What’s on the Dairy & Cream poster
A 7-row table: Product · Fat · Whips?.
Approximate fat content; names vary by country.
- Single cream — 18% — No
- Whipping cream — 35% — Yes
- Double cream — 48% — Yes, quickly
- Heavy cream (US) — 36% — Yes
- Crème fraîche — 30% — Will not split when boiled
- Soured cream — 20% — Splits if boiled
- Greek yoghurt — 10% — Splits if boiled
Higher fat resists splitting. Stir yoghurt or soured cream in off the heat; crème fraîche can be simmered.
Questions about the Dairy & Cream poster
- What’s on the Dairy & Cream poster?
- A 7-row table: Product · Fat · Whips?. Approximate fat content; names vary by country. Single cream — 18% — No; Whipping cream — 35% — Yes; Double cream — 48% — Yes, quickly; Heavy cream (US) — 36% — Yes; Crème fraîche — 30% — Will not split when boiled; Soured cream — 20% — Splits if boiled; Greek yoghurt — 10% — Splits if boiled. Higher fat resists splitting. Stir yoghurt or soured cream in off the heat; crème fraîche can be simmered.
- Who is the Dairy & Cream poster for?
- Dairy & Cream belongs to the Kitchen section rather than to a school year, because food is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning ingredients can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Dairy & Cream poster?
- Below about 30% fat, cream will not whip. Above it, it will — and can be over-whipped to butter. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Dairy & Cream belongs on the wall where that food work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Dairy & Cream?
- Storing Bread, Cheese and Chillies sit alongside Dairy & Cream in the Kitchen section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Storing BreadCheeseChillies
- Is the Dairy & Cream poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Dairy & Cream downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Kitchen section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Dairy & Cream poster print at?
- Dairy & Cream is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Dairy & Cream loses nothing.Printing guide
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