To mourn the passing of Nestle's Extra Thick Double Cream!

[pingusslappyfeet]

(light hearted obvs, many problems in the world but this ain't one)

That said. my siblings and I are sad. The distinctive flavour of Nestle extra thick double cream (on a vast trifle with such impressive structural integrity that the cat once stood on it with very little damage) was the high point of many a traumatic Christmas

Does any kind MNetters have a suggested alternative that tastes and behaves the same? What made it taste like that? Also just discovered it was lower in fat than fresh whipped extra thick!

Am looking at Parmalat Panna. What's it like? Or is Nestle still flogging this top-ranked Food of the Gods anywhere else?

TIA

I've no idea on the distinct taste of the Nestle one, but my husband insists on buying extra thick double cream every Christmas! We just get the supermarket own brand, think this year is Tesco. Is that not the same taste?

(Custard fan here, I can't bear the taste if cream 😂)

I’ve never had the Nestle one specifically, but M&S sell extra thick double cream all year round.

My extra thick double cream for my trifle was substituted with soured cream yesterday so I am also in mourning! And they sent mixed peel instead of glacé cherries.

We’ve all gone for the fresh extra thick and whipped it til it’s almost butter but this stuff was tinned and had a flavour all of its own (hoping someone will at least tell me why, if not how to recreate). It was very solid for a liquid🤣

@Chicken1978

ah no that’s just nasty (mixed peel gives me the fear, you have my sympathies).

You may find mascarpone has a similar flavour to tinned cream. I think they are similar but DH disagreed. Worth a try though.

@ODFOx ahhhh…I didn’t think of that, I love mascarpone and use it in savoury cooking but has thus far never occurred to me to stick it on a trifle! It’s worth a shot. Thank you!

I have never bought extra thick double cream before - just bought double cream. However, Sainsbury's had a vanilla flavoured extra thick one reduced (Christmas stock) which I bought for my trifle. Can I pipe it or does it need to be whipped more? I read somewhere it can't be whipped more - is that true?

Blimey OP, I thought they stopped making Nestle's tinned cream years ago. It was a staple of my childhood, before fridges were common place. Yes, I'm old! It was basically sterilised cream and quite different to fresh cream. I know what you mean about the consistency, there's really no substitute. I personally didn't like it very much and when I tasted fresh cream for the first time my head was turned.

So sad to find this out - the taste of Nestle thick cream has such great memories of the early 80s for me, when I was an expat in Sri Lanka then - and you couldn't buy fresh cream often, this tasted great with apple pie, it was deliciously thick and cold when the tin was kept in the fridge.

Oh I used to love this! Sterilised tinned cream, not just double cream as some people seem to think. It had a very distinctive taste, almost metallic, and my mum used to use it a lot. I agree that mascapone is the nearest taste to it that I can think of, possibly you could mix a little evaporated milk in for the authentic 'been in a tin' taste.

I wish they'd bring it back too, OP.

It came back briefly and Tesco stocked it for a while. But it's disappeared again. I loved it and would eat it straight out of the tin.

glad to see this thread resurrected, @Vroomfondleswaistcoat and @Rosesgrowonyou, my household spoke of little else during the festive season - let’s get a petition on the go😂

I now use half a tub of mascarpone whipped into whipping cream, as per @ODFOx‘s sage counsel. It’s close in taste but Nestle’s Extra Thick was somehow…drier? Maybe I need to keep it in an old tin for a few days prior to application for that unmistakably processed taste. Evaporated milk will be the next innovation.

sad to learn I missed my chance to stockpile it 🫠

@pingusslappyfeet You can buy it on eBay, look for Nestle All Purpose Cream - same cream, just a different coloured tin

It's not the same. The original was very thick, almost whipped butter texture. The one you've linked to says it can be poured.

(I googled it. Now disappointed 😪)

eta: but I've found this! Nestle Carnation Extra Thick Cream 170g - Compare Prices & Buy Online!

Thank you! Uproar caused, brother immediately online. Won’t let either of us open feedo shop though, the only listed establishment apparently still selling it. Further investigation required forthwith…

It is the same, it is not pouring cream, I have bought it

am on it, thank you!

This?

this is going to be one expensive trifle 😂

Yes that is it

I've found one!
Puck sterilised cream
Sold by Bakkali.app (other online suppliers may be available).
Hope this helps!

Sounds awful, being sterilised different taste

Another disappointed Nestle sterilised cream lover here - but I've only just joined & was only setting up a username before coming back to this thread but I've somehow landed up in this reoly box & I can't find a way out! 😳

I've been looking for this for years!
It was my favourite with apple pie.

My husband thinks I've imagined it, he doesn't remember it.
But I distinctly remember pouring off the whey, leaving the thick cream.

Delicious........

I used to love tinned cream too. The best substitute I have found that will add structural integrity to a trifle is Mascarpone cheese. It is too stiff to use straight from the pot so you will need to add a little milk to it and mix it in well. Definitely not low fat though! I haven't got a cat so I can't do the cat test but it does make a good solid layer.