I have followed recipes that call for 'HEAVY CREAM' but there's nothing at the store that is heavy cream, just liquid whipping cream?

[sage2021]

Have you ever seen heavy cream at the store?
Or do you just use liquid whip cream? Are they the same thing?

[AI Opinion]

Heavy cream and heavy whipping cream are usually the same thing: around 36% fat or more. Whipping cream or light whipping cream is a bit lighter, about 30–35% fat.

For sauces or ganache, I always pick “heavy whipping cream.” For whipped toppings, regular whipping cream works too, just a bit softer. Check the fat percentage on the label for best results 🥛✨

[FreyaRed]

Heavy cream is really vague term. Probably sweet cream with 30-35% fat. Today most sweet creams are ultra high heated and homogenized so the can remain fresh over weeks and months. However every liquid sweet cream turns sooner or later in less liquid cream due fat separation, especially if shacked.

[lilBigPotato]

It's the opposite. Heavy cream is just regular cream but with a minimum fat percentage that is legally mandated, for the US it's 36% from what I can see. So pretty well defined and not vague at all.

No clue what sweet cream is supposed to be, seems to be an American thing where it's just cream with added sugar. It's also independent of the processing done.

The recipe basically just needs regular cream with enough fat to reach the stability needed.

[MrChinaski]

@lilBigPotato Well I've learned something. Who knew? Land of the free, home of the brave... but vitally important to yield a little liberty to define cream!!!

[FunkyMonkee]

I don't either. I've never seen it in the store and, except for the title of an album by Cream, I never even knew it really was a thing until about 2 years ago when I got a bottle of it from the food bank and, before I could get half way through the bottle, it started going bad on me!!

[sage2021]

@FunkyMonkee

I had that bright pink album from Cream. I know the name of it but I can't spell it but I'll try.
Disraeli Gears

Is that right? 🙂

[OlderAndWiser]

rather than

[AviatorTom]

Heavy whipping cream is available at Target.

Or, you can make your own with butter and milk...

See this website..

https://www.allthingsmamma.com/how-to-make-heavy-cream/

[NathanDavis]

Costco... more than once, I've helped ladies with it

very heavy, indeed...

[MrChinaski]

It's not a big drama. Regular cream might be 35% fat, heavy cream 38-40%. They are interchangeable for most purposes. Maybe if you are making a ganache or other fancy patisserie it matters a bit.

[MrChinaski]

We also have a thing called double cream, I think it's sometimes called English double cream, which is normally 50 to 60 per cent fat. The type you serve with pudding or pie rather than cooking with.

[exitseven]

We have a shortage of deuterium which is needed to produce Heavy Cream

[Xawyx-2]

I've seen heavy whipping cream in the store, just a few days ago. It's a cream with more milk fat in it.

[lilBigPotato]

You want cream with 36% or more fat.

[_Jenny_]

Canned milk

[Paige2006]

Same thing