You can open them and some have liquid on the top, some of them are gray, some of them you can see the fat on the top. SS: I have noticed that there are amazing differences between brands and the way they look. You certainly don't want to be using cream of coconut in a savory dish you want to get unsweetened coconut milk. It is unsweetened, so it’s different than the thing in our beverages that would be cream of coconut, which is extra thick and has sugar in it. That liquid is now called coconut milk and that is the thing that we cook with. To make coconut milk, they take shredded unsweetened coconut, mix it with water and basically strain out the water. The liquid that comes out of the center of the coconut is coconut water, the popular sports drink. JB: It's kind of confusing, and because of that a lot of people sometimes end up buying the wrong thing. We think that the full fat brands are better than the low fat for the obvious reason that fat makes things delicious. JB: And that's just the full fat canned coconut milk. I bet you didn't know there were seven brands of coconut milk. Jack Bishop: We've actually tested seven different brands. Sally Swift: We have spent this hour talking about Thai food and got me thinking about an ingredient we use a lot in cooking Thai: coconut milk. And no matter what coconut milk you like best, use it for this wonderful recipe for Thai Chicken Soup. Jack Bishop gave our Managing Producer Sally Swift the low-down on what makes a good coconut milk and shared their recommendations. Thankfully, our friends at America’s Test Kitchen did a taste test of coconut milks that are more widely available and pick their favorites. ![]() However, It can be surprisingly difficult to track down one of high quality, and is far too easy to buy one that doesn’t quite do the job. To many, coconut milk is considered a cornerstone flavor of Thai cuisine.
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