Posted on 06/07/2014 2:35:28 AM PDT by kingattax
People have taken to putting butter in their coffee.
The practice is polarizing—it sounds awesome to some, disgusting to others—but really, it’s not about how the mixture tastes. “Clarified butter is a great source of energy, satiates you: I get the draw,” coffee writer Oliver Strand told us on Twitter. “But it’s more about diet than flavor.”
Let’s discuss.
Where It Comes From: Putting butter in morning tea has long been a “thing” in Tibet. “The heart and soul of Tibet” is butter tea, chef Vikas Khanna told us. (Khanna’s cookbook, Return to the Rivers: Recipes and Memories of the Himalayan River Valleys, was nominated for a James Beard Award this year.)
It’s almost exactly what it sounds like: tea, brewed normally, and then served with a float of yak butter and Himalayan salt. “It is hard to drink initially—it’s so strong!—but it’s the best thing Tibet taught me.”
It was Dave Asprey, though, who most recently imported the idea to States, switching the tea to coffee, adding some other ingredients, and branding it Bulletproof Coffee. Then came the attention from Paleo diet experts and followers of the Traditional Foods movement.
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The little detail this article forgot to mention is that in Tibet it is freezing cold!
Butter and salt in tea or coffee supplies crucial fat and water-retention support for cold weather. In such conditions, it quickly becomes delicious.
Drink it in warm weather though, and it tastes vile and overheats you like crazy.
I was grateful to the sherpa guides and their noble porters who poured cup after cup of the oily, dark brew into me. It was the most effective way to get as many calories as possible into one each morning before another 8-mile walk along narrow paths and up steep inclines, across rope bridges and recent landslides before, past ancient villages and monumental stupas, arriving with barely enough "gas in the tank" at a wayside tea house for a lunch of watercress sandwiches and cream cakes.
"Tea, sahib? Tea?"
Indeed, I would. Jolly good!
I’m going to try this winter 2014.
I just gave away a Keurig that someone bought me for Christmas or something. Hated it. lol
When I was little my Grandpa made “hobo’ coffee...boiled it on the stove and strained it. I always had a cup with my breakfast before school.
I like real coffee.
My wife says she likes “fresh coffee”, not some that’s been sitting a pot for hours. I have reheated coffee in my percolator after several hours if I’m thirsty. I just take the basket and stem out and plug it back into the outlet.
Its not new. I heard of it years ago.
I saw a Youtube video the other day where the guy puts butter in the Le Presse’ coffee pot then after its brewed he puts the whole thing in the blender and hits it for about 3 seconds. Its supposed to froth it up.
I used Kerrygold Irish butter from grassfed normal cows. Put it in hot strong black coffee. It was great. I don’t know what you need a blender for; I just put it in the cup. Gave me energy all morning. Kerrygold costs twice as much as the garbage butter I could get at the supermarket ($3.69/half pound) but it’s less trouble than making it myself, and sometimes time is money. Tastes so good my son was just eating it plain.
I guess I should have went further with my posts.
I was making the recipe for “Bulletproof coffee”.
Coffee, grass Fed butter, MCT oil (derivative of coconut oil).
Put in blender and blend.
(The blending helps the oil blend in instead of sitting on top)
I used my Nutribullet, but was worried the hot coffee would melt the plastic.
I then used a small hand blender, but grew tired of the whole ordeal.
Do you like Star Bucks coffee? Would you consider it to be bitter or strong? I’ve had it only a couple times but don’t care for it at all. I actually really enjoy Taster’s choice instant. I know most folks don’t like instant but it’s what I started out on many years ago so have an acquired taste for. That said, it does indeed taste worse black than brewed cofee does.
Had my first cup while in Vegas for a HS reunion BD for my husband’s 70 year old classmates. Crap was so strong I pitched it after a couple of sips.
Now I like robust coffee, I don’t need a double expresso full cup of it. Just a normal restaurant brew is fine. We ate out most of our meals, to expensive other wise, only reason we stayed at a casino was the group got a fantastic deal on room rates, as one of them had a son who was a assistant Manager of 1. But unlike Tunica, MS they don’t do comps for meals in Vegas. We did a lot of site seeing, not big on gambling, odds are house favor, not yours.
How could it be otherwise? Casinos would not be able to make money and stay in existence if the odds favored the gamblers. So just take money you can afford to spend and have fun trying. Once in a while you do come out ahead, once you understand the games and know how to bet. To me, going to Las Vegas is cheaper than Disneyland and a lot more fun.
I've never had butter in my coffee but do put honey in tea. That's not a bad combo.
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