Why do people put skim milk in their coffee?

Wow. You worry about important things.

After years of dieting and using skim or 2% in coffee, I'm now on a keto diet (very successfully) and I just adore a splash of half-and-half or even full cream in my morning coffee. Delightful!

It probably has less to do with calories than mouth feel. I use whole milk because half and half makes the coffee seem too “slimy” to me - someone even more sensitive to that than I am would use skim.

People who are committed dieters (not the same as healthy eaters) shave calories when it’s easier to do so. Drinking diet soda and skim milk and eating low-fat cheese is easier for a lot of people than resisting the office candy bowl. But this is one reason why people have trouble keeping the pounds off.

When in college, I used to use whole whipping cream. It was a luscious cup of coffee… After college, I used whole milk for a number of years, mostly I think due to cost. Now, I’m half and half all the way… I also get terrible acid reflux from coffee that doesn’t have enough half and half to cut the acidity.

I can see the diet soda thing R3 - a can of Coke is 160 calories and some people can easily drink two or three a day.

But maybe you save 5 calories by using a splash of skim milk vs whole milk.

So 15 calories if you drink three cup each day, which is way too much coffee for most people.

Starbuck's Italian roast with light cream is rich and delicious, Regular, skim or even half and half don't do it for me and the caloric difference seems negligible.

I wonder how bored one must be to ever think of such stupid things.

Skim milk is disgusting and should not even be called milk.

They use skim milk because they love how ashy-grey it makes their coffee look and taste.

I like skim milk in cappuccino because it foams best. Otherwise half and half in drip coffee.

Not nearly as bored as one must be to comment on them R8

Live a little people, half and half for me .

I use a little bit of light cream in my coffee. I used to use French Vanilla Nutpods but lately it has been tasting bitter and off to me. I also use a homemade brown sugar syrup (made with Swerve... MARY). My coffee is delicious. I go to bed looking forward to it.

Oh hell I put heavy cream in my coffee. So there.

Must it be "a splash of" whatever liquid you're adding to your coffee? Sort of like we must "pop it in the oven"?

The milk cuts the bitterness of the coffee. I can't drink Starbucks coffee without some milk as it's far too bitter without it. As far as skim milk vs. cream, maybe some people are trying to reduce their intake of saturated fats rather their intake of calories.

I'll use lowfat or whole milk. The other day, I used half n half....makes a delicious cuppa joe. Mmmm..

Again R17, the small amount of milk or cream most people put in their coffee would not result in any real increase in calories or saturated fat.

[quote]Must it be "a splash of" whatever liquid you're adding to your coffee?

Thank you, thank you, thank you, r16. A thousand times, thank you.

I don’t like the taste of whole milk. Any more inane questions OP?

Because I prefer the taste, OP.

Why do so many Americans think that the brown cat’s piss from Starbucks is actual coffee?

So many existential questions, OP.

I’m a Fat Whore. I get half my milk in coffee, the rest from men.

[quote] I wonder how bored one must be to ever think of such stupid things.

The raison d'être for everything DL

This is a perfectly valid Datalounge inquiry.

Maybe they're lactose intolerant but don't want to look like a total cafe cunt by ordering a oat milk latte?

Some people just like the taste of milk in their coffee. Yes, I know, it's gross. But some people really do prefer the taste of milk vs cream in their coffee.

Why do you care?

Dairy is linked to cancer; lots of people have stopped drinking it. A splash of 2% in my coffee is all the milk I consume.

Doesn't splashing make a mess all over the counter?

I always use whole milk in my coffee. My boyfriend recently bought a GALLON of fat free milk by mistake, and after two days of using it, I had to go out and buy whole milk.

Using skim milk is like adding gray water to your coffee.

R2, your writing has a very Hemingway-esque, masc quality!

If you drink strong (concentrated) coffee, IMO, skim milk isn't going to do much. I use half 'n' half. Pure heavy cream seems like a good idea, but oil drops rise to the top of the coffee.

Former barista here. Yes, skim and 2% are easier to foam up than milk with higher fat content.

[quote] Wow. You worry about important things.

[quote] I wonder how bored one must be to ever think of such stupid things.

[quote] I don’t like the taste of whole milk. Any more inane questions OP?

[quote] Because I prefer the taste, OP. Why do so many Americans think that the brown cat’s piss from Starbucks is actual coffee? So many existential questions, OP.

Wow, the Skim Milk Lobby has found this thread and they are NOT going to let us get away with this.

I only use half and half. I can hardly stand drinking coffee without it. Skim milk actually makes black coffee taste horrible to me.

Most people buy only one kind of milk and whatever it is, that’s what they put in their coffee without further thought. Their coffee probably sucks anyway.

I saw a Starbucks employee cum in his iced coffee on twitter today

Try Kava, r5...

A local Mexican/Asian supermarket's weekly flyer recently advertised a sale on "skinned milk". Even though the price was pretty good, I wasn't encouraged to go get some.

Kava? You've got to be kidding. It's High Point all the way!

And presenting the Teutonic point of view...

Anything on Datalounge dealing with food gets at least 100 replies.

"A local Mexican/Asian supermarket's weekly flyer recently advertised a sale on "skinned milk"."

It's a cultural thing.

I occasionally drink Starbuck’s breve latte and it is my favorite coffee. Their burnt coffee with creaminess of the half n half is perfect.

I drink skim milk at home because of its lower fat content with helps with my cholesterol numbers and calories and usually has more calcium.

I drink/eat a lot of dairy because I have adult rickets, so it has to be lower in fat.

My father grew up on a farm. The milk he drank was straight from the cow. He started drinking 2% around age 30, and switched to skim milk at around 55. Couldn’t stand anything but skim milk, and drank a lot of it. It wasn’t about calories. It was taste. But, he always drank black coffee.

I drink my coffee black as well, and prefer 1% milk in cappuccino. I will drink whole, but prefer the taste of 1%.

I had a feeling it might R34 -- a lot of DLers are still in the melba toast-cottage cheese-grapefruit-Tab mode of dieting and likely stopped using whole milk during the "fat is bad" trend in the 80s.

So clearly touched a nerve.

And yes R42. That too.

I would reach for Coffee-Mate, Coconut Cream, or Sweet Condensed milk before even thinking of using skim or 2% milks. I do not see the point either.

I like coconut milk, adds just a tiny bit of sweetness. I can longer drink milk with becoming ill.

I only use skim milk in coffee because I like it.

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My parents used to buy International Delight. They came in various sizes of carton and were blue, green, purple. I loved those. Like Vanilla and Irish Creme.

Do they still sell those?

R50 They do, but sadly they all invlude Sucralose, so I've skipped them as an option. Sucralose, better known as Splenda, alters gut microbiome, and I'm not happy about that.

Sucralose is cheaper than sugar, so no surprise really. The ID Coldstone Creamery was nice...not too vanilla heavy, tasted like melted vanilla ice cream. I could only use a gery small amount however, as it is freakishly sweet, even more now with their addition of Sucralose.

I can NO longer drink milk withOUT becoming ill.

[quote] Most people buy only one kind of milk and whatever it is, that’s what they put in their coffee without further thought.

Exactly. OP is making this more complicated than it really is. Few people are going to buy special milk just for the small bit they put in their coffee. It will go to waste before they use it up.

I buy a quart of milk, if not a half-gallon, and my boyfriend and I use it exclusively in our coffee. We drink it all that way before it goes bad.

Maybe some people just prefer skim milk over whole or lowfat? I like skim milk because it tastes lighter, colder and more refreshing than whole milk.

WE HAVE GOT TO GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS!

Some people, like me, only buy milk-type products for coffee purposes. Not everybody drinks milk as a beverage or eats cereal and milk. So, I buy half 'n' half because that's what I use in coffee.

R55, it sounds like you’re not talking about milk as it’s used in coffee…

Because god almighty there ain’t no way in hell skim milk tastes “colder and more refreshing” in coffee than whole milk does.

[quote] I like skim milk because it tastes lighter, colder and more refreshing than whole milk.

So much of what is written on DL sounds like ad copy.

For decades the medical profession went on and on about how bad fat was for you. You'd have heart disease! and early heart attack! death!!!

Eat all the crackers and white bread you want but don't you DARE drink any milk other than skim. A friend whose mother was neurotic about this says she never had anything other than skim at home (she was born in 1952).

It really was drilled into people in the 1960s and quite a bit beyond. If you HAD to have some fat occasionally -- always margarine instead of butter, as saturated fat was fucking evil !!

Oh and that's when Crisco took over from lard - even at McDonalds, who used better-tasting tallow for years before they had to jump on the vegetable oil train.

So damn stupid. Doctors know nothing about nutrition - I'm not sure they take even one course in it in medical school.

Actually no one knows anything about nutrition R60--the science is still all over the place and you can find quality peer reviewed studies to support just about any POV.

Whole milk is VILE

The same reason why people drink diet coke instead of regular.

Skim milk in coffee is LITERAL VIOLENCE!

I told my friend I like to drink rosemary tea and he said that figures. I’m like why is that? He says I’m gay and I like to say ROSE-MARY! Ugh.

Anxious fatties do it as a penance for their gluttony.

Anxious thin people do it out of self-righteousness.

Only recently have I ever tasted coffee that I could stand to drink black. It was iced coffee from Birch. Cold brew concentrate.

Otherwise, lots of heavy cream, please.

Skim milk is the Devil’s saliva. Ew.