Following two persons advice, I’ve got some oat milk to put in my coffee. They both said they prefer it to milk.
I thought it was too watery. I wonder if the grain juice I got wasn’t very good. It’s “Planet Oat” oat milk original unsweetened. It barely adds any color, texture or taste to the coffee.
So, coffee drinkers: do you like your bean tea with oat juice? If so, is it supposed to be that watered down? If not, what brand of grain juice do you prefer?
I prefer it. I think the oatly brand (full fat version) tastes the best.
100% prefer it myself Just creamier to me, but it can depend “bariesta blends” and what my local shops do tends to be better in that way
I like Planet Oat unsweetened vanilla on my cereal (I get Food Lion’s vanilla nut Be Well cereal, so I get double the vanilla per vanilla) but I don’t really like it in coffee.
Yo dawg, I heard you like vanilla…
For everyone who likes oat milk in their coffee and saving money:
- 4 cups water
- 1 cup rolled oats (not quick oats, not steel cut oats)
- (optional) a couple of de-seeded dates
Blend on high for 30 to 45 seconds
Filter that through a clean (no fabric softener) towel.
If you want creamier texture, add 1/4 cup less water.
The remaining oats and date pulp can be eaten if you are really frugal. Just heat it up and add whatever else you want.
Use your new oat milk in a home made mug of coffee.
I was so intrigued I tried your recipe right away. My kitchen towel immediately clogged and I had to wring the fluid out with considerable force. Do you have a workaround for that or recommendations for towels to use?
I haven’t tried it, but I’d suggest trying cheesecloth. It should soak up less of the liquid than a towel would, and you won’t have to worry about soaps or anything that might be in the towel
Thank you, I’ll order some
Cheesecloth will be too open. You can get bags that you use for making almond milk, try a search for that.
Thanks, I will look into that
I can’t see the words “rolled oats” without reading it like Ludacris.
What in the world is in that bowl, what you got in that bowl?
I second this, though I sweeten with maple syrup. I use the oat paste to make protein bars.
Plus this oat milk is actually good, unlike what some people have experienced with store bought oat milk.
I find regular oat milk and/or almond milk too watery, same as you. Oat milk or almond milk-based creamers are where it’s at for me. Califia Farms also makes a “barista blend” oat milk specifically for coffee drinks if you can find it.
Oatmilk creamers, yeah, sure…but like others, it’s too thin for me.
When I buy nut milk, I prefer soy…I hated it when I was younger but idk if my palate changed or the product changed, but now it’s my favorite. It’s also among the most nutritious (pea milk is pretty strong there, too), and requires the least amount of water to produce (that is, from seed to bottle)
Gee, I don’t know about the water claim. I’ve worked on a soy protein extraction site, and our water treatment plant processed enough water for a town of 30 thousand. Produced around 100 metric tons of soy protein powder per day. Most of the water became waste water (full of indigestible oligosaccharides) and the rest evaporated to form the powder.
Soy milk and soy-based shakes/ice cream were among the final uses.
In contrast to oat, I imagine you just soak the flour and filter or centrifuge the solids out. The water used mostly becomes the product.
This tracts
You may be right about that. Maybe it was lowest carbon-footprint. But I do know that it’s significantly less water than almond (which itself is still significantly less water than cow).
I’m all-in on oat milk in coffee, but there are many gross oat-waters masquerading as oat milk on the market. My favorite so far is the oatly barista edition, usually stocked near other coffe creamer.
I only drink oat milk. I put it in my coffee, and I really like it. There’s a fair variation between brands. I like ALDI oat milk, unsweetened. Shake it before you put it in the coffee.
Lidl has one called “NO MILK” that I personally don’t like because it tastes too much like cow’s milk, but it is an excellent choice for people just starting their oat milk journey.
Ha! I switched to Oat milk for coffee last year, after trying a few, i’ve landed on the Aldi unsweetened one as well. I don’t need mine particularly creamy, and its a consistently low price in comparison, which is nice.
Still haven’t been game enough to go down the weetbix/weetabix road with it though. So a ways to go yet.
Yes please! Drinking it for many years now. Using the Barista versions for coffee (best taste: Oatly imo) and the ‘standard’ versions for cereal.
Only a little sugar
Yes, but it needs to be the creamy kind. There is a barista blend. Think of more like half and half than milk.
+1 for Chobani. Planet Oat is dookie.
If dairy doesn’t cause you any inflammatory response as it does with most people, then whichever tastes best to you should be fine.
Most people end up switching because of how they feel not because of the taste. As far as taste goes though theres a lot of different oatmilk. Each one is different consistency wise. The walmart brand extra creamy isn’t actually very creamy, its thinner than some other brands oat milk.
I’d try maybe 3-5 different oat milk brands and mixes to find one I like. Aldis has a good one too I like, and then planet oat is usually if I can’t find store brand thats cheaper.
Thus was my process, looked through the shops picked up ones on special. Tbh I found a lot of them were quite good. There was only one online one that was a complete bust. Nimbus, there wasn’t much to like about it.
Some brands suck but I’m oat milk in coffee, cereal, everything now.
This is a source of intense misery for me because I want to eat healthier and stuff so I don’t randomly drop dead as soon, or at least make it less likely.
The problem is that I haven’t really found anything that does the job as well as the real half and half. Oat milk doesn’t provide the same kind of modification to the flavor.
