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- Jun 20, 2021
All of the culinary hedonists who make this type drink coffee or otherwise; the ones with "cool different liquids mixed together wow amazing" make me irately angry. If you drink your coffee as presented in the photo it will either be too milky or too coffee-y. The only way to fix this is to stir the fucking drink and then you have destroyed the entire look of the drink. Photography and its consequences have been a disaster for culinary expectations.
There are really cool drinks out there like the "Hot and Cold tea" Heston Blumenthal does, that actually do something innovative and interesting. Not that everyone needs to be doing shit like that, enjoying a simple ice coffee is fine. But "cool looking" drinks like this are the bane of my existence because they attract the most brain-rotted, sugar zombie, freaks who "need it to look like the picture"
To a degree cooking is an art so the guy who can make his work stand out and more saleable is the guy who can actually make it running a coffee shop, i get why that exists.
Its always intended to be mixed up anyway, i view it like hipster instagram food like ramen, you mix it up by eating it but people expect to get it with the perfect softboiled egg half, the meat in one section, mushrooms in anogher, greens in another; the ingredients all sectioned out so it 'looks pretty'.