A milk substitute that doesn't really do the business (Nestlé Coffee Mate)

Member Name: Martin52

Product:	Nestlé Coffee Mate
Date:	06/06/09 (12 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Tasty and rather creamy

Disadvantages: Sets like cement

Although many people will tell you that they much prefer Coffee-mate to real milk in their coffee and tea, I am not one of those people. For me, the only real reason to use this stuff is if you have run out of milk.

I bought a plastic jar of this stuff a few months a go and, at first, quite enjoyed using it as it did give a slightly different taste and texture to my cup of coffee. However, once the novelty had worn off, I was straight back to genuine milk whenever possible.

The jar has a flip-top opening, which presumably you are supposed to use to pour a little bit of the powder into your drink. This never really worked well, even from the start, as it was difficult to measure how much you were putting into your coffee and the powder tended to come out in unequal amounts. I soon much preferred to use a spoon.

However, as I gradually worked my way down the jar, the creamy powder started to get more and more lumpy until, now, near the bottom, the stuff is like set cement. I've already bent one fork trying to break up the stuff and even then it needs to be crushed somehow or the small pieces will just float around at the top of your mug without dissolving. All rather annoying.

Personally, I've now got in a few cartons of long life milk, which will happily sit on my shelf as an emergency supply for when I next run out of milk. I don't think that I shall be buying Coffee-mate again.

Summary: Somehow useful for when you run out of milk