Tried a technique given to me by @chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world. It turned out way better, so thank you! Still haven’t tried latte art yet but the texture is very nice. Excellent mouth feel.
Also an excuse to show off another mug, this time one of my wife’s, as well as my cat stir spoon. I love these spoons, I’ve got maybe 6 different colours. They’re great.
Cool, can you share the technique please?
I suppose that would be a good idea.
I’ll give proper credit, here’s the technique, go and upvote them. It wouldn’t be fair for me to try and take the credit for it.
Well milking oats is a bit like milking cows. First a mommy and a daddy oat love each other very much…
Link to buy mug and cat spoon or else!!! /s but seriously where did you get those?
Mug is from a local potter, as with all my mugs. I’d highly recommend finding some local pottery shops to you, or maybe see if there’s a pottery fair near you. I’ve got one twice a year where I live, it’s great. As for the spoon, I got it from a specialty tea shop in my local farmers market, but I think it’s a mass produced item. You can probably find them on Amazon or other online shops. I just like to shop local whenever I can.
I do need that spoon for my girlfriend
Imagine the brand / type of oatmilk makes a big difference. A lot of oatmilk is primarily oil based and many have stabilizers and various thickness and other additives.
I’d guess there’s significant differences between the “barista” oat milk, and the “standard” one. There’s some frothing chemical in there.
I have that exact spoon Wtf.
Not anymore you don’t. Yoink
And another amazing mug!
I was hoping to see your comment! I’ll try to post another tomorrow with my morning pour over.
Reminds me of the deep ocean or an interstellar flight. I really need to start pottery back up. But glazing is so expensive : /
I’d love to learn to do it myself someday. But yeah, money.
Pottery is simple (not easy, simple). Good pottery is flippin hard. Using the pottery wheel and ending up with a mug and not a blob is not something I successfully did. I did more of shaped pottery, as opposed to spun, but I loved doing it. It was relaxing. But I had to stop because the studio I fired my pieces at was closing down (the lady was retiring) and the other studios with their own kilns were (no joke) 20 times the price. Granted, I only had to pay 10€ per 0.5m² of kiln space, but they wanted I sign up for a class I didn’t have time to take just to use the kiln. No time or money for that, so I had to stop : ( Maybe one day I’ll get my own kiln…
That’s really unfortunate. Hopefully you get a good opportunity to get back into it again. I bet it’s really rewarding when you get a project done.
It is rewarding, even the ugly ones haha
When I was in junior high, I did have one piece get blown up in the kiln one time, which sucked, as it was supposed to have been a gift.
Someone didn’t get all the bubbles out of their clay before forming their piece, and the bubble basically created a mini bomb.
My piece wasn’t the only one to get ruined. One girl (9 or 10, I think) had her competition piece in there. I was in the room when she was told. She tried so hard to keep those tears back. My heart still aches for her when I think of it. I’m sure she’s fine by now, but still.I can’t imagine being the person who accidentally ruined everyone else’s hard work. I would’ve felt absolutely terrible. Especially a 9 year old’s competition piece.
I found for oat/almond milk if you wanna do latte art you need to pull the wand out partially to create foam than put it back in and force the foam down the whirlpool.
It will eventually come to the surface though as it’s not microfoam like with milk lattes. So your art becomes “frumpy” as the foam rises. SO take any photos asap.
The other thing is that you’ll need to prepare more milk than if using dairy based because the foam isn’t evenly distributed. The foam floats on top and you inevitably need more liquid than your cup can hold if you’re aiming for a standard rosetta leaf pour.
I’ll keep that in mind for my next oat latte. Thanks for the tips.
The spoon is amazing, as is the mug. You guys have inspired me to try it, I’m excited.
