Mepra Stainless Steel Creamer 11.5 oz

A creamer has no lid, and that single absence decides everything about how it is used. An open vessel is a serving vessel and never a storage one, which is worth knowing before eleven and a half ounces of milk goes into it and back into a refrigerator.

• Open by design Nothing to lift off, nothing to lose, and nothing to keep the contents covered either.
• Eleven and a half ounces Larger than a two-cup creamer, sized for a table rather than a tray.
• Fill it at the table Milk comes out of its own container and into this at the moment it is served.

What an Open Top Costs

Two things happen to milk in an uncovered vessel. Warm milk forms a skin as the surface proteins dry, and cold milk in a refrigerator takes on the smell of whatever is beside it, because there is nothing between the two. Neither is a problem if the creamer is filled when the meal starts and emptied when it ends, which is the pattern the shape assumes. Treating it as a milk bottle is where people find the limit.

Bigger Than It Looks

Most creamers hold four to six ounces, which covers two or three coffees. This one takes nearly double, so a table of six is served from one filling without anybody getting up. The consequence is worth planning for: a creamer this size holds enough milk that finishing it matters, and half a pint left standing after breakfast is milk poured away.

Steel and the Pour

The polished body is drawn rather than cast, which is why the wall stays thin and the whole thing is light even at this capacity. A thin wall also means the metal takes the temperature of the milk almost immediately, so a cold fill feels cold in the hand within a minute of leaving the refrigerator. That is the tell for whether milk has been standing.

Filling, Storing and Marks

Can milk be kept in it overnight? Better not to. An open vessel gives a refrigerator's smells direct access to the milk, and there is no version of this shape that seals.

How much does 11.5 ounces serve? Roughly a table of six taking milk in coffee, or fewer if anyone is drinking a milky tea. It is a filling per meal rather than per cup.

Does milk stain stainless steel? No, but dried milk leaves a dull film that looks like staining. Rinse rather than let it dry and the polish stays where it was.