Are we doing this?
Yep.
Today, we're taking one of the most popular drinks in America,
a Starbucks Latte,
and seeing what happens if we dry it out completely.
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Hey guys, I'm Nate.
Calli.
I'm Calli.
We've got another fun experiment for you today.
We've dehydrated a few things before,
and today, we are taking on a very popular drink.
So today, we've got a Starbucks latte,
and we're going to see what happens if we dry it out.
It's a simple idea.
We're going to pour the entire contents of one Starbucks latte
into our dehydrator,
let it dry out for as many days as it takes,
and then see what's left.
We've got our Dehydro-tron 5,000.
We've got our latte.
Let's learn what happens.
Calli, stop drinking it.
No!
Calli is going to be our expert on what this tasted like,
and you'll probably get to taste the dried-up bits too.
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That would be coffee with milk in it, right?
Yeah, steam pressed.
Steam pressed coffee with milk in it.
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Here it goes.
These videos are no way sponsored
or endorsed by Starbucks.
I'll plug everything in.
There you go.
It's alive.
All right, we've got this dehydrating.
It's probably take a couple of days to really dry out of the way.
What do you think is going to happen?
How dry is the question?
So we've done soda,
and that ended up just being like a goo.
Like he was like a really thick syrup,
like molasses consistency.
Then we did milk,
and that like just completely flaked.
We were able to put
that in a blender and just turn it into dust.
I'm hoping we get sort of like a the same thing,
a powdery consistency?
Maybe something that's almost something that we can break.
But that's kind of what I'm thinking this going to happen.
So maybe we've got one
that will dry out completely and be like flaky and dry,
but even just with the chocolate milk that we did,
that had just milk and powdered chocolate,
and that still ended up being just a little bit
more gummy and flexible than the plain milk.
So I'm not sure how it's going to end up.
We'll see.
Let's give it a couple days.
Guys, it's now been a few days,
and we have led this lot a dry out, like dry.
Now, it's time to see what's happened to it.
She's very disappointed.
All right, pull that tray out.
What even happened?
What?
That-- Okay.
So I think we are both wrong.
You said it was going to be like crumbly.
I thought it would be powderized,
but I'm gonna--
It's just like a sheet.
What is this?
Wait...
I regret everything.
It's not good.
Hmm.
Oh, and it certainly smells very strongly.
It actually weirdly didn't smell that strong
while it was drying out.
I thought it was.
I thought I was going to like make the whole house smell
strongly of coffee.
It was pretty mild.
I barely noticed it honestly.
But now, as we're like breaking it,
I'm smelling a lot more.
See how much this we can break out,
and fit into our mortar and pestle here.
Have yourself a very crispy Christmas.
All right.
So especially compared to the soda,
this is just flaking right off.
Like yes, there were sugar in this,
but I think the difference is probably what, corn syrup?
Okay, that's interesting.
Around the sides where it's a little bit thicker,
it's still kind of a weird gummy,
less crackly consistency.
So that is pretty much
what we saw with the milk and the chocolate milk,
is that it was too thick, it didn't dehydrate 100%,
and it didn't have quite the same crumbliness.
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Nope, still tastes awful.
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All right, pretty well grinded?
Ground?
Groundeded.
Pretty well groundeded.
All right, so you're the expert,
and you said this does not taste good.
It does not taste like a latte.
It doesn't smell like a latte.
It does not taste like a latte.
So I don't drink coffee,
but I do usually like the smell of coffee.
This does not really smell like coffee.
It smells like the coffee that you leave in the coffee pot
in the office for like a day on accident.
Gross.
Yeah.
We've got our same cup.
We've got some hot water.
We're going to see if we can turn this powdered Starbucks back
into regular Starbucks.
Hot water.
This was a 16-ounce latte.
I'm gonna fill up just a little bit in here.
Let's start with that.
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It's back to smelling like coffee.
That looks pretty much just the same.
So there's a very distinct smell to Starbucks Coffee.
Anybody who has ever been in two different coffee shops
would know it.
How would you describe that?
To me, that smells like coffee,
and again, I'm not an expert by any means,
but like it does actually smell like coffee,
instead of like burnt hotdog?
I don't know what it smells like before.
It was not pleasant.
Starbucks is known for having more of a bitter flavor.
Okay, so I didn't drink that much,
because they did have my own latte that morning.
So...
That's less water
than was probably in it when we poured it into the dehydrator.
I bet there's still unstirred in stuff at the bottom.
Yeah, so...
Okay. Yeah.
Some of it didn't dissolve all the way. >> That's odd.
All right.
We're still going to see what it tastes like.
So it's probably good that we don't have quite enough water.
I refuse to drink Starbucks coffee without the--
Sippy cup lid?
That's what makes it taste good.
For science?
For science!
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That has almost no flavor at all,
and I bet it's because there's still
some pieces in here that haven't completely dissolved yet.
It tastes like salty milk.
Salty milk.
There you go.
Dehydrated Starbucks latte, and reconstitute it,
and you get salty milk.
Can we blend that?
Let's see if we can make this a little bit better.
Oh!
That looks like mud.
Look at that.
I drinked that?
There's a lot that has not mixed in it all.
Gross!
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You're the one who gets to drink it,
so you tell me when you think it's mixed enough.
More.
It smells a little better now.
Foam on it.
No.
No!
I don't know what that is, but it's an abomination.
All right, so at least got the foam off.
Let's do one more--
One more try.
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Describe the terribleness.
Take some milk, warm it up slightly,
add like a tablespoon of salt,
leave it out on the counter for a few hours,
and then add like half a shot of espresso.
That's what I just drank.
So you're saying it's pretty bad.
I regret everything.
Guys, don't dehydrate Starbucks.
But if you do dehydrate Starbucks, don't try and reconstitute the Starbucks.
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