas ( while hubby & I were away for five weeks) my daughter filled my fridge with long life creams of every kind! needless to say, my husband is enjoying himself! I'm on a fat free diet.
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I used to have squirty cream out of the can when I was a kid, I used to always be getting told off! It tastes awful now though. I tried a chocolate one at Christmas, yuk.
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Just because you find it hard to believe, doesn't mean it doesn't go on.
As I pointed out it has happened to me, and I've been to plenty of what are classed as decent restaurants, but you were very quick to point out that I'm going to the wrong places ![]() |
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Well a couple of really good Italian restaurants in Soho immediately spring to mind and the names escape me at the moment as there were 2 I used to go to quite a lot but there were quite a few in the area. That said it was not a main component of the dessert but it was used I suppose as a garnish .
Plus a few of the non chain restaurants in my old home town have used it over the year. A local restaurant where I am now that has sadly closed but thats not due to the food quality (the owners moved back to Australia and sold all their businesses and then it went downhill) and they had 3 really good well reviewed places at the time including an exotic buffet place (responsible for my introduction to zebra) and they used it. Although they also had pouring cream if requested but they found it easier to have that and less waste as more people wanted ice cream so it was from an economic point of view in their case. A restaurant doesn't have to be Michelin star standard to be decent there are lots of good small places around and it doesn't stop them being decent just because they use that over normal cream. |
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What are these decent restaurants? If you're talking chain places like pizza express, tgi Fridays etc, then that isn't really decent and is to be expected, but there is no way on earth that restaurants with a pastry chef would serve squirty cream. Sorry, but that's a fact.
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Well a couple of really good Italian restaurants in Soho immediately spring to mind and the names escape me at the moment as there were 2 I used to go to quite a lot but there were quite a few in the area. That said it was not a main component of the dessert but it was used I suppose as a garnish .
Plus a few of the non chain restaurants in my old home town have used it over the year. A local restaurant where I am now that has sadly closed but thats not due to the food quality (the owners moved back to Australia and sold all their businesses and then it went downhill) and they had 3 really good well reviewed places at the time including an exotic buffet place (responsible for my introduction to zebra) and they used it. Although they also had pouring cream if requested but they found it easier to have that and less waste as more people wanted ice cream so it was from an economic point of view in their case. A restaurant doesn't have to be Michelin star standard to be decent there are lots of good small places around and it doesn't stop them being decent just because they use that over normal cream. |
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Fresh whipped cream.
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Fresh whipped cream every time for me....yum!
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. He absolutely loved it and it kept longer than normal cream.