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Oct. 17th, 2020 11:12 amBought a container of Elmhurst Dairy's Milked Cashews this week. I've used it before as part of testing out a bunch of non-dairy milks. It wasn't too bad at the time. I bought it originally based on two things:
- the original Elmhurst Dairy was a long-operating fixture of New York City and was in fact the very last dairy operating in the five boroughs, shutting down in 2015 or so and reopening in 2016 to sell plant-based milks rather than cow milk because there was enough of a market for the plant stuff
- a review of multiple non-dairy milks had one reviewer who said that the Milked Cashews offering, when he put it in his coffee, tasted 'intense - like something Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson would drink'
Like I said, I originally bought it months ago and it wasn't too bad at the time. I like cashews. I had gotten tired of the somewhat thin feeling of 2% milk and oat milk. The Milked Cashews (that's what it says on the container) were all right.
I tried it again recently. The formula hasn't changed, it's still got a very high nut-to-water ratio resulting in a very thick product without the use of xanthan gum or guar gum. Understand, I have no issue with either gum, I'm just saying that Elmhurst's product contains exactly two things: cashews and water. So you basically get the taste of cashews and ... the filtered municipal water supply of Elmhurst, Queens, I guess, unless the dairy uses rainwater or distilled water or something. Anyway, ain't nothin' standing in the way of the cashew taste, and in hot coffee it's pretty intense, same as usual.
Note the use of the word 'hot'. I tried using it in cold brew the other day. Cold brew tastes milder and subtler than hot coffee made from the same beans at the same bean to water ratio. So I got coffeecoffeeCASHEW. There were enough aromatic taste elements from the CASHEW to remind me of other nuts in a way that lingers in the memory.
Which is the polite way of saying, it tasted just enough like peanut butter that now I can't untaste peanut butter when I put this stuff in my coffee.
- the original Elmhurst Dairy was a long-operating fixture of New York City and was in fact the very last dairy operating in the five boroughs, shutting down in 2015 or so and reopening in 2016 to sell plant-based milks rather than cow milk because there was enough of a market for the plant stuff
- a review of multiple non-dairy milks had one reviewer who said that the Milked Cashews offering, when he put it in his coffee, tasted 'intense - like something Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson would drink'
Like I said, I originally bought it months ago and it wasn't too bad at the time. I like cashews. I had gotten tired of the somewhat thin feeling of 2% milk and oat milk. The Milked Cashews (that's what it says on the container) were all right.
I tried it again recently. The formula hasn't changed, it's still got a very high nut-to-water ratio resulting in a very thick product without the use of xanthan gum or guar gum. Understand, I have no issue with either gum, I'm just saying that Elmhurst's product contains exactly two things: cashews and water. So you basically get the taste of cashews and ... the filtered municipal water supply of Elmhurst, Queens, I guess, unless the dairy uses rainwater or distilled water or something. Anyway, ain't nothin' standing in the way of the cashew taste, and in hot coffee it's pretty intense, same as usual.
Note the use of the word 'hot'. I tried using it in cold brew the other day. Cold brew tastes milder and subtler than hot coffee made from the same beans at the same bean to water ratio. So I got coffeecoffeeCASHEW. There were enough aromatic taste elements from the CASHEW to remind me of other nuts in a way that lingers in the memory.
Which is the polite way of saying, it tasted just enough like peanut butter that now I can't untaste peanut butter when I put this stuff in my coffee.
