Tag: Drinks
Alton Brown’s Hot Cocoa Mix
Alton Brown’s Hot Cocoa Mix
Instant cocoa is a fine concept, but most commercial mixes aren’t exactly packed with quality ingredients or flavor. My signature instant cocoa blend will fortify you through winter’s worst. My homemade marshmallows go pretty good with this mix too. Just sayin’.
Ingredients
- 2 cups confectioners’ sugar
- 1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder, preferably Dutch process
- 2 1/2 cups nonfat dry milk powder
- 1 teaspoon fine-grain salt
- 2 teaspoons cornstarch
- 1 pinch (or more to taste) ground cayenne pepper*, optional
- Hot milk or water to serve
Instructions
- Combine the confectioners’ sugar, cocoa powder, milk powder, salt, cornstarch and cayenne in a large airtight container. Secure the lid and shake vigorously to combine, and remember to shake prior to every extraction.
- To serve: Place 2 tablespoons of the mix in a mug and add about 2 fluid ounces hot water or milk. Stir to combine. Fill the mug with more hot water or milk and enjoy.
Notes
* The Aztecs always added chiles to their chocolate. Even a pinch ups the flavor ante quite a bit, and as called for here certainly won’t be sensed as “heat.”
No matter — this is fast, easy and will keep for a year if kept in an airtight container in a cool place.
By Good Eats: The Early Years, © Alton Brown Images 2016
By Alton Brown
Goldfish Tea Bags
These goldfish tea bags, made by the Taiwanese design firm Charm Villa. will turn your teacup into a fishbowl.
Each one is assembled by machine and by hand in a 16-step process. Tug on the cotton string and the bag will appear to swim within your cup.
A tea bag is cut into the shape of an elegant goldfish – the Goldfish Tea Bag. Goldfish Tea Bags are made via a 16-step process. Nine of these steps require handcrafted skills in order to display the ultimate craftsmanship of the Goldfish Tea Bag. The purpose of such a complicated process is to express the artistry of the Goldfish Tea Bag. When the tea bag is brewed in hot water and begins to swell, the shape of a goldfish begins to form. The mouth of the tea bag is designed with a special cotton thread, Pulling the thread enables the tea bag to move in water. Creating a natural rhythm of moment from the fluctuations of the water. A life-like goldfish appears to be swimming in your tea cup.
How To Of The Day: How To Make A Watermelon Keg
Household Hacker demonstrates how to make a keg out of a watermelon in this instructional video.
Need I say it? Enjoy!
Let’s save some money and build our own keg out of a watermelon. If you have access to a 3D printer, the awesome people at Robo3D built a sweet tap just for this video. If you don’t, there are other options as well so no one has to sit this one out.