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Apr. 29th, 2021 09:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynOh, unrelated to other stuff: I make homemade oat milk fairly often. Not for drinking on its own, generally, but for use in my coffee. I don't do steamed this or foamed that, so the structure of the milk bubbles isn't an issue. I'm mostly just trying to cut down a bit on cholesterol consumption. And the oat pulp goes into whole wheat oat rolls whenever I make a batch (the name is a wee bit deceptive as I use around 1.5 times as much white flour as whole wheat flour), so the oats get consumed both ways.
Veg*n web sites that talk about how INCREDIBLE and CREAMY and SUBTLY SWEET and OH MY GOD THIS IS WONDERFUL homemade oat milk is are.... not the most accurate. I mean, the stuff's not bad, but the only way I get it to feel creamy is by using 1/8 tsp of xanthan gum in a 4-cups-of-water to 90-grams-of-dry-oats batch. Apparently this constitutes making it feel 'slimy' to the various veg types, but whatever. I guess they like the stuff on its own merits, which is fine.
But I have tried twice now to make it with cocoa powder in addition to the maple syrup or maple sugar, small amount of vanilla, pinch of salt, and xanthan gum, and let me tell you... the end result looks just like Yoo-Hoo.
Looks.
I want to point that out. It looks like Yoo-Hoo. In the bottle, or poured out into a glass, it moves like Yoo-Hoo. But man, you try actually drinking it straight up as is?
Has anybody got a .GIF of that moment in Elf where Will Farrell's character starts yelling YOU SIT ON A THRONE OF LIES!?
I have no idea how much extra sugar you'd need to put into it to make it taste like chocolate milk or Yoo-Hoo but I'm pretty sure it'd obviate every possible health benefit. I'm just using it for some faintly mocha taste in my coffee.
Veg*n web sites that talk about how INCREDIBLE and CREAMY and SUBTLY SWEET and OH MY GOD THIS IS WONDERFUL homemade oat milk is are.... not the most accurate. I mean, the stuff's not bad, but the only way I get it to feel creamy is by using 1/8 tsp of xanthan gum in a 4-cups-of-water to 90-grams-of-dry-oats batch. Apparently this constitutes making it feel 'slimy' to the various veg types, but whatever. I guess they like the stuff on its own merits, which is fine.
But I have tried twice now to make it with cocoa powder in addition to the maple syrup or maple sugar, small amount of vanilla, pinch of salt, and xanthan gum, and let me tell you... the end result looks just like Yoo-Hoo.
Looks.
I want to point that out. It looks like Yoo-Hoo. In the bottle, or poured out into a glass, it moves like Yoo-Hoo. But man, you try actually drinking it straight up as is?
Has anybody got a .GIF of that moment in Elf where Will Farrell's character starts yelling YOU SIT ON A THRONE OF LIES!?
I have no idea how much extra sugar you'd need to put into it to make it taste like chocolate milk or Yoo-Hoo but I'm pretty sure it'd obviate every possible health benefit. I'm just using it for some faintly mocha taste in my coffee.
