Looking at wikipedia I saw there is a richer form of cream than heavy whipping cream available in the US with the name “manufacturer’s cream”. A quick googling found the grocery chain Meijer’s sells manufacturer’s cream without additives. But unfortunately they have no stores in Chicago, although they are in a couple near suburbs.
Does anyone know of other grocers that sell manufacturer’s cream?
No, but you have just opened my eyes! Was that the only grocery store chain that was mentioned?
Costco was also mentioned, but in the past tense, that is they carried it in the past, but no more. Might need to start a campaign to urge Costco to reconsider their foolish decision to stop selling it.
Big enough push and they’d probably do it.
They have wonderful customer service from my experience
I’ve never seen this at my Meijer! I’m going to have to look harder…
On the west coast there is a chain of stores called Smart and Final. Years ago I found manufacturer’s cream there at a reasonable price. Haven’t been in one recently.
Smart and Final has been around for many decades and is a precursor to the big club stores like Sam’s and Costco, except there is no membership fee. By comparison their prices are a bit higher but they package many of their fresh foodstuffs in smaller packages, which is an advantage for individuals or small families.
I was recently informed by a friend that Restaurant Depot sells Heavy Cream at 40% fat content which is the same as Manfacturers Cream. I haven’t been able to get over to the one locally but I intend to soon. Possible that other restaurant supply stores carry it also.
Here in Iowa we have a restaurant supply place that is open to the public I am going to go visit there soon I went into one of their satellite stores that didn’t have as much stuff but they found out that they can get heavy cream in gallon size I think. I also saw something about 33% fat heavy cream of some sort I will have to try out https://foodmarket.martinbros.com/
Thanks for the tip on Restaurant Depot. Never heard of it before but there’s one a couple miles from home. Unfortunately they only sell to businesses and non-profits so I’m going to have to jump through a couple hoops and see if I can get my hackerspace to apply for an account I can use.
My Costco sells 40% heavy cream - is this the same as Manufacturers Cream? (It’s delicious, by the way - nothing else like it that I’ve found).
In Australia it’s called double cream and it’s available in every supermarket.
There is a product with similar fat content called clotted cream that you can look for.
Just checked my UK double cream in the fridge - 50.1%
And the clotted cream I sometimes buy is 60.5% and it’s delicious 
What’s the normal fat level for heavy cream in the US? I’d just assumed that heavy cream was the same as double cream in the UK
I’m so jealous! I think in the USA the fat percentage is somewhere around 35% for standard HWC I wish I had a Costco near where I live so I could at least get some 40%!
Here’s a table from wikipedia of US fat content of milk products. It lists 45% for manufacturer’s cream but I’ve seen elsewhere that it is 40% or greater. I’ve found imported British clotted cream through amazon but it is silly expensive. Maybe a business opportunity for someone to start US production of clotted cream.
Butterfat content U.S. terminology
69% Butter
45% Manufacturer’s cream
36% Heavy whipping cream
30% Whipping cream or light whipping cream
25% Medium cream
18–30% Light cream, coffee cream, or table cream
10.5–18% Half and half
3.25% Whole milk or regular milk[10][citation needed]
about 2% 2% milk or reduced fat milk [11]
about 1% 1% milk or low fat milk [11]
0–0.5% Skim milk or nonfat milk [11]
Your butter is only 69% fat?
Ours in the UK is 82.7%
Clotted cream 60.5%
Double Cream 47.5%
Whipping Cream 38.9%
Single Cream 18% boo!
Whole milk 3.6%
Seni Skimmed 1.8%
Skimmed Milk 0.3%
Interesting, our butter is fattier as well - minimum 80% milk fat by law
