What is the difference between evaporated and condensed milk?!
Answers: If a recipe calls for condensed milk does it matter if you use evaporated? So, then I think well what exactly is the difference between them, or are the same thing?
condensed milk is thicker and it is sweetened... if you have only evaporated on hand and you wish to cook right now, you can put the evaporated milk in the top of a double boiler, which means a pan which fits into another pan with boiling water in the bottom, and cook it down to about 2/3 of its original volume....but it will take some time and you will need to sweeten it ... condensed milk is quite sweet so allow for that .... you will need more evaporated milk to start, so when it is boiled down you will have as much as your recipe asks for ...
Sorry but one is condensed and the other evaporated.
Evaporated milk is canned milk, but about the same consistency as regular milk, just a bit concentrated. It was invented to keep milk fresh before refrigeration was widely available, and found to adapt better to some recipes. Condensed milk is sweetened and thickened to the consistency of a thick syrup, and is mainly used in desserts. They can NOT be used interchangeably.
Evaporated milk is very different.
I think condensed is sweeter and thicker. Evaporated milk is quite sour and very thin. You cannot make yummy caramel out of evaporated milk and you cannot interchange them on recipes.
I hate evaporated milk. Derbyshire County Council have just put it on the menu to be poured over a pudding from next half term. I don't think there will be much cost to each kitchen as I don't think it will be necessary to order it after the first taste!
They aren't the same thing and aren't interchangeable in a recipe. Evaporated milk is like whole milk (regular milk) but is in a more concentrated form (I think it's 1 part evap to 2 parts milk). Condensed milk has a lot of sugar added to it and has a syrupy consistency. If you substitute condensed milk for evaporated milk, you will get an overly sweet product. If you substitute evap for condensed milk, you will get something that is probably too liquidy and tasteless.
condensed milk is thicker than evaporated and much sweeter