The coffee sunrise post earlier reminded me of one of my summer favorites (I just suck at taking pretty pictures but I think you’ll get the idea):

  • a strong coffee (this one is 125ml from an aeropress but a double shot of espresso/lungo also works very well)
  • about 3-4 medium sized ice cubes (enough to still have ice after pouring the hot coffee)
  • ~120ml orange juice (adjust to taste and/or the size of your cup)
  • 10-20ml of nice spicy ginger juice (if the bottle says “don’t drink pure”, you got the right stuff)
  • pour the coffee slowly onto the ice cubes
  • Wait a bit so it gets nicely chilled.

I like slowly sipping about half of the top layer (it’s basically an iced coffee at that point) before stirring and enjoying the final mix

Dunno if there is a name for that recipe, I just combined two stolen ingredient ideas (I saw a youtube video about espresso+orange juice once and a local café had an extremely tasty cold-drip based drink that included ginger)

  • @TheEhHole@lemmy.world
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    392 years ago

    I have very little experience in drinking coffee outside of basic coffee, so I’m not sure if this is a joke or not.

    • @andkit@lemmy.world
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      92 years ago

      I swear it’s not a joke - I do actually drink this. And the two friends I got to try it at least haven’t sued me for poisoning them, so it can’t be that bad

      • Pegatron
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        162 years ago

        I’ve tried coffee lemonade and found it a pretty suitable emetic. This seems like it could be even worse, cheers.

    • @andkit@lemmy.world
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      112 years ago

      lol, good luck, I can already see them grabbing their pitchforks. And if they do let you live, ask them if they have any crazy recipes of their own and share with us ;)

  • Xepher
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    182 years ago

    Well that’s… that’s something, alright

  • @theachievers@lemmy.world
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    152 years ago

    “Sir the asteroid and the alien armada will be here at roughly the same time - in about 20 minutes.”

    sigh Fine, I’ll have one of those . . . coffee . . orange juice ginger things. I mean - what the hell, right?

  • @332@lemmy.world
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    92 years ago

    If you want to make this even more monstrous you can try brewing into a cocktail shaker over ice and shaking the crap out of it so you’ll get a good couple of inches of froth on top when you add it to the orange juice.

    • @andkit@lemmy.world
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      62 years ago

      Well the orange juice is certainly the dominant flavor and the coffee adds some nice bitter notes to it. The ginger then brings a nice spicy kick if you like that sort of thing in your food/drinks (I do, obviously)

      I’d never have thought of mixing coffee and orange on my own. Same with espresso tonic. But it turns out I like both Or maybe my brain just suffers (more) damage when the room temperature exceeds 27°C 🤷

  • Einar
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    2 years ago

    This is either a work of singular art or complete and utter madness.

    There’s only one course of action: will try no matter the cost.

    Also, thank you for using the metric system, fellow global citizen.

    • thrawn
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      32 years ago

      This is either a work of singular art or complete and utter madness.

      Some would say all art requires at least a touch of madness.

  • Deez
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    82 years ago

    I’m not gonna yuck your yum, and post and comments were entertaining, so you get my upvote!