Try this...

[Johnniem]

When we have tea (a cup thereof) we use the normal semi skimmed or full fat milk but for coffee we have now gone completely over to the full fat long life milk. It is perfect and it feels like one is on holiday in Europe! Try it, you'll never look back. Also, you can stock up with cartons and not worry about running out.

Anyone else do this or is this no surprise because everyone is doing it already?

Warning....never use this milk in tea, it's not right!

Edited by Johnniem on Monday 7th December 16:28

[Johnniem]

calibrax said:

I use long life UHT skimmed milk for pretty much everything.

I don't drink coffee, and rarely drink tea, so I wouldn't normally have fresh milk in the fridge (although I sometimes buy fresh semi-skimmed to drink on it's own if I'm in the mood). The UHT stuff is very convenient... I buy the Candia 4-pack (4x 500ml plastic bottles) and keep it in the fridge as it's definitely better when cold.

You do get used to the UHT stuff pretty quickly, but at first it does seem kinda watery, particularly on breakfast cereals.

No fully skimmed anything for me! Full fat UHT for coffee and semi skimmed pasteurised for anything else. Actually, full fat UHT on breakfast cereals isn't bad actually.

[Johnniem]

soad said:

Always have my coffee with full-fat fresh milk.

Are you saying long life milk tastes better than fresh (with coffee)? Or have i mis-read it?

Edited by soad on Monday 7th December 17:04

It is definitely creamier and IMO tastes better than 'normal' milk. I think the niceness of it stems from good memories of the end-of-meal coffees that one is served in mediterranean countries (which don't do 'normal' milk).