Is luxury clotted cream something I should be playing around with?

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I was playing around with heavy whipping cream the other day. Nothing too inventive, the whole oil, butter, garlic, shallots, wine, cream thing, baked with a lot of broccoli, cauliflower, tomatoes and cheese. No leftovers, so a win :slight_smile:

Shopping for the ingredients I came across luxury clotted cream in the store. I don’t know that I’ve ever tried it. Cream can be pretty irresistible to some people, so would this be better?

I dunno. I have never complained that my cream was not clotted enough. It could taste like sugared snot and I’d be out 8 bucks, the word ‘luxury’ on the jar notwithstanding. Then again maybe it is teh succor and it’ll be totally worth putting into the next dish instead of going out to these expensive restaurants (though if we want something like these chefs can pull off we’ll still have to pay for it I think). Or, is it the crack of the dairy counter, which, once introduced to it, will cause my gf to balloon up 50 lbs over the next year?

I’d like some information from 'dopers about clotted cream before I make my next move. Is it good? What can you do with it?

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It’s exactly a cross between butter and whipped cream. Only one way to find out if you’re a fan of it or not.

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Clotted cream is for eating on scones, with strawberry jam. That’s why you supermarket carries it.

As the previous poster said, it’s a cross between butter and whipped cream, and I don’t find it particularly irresistible. Not the way cheeses can be, for sure.

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It seems like you’d want to try it fresh, not jarred, before reaching a conclusive opinion.