Why is butter coffee so popular? What is bulletproof coffee? How to make Nanyang coffee?

In daily life, butter is a delicious ingredient that is common on the table. It can be used for cooking seasoning, or it can be applied directly or eaten directly in bread. But do you know that butter has also been a very popular coffee "partner" in recent years!

Although the practice of adding butter to coffee has only become known to the public in recent years, the combination of butter and coffee has actually been around for centuries. Many friends may be curious why butter coffee is so popular. After all, its taste will not be very good. But in fact, it is not difficult to understand that we can see the main reason from the two well-known butter coffees at present!

Bulletproof coffee can be said that bulletproof coffee has contributed a lot to the reason why the combination of butter and coffee has entered the public's eye in recent years. Bulletproof coffee is a special coffee with butter added. It is made by mixing black coffee with unsalted butter and adding MCT (Medium Chain Fatty Acid Oil)(2009 version).

Bulletproof coffee is a product developed by Dave Asprey, CEO of Bulletproof, who was inspired by yak butter tea while traveling in Xizang. Because it is a high-calorie, high-fat beverage, it has a fat-burning effect when it contains no carbohydrates (when sugar is not added). How to burn fat? It can suppress people's desire for sugar and other carbohydrates after drinking it. During this time, the body will continue to be in an empty state due to no food intake, so fat will be continuously consumed at this time, thereby achieving the effect of reducing fat. While reducing fat, because butter and caffeine can provide enough energy and energy to the body, people can have higher work efficiency even when they are on an empty stomach. So after its launch, bulletproof coffee quickly became popular in fitness, low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet (also known as ketogenic diet) and other circles. Then it became popular in Western markets and even around the world, making everyone realize that butter can also be added to coffee.

Therefore, butter coffee and bulletproof coffee are now often used interchangeably. But in fact, there is still a big difference between the two. Bulletproof coffee can be butter coffee, but butter coffee does not necessarily mean bulletproof coffee.

Nanyang Coffee In Southeast Asian countries, there is a local specialty that has topped the list of must-have items that foreign tourists will definitely experience when visiting, and that is sugar-fried coffee! It predates the birth of bulletproof coffee hundreds of years. The so-called sugar-fried coffee means that when the coffee beans are stir-fried, sugar-based seasoning is added. In addition, butter, corn kernels, salt and other ingredients are also added to stir-fry with the coffee beans.

The main purpose of cooking coffee beans in this way is not to sweeten and flavor the coffee. Friends who have been to the Xinma area and tasted it can know that sugar-fried coffee without adding extra sugar, milk and other condiments, its taste is very close to that of traditional Chinese medicine, rich and bitter. The reason is the combination of coffee varieties, extremely deep roasting, and deep coking of sugar. Sugar fried coffee is a cooking method specially developed by Chinese people who go south to make a living! At that time, Chinese miners needed to ingest coffee to refresh themselves and improve work efficiency. However, because the amount of coffee in that era was limited, and the fried coffee beans could easily deteriorate due to the hot and humid climate of Southeast Asia. Therefore, the witty Chinese people thought of a way to maximize the use of coffee beans by adding sugar, butter and other ingredients to mix and fry them.

Because sugar-fried coffee is a beverage system evolved by Chinese people who went south to make a living under the influence of Western culture and combined with traditional China cooking and eating habits, sugar-fried coffee is also called Nanyang Coffee. In addition to adding butter to coffee to mix and stir-fry, some places in Southeast Asia also add a piece of unsalted butter to the finished coffee. The purpose is simple: to improve the layering of coffee, further replenish the energy of the drinker, and improve work efficiency throughout the day.

Butter, as a water-in-oil milky substance, can be mixed well into coffee after melting without separating water and oil. Regardless of the temperature of the coffee, the oil in the butter will not separate. Therefore, butter can give its own taste and taste to coffee, thereby improving the texture of coffee. The practice of adding butter to Nanyang coffee is also equipped with a drinking tip, which is to add the butter without stirring and let it melt slowly. Then we have to start tasting the coffee before the butter completely melts, so that every bite of coffee we drink can be different, because condiments such as butter and condensed milk will gradually melt, which will affect the taste and taste of the coffee.

From the above, we can see. Whether it is bulletproof coffee or Nanyang coffee. Combinations such as butter and coffee are popular more because the caffeine "mixes" with the oils in the butter to provide more energy and energy to the drinker. However, it should be noted that butter coffee is not suitable for drinking alone, because the combination of high calories, high fat and caffeine intake can easily cause some adverse reactions, and a reasonable diet needs to be matched to offset the possible negative effects of butter coffee. Therefore, when trying, it is best to understand relevant matters in advance to prevent adverse reactions.

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