A Little More about Orgeat - Tiki Drinks and Food

Q quickiki Member Stockton, CA Joined: Dec 29, 2005 Posts: 140	Q quickiki Posted posted on Fri, Aug 28, 2009 7:17 AM Great to hear from some home-grown orgeat cookers out there! Orgeat, though is generally not what I would consider super thick and creamy or even completely opaque. Judging from your photo, it looks like your orgeat is all of those things. Most of the Mai Tai recipes discussed over here are variations of the "classic" Trader Vic recipe which is posted all over this site. The Mai Tais I like are amber in color with a faint cloudiness, but isn't opaque or creamy. Not certain which recipe you've used for your batch, but there's plenty of discussion about it over here: http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=33220&forum=10&45 Bottom line, is don't get discouraged. I had to make a couple of batches of orgeat before I landed on one that I liked. BTW, I used the recipe by KuKuAhu (which is made with organic, store purchased almond milk) and made the variation listed at the bottom which was a blend of a couple of different recipes: http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=21769&forum=10&vpost=266220 Cheers and keep drinking until you get it right! [ Edited by: quickiki 2009-08-28 07:18 ] [ Edited by: quickiki 2009-08-28 07:31 ]

Great to hear from some home-grown orgeat cookers out there!
Orgeat, though is generally not what I would consider super thick and creamy or even completely opaque. Judging from your photo, it looks like your orgeat is all of those things. Most of the Mai Tai recipes discussed over here are variations of the "classic" Trader Vic recipe which is posted all over this site. The Mai Tais I like are amber in color with a faint cloudiness, but isn't opaque or creamy. Not certain which recipe you've used for your batch, but there's plenty of discussion about it over here:

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=33220&forum=10&45

Bottom line, is don't get discouraged. I had to make a couple of batches of orgeat before I landed on one that I liked. BTW, I used the recipe by KuKuAhu (which is made with organic, store purchased almond milk) and made the variation listed at the bottom which was a blend of a couple of different recipes:

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=21769&forum=10&vpost=266220

Cheers and keep drinking until you get it right!

[ Edited by: quickiki 2009-08-28 07:18 ]

[ Edited by: quickiki 2009-08-28 07:31 ]

Post #479922 by quickiki on Fri, Aug 28, 2009 7:17 AM