coconut milk
- Very smooth and satisfying
- <=1 g natural sugars so basically carb-free
- amazing replacement for milk in cereal and smoothies
oat milk for everything
Yes
We rotate between Almond and Coconut. Almond for stuff where the milk needs to be more neutral tasting. Coconut if we want a more creamy texture. We used to also like Oat (least wasteful on water during production vs almond), but it’s high in carbs so we avoid it now. Also, we actually use 0% fat lactose-free milk as well for coffee because it just tastes better than the alternatives for coffee.
If you can ever find it, try the Vita-Coco original no sugar added 1L carton that has around 5g of carbs, its really incredible super coconut milk that beats all for cereal. Its a little pricier but its amazing stuff.
Coconut milk is the closest to the real deal, it’s creamy, you can make a whipped cream or friggin butter with it easily and it’s white AF
Oat milk. I can make it at home and customize it for 1/10th the price.
Now this I have to try! Could you talk me through how you do this? Just read a quick article on it: you only blend oats and water, then strain it? Would coffee filters be good for straining?
I use a metal strainer.
I had to try out a couple of recipes in order to get one that works well.
My recipe:
Oat Milk:
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1 cup oats
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6 cups water (chilled)
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1 tsp vanilla
- Add all to blender and blend on high for 30-40 seconds
- Strain with strainer 2x
- Add maple syrup for flavoring (and/or honey) 3 tbsp
Keeps for about a week.
Theres some other similar ones like: https://www.loveandlemons.com/oat-milk/ that work out well and may keep for longer (salt).
I’ve never been able to make non-slimy oat milk. I’ll give this a recipe a try.
Just tried this, worked wonders! 🙌
Awesome!
Do you try cooking the oats, or just cold soak?
I think its quick oats? It just said oats when I bought them but I get them in bulk food or 25 pound bags once a year-ish.
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It’s also near the bottom for CO2 emissions as well.
neat!
Oatly is my one and only.
Oatly? Fuck Oatly. Also, Fuck Fuck Oatly. And so on.
Lol wtf is happening
In order: Soy, Coconut, Almond, Macadamia.
Almond uses way too much water to be environmentally sustainable, and macadamia just has a weird after-taste that I don’t like.
Soy has a bit of a bad reputation (unfairly so, due to bad ‘bro science’); but I quite like the taste and it has a pretty low emissions/water footprint comparatively.
Just tried a swig of the soy i bought today. Actually…quite nice,creamy. We shall see if i like it in the morning.
A little phleghmy tho in your mouth after
I use rice milk in my cereal. Nice and sweet. Not too fatty.
Rice Milk
Pea milk. It has a good taste and I like the consistency. Most other milk alternatives are too watery.
Soy milk is the only non-dairy alternative I’ve tried that actually tastes good and also still goes with cereal. I’ve had a few kinds of nut milk, but I don’t like the taste or consistency of 'em. Though that isn’t to say they taste awful; I just don’t want the extreme taste of almonds or cashews when I am wanting milk. Soy milk actually comes pretty close to just regular milk.
I also would like to say this is only for use as a beverage (or for cereal). Trying to use any of these as a substitute for milk in cooking DOES. NOT. WORK. There’s a chemical process going on in most recipes that simply doesn’t happen with non-dairy alternatives.
I don’t know whether anything changed or it’s down to brand but I have no issues baking strudels and other pastry with similar dough from soy milk, including doing some simple buns from dry yeast, but obviously that lacked the sourdough taste, which I’d like to try replicate with use of some acids next (e.g. vinegar). Don’t really do much else though, so can’t confirm for other uses.
We specifically buy Kirkland brand (cheapest alternative) and more recently actually started grabbing the vanilla soy milk from US instead of local. I used to hate sweetened soy milk some 5+years ago, but this is somehow different. And it works great for crepes as well - actually better than regular milk IMO.
Agree about soy. I’ve tried and liked rice milk on cereal, but it wasn’t as good as a milk substitute in hot drinks. Since I prefer not to buy a bunch of different things for both simplicity and storage reasons, I switched everything to soy.
That doesn’t mean that the different brands of soy milk are all the same though. Luckily I’ve found one that works for me.
Rice milk for oatmeal, oat milk for baking, soy milk for drinking straight due to protein
Swap use cases of rice and soy milk and it’s me.
NOT Not Milk — unless I want a 2-day stomach ache Tastes dece tho
Unsweetened almond milk, then oat milk, then coconut. Last resort is soy because I can ALWAYS taste some sort of soy-ness flavor, the same way I can taste a hint of coconut with coconut milk, and that soy taste is just weird.
Oat for most things. Extra creamy.
Almond for a fewthings. Like I prefer almond in a bowl of cereal. Silk has an unsweetened one with extra protein that is my go to.
Depends on what I am using it for. I quite like oat milk in my coffee drinks. I feel like it is nice to have the oaty flavor paired with the coffee taste.
