Anyone made creme brulee with tinned custard?

[telbert]

Someone told me about this recently as a quick spur of the moment alternative to the original.They swear its just as good but before i try it(tonight possibly) i want a few more opinions.
Cheers.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Wrong.

 

[spanglechick]

just as good? well - that would depend on how much you like tinned custard.

ocado do a vanilla/double cream custard in a big pot and something like that might work. But tinned custard is a different texture, colour, flavour... it would be a different desert entirely.

 

[killer b]

how could it possibly be 'just as good'?

 

[Frances Lengel]

 

[TodayIsCaturday]

how could it possibly be 'just as good'?

By being just as good?

 

[trabuquera]

But it can't work! Not without witchcraft anyway - creme brulee only holds together because of the egg proteins. Tinned custard (which is made gloopy by agar gum or cornstarch) will probably behave very differently under a hot grill / a blowtorch and might degenerate into claggy lumps. It'd only be the sugar crust holding it together surely?

 

[Maurice Picarda]

It doesn't say much for the gods that they live on Ambrosia.

 

[TodayIsCaturday]

But it can't work! Not without witchcraft anyway - creme brulee only holds together because of the egg proteins. Tinned custard (which is made gloopy by agar gum or cornstarch) will probably behave very differently under a hot grill / a blowtorch and might degenerate into claggy lumps. It'd only be the sugar crust holding it together surely?

You've obviously not tried it have you?

 

[trabuquera]

Have not, will not, NEVER WOULD.

 

[susie12]

Custard hot as the sun topped with caramelised sugar. Nice.