Butter in your coffee?

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  • mmm_drop
    mmm_drop Posts: 1,126 Member
    This might be the solution to the awful taste of Folgers.
  • auroranflash
    auroranflash Posts: 3,569 Member
    coffee already makes me crap, it doesn't need help.
  • HealthyBodySickMind
    HealthyBodySickMind Posts: 1,207 Member
    I haz done it. In desperation. We were out of both milk and coconut milk. It wasn't bad.
  • auroranflash
    auroranflash Posts: 3,569 Member
    While your pediatrician is right, your toddler shouldn't be drinking coffee.
    The body needs healthy fats.
    Butter is an excellent choice, in reasonable quantity.

    For myself, hiking in the Ladakh region of India a couple of years ago, I drank a lot of local tea with yak butter.
    Yak butter is butter where they put in the entire yak. 'special. very 'special.


    Not a happy camper.
    111_yak-master-of-the-himalayas_groot.jpg

    But one gets used to it.

    Why not?


    OH GOD. YAK BUTTER TEA. I had almost managed to erase this from my mind, I will eat anything when travelling, I love to try new things, but this is one of the few things I had once and never again!!

    that is one Regal gosh darn yak.
  • bumblebums
    bumblebums Posts: 2,181 Member
    If you look at the nutritional information on cream and butter, they are pretty damn close... And people don't have a problem with cream in their coffee.
  • nexangelus
    nexangelus Posts: 2,080 Member
    Has anybody seen this thing about adding butter and oil to your coffee? Sounds like a recipe for intestinal distress and a spare tire around your middle. http://www.bulletproofexec.com/category/coffee-2/

    Although I would not do it myself, I prefer double cream and honey or maple syrup in my coffee, a lot of extremely lean people use this recipe. Whatever works for you. Fat is not the enemy.
  • wewon
    wewon Posts: 838 Member
    Has anybody seen this thing about adding butter and oil to your coffee? Sounds like a recipe for intestinal distress and a spare tire around your middle. http://www.bulletproofexec.com/category/coffee-2/

    Sounds gross. but I don't think that it would cause more stomach/intestinal problems than adding cream.
  • erikaaaaaaaa
    erikaaaaaaaa Posts: 155 Member
    I have an ex who was really big into keto and would put butter in his coffee. No wonder we're broken up.
  • MissKitty9
    MissKitty9 Posts: 224 Member
    If you look at the nutritional information on cream and butter, they are pretty damn close... And people don't have a problem with cream in their coffee.

    Exactly, I don't know why people are freaking out! It's ~sounds~ weird for sure, but it's not THAT

    From what I heard, the whole butter-in-coffee thing comes from
  • So_Much_Fab
    So_Much_Fab Posts: 1,146 Member
    I love butter.

    I love coffee.

    But never the twain shall meet!!
  • BarbellApprentice
    BarbellApprentice Posts: 486 Member
    Butter in my coffee this morning. Healthy and tasty. Just make sure it's well sourced butter. I recommend Kerrygold pure Irish butter from grass-fed cows.
  • dltaylorii
    dltaylorii Posts: 132
    From what I heard, the whole butter-in-coffee thing comes from

    ....

    Comes from what?!? The suspense is killing me!
  • bulbadoof
    bulbadoof Posts: 1,058 Member
    I have a friend who had yak butter tea when he was traveling abroad. Said it wasn't really that bad, honestly. I could see the taste being a little weird, though.
  • ThatSoundsHard
    ThatSoundsHard Posts: 475 Member
    My father-in-law does this, and he adds salt too! I think it's something from his Army days (Korean War). When I am at their house, I drink tea!

    Salt in your coffee actually helps to take the bitterness out of the coffee better than sugar does so you don't have to add as much sugar/cream. It's not like you can taste the salt, you only use a pinch. My husband thought I was crazy when we first got together and he saw me adding salt to the coffee grounds.

    Also, butter in your coffee is good.
  • NakedLunchTime
    NakedLunchTime Posts: 559
    Nah son:indifferent:
  • bumblebums
    bumblebums Posts: 2,181 Member
    My father-in-law does this, and he adds salt too! I think it's something from his Army days (Korean War). When I am at their house, I drink tea!

    Salt in your coffee actually helps to take the bitterness out of the coffee better than sugar does so you don't have to add as much sugar/cream. It's not like you can taste the salt, you only use a pinch. My husband thought I was crazy when we first got together and he saw me adding salt to the coffee grounds.

    Also, butter in your coffee is good.

    My mom puts a little bit of sugar and salt in black tea when she brews it. You can't taste either, but the result tastes divine.
  • HeidiCooksSupper
    HeidiCooksSupper Posts: 3,831 Member
    This is best done if you use two hands: one to hold the cup with the coffee in it, the other to hold the toast with the butter on it.
  • alliex
    alliex Posts: 35 Member
    I've never heard of this IRL, but I think I remember an episode of The Big Bang Theory where they drink hot drinks with a stick of butter in to prepare for a trip to the north pole.

    Also another thing I didn't know of IRL is deep fried mars bars, I thought they were a myth until the fish and chip shop in the village started doing them
  • shannashannabobana
    shannashannabobana Posts: 625 Member
    Butter is dairy. Its only slightly different than cream.
    Indeed! I haven't tried it yet but I fully intend to one day.

    It can't be any worse than 'fat free half and half' which...what?
    My mom puts a little bit of sugar and salt in black tea when she brews it.
    I am adding this to my list of things to try as well. How much? A pinch?
  • AllonsYtotheTardis
    AllonsYtotheTardis Posts: 16,947 Member
    This might be the solution to the awful taste of Folgers.

    Wrong. There is no solution to the awful taste of Folgers
  • missdibs1
    missdibs1 Posts: 1,092 Member
    Has anybody seen this thing about adding butter and oil to your coffee? Sounds like a recipe for intestinal distress and a spare tire around your middle. http://www.bulletproofexec.com/category/coffee-2/

    People doing a strict ketogenic diet do this
  • AllonsYtotheTardis
    AllonsYtotheTardis Posts: 16,947 Member
    If you look at the nutritional information on cream and butter, they are pretty damn close... And people don't have a problem with cream in their coffee.

    Nutritionally, this wouldn't faze me. But I don't even like cream in my coffee because it tastes too buttery, so I'm pretty sure I wouldn't enjoy actual butter in my coffee. :drinker:
  • bumblebums
    bumblebums Posts: 2,181 Member
    Butter is dairy. Its only slightly different than cream.
    Indeed! I haven't tried it yet but I fully intend to one day.

    It can't be any worse than 'fat free half and half' which...what?
    My mom puts a little bit of sugar and salt in black tea when she brews it.
    I am adding this to my list of things to try as well. How much? A pinch?

    A pinch of salt and a teaspoon of sugar for a 4-cup pot of black tea!

    And re: your other point, I'm guessing the people who are surprised at this butter thing must never have accidentally over-whipped cream into butter! It's really the same thing, just with the dairy fat separated from the whey.

    Mmm, there's an idea: butter *and* whey powder in your coffee. Okay, maybe not.
  • wild_wild_life
    wild_wild_life Posts: 1,334 Member
    It's good, as is coconut oil. The trick is blending it, not just stirring it.

    Just beware that hot liquids will expand in the blender...a lot.
  • Flab2fitfi
    Flab2fitfi Posts: 1,349 Member
    I know alot of people put coconut oil in the coffee, never heard of butter tho. I like mine black:flowerforyou:

    Just about to say I had read in a recent running magazine about putting coconut oil in coffee. Might try it.
  • Livdoesketo
    Livdoesketo Posts: 38 Member
    I love it, I have 2 tsp of butter and 2 tsp of coconut oil in my morning coffee, blended up it's lovely and creamy. Keeps me full from 8am-2pm on 161 calories with no insulin spike.
  • Joshacham
    Joshacham Posts: 467 Member
    This...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umDr0mPuyQc
  • SmartAlec03211988
    SmartAlec03211988 Posts: 1,896 Member
    I threw up in my mouth just reading the title of this thread.
  • chanel1twenty
    chanel1twenty Posts: 161 Member
    This was on the Today show this morning.
    Evidence shows that butter in your coffee helps energy & weight loss if used as a substitute for dessert or even a meal (breakfast).
    A serving of this butter coffee is 100-200 calories. The anchors tried it, Lauer said it was awful while Natalie said it wasn't bad.

    I guess don't knock it til you try it! God knows most all of us will try most anything said to improve energy & weight loss!
  • Livdoesketo
    Livdoesketo Posts: 38 Member
    Try it before you knock it, and use proper grass fed butter!

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