Hot Coffee Protein Drink-Mixing success !!

Hot Coffee Drink Mixing Success !!

After much trial, error and frustration I finally found a winning technique for making a successful hot protein coffee using off the shelf Costco name brand protein powder. Sweet!! 

 (See photos below)

Key Point #1: 

   rehydrating the protein powder first into a pancake batter/ pudding slurry so that it is fully dissolved. 

   Do not add anything hot to the slurry until ALL powder lumps are fully dissolved. And I really mean ALL lumps, this includes all dry spots or clumps on the bottom of the cup. It needs to look like pudding. It must be a super fine slurry to make it good in the end.

Key Point #2: 

  SLOWLY Adding Hot water /coffee from a tea pot and vigorously stir the slurry as hot water is added to the top of your mug. You must add the initial hot liquid slowly in small amounts so you don't flash cook the protein.

Key Point #3: 

  add hot instant coffee to your mix LAST. This eliminates the chance that the whey protein will latch onto the coffee crystals and hitch a ride creating clumps and curds in the early hydration process. This will spoil your final mix.

Costco Standard Whey Powder

Slurry of Whey powder and milk: fine pancake / pudding slurry thickness. No lumps at all; check entire batch with a drip test for evenness throughout like this.

SLOWLY: add hot water/coffee in spurts/small amounts and mix vigorously as you go.

Success: no lumps! Add instant coffee crystals LAST.

Makes a great drink.

The order of the steps matter. 

Technique #2:

  Great YouTube video by another chef demonstrating the above technique:

     http://youtu.be/9THVuGrgRbQ

Technique #3:
  http://bariatricfoodie.blogspot.com/2011/12/bf-basics-how-to-make-hot-protein-drink.html

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Failures: why they failed

1) All at once: adding instant coffee, protein powder, water and nuking it in the microwave.

  It will cause an explosion and a huge mess in your microwave just like an over cooked exploding egg does. The protein powder acts much like an egg does.  

2) Adding hot water directly to powder:

Makes the whey powder instantly turn to cottage cheese and clump together just like milk and eggs behave.

3) Dumping all the Hot Coffee/Water ALL at once to fill your glass up: you will flash cook all of the whey protein instantaneously and cause it to curd up like cheese again. Slowly adding hot fluids is a key point here. Slowly add and mix a lot.