Skim milk or whole milk that is the question

Dear niece, think of this as a simple math puzzler.
What is the percentage of fat in your cream and your milk?
My heavy cream is 8%.
What is the percent fat in your milk?
You mentioned skim milk which should be near zero and also 1% which would be 1%.
If I had 1 cup of heavy cream, it would be 8% fat. If I started with ¼ cup of heavy cream and added ¾ cup of fat-free milk, I would have 2% milk.
Does this help?

Yes thank you so much!

Sorry to intrude on a family discussion, but isn't heavy cream normally 40% fat or so? Here in Canada, we have whipping cream, which is about 35% fat, but I know that in the US, heavy cream has more.

If I were using 40% fat heavy cream, I'd use different proportions. At 40%, 1/4 cup of heavy cream plus fat-free milk would give you 10% milk in the end. You'd have to use 1/20th of a cup of cream to create 2% for the total fat content, which is just under a tablespoon.

I confused grams of fat with percent, thanks for the correction. That makes better sense.

OK well that makes sense. I made a cup like PS said to and well... it was a bit to creamy even for me! Thank you for the correct proportions! :)

13 daughter

Thanks for working this out, guys! I will remember this formula.