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Oat Milk Could Change the Way You Drink Coffee (2018)
- magwa101 8y agoCarbs so, no.
- homero 8y agoI hated almond milk and recently got into oat milk. I've tried several and they're very different. I thought quaker would have the best but it was the worst. Planet oat was the best. Silk was ok. Haven't tried oatly yet. I still drink regular milk usually and love soy milk.
- Havoc 8y agoOatly barrister edition is tangibly better than oatly normal
- stefanfisk 8y agoWould that be iKaffe vs havremjölk? Because my god iKaffe is so perfect for coffe that I don’t even consider them to belong to the same product category!
- gazab 8y agoTry the new Havredryck Deluxe for coffee instead of iKaffe! Despite the name it's even better, IMO
- stefanfisk 8y agoOMG, I hadn't even noticed Deluxe since the packaging is so similar to the regular ones, will definitely give it a try!
- Havoc 8y agoPossibly. I know oatly is sold under a different name too
- fredley 8y agoIt has more fat/oil in to help with frothing, I think that's the only difference. Also barista != barrister, those are two quite different jobs!
- arethuza 8y agoBarista? [NB Although I love the idea of a barrister edition - presumably five times the price and comes with a wig?]
- Havoc 8y agohaha I butchered that sorry. Yeah - pricing...I've seen it as near same and at double the normal price
- samcday 8y agoWhat I've found is that milk-alternatives (and actually, even regular milk often times) are extremely varied. One brand of almond milk can taste completely different to another. The best personal example of this is I hate virtually all versions of soy milk, except for Bonsoy (plentiful in Australian cafes/supermarkets, unfortunately difficult to find in the US). That's why I don't really believe someone when they say "I hate soy|almond|whatever milk".
- justtopost 8y agoHaving lived with some vegans, I have tried at least 3 dozen 'milks' and I must say, most are revolting. Some are decent, but seem to be priced accordingly. Personally, anything less than 3% fat, pasture sustained cow juice is an affront to man and nature alike. But everyones tastes vary. Accept that others are different, and thats ok. We arent just being bastards to spite you.
- dpkrjb 8y agoI've become a particular fan of oat milk over the past couple of years. It's one of the more difficult milk substitutes to find in at restaurants the UK (coffee places usually fair better), almond and soy are relatively common. There are varieties that also froth up really well that barristas now use. I'm a particular fan of the price point. Being from the UK I can assume that any almond milk I drink would be made from almonds from another country, it's same with the coconut oil I use for cooking. So I am willing to accept some price inflation in order to remove dairy. But oat milk tastes much nicer and would probably get whittled down to a generic price point that beats any other milk substitute because it can be grown locally (almost anywhere in fact) and cheaply.
- Spooky23 8y agoWhat motivates you to eliminate dairy?
- Numberwang 8y agoIt is exceptionellt unhealthy.
- ajaxaddicted 8y agoNot OP, the reasons for eliminating diary are so many - cholesterol, hormones( most notably estrogen), IGF1 which is cancer promoting, antibiotics, casein morphine( which makes milk products addicting), the dairy industry is extremely cruel and the huge environmental impact due to all the resources needed to bring up a cow
- juandazapata 8y agoHow do you milk an Oat?
- jonursenbach 8y agoSame way you make almond milk. Soak it in water, and after an amount of time compress it to "milk" it.
- btschaegg 8y agoHmm, perhaps one obtains it by milking a goat in a zero-g environment? ;-)
- samcday 8y agoWith enzymes, separation, heat treatment and sterilization, apparently. https://www.oatly.com/int/our-process https://www.oatly.com/int/our-process
- benj111 8y agoIts all in the wrists ;) More seriously I believe its just steeped and blended oats and water.
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- K0nserv 8y agoI stopped drinking regular milk actively more than a year ago. At work we have soy milk which is good enough, but Oatly is definitely the gold standard milk replacmenet for me. Unfortunately I am finding that in Edinburgh cafés and other establishments are struggling to find suppliers that supply Oatly. This has resulted in a lot of places using other brands of oat milk which are universally terrible, so now asking for oat milk in your coffee is a gamble. As I understand it Oatly's methods are patented. Upon finding this out I even tried to buy shares in Oatly, but unfortunately they aren't publically traded.
- nailer 8y agoOatly actually ran out in London around Christmastime last year. Other oat milks aren't very nice - Minor Figures do great canned mocha drinks for example, but their oat milk makes a poor flat white.
- Numberwang 8y agoThe swedish brand solhavre is just as good i find
- nabla9 8y agoMany people, including me, think that Oatly's iKaffe tastes better with coffee than milk. You can see that in the local market here in Finland. Large number of oat and soy milks next to each other, many brands stay fully stacked (they taste bad) but Oatly's iKaffe is always almost out or out. People have started to buy more of it when it is available, so it vanishes from the shelves even faster.
- molf 8y agoOatly is brilliant to make cappuccinos with: the foam is very stable and tastes great, unlike many other milk substitutes in my opinion. But unfortunately it clogs the cappuccinatore of our Jura coffee machine after a few cups...
- m0skit0 8y agoCan we please stop calling these juices with additives "milk". Milk is produced by mammals. Whatever you add to oak juice doesn't make it "milk".
- fredley 8y agoUsage defines language, not the other way around.
- shlant 8y agoexactly, and "milk" is a good descriptor for consumers: a pale liquid with some viscosity and a mild taste that can be used in the same ways cows milk is used. Usually the only people who complain about calling it "milk" are people who sell dairy products (not saying OP is one of them).
- LaGrange 8y ago...also, non-dairy milk products have a _very_ long history.
- natch 8y agoYep. Just checked some corpus data and taking soy milk as an example, "soy milk" is used 76.5% of the time by real people not subject to legal shenanigans imposed by the dairy industry, compared to "soymilk" only 23.5% of the time, in the slice of data I looked at. Not the best data (skewed to a certain US locale home to high tech, cable cars, and some large bridges) but pretty overwhelming. And these are people who are being influenced by commercial labels forced by lawsuits to use "soymilk", yet they still separate the words. Usage ftw.
- stillbourne 8y agoUh, no. The defining characteristic of mammals is the ability to produce milk. The word itself is derived from the latin word breast. There is a definition for the word milk as a verb in the mechanical sense as in to extract a substance from an object mechanically but the product from that extraction is not, in any sense, milk, as in the noun. The only other known animals to provide milk are a specific species of jumping spiders. But, as this is specifically a single species, or perhaps even a small genus of interrelated jumping spiders, it is not a defining characteristic of its entire class from an evolutionary stand point. Milk is an important substance and the definition of which should be more regulated to prevent distortion or misinterpretation of its function by marketing. The only manufactured food substance that approximates milk is baby formula. It is time to stop calling all of these mechanical extractions that are marketed as substitutions something other than milk. This is important because there is a lot of misinformation and general quackery that is related to these mechanical extractions that endanger the lives of infants such as the parents that killed their 7 month old infant by substituting quinoa milk with actual milk or formula because it was "natural."
- wastedhours 8y agoOat milk is by far the best "alternative" milk I've tried for coffee - I find it really adds something different that cow's milk doesn't. Recently tried making my own and it's a really nice process to go through (to the extent am looking at small scale manufacture). If you can, definitely try it in a flat white back to back with cow's milk.
- ranit 8y ago> Recently tried making my own and it's a really nice process ... Interesting. Could you elaborate?
- ceratopisan 8y ago(Not OP) Oatly's process is patented, so you can look up what they do. That places some restrictions on using it in the same markets, of course. I think it's this one: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&p=1&S1=oatly&OS=oatly&RS=oatly http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H... If you can get the right enzymes, you could get the same breakdown. It looks like a sort of oat autolyse, to borrow a baking term.
- ranit 8y agoThank you. I certainly don't plan to manufacture and sell it, just curious.
- wastedhours 8y agoSure, it's essentially just soaking and blending: 1) soak the oats for as long as you like (I do overnight, but can be as little as 30 mins) 2) Pass through a sieve, removing the sitting liquid. 3) Add to a blender with some fresh water and pulse (the amount of fresh water depends on how thick you want it to be afterwards). You can also add cocoa powder here if you want oaty/chocolatey milk. 4) Pass the liquor through a nut milk bag (or muslin etc...) to get the milk. It separates quite easily so you do need to shake before use, but should be easily achievable with household items.
- bmj 8y agoThis is really just an ad for Oatly, right? There are other brands in the US market (at least), and I've seen a few different options on the shelves of my local food co-op for at least a few years....
- Zecar 8y agoThis is an advertisement. Time was duped but do we have to be also?
- dhimes 8y agoHere's a comparison of nutritional value, from Livestrong[1] "Let's take Oatly Oat Drink Whole. One cup has: 120 calories 5 grams of fat 3 grams of protein 14 grams of carbohydrate 2 grams of fiber It also provides 25 percent of the RDA of calcium, 18 percent of the RDA of vitamin D and 11 percent of the RDA of potassium. The same amount of cow's milk with 3.5 percent fat contains: 146 calories 11 grams of carbohydrate 8 grams of protein 8 grams of fat It boasts 25 percent of the RDA of calcium, 5 percent of the RDA of vitamin A and 1 percent of the RDA of iron. Unlike oat milk, it has no fiber at all." [1]https://www.livestrong.com/article/267017-what-are-the-benefits-of-oat-milk/ https://www.livestrong.com/article/267017-what-are-the-benef...
- PhDuck 8y agoIt might not have fiber, but on the other hand it has far more protein.
- t0mbstone 8y agoPea protein milk (like Ripple or the stuff from Bolthouse) is way better than oat milk. It tastes just like almond or coconut milk, but has a way, way better nutrition profile. Nutrient info for one 8 oz serving of unsweetened original: - 8g plant-based protein per serving - Zero sugar - 50% more calcium than 2% dairy milk - 32mg DHA Omega-3’s - An excellent source of Vitamin D - More iron than 2% dairy milk - 70 calories - 4.5g of fat - 0 carbs - 130mg sodium It's excellent for low carb/keto diets, too!
- hema_n 8y agoNice one.