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- Hey guys, I'm Candice the Edgy Veg.
- Hi, I'm Molly, the Gen Z Veg.
- (laughs) And we are back with another taste test.
We thought today it would be fun
to blind taste different types of plant-based milks
and just see which one's our favorite.
- Yeah, I mean, we definitely have our routine milks
that we always reach for, so I'm interested
to maybe try some we haven't had in awhile.
- Yeah and I feel like, exactly,
we kind of just go towards our favorites
and then never shy away from that, so, I mean,
there's a couple that I bought that I haven't had in years.
I'm curious to see if maybe we get something new
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All right, so we have laid out our milks.
There's a bunch of different kinds.
The one thing that we did try to do
is get them all to be unsweetened.
- [Molly] Right, right.
- And all of them are plain except for one
because our grocery delivery got the wrong one.
- So it's vanilla?
- It's vanilla flavored.
So we'll probably be able to tell right away,
but I don't remember what type of milk it was.
- Or which one it is.
So we've hidden the milks,
they're in our little tasting ramekins,
and I guess we'll just go for it.
- Sure, which one you wanna start with?
- Let's start with the ones closest to you.
- Okay.
- Okay, I mean, I think I already know what this is
just based on the color.
- Oh my God, the smell.
- I don't want-- - Immediately, coconut.
- I can't smell still from when I got COVID,
so I don't know why I'm trying to tell this.
- Oh, this one's warm. (laughs)
- It doesn't even taste like coconut.
- Really? I really get coconut.
Especially in the aftertaste.
It really sits coconut in your mouth.
- I wonder if this is a COVID problem still,
the fact that I can't taste the coconut in the coconut milk?
'Cause I definitely can't smell it.
- I can definitely smell it.
- I was expecting it to be smash my face with coconut
and it's not at all.
- No, it's definitely, yeah, it's definitely mild.
- Oh, okay, yeah, there's that,
you know that distinct coconut aftertaste?
This is definitely a coconut milk.
- Yeah.
But I think that it's not canned coconut milk
'cause that's pretty thick.
- Yeah, this is really thin. It's very weak in color.
It could be see-through.
Just a little bit less fat
and I think that would be see-through.
Yeah, I mean it's good.
- Yeah, it's tasty, but it definitely tastes coconut-y,
not like cow milk.
- Yeah, so I think you definitely have
to be very careful with your use case.
This one is less white.
The coconut was really, really white.
- I don't smell anything.
- Okay, good, it's not just me then.
- This is a weird flavor. - It's watery.
- It's not sweet at all.
Some of them inherent sweetness,
like the coconut and probably oat milk.
- Yeah.
- This doesn't have any sweetness.
- I feel like this is soy.
- Yeah, I feel like this is soy also.
- It's like-- - Neutral.
- Yeah, you know that nuttiness that soy has,
which I actually love?
It has the aftertaste of that,
but no real flavor whatsoever.
- Yeah, it's neutral for sure.
- Yeah, I guess if you wanted to add milk
that tasted like nothing, whatever this is might work.
- Well, we use it a lot for that,
but I would not drink this on its own.
And I feel like, even flavored, I wouldn't really like it.
- Yeah, it's too weak. It's very thin.
There's not enough protein or fat in it.
All right, for you.
Okay, what's this one?
- That is thick.
- Oh my God.
- That is three Cs thick.
- Is this one vanilla?
- I don't know. - This is a bad time
to do this because you still can't taste anything.
- Well, I can taste things, just not nuance.
This might be vanilla.
- This is thick. This is like melted ice cream thick.
- I'm kind of getting, yeah,
I think this is the vanilla one.
I'm also thinking it's probably nut-based,
but not almond, because almond milk's really watery.
So this might be a cashew. - Cashew.
Yeah, I think this is cashew milk.
- I mean, it's very thick. I like this.
This would be good and cereal.
- Ooh, yeah, for sure.
- 'Cause it has that richness
that traditional cow milk would have, not whole milk.
- Almost like coating your mouth with like--
- This would also be really good in coffee
if it didn't separate.
I don't know how cashew is in coffee.
In coffee, if it separates or not.
- Yeah, a hot chocolate or something decadent and dessert-y,
this would be it.
Can you make whipped cream out of this?
- I don't think so. - Cashew whipped cream?
- I don't think so.
- Oh. Well, it would be tasty.
- (laughs) Yeah, I think that's definitely the cashew.
All right, for you.
- I don't think I've had, even before I went vegan,
just drinking cow milk on its own
since I was maybe six.
- See, we never did that in our house.
My sister was lactose intolerant
and we just always had soy milk,
but soy milk tasted very different back then.
It was interesting. Not as nice as it is now.
This looks thick.
Oh wow. That is a fatty nut base. (laughs)
- Yeah, oh my God. What is this?
Not hazelnut. - Maybe the other one
was not cashews.
Maybe this one is cashews, or macadamia nut.
- Or oat, but really thick.
- Yeah, oh, actually-- - It might be macadamia.
Do you have that?
- I don't remember.
I feel like I didn't buy that
'cause I didn't get to the good grocery store.
- It looks like it might have little specks in it.
Do you want a up close?
I don't know if you can even tell.
There's little, almost oat specs.
- Maybe it's oat milk.
- This is a thick oat milk.
- It's also kind of sweet, so it could be oat milk, too.
- Not vanilla though. - No.
That one's also off-white,
which also tells me maybe oat or almond.
- This one's gray.
(both laugh)
- Oh yeah.
- I can't tell, the colors of the bowls
are probably changing them a little bit,
but this milk looks really gray.
- I love that I'm still trying to smell.
- Oh my God, this one is delicious.
- What is it?
- This tastes sweetened, which makes me think
that it might be oat milk.
- Yeah. I'm also kinda getting an almond-y flavor.
- Hey, this one's really good.
- This I would drink.
- Mhmm, tastes like cereal milk, like a lot.
- Yes, it does.
- Like a lot a lot. - Like if you have a cereal
that's not too sugary, the milk that's leftover.
- Like healthy cereal milk?
- This would be nice with cookies because it's like,
you always have the milk when you're done eating the cookie,
so then you have to drink it or else it's wasteful.
That'd be okay with this.
- Yeah, this is really good.
- This tastes expensive.
- Like it's not in a carton.
- Hmm, and this is real gray.
Or I guess-- - This is last one?
- Or, I guess, creamy?
It's beige. This is very beige.
- Oh, this one smells sweet.
- Really?
Oh, this is oat milk.
This tastes like bread. (laughs)
- Yeah.
- I don't, that sounds really gross,
but I don't mean that in a bad way.
- It tastes like carbs.
- Yeah, yeah.
It's also thick like oatmeal and a little bit sweet.
- So what was that one? Almond, maybe?
- Maybe.
Yeah, it's very oat-y. Oat-y?
- I'm so glad that these are plant milks
- Oat-y? - 'Cause I would absolutely
be shitting my pants. (both laugh)
- The indigestion.
- This episode is using cow milk, sponsored by Pepto-Bismol.
- Since you've gone vegan, have you accidentally
eaten dairy and then just been, like half an hour,
been like, "Oh, nope, something's wrong!"
- Stomachache central.
Yeah, you get like a bubble gut.
- It's like this big.
Louie keels over and cries.
It's so painful I feel like-- - Yeah, accidental dairy
is tricky.
- All right, should we do a reveal?
Oh yeah, we gotta pick our favorite.
So, you go first. (laughs)
- I think, I mean, obviously I would use them all
for different purposes.
I would never just be a one plant milk kind of person,
just because we cook so much,
but I would go this blue cup, thick one,
I would go for sweets and this I like for drinking.
And this one probably for cooking because it's neutral.
And the coconut milk for curry, coconut-related.
- Mine's not too far off from yours.
So, just drinking, if I wanted a glass of milk,
I think I'd also do this black one.
For cooking, this one as well.
It was neutral, but quite thick,
definitely has protein in it.
And I think for something like, what did you say?
Cooking, drinking, and with sweets?
- Yeah, like to use for something sweet.
- Oh. You know what, I'm gonna go with a coffee.
- Oh, good one.
- Coffee. I do like this one for coffee.
Yeah. I think this was the one that I liked.
I think, yeah, for coffee,
because it seemed like it had a less separation,
it felt like it was higher protein.
Oh, wait, that's not the one. It was this one.
That's the super thick one. That's the one.
This one for coffee.
We weren't that far off!
- Okay, yeah, we definitely knew coconut, soy, cashew,
but I was not expecting this one
to be oat milk, necessarily.
- Yeah, I thought these two were,
'cause at first I said this one was cashew
and then I was like, actually I think
that might've been the cashew.
This almond milk. So I don't like almond milk.
I don't buy it, I think it's too thin, too watery,
it's bad for the environment.
But this almond milk was amazing.
- Yeah, that was a really good choice.
- Yeah, I mean--
- But it's probably expensive.
- That, yeah, that brand is expensive.
I think it's like $7 for one of those.
- Yeah.
- Whereas these are all kind of in the,
this is like $2.50, I think that's around $3,
and I think these are each between $3.99 and $4.50,
here in Canada, in Toronto.
If you're in a smaller town in Canada,
it's probably a little bit less expensive.
But, we both said the cooking for the same one
and we use soy milk in most of our cooking and baking.
The drinking, I'm-- - I'm surprised
that I picked almond, actually.
- Yeah, same, 'cause I'm not,
I don't like almond milk usually.
Yeah and then the coffee I said cashew.
- No, you said, you changed it too--
- Oh yes, oat, which also makes sense,
because I prefer oat milk in my coffee.
What do you, do you like,
'cause I know you don't drink coffee.
Do you put milk in your tea?
- I'm more of a fruity tea.
I'll drink an oat milk latte, a oat milk whatever.
I actually don't like almond milk in my coffee
because the separation grosses me out
and soy milk, I feel like it's really heavy in my coffee.
And I think Starbucks offers coconut milk as well,
but I haven't tried it.
- Yeah, I find that that coconut milk would be too thin,
though, for coffee purposes, for me, personally.
In my coffees, or teas, if I'm having a chai latte,
my first choice is soy, just because of the high protein,
so it's very, very rich.
Then oat, but, again, oat's really rich.
And then that's really all I have in my coffee
'cause I don't, again, I don't like almond milk.
- Yeah, I like the sweetness. - Normally, yeah.
- For sure. - Yeah.
Interesting!
So I guess the title of this video
is "What is the Best Plant-based Milk?"
- Yeah, they're all for different things, though.
That's not fair. (laughs)
But look, cow milk is one milk.
It can only do as much as one milk can do.
These can do an array of things.
There's so many options and, if you're allergic to nuts,
there's still three milks on the table.
That's amazing.
- Plants are amazing and diverse. (laughs)
I mean, if I had to pick one, out of all the milks
that we have, here and otherwise,
I think oat milk might be my favorite
because you can use it for multiple different things,
it's a little bit sweet without the sugar,
and I think it's the best for the environment.
- I think if I had to be on a desert island
with one milk, it would be soy
because you can't make your bechamel sauce without soy milk.
- All right. - I could not survive
autumn and winter without that bechamel sauce to be honest.
- Soy would have been a close second for me.
Or close, yeah, third usually tied.
I only use soy and almond, or, sorry,
soy and oat in this house.
- Yeah, but, now, maybe we'll be almond converters.
- Eh, it's still bad for the environment.
- Okay, well.
- You can, I won't. - In a plastic bottle too.
- In a plastic bottle, too.
Yeah, okay, so there you have it.
Oat and soy are the best milks, according to us
and our opinions are very important. (laughs)
- Yep!
Let us know what your favorite milks are in the comments
and if we didn't try one,
I know we didn't try rice milk or pea milk.
- Yeah, do you want us to do another one
with more elaborate milks?
I also was thinking, when I ordered these
through grocery delivery, we could just try barista blends.
- Oh!
We can't try them in a coffee, though,
'cause then we'd be out of this universe.
- Decaf?
- Okay, yeah, fair.
- All right.
Yeah, so let us know in the comment section down below.
We can, I can go to the special grocery store
and get some crazy different types of milks
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- And we'll see you next week!
- [Both] Bye!
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