Dalgona Coffee Trend Inspired Us to Whip Other Drinks, to Mixed Results

As many preserve in place during this coronavirus pandemic, wearied people are increasingly branch to “quarantine trends” to occupy their time and minds. One such trend is “dalgona coffee,” a dash that became renouned online in South Korea in Mar before creation a approach to internet enlightenment in a U.S. via amicable media.

The drink, that is named after a Korean honeyed called dalgona or ppopgi, is done with equal tools present coffee, sugar, and prohibited H2O — for example, dual tablespoons of any — churned or frothed into an fragile mass, that afterwards tops a potion of cold milk. It’s iced coffee for a amicable enmity age, appealing for how few mixture and small bid it takes to emanate a TikTok-ready mixture clearly out of skinny air.

What other drinks can we whip? Eater staffers wondered idly. I’m unequivocally contemptible to news that this brings us to:

Bowl of cocoa powder and H2O churned into a mess.

Whipped cocoa.
Photos: Lesley Suter

Cocoa powder

Well, cocoa powder does not work! Made a splattery mess. we did conduct to make median decent chocolate syrup, though, so not a full loss. — Lesley Suter

A play of divert tea-ish liquid.

Whipped rose fruity divert tea.
Photo: Jenny G. Zhang

Rose fruity divert tea powder

This floral divert tea powder, that we excavated from a behind of my cupboard, did not whip, notwithstanding 5 long, torturous mins spent whisking vigorously. But a formula still tasted good (albeit overwhelmingly sweet) drizzled over a dash of oat milk. Would dash again. — Jenny G. Zhang

A crater of matcha divert tea liquid.

Whipped matcha divert tea.
Photo: Jenny G. Zhang

Matcha divert tea powder

No, we don’t know because we have so many divert tea powders! This one also unsuccessful to whip adult into a pleasing easy cloud, nonetheless it did aerate a many out of any of my experiments. The earthy-colored potion distributed unevenly via my oat milk, some plops settling to a bottom, others marbling a surface. The ambience did not wow me. — JZ

A play subsequent to a yellow Gatorade.

Whipped Gatorade G-Series Perform 02 Thirst Quencher, Lemon-Lime
Photo: Jenny G. Zhang

Gatorade G-Series Perform 02 Thirst Quencher, Lemon-Lime

Did we unequivocally consider Gatorade would bear some alchemical mutation into a froth of electrolytes and tender energy? No, of march not. Nevertheless, scholarship beckoned. The result, as we can hardly see, looks like a gloomy spark of urine in a sunlight. It tasted like watery, sweetened Gatorade G-Series Perform 02 Thirst Quencher, Lemon-Lime. — JZ

Diptych of a cocktail being done with Campari and orange juice.

An indeed good cocktail with “fluffy” orange juice.
Photo: Nicholas Mancall-Bitel

Dante’s Garibaldi cocktail, that is not indeed a riff on dalgona coffee, though we suspicion we merit an indeed serviceable “whipped” recipe for creation it all a approach to a finish of this post

My family stockpiles oranges like other people store toilet paper, so we used one to make a new-classic chronicle of a Garibaldi from Dante in New York. The World’s 50 Best bar upgrades a elementary brew of Campari and orange extract with fresh, “fluffy” OJ, that emerges fragile from a beast Breville juicer. A Nespresso milk-frother helped replicate a outcome during home, positively creation a extract lighter and, we would even (generously) say, fluffy, nonetheless it did also feverishness it a bit. we built a dash in a highball glass, starting with Campari, afterwards ice and feathery orange juice, and finally a (well-washed) orange wedge. we enjoyed cave during 10 a.m. to perk adult a stormy Monday morning in respect of day-drinking enchantress Ina Garten, though a pleasant cocktail would also make a accessible choice for a Zoom happy hour or weekend brunch with a fam. — Nicholas Mancall-Bitel