If you’ve found yourself forever scrolling by any social-media height in a past few weeks, you’ve expected come opposite a changed two-tone libation served in a pure potion that looks like something an anime angel would drink. The bottom is certainly some arrange of milk, though a light-brown tip covering is some-more perplexing. In some photos, it resembles a balmy rise of Swiss meringue; in others, a tip of a Wendy’s Frosty. And, over a past month, a alluring bev has turn increasingly inescapable.
The drink, that bears a cutesy name “fluffy coffee,” is indeed utterly simple: To emanate it, we energetically drive instant-coffee powder with prohibited H2O and sugarine until it becomes frothy, and afterwards noise it atop cold milk, voilà. And it is, truly, everywhere. Every unapproachable “foodie” value their salt has tackled a splash on their food blogs and vlogs, painstakingly reviewing a drink’s tasting records and uploading their possess recipes. It’s all over Instagram and TikTok. So viral has it left that even BuzzFeed Video has whipped adult a beverage.
“I think, some-more than anything, it’s a splash that’s a unequivocally fun daze for privately right now,” Los Angeles Times cooking columnist Ben Mims, who meticulously documented himself making a splash on Instagram, told a Cut. “It uses an part that everybody already has in their pantry, possibly by collision or on purpose, and manipulates it to emanate this whimsical flint that creates we feel like we combined magic.”
The trend originated in South Korea. As early as February, YouTubers like 뚤기ddulgi were posting impossibly soothing, ASMR-esque videos of themselves whisking a iced drink. Some of these have amassed over 4 million views each. In these videos, a splash bears a name “dalgona coffee,” that pays reverence to South Korea’s renouned honeycomb candy of a same name.
So because are we all losing it over this one? First of all, it’s only really cute! It has mass appeal, it’s comparatively easy to prepare, and it’s photogenic. It also doesn’t harm that it emerged during a time when all a area coffee shops have sealed their doors amid a coronavirus pandemic, that has hence desirous some of us to pursue a dreams of being at-home baristas.
Just one question, and we meant positively no offense to all we fluffy-coffee-makers: You people know we can only decoction coffee like a normal person, right?