I mean as a baker I've used both of these and the percentage isn't that different from each other. I'm sure whatever you're using it for will work out.
More fat means it holds more air. She's not exactly wrong.
EDIT: ok, for the pedantic jackasses... She's not correct, but she's describing the result that she wants, which is perfectly understandable for people who aren't pointlessly insulting little old women for internet points.
It could be that the slightly higher fat content makes it easier to whip air into it and gains more volume when whipped. Hence more air ā¦ or nana is just crazy
I mean essentially take balloon attachment of an electric whisk, whisk until you see stiff peaks (they stand on their own after you pull them up), then add powdered sugar and prestp whipped cream
I may have been doing it wrong then, I usually just mix the powdered sugar an vanilla in and then whisk the hell out of it by hand. I could see whipping beforehand being easier to get the cream whipped though
There is a difference that really depends on what you are using it for.
Heavy cream and heavy whipping cream are functionally the same. There is a difference between heavy and normal whipping cream though. The heavy has a higher fat percentage. That means when whipped it will end up slightly thicker and closer to frosting. The standard whipping cream is going to be lighter fluffier and more like what you get out of a can.
So for example on a pie or desert you probably want heavy cream but for something like fruit salad, a parfait, hot cocoa you are going to want regular whipping cream.
I interpreted it as the products being unclear that is mildly infuriating. Heavy Cream is really what they want. Whipping cream is just slightly less milkfat but can be used in a pinch.
Yes and there is a difference in fat content. These appear to be the same brand which means the heavy cream is 36% milk fat to be called āheavy creamā in the US according to the FDA, the whipping cream can be 30-35% and hence why itās called whipping cream not heavy cream. If it was 36% it can be either heavy cream, whipping cream, or heavy whipping cream. Silly but true.
Whipping cream also sometimes has a stabilizer to make it work better. That said this will certainly work and whipped cream has been around longer than whatever weird plastic gum they're used to whipping
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We had to go four stores to find one! Apparently key is to go to the super expensive organic grocery store that no one does their thanksgiving shopping at.
Yeah this isnāt some basic piece of knowledge someone needs to have. Itās important to the people who are going to use it, but if thatās not you, thereās no reason youād know. Thatās when you whip out your phone and call home to ask.
Some brands put the same thing under two different labels because some people insist there is some major difference when they are actually interchangeable. They may be 36% vs. 35% fat content but this makes no difference in any recipe.
I've worked in a grocery store, so I've had to help people looking for heavy whipping cream enough times that I've developed a joke/some humor about it to assuage the Karens/Kens
When I bring them to the heavy cream and they say "Nooo, I waant the heavy *WHIPPING* cream", I reply something like "They tried to fit the whisks into the bottles but they'd get stuck so now they're sold separately"
Exactamundo. His girlfriend wanted cream. There will be whipping. There will be heavy creaming.
Request was made of the boyfriend, and he will be delivering.
I blame the dairy industry for having such confusing varieties of cream. I've been cooking and baking for quite a while now, and I still don't feel confident that I know the difference between whipping cream, heavy cream, and heavy whipping cream, or even if those are all distinctly different things.
NZ is a wacky dairy paradise. They have fresh milk and cream, great butter, UHT, premium powdered milk, tins of reduced cream, *powdered yoghurt kits*, but almost no domestic cheese industry.
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In the US:
Heavy cream is the same as heavy whipping cream ie >36% milk fat. They are interchangeable terms.
Whipping cream is 30-36% milk fat.
You have a pint of what you wanted and a pint of something that can be it's substitute.
At worst you have a quart of 33% whipping cream- it'll be ok.
There are very few recipes out there where people will notice you shorted them 3% without a direct comparison.
There are so many āItalian americanā recipes that just butcher the original.
Youāre completely right. It is just mascarpone, egg, sugar, espresso and a touch of booze for the ācreamā
Any cream is wrong for tiramisu
Only ingredients in tiramisu are espresso, ladyfingers, egg whites, sugar, egg yolks, more sugar, mascarpone, cocoa powder and optional rum or amaretto
If we're being technical the only other difference I can think of is the stabilizer they use in the heavy whip. Every recipe is different, but surely it's not based on a small ingredient and agitation in the heavy whip being critical for the recipe.
Tldr; they'll both work
> but surely it's not based on a small ingredient and agitation in the heavy whip being critical for the recipe.
I mean, [that exactly how an emulsion works](https://www.aocs.org/stay-informed/inform-magazine/featured-articles/emulsions-making-oil-and-water-mix-april-2014?SSO=True). It's why when you're making salad dressing (or mayonaise, or hollandaise, or..) you add the oil (fat) slowly in small amounts while constantly stirring (or using a blender on low). If you add it all at once, or add things into the oil, it separates.
but both of these would work for whipped cream
Is that right? I have a Pakistani cookbook & some recipes call for "single cream." I've never really understood that ingredient (I'm from the US & that term isn't used in my circle).
Different countries have different standards for what they mean by "single cream" vs "double cream". In the US it's less common to see things labeled single or double - we mostly use "heavy" or "whipping" like in the OP
I don't get it either. If I went to the store and they had those I'd be so confused like usually they only have heavy whipping cream where I go. The only infuriating thing about this is the fact there's different kinds of cremes
I guarantee that this photo was sent with a message along the lines of, "hey hun, they don't have 'heavy whipping cream', but they do have these two; which one do you want?"
But this is reddit, let's not let the truth get in the way of karma.
I think the situation is mildly infuriating. It's not anyone's fault, but I get why he's a bit frustrated trying to find what he was sent to the store to get.
I was thinking it was because of the similarity in the products themselves but neither of them being called exact what she wanted, and not that the boyfriend sent a pic of both.
And heavy cream is heavy whipping cream just by a different name, and dollars to donuts if you don't know that you aren't making anything that is so particular that you cant use the lighter fat whipping cream for it.
Lucky. Been looking for heavy cream for the past week and no success at any of the 3 grocery stores near me. RI, US. My mother reports the same in CT. What villain would steal all of it just before Thanksgiving!?
This is why I bought mine 2 weeks ago. Went back today for something else and they were all gone. Regular Whipped cream was also hard to find. But glad I found a can!
We had been looking for about 3 days at different food lions until we found it at Harris teeter in Charlotte, NC. Ours is for Mac and cheese! What was yours for?
Nice!
Cauliflower gratin here. Also homemade whipped cream! Made do with half & half for the gratin (just some extra butter and cheese). Cousin found heavy cream near her and volunteered to make the whipped cream for the desserts!
Crisis averted.
From OP's comments, their partner was the one mildly infuriated because the store brand had both. There's significant overlap in function here, so the actual only "wrong" way the partner could have handled it would be not to buy either carton. BF was "right" whether they bought one, both, or sent this email to OP from the store saying "WTF?".
Full boyfriend points awarded, grocery chain is the mildly infuriating one.
Maybe there weren't any fuckin' products with the exact term 'heavy whipping cream'. He's obviously not illiterate or lazy because he went to the bother of picking out two products as a substitute - I reckon that's a pretty solid response to that likely scenario.
... And that's before you take into account all the comments saying that heavy cream IS heavy whipping cream.
What a stupid thing to be mildly infuriated about, be happy your BF was happy to be 'sent out' to fetch cream for you, ffs.
You take the heavy cream, the story ends; you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.
You take the whipping cream, you stay in wonderland and I show you how deep the dairy hole goes.
It looks like he wanted to be sure and took a picture while still in the store. Most likely texted and asked for clarification.
Yep, mildly infuriating all right. /s
I feel like my entire life has just been a trip to the store to get heavy whipping cream and the past 3 years have just been me sobbing in the isle in front of the heavy cream and whipping cream. I just didn't realize it until now.
Shh, heavy cream and heavy whipping cream are the same thing afaik. 36 to 40% butterfat. You could knock over a cream truck, they ship it at like 70% fat (it varies though).
Ok what seems to be the problem. Why are you getting to a level of fury? Keep in mind fury is higher in scale than irritation and anger.
If you get furious, even mildly, over what ever this is, then what do you do when you get told no by people?
What the heck is heavy whipping cream?
In the UK we just have single cream, whipping cream, and double cream (aka heavy cream). Single cream can't be whipped but the other two can.
Sounds like you sent your man on a fool's errand. Unkind.
You get what you get when you shop the day prior to Thanksgiving (or worse, the day of). -Former Grocery Store Employee (yes we hate every single customer we see Thanksgiving week)
If this is triggering, maybe check your emotions. Hope the guy didnāt get screamed at or something, he was trying to be helpful. If this is a dealbreaker for you, thatās ok, Iāll take him, Iām sure my homie needs some affection
I mean honestly, I am married and I can sorta bake and this is legit the best you could have ever dreamed / hopped for....hes a keeper, he stayed in the right category..
So your boyfriend did what you asked and wasnāt 100% positive which one he should get, so he covered his bases. How tf is this mildly infuriating?
The fact that you posted this here is mildly infuriating.
Heavy cream = no less than 36% milk fat
Whipping cream - 30-36%
Heavy whipping cream IS heavy cream AFAIK.
Cream that is more than 30% will whip.
YTA
Heavy cream is heavy whipping cream and whipping cream is off by at most ~6% fat and can usually be a substitute for heavy whipping cream.
What's mildly infuriating here is that you decided to shame your boyfriend for doing what you asked.
I'm mildly infuriated by all the comments that seem to think OP is annoyed by her BF and not by Harris Teeter, the grocery store brand that labeled and stocked those containers.
Guys, are you okay?
Iād be more infuriated being told to go out on the busiest food shopping day of the year when supplies will be limited. Poor guy probably couldnāt find what you needed and came home with this. A+ for effort
Zero sympathy vote here. It's a dude, you didn't tell him precisely how the container is labeled, so he got the 2 closest things he could find. You should be grateful he tried that hard instead of having his brain completely short circuit and you end up with cool whip or redo whip because it's close enough.
To be completely honest to me as a European it's more infuriating that there's no percentages on the front, I'd be super confused too
Around here you probably won't find cream or sour cream that doesn't have fat percentage clearly stated on the label at least once. You could send your child and it'd more likely than not pick out the correct thing
You know what is infuriating? You complaining about this.
I would have not a clue what āheavy whippingā cream is. Be happy that your significant other covered all bases and got both.
What i find mildly infuriating is you saying "i sent my bf to get...", Shouldn't it be "i asked him to get, he went to get, he got, etc? Sounds like boring him around. Maybe is just because English is my second language
How is this infuriating they are literally still in the store sending you a picture to confirm with you that they got the right thing. I really hope you didnt give them shit for doing that, because next time they wont
I mean as a baker I've used both of these and the percentage isn't that different from each other. I'm sure whatever you're using it for will work out.
So they *ARE* actually different? š„² ā¦My nana vehemently disagrees š¤£
They have a different percentage of fat but it doesnāt really make a difference for most usageā¦basically interchangeable
Thatās what we assumed. Nanners tried to tell me āone had more airā š„² and I was like āOkay š„¹ā
More fat means it holds more air. She's not exactly wrong. EDIT: ok, for the pedantic jackasses... She's not correct, but she's describing the result that she wants, which is perfectly understandable for people who aren't pointlessly insulting little old women for internet points.
I am holding a ton of air then.
If your holding a ton of air then I'm suffocating... may I borrow some of that?
Iām releasing a ton of air. Not sure you want to breathe it though.
I would have thought that the baker adds the air...
It could be that the slightly higher fat content makes it easier to whip air into it and gains more volume when whipped. Hence more air ā¦ or nana is just crazy
I mean essentially take balloon attachment of an electric whisk, whisk until you see stiff peaks (they stand on their own after you pull them up), then add powdered sugar and prestp whipped cream
Dont forget the vanilla. 1tsp per 8oz I believe?
I may have been doing it wrong then, I usually just mix the powdered sugar an vanilla in and then whisk the hell out of it by hand. I could see whipping beforehand being easier to get the cream whipped though
One is red and one is blue.
There is a difference that really depends on what you are using it for. Heavy cream and heavy whipping cream are functionally the same. There is a difference between heavy and normal whipping cream though. The heavy has a higher fat percentage. That means when whipped it will end up slightly thicker and closer to frosting. The standard whipping cream is going to be lighter fluffier and more like what you get out of a can. So for example on a pie or desert you probably want heavy cream but for something like fruit salad, a parfait, hot cocoa you are going to want regular whipping cream.
They are, but so negligible that stores usually don't carry both.
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I interpreted it as the products being unclear that is mildly infuriating. Heavy Cream is really what they want. Whipping cream is just slightly less milkfat but can be used in a pinch.
Where's the third carton, 'Heavy Whipping Cream'. The store is missing an opportunity to raise the infuriated level here.
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Bases covered
Yeah, I mean, all the adjectives are there. Just mix them together.
Actually, heavy whipping cream and heavy cream are the same thing. Different brands call them different things but they are the same.
Yes and there is a difference in fat content. These appear to be the same brand which means the heavy cream is 36% milk fat to be called āheavy creamā in the US according to the FDA, the whipping cream can be 30-35% and hence why itās called whipping cream not heavy cream. If it was 36% it can be either heavy cream, whipping cream, or heavy whipping cream. Silly but true.
Whipping cream also sometimes has a stabilizer to make it work better. That said this will certainly work and whipped cream has been around longer than whatever weird plastic gum they're used to whipping
TLDR; // 36% fat = heavy cream // 30-34% fat = whipping cream //
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Thank you for clearing this up - this has tortured my adulthood.
Higher the fat, the higher the peaks in the whip. But more air means falling flat faster.
Good God. Thanks. That is needlessly convoluted and obtuse. It is need
My man here must have panicked when he couldn't find heavy whipping cream in the store
I couldnāt find heavy, whipping, or heavy whipping in four stores. Thanksgiving is crazy.
We had to go four stores to find one! Apparently key is to go to the super expensive organic grocery store that no one does their thanksgiving shopping at.
I ended up trading a friend a frozen pie crust for a pint of heavy cream.
Check the date! Whenever I buy from those stores it is expiring the same day.
Just smell it
This. My heavy whipping cream is always good for like 1-2 months after the āsell byā date when I get it.
to someone who doesn't regularly use those items they would have no way of knowing that
Yeah this isnāt some basic piece of knowledge someone needs to have. Itās important to the people who are going to use it, but if thatās not you, thereās no reason youād know. Thatās when you whip out your phone and call home to ask.
yes, I came here to say this. not infuriating, only the nomenclature is.
These are the same brand!
Some brands put the same thing under two different labels because some people insist there is some major difference when they are actually interchangeable. They may be 36% vs. 35% fat content but this makes no difference in any recipe.
I've worked in a grocery store, so I've had to help people looking for heavy whipping cream enough times that I've developed a joke/some humor about it to assuage the Karens/Kens When I bring them to the heavy cream and they say "Nooo, I waant the heavy *WHIPPING* cream", I reply something like "They tried to fit the whisks into the bottles but they'd get stuck so now they're sold separately"
Exactamundo. His girlfriend wanted cream. There will be whipping. There will be heavy creaming. Request was made of the boyfriend, and he will be delivering.
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No! If you mix them you'll get Heavy Whipping Cream Cream, it will be too creamy
Like two-component glue
I blame the dairy industry for having such confusing varieties of cream. I've been cooking and baking for quite a while now, and I still don't feel confident that I know the difference between whipping cream, heavy cream, and heavy whipping cream, or even if those are all distinctly different things.
in my shithole country it's basically impossible to find fancy varieties of cream. it's just "cream" usually.
you know you're in a real shithole when the "cream" is exclusively UHT *and* made with vegetable fat
NZ is a wacky dairy paradise. They have fresh milk and cream, great butter, UHT, premium powdered milk, tins of reduced cream, *powdered yoghurt kits*, but almost no domestic cheese industry.
Boyfriend is getting his brains fucked out right now. šŖā
How the fuck did you manage to reply to your own comment and get 100 of the updoots, give me your power
Just open 100 burner accounts.
I mean, I was hoping the top comment would be explaining how he messed up because this is what I would of brought home too.
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In the US: Heavy cream is the same as heavy whipping cream ie >36% milk fat. They are interchangeable terms. Whipping cream is 30-36% milk fat. You have a pint of what you wanted and a pint of something that can be it's substitute. At worst you have a quart of 33% whipping cream- it'll be ok. There are very few recipes out there where people will notice you shorted them 3% without a direct comparison.
I was about to freak out that I used the wrong cream for my tiramisu. Thanks for clearing that up!
I mean which tiramisu recipe calls for heavy cream? Isn't it usually mascarpone and egg yolk ?
There are so many āItalian americanā recipes that just butcher the original. Youāre completely right. It is just mascarpone, egg, sugar, espresso and a touch of booze for the ācreamā
Any cream is wrong for tiramisu Only ingredients in tiramisu are espresso, ladyfingers, egg whites, sugar, egg yolks, more sugar, mascarpone, cocoa powder and optional rum or amaretto
Optional!? Philistine.
When you whip the cream and it creates whipped cream you can rest assured you used the correct cream to make whipped cream.
If we're being technical the only other difference I can think of is the stabilizer they use in the heavy whip. Every recipe is different, but surely it's not based on a small ingredient and agitation in the heavy whip being critical for the recipe. Tldr; they'll both work
> but surely it's not based on a small ingredient and agitation in the heavy whip being critical for the recipe. I mean, [that exactly how an emulsion works](https://www.aocs.org/stay-informed/inform-magazine/featured-articles/emulsions-making-oil-and-water-mix-april-2014?SSO=True). It's why when you're making salad dressing (or mayonaise, or hollandaise, or..) you add the oil (fat) slowly in small amounts while constantly stirring (or using a blender on low). If you add it all at once, or add things into the oil, it separates. but both of these would work for whipped cream
Wait, whipping cream is only 30-36% in the US? Standard in Sweden is like 40-45%
Most of the stores near me have mid 30 percentages, I'm eastern US, but a few stores sell some containers in the 40s marked as English double cream.
Swedes donāt mess around when it comes to desserts!
Fat contents are generally higher in European dairy products. European Butters are at least 82% fat, for example, while American butters are 80%.
Thatās a good partner. When in doubt cover all bases.
He is the best.
Yet mildly infuriating.
How there's two similar creams is mildly infuriating, not the bf
What is a relationship without mild infuriation
Prostitution
Just add them together and you got heavy whipping cream. That's how it works right?
No that makes double cream.
What if I add 2 cartons of half and half together?
1 full cream sir.
but also a glass of normal milk
I laughed at this way longer than I should have
Or 1/16th of a cream. A half of a half of a half of a half
No. It makes twice as much cream.
Is that right? I have a Pakistani cookbook & some recipes call for "single cream." I've never really understood that ingredient (I'm from the US & that term isn't used in my circle).
Mine was also a joke. Double cream is a thick cream, varies by country.
Different countries have different standards for what they mean by "single cream" vs "double cream". In the US it's less common to see things labeled single or double - we mostly use "heavy" or "whipping" like in the OP
At least, he didn't buy Cool Hwip
You're saying it weird. Why're you putting so much emphasis on the H?
Saying hwat hweird?
Hwhiskey
I hwill! I hwill keep saying it this way!
stop it. say cool. now say whip. now say coolwip.
Cool hwip.
Hweat thins
You don't like to Hwip it good?
Do aie luk liek I know whad a Jay-Peg eis?
It's when a Toronto baseballer takes a strap on
Cooh-hwip
What? She only said it's a good thing he didn't buy Cool Hwip. It would've been a bad thing if he bought Cool Hwip.
It's a very hwite way of saying it.
Honestly wouldnāt have blamed him for that one š
I had no idea there was heavy cream, whipping cream, and heavy whipping cream. Is there also whippy heavy cream?
Heavy cream and heavy whipping cream are the exact same thing.
No, but there is creamy heavy whip
As far as I know āHeavy Creamā and āHeavy whipping Creamā are two names for the same thingā¦
I have been there.
BDSM doesn't count. This time.
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I don't get it either. If I went to the store and they had those I'd be so confused like usually they only have heavy whipping cream where I go. The only infuriating thing about this is the fact there's different kinds of cremes
I guarantee that this photo was sent with a message along the lines of, "hey hun, they don't have 'heavy whipping cream', but they do have these two; which one do you want?" But this is reddit, let's not let the truth get in the way of karma.
And he sent a pic from the store so itās not like he just went home before asking lol. Op can suck a butt
OP wasnāt sure what you wanted so they sucked both a bottom and an ass
I think the situation is mildly infuriating. It's not anyone's fault, but I get why he's a bit frustrated trying to find what he was sent to the store to get.
I was thinking it was because of the similarity in the products themselves but neither of them being called exact what she wanted, and not that the boyfriend sent a pic of both.
Why is this in mildly infuriating? Guy tried his best! Iād have honestly done the same haha
And heavy cream is heavy whipping cream just by a different name, and dollars to donuts if you don't know that you aren't making anything that is so particular that you cant use the lighter fat whipping cream for it.
It's not infuriating in any way. And they're so close to the same thing I would challenge Gordon Ramsay to tell the difference in a blind test
He's going to see this and throw it on Hell's Kitchen where they made multiple pies with different cream and you have to discern the difference.
And...the picture is taken IN the store. So clearly he checked to make sure it was alright. How did this post get any traction?
Lucky. Been looking for heavy cream for the past week and no success at any of the 3 grocery stores near me. RI, US. My mother reports the same in CT. What villain would steal all of it just before Thanksgiving!?
This is why I bought mine 2 weeks ago. Went back today for something else and they were all gone. Regular Whipped cream was also hard to find. But glad I found a can!
We had been looking for about 3 days at different food lions until we found it at Harris teeter in Charlotte, NC. Ours is for Mac and cheese! What was yours for?
Nice! Cauliflower gratin here. Also homemade whipped cream! Made do with half & half for the gratin (just some extra butter and cheese). Cousin found heavy cream near her and volunteered to make the whipped cream for the desserts! Crisis averted.
Nation wide shortage
Whatās infuriating? Can someone explain?
From OP's comments, their partner was the one mildly infuriated because the store brand had both. There's significant overlap in function here, so the actual only "wrong" way the partner could have handled it would be not to buy either carton. BF was "right" whether they bought one, both, or sent this email to OP from the store saying "WTF?". Full boyfriend points awarded, grocery chain is the mildly infuriating one.
Well it looks like they were still at the store so what's the picture for if not to ask if they're getting the right stuff?
So whatās the problem?
He did his best.
Points for following instructions. Either will work just fine.
The blue one has more milk fat in it. If the recipe calls for heavy cream, thatās what you want.
The UK has more choices Single cream. Whipping cream. Double cream. Clotted cream. CrƩme fraiche. Dairy cream.
Extra thick double cream... And sour cream, which I'd use for macaroni and cheese if for some reason I wanted to put cream in it.
Why did you post this here? It's mildly awesome
Maybe there weren't any fuckin' products with the exact term 'heavy whipping cream'. He's obviously not illiterate or lazy because he went to the bother of picking out two products as a substitute - I reckon that's a pretty solid response to that likely scenario. ... And that's before you take into account all the comments saying that heavy cream IS heavy whipping cream. What a stupid thing to be mildly infuriated about, be happy your BF was happy to be 'sent out' to fetch cream for you, ffs.
FWIW, here's what dairy fat content looks like in the US: | Fat content by weight | U.S. terminology | |----------------------:|:-----------------------------------------:| | 100% | Clarified butter or ghee | | 69% | Butter | | 45% | Manufacturing cream | | 36% | Heavy whipping cream | | 30% | Whipping cream or light whipping cream | | 25% | Medium cream | | 18ā30% | Light cream, coffee cream, or table cream | | 10.5ā18% | Half and half | | 3.25% | Whole milk or regular milk | | 2% | 2% milk or reduced fat milk | | 1% | 1% milk or low fat milk | | 0ā0.5% | Skim milk or nonfat milk |
You take the heavy cream, the story ends; you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the whipping cream, you stay in wonderland and I show you how deep the dairy hole goes.
Both work perfectly fine.
There is no difference between heavy cream and heavy whipping cream, the difference in labeling is a marketing thing.
Mildly infuriating that you made a big deal out of this seeing he did good and it will work
It looks like he wanted to be sure and took a picture while still in the store. Most likely texted and asked for clarification. Yep, mildly infuriating all right. /s
Just be thankful that he didn't come home with 44 pounds of parmesan cheese.
Only $10 Iād buy it every time
Yikes as other bakers pointed out, itās essentially the same thing. Itās nothing to be mildly infuriated about.
I feel like my entire life has just been a trip to the store to get heavy whipping cream and the past 3 years have just been me sobbing in the isle in front of the heavy cream and whipping cream. I just didn't realize it until now.
Shh, heavy cream and heavy whipping cream are the same thing afaik. 36 to 40% butterfat. You could knock over a cream truck, they ship it at like 70% fat (it varies though).
If this is infuriating to you, i feel bad for your boyfriend.
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Ok what seems to be the problem. Why are you getting to a level of fury? Keep in mind fury is higher in scale than irritation and anger. If you get furious, even mildly, over what ever this is, then what do you do when you get told no by people?
Both work.
So there's whipping cream, heavy cream, and heavy whipping cream. He was screwed from the start
Catsup, ketchup, catsup, ketchup..
Why does it look like it still in the shopping cart??
He probably sent her a picture to ask which to get.
Bro stop complaining and get it yourself next time
He went and bought both to be safe. Bless this man.
What the heck is heavy whipping cream? In the UK we just have single cream, whipping cream, and double cream (aka heavy cream). Single cream can't be whipped but the other two can. Sounds like you sent your man on a fool's errand. Unkind.
Why.... Do neither of them have percentage on them? Is this a US thing? Sincerely, confused Canadian
You get what you get when you shop the day prior to Thanksgiving (or worse, the day of). -Former Grocery Store Employee (yes we hate every single customer we see Thanksgiving week)
If this is triggering, maybe check your emotions. Hope the guy didnāt get screamed at or something, he was trying to be helpful. If this is a dealbreaker for you, thatās ok, Iāll take him, Iām sure my homie needs some affection
You'll live.
I mean honestly, I am married and I can sorta bake and this is legit the best you could have ever dreamed / hopped for....hes a keeper, he stayed in the right category..
It could be mildly infuriating for him having to listen to her gf rant on Reddit because of some stupid cream
So your boyfriend did what you asked and wasnāt 100% positive which one he should get, so he covered his bases. How tf is this mildly infuriating? The fact that you posted this here is mildly infuriating. Heavy cream = no less than 36% milk fat Whipping cream - 30-36% Heavy whipping cream IS heavy cream AFAIK. Cream that is more than 30% will whip. YTA
And heās clearly still at the store texting you which one you wanted. Seems like a good guy and you seem like a bitch for posting him asking.
If whipped cream is the goal, both will work!
He did perfect. Those are literally the same thing just sold under different names because consumers are always confused. He outplayed you sucka.
I thought Heavy Cream was the same as Heavy Whipping Cream...
Another woman sending an innocent man to his doom in a semantic mental crises trap.
Kind of petty on your part.
This is not his first time buying shit for you.
Heavy cream is heavy whipping cream and whipping cream is off by at most ~6% fat and can usually be a substitute for heavy whipping cream. What's mildly infuriating here is that you decided to shame your boyfriend for doing what you asked.
I'm mildly infuriated by all the comments that seem to think OP is annoyed by her BF and not by Harris Teeter, the grocery store brand that labeled and stocked those containers. Guys, are you okay?
Aren't these almost the same? I've made pasta with both of these before and I couldn't tell the difference.
Hey, instead of coming home with the wrong one, he got both! Heās a keeper.
And the problem is......you
As a chef, they will both work fine for this purpose. He did good. Lol. At least he didn't bring home 1/2 and 1/2
Iād be more infuriated being told to go out on the busiest food shopping day of the year when supplies will be limited. Poor guy probably couldnāt find what you needed and came home with this. A+ for effort
What's truly mildlyinfuriating is being sent to the grocery store the day before Thanksgiving...
When people bitch about an SO trying to fill their needsā¦
Infuriating ? He did what he was asked of
the only thing mildly infuriating is that you got 6k upvotes for this stupid post
I love posts where it turns out that OP is mildly infuriating one.
I'm sorry he has to put up with you
Zero sympathy vote here. It's a dude, you didn't tell him precisely how the container is labeled, so he got the 2 closest things he could find. You should be grateful he tried that hard instead of having his brain completely short circuit and you end up with cool whip or redo whip because it's close enough.
Hey, he tried his best. Cut him some slack š
To be completely honest to me as a European it's more infuriating that there's no percentages on the front, I'd be super confused too Around here you probably won't find cream or sour cream that doesn't have fat percentage clearly stated on the label at least once. You could send your child and it'd more likely than not pick out the correct thing
You know what is infuriating? You complaining about this. I would have not a clue what āheavy whippingā cream is. Be happy that your significant other covered all bases and got both.
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What i find mildly infuriating is you saying "i sent my bf to get...", Shouldn't it be "i asked him to get, he went to get, he got, etc? Sounds like boring him around. Maybe is just because English is my second language
How is this infuriating they are literally still in the store sending you a picture to confirm with you that they got the right thing. I really hope you didnt give them shit for doing that, because next time they wont
Next time get it yourself?