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chevalier's coffee of wonder

Discussion in 'Whatnots' started by chevalier, Nov 15, 2003.

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    I can't say that I do, is it a quote from that movie?

    @ Chev What is a stickful of vanilla? A stick of vanilla? Or a measurement, like a teaspoon. Also how do I make cream foam? Please enlighten a poor college student on the art of wonder coffee making. :p
     
    fade, Nov 16, 2003
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    A stickful? Ah, well, my ever-playful manner... You just take the flesh from the inside of one vanilla stick.

    You make foam from cream with that special tip on your expresso, if it has one. Some expressos make foam differently - you, for example, pour cream into some hole and foam comes out of another hole ;) It's foam that matters, not the way you get it :thumb:
     
    chevalier, Nov 16, 2003
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    Heh. Well, if you're a poor college student, it's not likely you'll want to use an entire vanilla bean for two cups of coffee. They're not exactly cheap.
     
    Blackthorne TA, Nov 17, 2003
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    ummm ... don't the eggs cook in hot water?

    I can imagine yellow chunks of yoke floating in my coffee ... yum!
     
    Mathetais, Nov 17, 2003
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    This sounds perfectly vile, Chev.

    BTW, low-fat dairy products make a much more stable foam than does cream. The fat molecules are too heavy to stay in suspension. FYI.
     
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    @Mat: It doesn't get boiled and it gets mixed, so there are no chunks ;)

    @Rally: Thanks for info. I wouldn't have thought about low-fat special ones because there hardly are any around. And well, I distrust everything other than normal milk or cream ;) Maybe I don't get it right, but it always seemed to me that cream made better foam than milk? I've always taken milk only if there's no cream around and the foam has always been worse...
     
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    Would vanilla extract work then?
     
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    I think so. Whole stick might be too much if you don't like strong aromas. Oh and well, it would drain your wallet badly if you used half a vanilla stick for every coffee you make. This one is special. If I bother to spend half an hour making it, I may as well bother to spend more on it ;) Being as I am, a student, I'm still more likely to spend time than money and that's why I'm so creative as to invent thousands wonderful ways of making coffee :lol:
     
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    Dude - that coffee sounds like it was based on a dare. I'm scared - and I used to work as Starbucks! :eek: I'm with Rally.
     
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    @Chev

    Foam is stabilized by the fat that stick to the surface of air bubbles that you "whip" into the mixture making the foam more stable. you can observe stability, when you try and blow bubbles in ordinary drinkable milk. It is much easier to make giant structures than in water and low fat dairy products, since the fat is what ties to the surface of the air bubbles. So the more fatty products the more stable foam.

    The lower temperature the more stable the foam is, since the fat can easilier stick together in the bubbles.

    [ November 17, 2003, 20:19: Message edited by: Nobleman ]
     
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    That's what I thought... I got slightly confused, oh well. The foam I'm speaking about is made through blowing air in a small quantity of milk or cream and it then grows in size. If you like, you can do the same with ready coffee, not just with the cream alone and that's what I did with this coffee.

    Heh, but I must agree on one: it has helluva lot of calories. Probably more than a whole dietetic dinner. But I'm 6'5'' tall and weight 160 lbs, so I don't have to care all that much ;)
     
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