Comment by Monstrosity@lemm.ee on I could get that for you, but I won't.

I am not a vegan but oat milk lattes are the best lattes. They are creamy, rich with flavor that’s perfectly aligned w the coffee, lower in calories & more sustainable than classic dairy.

Everyone should try them once at least.

I like oatmilk in general. Oatmilkshakes are also awesome and oatmilk is way better in cereal

Too many people tried soy milk or almond milk and it has unfortunately turned them away from dairy alternatives. Oatmilk leagues above all the rest.

Soy milk slays on protein though. If that’s important to you.

Definitely. Though I do quite like chocolate almond milk! I find almond milk tk be a tolerable alternative some of the times but ugh soymilk

I also didn’t like soy milk at first now I have it with cereal almost daily, so I guess it’s also getting used to the flavour.

Oat milk things out frozen drinks but I agree it’s delicious all the same.

I must keeping getting crap oatmilk. I always feel like it’s watery, and I shake it before pouring.

I also drink whole milk, and think anything under 2% might as well be water. Unless it’s a chocolate milk full of thickeners instead of just milk and chocolate.

I also get plain, because I don’t want added sugar.

Suggestions?

Oatly barista in the grey cartons is hands down the best IMO after trying loads of other brands. I get it at publix in the US or Tesco in the UK

But Oatly has shitty additives

You have to go for the stuff with added fat - barista style - to get anything approaching decent.

A lot of brands make extra creamy versions that work better in coffee imo. Some sell a barista version which is also extra creamy and designed to steam well for lattes. Theyre more calorie dense though, so you kinda lose one of the main benefits. My favorite milk for lattes is ultra-filtered whole milk.

Mighty is the best brand I’ve tried by a margin, they do a barista one but for an all round milk replacement the whole m.lk is great. They use a blend of oat and pea though I think

Forager Project has a nice oatmilk. I like it better than Oatly.

Oaty brand oat milk.

They have some kind of special ingredient that keeps everything properly emulsified.

Warning it’s not cheap. I maybe buy a carton a week.

Starbucks gets watery oat milk I dunno

Just use whole milk.

I do.

But I have vegan and lactose intolerant family and friends. So I try to keep shelf stable options on hand for when they visit.

After they leave, I use what’s left so it’s not wasted, and would prefer an option that I like too.

Makes sense.

Maybe try cachew milk? It’s pretty tasty.

Yes! The moment I tried oatmilk I realized the nuttiness of the oat compliments the coffee bean aromas making it the superior milk for espresso drinks

lower in calories

not everyone wants that.

Lowering the calories makes room to compensate with bacon grease.

Yeah but that makes my coffee taste funny.

The barista stuff isn’t that much lower in calories than dairy milk. The rest is true though: delicious, sustainable, microfoam-able.

The quality of oatmilk varies wildly based on the brand. I’m not a fan of Kirkland or Oatly but Califia and Silk are delicious.

Jesus. Oatly is by far the best. By far. Especially the barista style.

I also like it but it didn’t feel any healthier than regular milk, I don’t have the macros in mind anymore but I think half full milk was better when I did look it up a while ago.

Agree with this, regular but unsweetened has much less fat and sugar.

This is the real answer. The french aren’t the pretentious ones in this story, they’re the plebs who don’t know any better haha

(All in good fun)

No, they just have way better milk than us

Barista style oat milk is fantastic, froths so nicely.

I just bought one last week. Works well. Enjoyable but clearly different than whole milk.

Sticking to it for health.

For health reasons you might take it a step further one day, the unsweetened versions have a lot less fat and sugar in them. I got used to it after barista oat milk and now I prefer the more coffee-y taste of my coffee tbh

I agree. My preference goes oat then whole. I like the nuttiness that the oat milk adds. Local café was doing a monthly special, and they’re the best in the county so I tried it. It became my regular order.

I just made a smoothie with a frozen berry blend I got from Costco. Yep, I used oatmilk

I don’t think this story/tweet is real. Or maybe just the misunderstanding that the restaurant didn’t have oat milk on hand.

Totally agreed that oat milk superior flavor for many different applications. Milk from a tiyty just ain’t it for smoothies and stuff. I don’t make any smoothies with animal milk.

“I am not a vegan but”

HAHAAH, INSERT FUNNY THEY TELL YOU JOKE!!1!

Have you looked at the ingredients of oat milk?

It’s water with vegetable oil and just enough oats for the taste.

I’m lactose intolerant. What’s your point?

My point is, that oat milk lattes are not the “best” lattes, they’re oily not creamy, and that the flavor of oats does not align with coffee.

I’m diabetic and have to avoid lactose too, amongst many other things.

Oat milk might be a fine beverage, if you’re into oily watery horse food, but a substitute for proper milk it is not.

Milk is just watery fatty cow food with some extra steps involved.

Not really. It’s a mammalian excretion that has literally been refined over millions of years to deliver an infants nutritional requirements.

I drink milk, but milk isn’t superior to oat milk.

mammal milk has specific ingredients that are meant to specifically feed infants of that animal. So its often high in fat and has specific things that are meant to be digested by that animal. Breast milk from a human has special ingredients that help digest the high lactose content and those ingredients are not in other milks.

Now Oats have been designed over years to be digested by humans and other animals. They propagate by being consumed and then travel to other areas post consumption. The nutrition in oats and other vegetables is mostly there specifically to drive animals like us to eat them so that we propagate them.

As long as that infant happens to be a cow

You’re trying really hard to be objectively correct about this silliness. No wonder there’s a stigma about coffee snobs.

I’m not trying to be objectively correct at all.

It’s just really easy to make fun of people who drink poncy “milk” because everyone secretly wants it to be some magical elixir delicately squeezed from the nipples of plump little oats tended by fat little bumble bees in Tasmania.

I’m not trying to be objectively correct at all.

Literally you: “Of course proper milk is superior to oat milk.”

Have you seen what they feed cows? Think I’ll stick with the oats and vegetable oil 😉

You keep that ignorance as long as you can bud.

One of us sure is ignorant.

We don’t have feedlot dairy’s here.

You can literally go for a drive and watch dairy cows eat green grass.

They wrap hay bales in this plastic stuff that makes the hay start to ferment which apparently the cows fucking love to eat.

(Side note: that fermented hay is called Silage and fun fact it’s one of the single foulest smelling substances produced by humanity. Smells more like raw sewage than actual raw sewage, and frequently triggers asthma attacks. Cows, inexplicably, go absolutely ape for it. A silage farm near where I grew up had frequent breakins from nearby pastured cows who had figured out the latches so they could sneak in.)

The one I drink has 11%, which seems plenty. At some point it’d become thin porridge, and I don’t want to drink that.

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