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how about a kind of Hard moulded edible spoon that is half
sweetner / half foaming agent / half whitener that you stir
your coffee with and voila hey presto foamy sweet lovely
cappucino !
Gabby's Coffee Spoons
http://www.gabbygoo...lavored_spoons.html
Is this kinda what you had in mind, dazwah, except without the foam? [jurist, Feb 19 2002, last modified Oct 04 2004]
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what happens if you mix a half teaspoon of half and half in with all those halves? |
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ok - one third sweetner / one third foaming agent / one
third whitener |
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The foaminess of (proper) cappucino is caused by the heat of the steam aerating and slightly coagulating the proteins in the milk. Foaming agent is the same stuff that brewers put in keg beer to make it frothy, and is a type of glue derived from seaweed. Sugar is, when unrefined, a natural product. Sweetener (note spelling) is a carcinogenic crystalline powder originally derived from coal-tar. Cream is also a natural product, and contains calcium, which is beneficial for bone growth (paticularly for children and women of a certain age). Whitener (non-dairy creamer) is mainly processed corn syrup (but has been described as tasting like equal parts of blood plasma and liquid paraffin). Your choice, but I know which I'd prefer. |
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Um, angel...Can I get Kahlua in mine? |
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It would *have* to be better than sweetener, foaming agent and whitener. |
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Angel: note that no proper nouns were used in the
original note. Sugar is a sweetener - it sweetens a drink,
milk is a whitener - add it to black coffee and it becomes
white coffee. They might not be one's sweetener or
whitener of choice but if sugar and powdered milk were
used dazwah's idea would not need to be reworded.
There are many foaming agents... but few I'd use in a
drink.
I'll call this one-third baked as I have seen spoons
encrusted with sugar (and sometimes other flavourings)
sold for use with coffee. |
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Pedantically, I'd agree, but does anyone here see the word 'whitener' in this context and think of milk? |
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Just see link and add bicarb. |
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C'mon, [PS], that's just a battery-powered whisk.
Unbaked. |
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Angel: I do. Once upon a time I worked in a factory
packing powdered milk in 25kg bags and making big stacks
of them. When I read "whitener" and "sweetener" I
assumed that dazwah meant "your whitener and
sweetener of choice" since both regular and synthetic
types could easily be adapted to the idea. |
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I assumed from the idea description (such as it is) that the spoon would partially-dissolve in the coffee, releasing sweetener, foaming agent and whitener as it did so (and presumably aerating the foam as well by some unspecified mechanism such as encapsulated nitrogen). |
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i actually intended the spoon to be made of the
substance that whilst stirring dissolved into the drink
making it sweet, milky and foamy |
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I expected a utensil for the application of shaving cream. |
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