Today we're gonna answer a question that nobody asked.
Can you make a liquid taste just like a donut
and can you combine it with coffee for a good time?
Now I happen to know
that the answer to this is yes, permit me a little story.
It's 2007, I'm competing in the UK Barista Championships.
I will win that year
and go to the World Championships in Tokyo
and I'll win that one too and if you wanna see me
talk through the whole Barista Competition routine,
there's a video up here.
But in the UK, I was working on a signature drink.
It's a drink that you make that can have alcohol in,
must taste of coffee
but that's really where the rules kind of end.
And at that time, I was obsessed
with trying to make a liquid pastry.
Now initially, I was trying to replicate the taste
of a kind of a laminated dough, be it like a croissant
or something like that but none of it worked
and there was a kind of acidity that was very unpleasant
from all of the sort of fermentation of the dough.
I thought I'd hit a dead end.
That is, until I went to see my friend Chris Young.
Now at the time, he was the head of the lab
at the Fat Duck restaurant.
He was doing all the kind of crazy food science.
We were friends, we would hang out a little bit
and he said that the pastry chef from El Bulli,
Ferran Adria's restaurant in Spain at the time,
probably the most famous, most kind of well-known
experimental interesting restaurant in the world.
Apparently, the pastry chef
thought that a freshly fried and glazed
Krispy Kreme original glazed donut was a perfect dessert.
And in 2007, I don't think I'd had one
but I went and I sought one out and yeah,
fresh off the line, it was incredible.
And so I began a quest to turn this
into a liquid because I figured
that plus coffee would be delicious.
Turns out I was right and today, I'll show you the process,
I'll give you the recipe.
It's really very simple.
On stage in the competitions,
it got complicated because there was a kind of time crunch.
We don't have that pressure here
so we're gonna do it a much easier way.
To start with you need some donuts.
Now, you don't have to use Krispy Kreme,
I just think they have quite a strong signature flavor.
This isn't sponsored by them in any way,
you could use whatever donuts you wanna use,
if you like the flavor of those donuts.
I just think these are easy to find.
Now I've gone for the vegan version today
'cause I'm kind of curious.
So I'm gonna do a vegan version
but you could do this with a regular version and dairy milk,
that works just fine, up to you.
This is the recipe.
For every 100 mils of milk that you're gonna use,
you're gonna use one donut.
So here, I'm gonna keep things simple.
I'm gonna do four donuts to 400 mils of liquid.
Take your donuts, chop them into little pieces.
I would say probably eight pieces is enough.
You're gonna squish, smoosh these things
once they're in the liquid
so don't worry too much about it.
And they need a bit of a squish to get them all in.
Let's do three more.
And then just 400 mils, in this case,
of milk or plant-based milk.
Combine and then we're gonna gently heat it
and give it a good smoosh together.
It's gonna become a slightly unsettling soupy mix.
Don't freak out, this is totally fine.
Don't worry about that at all.
You're gonna heat it up, not too hot.
I don't wanna get to the point
where the milk has started to cook
and change its taste or kind of texture.
So here, I would say probably 40 to 50 degrees Celsius,
just heat it up gently
and then let it infuse for maybe 20 minutes.
Okay, so it's time to do the first straining.
Now, you're gonna be a little unsettled
because it kinda looks a bit porridgy at this point,
don't worry.
By the time we get it to a drink,
it'll be clean and delicious and wonderful
but we are gonna have to do a little bit of straining.
Now, ideally, have a biggest sieve than mine
'cause what we're gonna need to do
is let's take a little at a time
and then we kinda wanna squeeze and press it out.
All of the liquid that's inside,
the sort of soggy donut,
we need that out
'cause that's the best tasting liquid of all.
So we're gonna gently press it through
and then whatever's left, I mean you could eat it,
I wouldn't but you could.
So here we have round one.
Now, if we just steamed this and put it into coffee,
the texture is actually not that good.
The little tiny bits of dough still in there,
it needs a fine strain.
It's actually a little bit too kind of fatty
and kind of greasy like this.
So it needs a second kind of cleaning up and separation.
Now in the competition,
I took a slightly extreme route,
which was I put it into a centrifuge,
running at -20 degrees Celsius
to very quickly chill down any fat there,
to be sort of more solid and then spin it out quite easily
and that definitely worked.
A little bit of chaos to try and use
the centrifuge onstage at that time.
Also, the company that hired that to me
were kind of grossed out that I was doing this with it
but that's by the by.
We could use a centrifuge but that just seems a bit extreme
for something that is just kind of a little bit
of fun and a silly thing to make for some friends.
What we're gonna do, it's much simpler.
We're just gonna chill it down, chill it down,
fridge temp, sort of four degrees Celsius ideally
and leave it until that kind of fat
will solidify a little bit more,
it'd be much easier to strain out.
So I'm gonna leave this in the fridge for a little while
and will come back to it later.
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We return.
We've had a sort of a good chilling down
and you can actually see on top of here,
there's been a little bit
of sort of separation and solidifying
of some of the oil inside this whole thing
and that's good news.
So what we're gonna do
is we're gonna sieve this a couple of times.
Firstly, just to do a kind of quick pass through the sieve,
we'll probably catch some lumps of stuff.
We can get rid of that
and then we'll do a finer sieve again afterwards.
And so that's a pretty good start.
We could go finer again in terms of sieving
to get a better end texture
and kind of cleaner tasting drink in a way.
Now you could use muslin if you wanted to use that,
for me, I don't love using that,
I think it's super effective
and you could use a coffee filter paper
but that tends to take forever.
So from Dave Arnold, I learned this trick, a tea towel.
A clean tea towel is actually a pretty good
filtration medium for this kind of stuff,
which is what we're gonna do.
Now, the more you sieve this, the cleaner will get
and the more enjoyable it will be to drink, for sure.
It's pretty delicious right now
but if you've got a fine sieve, definitely use that.
The finer the sieve, the better.
For now, we're gonna run with it.
We're gonna keep it simple, nice and easy.
I'm gonna steam this up,
pour it into a little bit espresso drink.
For ours shot, I'm gonna use a double here,
just 'cause I'm not gonna have this very often
so I might as well do it right.
This, as I recall, is quite difficult to steam,
you gotta be quite aggressive at the start
to get some air into it and then you should be okay.
Now obviously this liquid has a slightly higher fat content
so it is harder to to pour,
the foam's a little bit more fragile
and you can go from anywhere
from a one-to-one to one to two,
in terms of the amount of liquid you're gonna add in.
I never got good latte out with this back in the day.
So here we have coffee and a donut, all in one.
A nice layer of firm, sweet, donuty milk,
a delicious espresso.
Let's have a taste.
It's like, it's almost too obvious in terms of what it is.
It tastes exactly like you think it would taste.
It tastes like I'm drinking
a Krispy Kreme original glazed donut
with a delicious shot of espresso in there too.
Now this is not crazy sweet
and so I would say adding about five grams of sugar
per 100 mils of liquid will get you to a pretty tasty point.
If you'd like something a little bit more decadent,
it's just like drinking a pastry and you could argue,
why not just eat the pastry
but sometimes it's fun to have fun.
That's all I'm saying.
It's fun to have fun, fun to do something different,
fun to surprise your friends
with a weird little drink that really anyone could enjoy.
If they like coffee, if they like donuts,
they'll enjoy this.
It'll be a surprise, a treat, some fun.
But now I wanna hear from you.
What'd you try this?
Does this sound like fun?
Does this sound just completely ridiculous?
If you do try it, leave us a comment down below.
Let me know how you get on.
Let me know which donuts you use.
Let me know how the whole process went.
I really wanna hear from you
down in the comments below but for now,
I'll say thank you so much for watching.
I hope you have a great day.