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Experimental Fat Loss's avatar

Ha, interesting :D I also suspect that the whipping just slows down the eating process just enough for satiety to work. As you observed, you can drink A LOT of cream before any of it makes it to the satiety button, and then you'll feel terrible. I recommend slow sipping for those who don't like to whip it.

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John Lawrence Aspden's avatar

I seem to have very quickly got the hang of 'there's a lot of calories in this'. The urge to bolt it only happened the first time. Now I can only face it at all if I'm hungry, and usually I can't drink much before it seems very undesirable to continue.

We actually have something here called 'extra thick double cream', which I think is heat-treated to give the consistency of whipped cream. You can't drink it, you need a spoon.

I tried that, and it's nice enough. I thought I might use that if the whipping turned out to be important, but it doesn't taste quite right, and I don't think it's necessary.

There's a certain wholesomeness about straight double cream, it reminds me of childhood milk deliveries where the cream was all separated out at the top of the bottle and the birds would peck through the foil to get at it if you weren't quick.

My father would always get mad at me because I used to steal the cream before he'd had a chance to shake up the bottles.

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Experimental Fat Loss's avatar

Haha yea I'm kind of jealous. We only have heavy whipping cream here, not double cream.

I suspect there's something in the body to quickly learn the nutrients in new food. If it's working as designed, that is.

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