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Hot Coke with Ginger, A Possibly Magical Elixir.
In older times the recipe was made with brown sugar water, but now the traditionalists prefer Coke; the recipe, however, is "cola-neutral." The pointer is from Yan Li.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on January 17, 2007 at 07:56 AM in Food and Drink | Permalink
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i have been asking for years why people don't drink hot coke and, even more surprisingly, why coke hasn't been pushing a coffee-like variant of its signature drink. i always assumed it just didn't work (bad taste, became syrupy, whatever) because, otherwise, hard to see why coke (and amateur experimenters) weren't already pushing this.
Posted by: dj superflat at Jan 17, 2007 11:40:59 AM
It must be a trend. The New York Times also has an article today mentioning the use of Coca-Cola in Chinese cooking, for slow roasting Silke chicken:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/17/dining/17blac.html
Posted by: DK at Jan 17, 2007 12:01:30 PM
Perhaps because hot coke will act as a laxative
Posted by: jcm at Jan 17, 2007 7:39:32 PM
Coca Cola Blak is an attempt at coffee-flavored Coke. Unfortunately they had to go and ruin it by using artificial sweeteners. The end result tastes sort of like a coffee jellybean.
Posted by: Sean at Jan 17, 2007 7:44:33 PM
Why is it news?
When I was in Hong Kong 15 years ago, corner stores sold hot coke in winter -- the glass bottle ones, which sat in hot water bath all day.
You can also order coke with lemon or ginger, hot or cold, in restaurants.
A friend told me there has been a few Chinese recipes for cooking a variety of meat with soft drinks. Those have been flying around for years.
Posted by: CW at Jan 18, 2007 3:41:58 PM
You don't have to go that far from home - hot Dr Pepper is a southern tradition, albeit a dying one. Heat the DP, pour over a slice of lemon, serve.
I don't know about using Coca-Cola for this, though. The best 'off-label' use of Coke I know of is as a car battery cleaner, if you are out of baking soda.
Posted by: rvman at Jan 19, 2007 10:10:55 AM
There was a great article on BBC news last year on how people in rural India had started to use coke as a pesticide-- worked just as well, it seems, and they could buy it far cheaper than any other pesticide.
Posted by: INC at Jan 21, 2007 7:04:41 PM
It is very intresting to hear that china now
prefers coke to brown sugar water. I supose now
Coca-Cola company is catchin up with Mcdonalds in
China currently, but one thing to consider is why
you would drink hot coke, it wouldn't have any
carbonation in it and then it would be like
drinking hot syrup, that doesn't seem to appealing
to me
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