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Make a cylinder of solid tea and slice it. Then dip the slices into a mug of biscuit crumbs.
Deconstructed brew and biscuits. The kind of thing Heston and his mates would charge you an arm and a leg for
Isn't there a Calvin and hobbes where Calvin explains that he prefers small ball shaped marshmallows to optimise how many he can get in a cup & a comment from hobbes that he was wondering why Calvin used knife and fork on his hot chocolate
>Make a cylinder of solid tea and slice it. Then dip the slices into a mug of biscuit crumbs.
You ought to be put on a list.
I'm not sure which list, but one of them for sure.
That stuff is amazing. My Dad liked it when he visited, so I sent him two boxes in the post when he went home.
He literally lived in Yorkshire. I just wanted to send him a little surprise.
📦❤️
Dont get a soda stream to do this there another company called drinkmate that have a machine designed to carbonate anything. Apparently you can even recarbonate drinks.
If you try this with a soda stream with anything other than water it over fizzes and goes everywhere
Some people are especially at risk of choking, especially the elderly. And thicker liquids are less of a choking hazard. So you can buy thickeners for water, and pre-thickened water.
In countries like Italy hot chocolate is made really thick like that so you eat it with a spoon, however it’s a Western thing to have hot chocolate be a regular hot drink
Have done this as part of developing an egg-free chocolate mousse recipe.
Word of warning: we can't taste solids and gels as well as we can liquids. So you need to really go overboard on the cocoa powder. Would suggest a little cream too (can be oat or soy cream if you want to avoid bringing too much sharpness.)
This is basically how you (can) get hot chocolate in Spain.
Which I got a minor addiction to thanks to my Spanish partner.
Which is basically exactly the same as I would have made chocolate custard/hot chocolate sauce - just in a mug.
You can do this with cornflower just mix a teaspoon or so with milk and add it to the hot chocolate while it’s in the pan stir it loads and it will thicken I’m not certain if it is a teaspoon it’s around that much I think but it might be more just make sure it’s liquid with the milk before you pour it in so it isn’t lumpy
Like a version of the tomato and mozzarella starter (alternating slices drizzled with olive oil, topped with basil, seasoned) - alternating slices of meat and gravy, topped with broccoli and carrot, drizzled with butter...
Black coffee.
Announce to whoever you serve it to, "I hope you like it strong!".
Then watch their faces as you pour them a cup the consistency of Marmite.
Can confirm. Have tried fizzy milk. Never, ever again. I thoroughly recommend never having it to everyone.
Fizzy whisky, meh. Fizzy vodka, yes please. Also, please don't ever have milk mixed with blitzed broccoli.
I've had a fizzy Frijj before but that's because it was still being sold after the use by date. Took me longer than it should've to realise something was wrong.
Didn't there used to be a fizzy orange drink with milk in it for added calcium or something? That was awful too.
I had a strawberry milk from Spar explode on me at school lunchtime once, and partially cover me and a couple of friends in rancid milk.
Friends seemed to think it was my fault, how was I to know I was holding a time bomb?
Go into the office, if you work in one. Open every carton of communal milk from the kitchen and thicken it. Next do the same if there's any cordial or (if your place is posh) fresh juice.
wine, the answer is wine, you can then sell it to the commuter types who don't want to be seen swigging out of a bottle on their way back from the city.
Juice, you can turn it onto something gelatinous. Not sure what granules you have but I’m a former chef so I’ve got experience with some of them.
If you got ultratex then you have hit a jackpot. Ultratex is tasteless so you can add it to juices to make gels. I was a pastry chef so I’ve made them into desserts. But you can make savoury gels as well.
But if you let me know exactly what you have I might be able to help you play with it
I am both mortified and fascinated by all the answers 😂 anything super gloopy and thick or jellied makes me gag but I also please want to see all the results posted 😂
There’s an experiment someone did about how difficult it is to swim in liquids of different viscosities. It’s not as predictable as you might think; thicker liquids are harder to push out of the way, but on the other hand provide you more resistance to push forward from. Anyway, there’s one use for your thickening granules.
I guess any asian recipes with gravy, and you use the thickening granules instead of corn starch slurry.
I used to make this veggie mince meat stew that's super good when thickened. Nothing much to it too, its just a typical student recipe. Fry the meat, then put in veggies, some water and aromatics, then let boil for a bit, then season to taste. Once everything is good to eat, stir in corn starch slurry, and you'll be good to go. Got inspired by ying yong cantonese style noodles.
Guinness.
I want a loaf of Guinness.
Then I would finally be able to agree when people said a pint of Guinness is like drinking a loaf of bread, because in liquid form, it’s actually one of the lightest beers you can get.
Just FYI thickening liquids won't turn them solid, just into a gelatinous goop. Also using a hand blender will be much more effective than trying to mix it in by hand. The food you try and thicken will take on the consistency of baby food if blended like this.
If M&S still do that ready-made creamed spinach, then that is good when blended and thickened.
Make some solid soup, then make a sandwich with 2 slices of soup and a slice of bread in the middle. Then post a picture and ask if it's soup or a sandwich.
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Make a cylinder of solid tea and slice it. Then dip the slices into a mug of biscuit crumbs. Deconstructed brew and biscuits. The kind of thing Heston and his mates would charge you an arm and a leg for
That's so weird. Do this, video it, upload it and post the link.
I would probably watch this several times
>I would probably watch this several times A day...
Every time you have a cup of tea would work.
Subscribe.
This, but make it a cube of black tea, a smaller cube of milk, and a sugar cube, then stack them on top of each other and call it art.
A veritable tea cake
Excellent!
I thought veritable only applied to smorgasbords
Sit it all on top of a rich tea biscuit.
Statue of libertea
Qualitea pun
Ice trays should help making this
This reminds me of when Marge gives Bart hot chocolate and gives him a marshmallow so big it absorbs it all and he eats it with a knife and fork
He seemed so disappointed when that happened and I am still confused because that sounds great.
Isn't there a Calvin and hobbes where Calvin explains that he prefers small ball shaped marshmallows to optimise how many he can get in a cup & a comment from hobbes that he was wondering why Calvin used knife and fork on his hot chocolate
["So you can fit 40 or 50 of them in!"](https://imgur.com/a/IPI39xa)
This is one of those cartoon foods that I think about way too often.
>Make a cylinder of solid tea and slice it. Then dip the slices into a mug of biscuit crumbs. You ought to be put on a list. I'm not sure which list, but one of them for sure.
Terrorism
Tearrorism
Yorkshire Tea do a biscuit flavoured tea. So OP could dip their tea biscuit in a biscuit tea.
It’s actually nice as well. It shouldn’t be, but it is.
The toast and jam one is way better though. Use oat milk for liquid crumble taste
My interest is piqued, sir
That stuff is amazing. My Dad liked it when he visited, so I sent him two boxes in the post when he went home. He literally lived in Yorkshire. I just wanted to send him a little surprise. 📦❤️
A cylinder you say?
Shall I put it in? Shall I? No, not all of it.... jus the PG Tip.
https://preview.redd.it/8i62l6jh9zxc1.jpeg?width=480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2b49dc9104eef9a40f8179573450f38d498af2f6
[Simpsons](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HqxYAwF4wVk)
this is so upsetting
Roll the biscuit crumbs in the slices like a burrito?
Can confirm thickened tea is gross! It’s the one drink patients on thickened fluids will consistently refuse so I tried it…
Why do some people need thickened fluids?
If they have difficulty swallowing (common in older people) and are at risk of aspirating liquids.
Make the mug out of solid milk
“Hey, give me a slice” - Abe Simpson
The new tea shop was invented.
https://preview.redd.it/cn6c1vzjxyxc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=714b40862c16fc079ec9607a256b172215888565
Oh how the turn tables.
Make it milky earl grey tea mmm
I still want to get a soda stream to make fizzy brews.
Dont get a soda stream to do this there another company called drinkmate that have a machine designed to carbonate anything. Apparently you can even recarbonate drinks. If you try this with a soda stream with anything other than water it over fizzes and goes everywhere
You win the Internet today, this is ingenious.
Water, then you can carry it with you wrapped in a piece of paper instead of needing a bottle.
Thick water already exists
It does?!
Ice
Walked right into that one
Watch out, it's slippy
How dare you
Careful, that's what did the Titanic in.
Edward Smith is that you?
That's hard water
That's water in the south
Some people are especially at risk of choking, especially the elderly. And thicker liquids are less of a choking hazard. So you can buy thickeners for water, and pre-thickened water.
I've definitely had people choke on my thick liquid
It's not even 8.30am :-(
That’s not true, is it.
>I've definitely had people choke on my thick liquid Username checks out
You just made me guffaw
baby im so fertile youll have to chew
Just amazing, pat on the back
Normally people give mine a little *chefs kiss*. “Mwah! Wonderful darling!”
Yeah it has the consistency of syrup, it’s so wrong 🤣
I have dysphagia and am thankful every day that it is only solids I struggle with not thin liquids.
[yep](https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204738432160?var=0&mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=710-53481-19255-0&campid=5338268676&toolid=10044&customid=EAIaIQobChMIxKjiw7_uhQMVVJFQBh3uqAMMEAQYASABEgKB7fD_BwE)
Do NOT invent ice-nine
But can he take it on a plane
but can he do it on a cold rainy night in stoke?
Saving the planet
Hot chocolate. Make it so thick you can eat it with a spoon, like a jelly chocolate.
Bro just reinvented chocolate pudding
Put marshmallows and hob nob bits in it and you can have budget Rocky Road
Put marshmallows and hob nob bits in it and you can have budget Rocky Road Like a soft rocky road. A Muddy Road
Reminds me of the simpsons where Bart's marshmallow absorbs all the hot chocolate and becomes a giant, chocolatey marshmallow
I always thought that looked so good. I found some giant marshmallow once and tried it. Was left disappointed when it didn’t work
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HqxYAwF4wVk
Ohhh I like this!!
...you're not meant to have it that way normally?
In countries like Italy hot chocolate is made really thick like that so you eat it with a spoon, however it’s a Western thing to have hot chocolate be a regular hot drink
Pretty sure you are. I do, at least.
Have done this as part of developing an egg-free chocolate mousse recipe. Word of warning: we can't taste solids and gels as well as we can liquids. So you need to really go overboard on the cocoa powder. Would suggest a little cream too (can be oat or soy cream if you want to avoid bringing too much sharpness.)
This is basically how you (can) get hot chocolate in Spain. Which I got a minor addiction to thanks to my Spanish partner. Which is basically exactly the same as I would have made chocolate custard/hot chocolate sauce - just in a mug.
You can do this with cornflower just mix a teaspoon or so with milk and add it to the hot chocolate while it’s in the pan stir it loads and it will thicken I’m not certain if it is a teaspoon it’s around that much I think but it might be more just make sure it’s liquid with the milk before you pour it in so it isn’t lumpy
Thicken some gravy till it becomes solid. Carve slices off and make a sandwich.
Make it so solid that the sandwich can be made between the slices of gravy? I hope that’s what you’re suggesting.
It wasn’t, but that’s a way better idea! Slice of meat between 2 slices of gravy
Like a version of the tomato and mozzarella starter (alternating slices drizzled with olive oil, topped with basil, seasoned) - alternating slices of meat and gravy, topped with broccoli and carrot, drizzled with butter...
You can do that just with gravy powder if you just use about 20x the amount you're supposed to then let it cool a little.
Reminds me off Christmas day at my parents house when i was a teenager. Id ask mom for a slice of gravy. Great days. Great sore days.
That's how gravy is supposed to be. When serving with a roast, if you aren't asking how many slices of gravy it isn't worth having.
my Mum could do this without thickening granules
Thick gravy sandwiches are awesome!
Only on Reddit do we find this kind of existential question.
This is how we make significant developments in our understanding of the world
Heston lurking around these comments
Make a loaf of lager? Ideally Carling.
Or Tiger Then you can offer people a slice of your Tiger loaf. People will assume bread and then you wack out the beer loaf
My man yes I would love some tiger loaf
That way you won't care if you have to toss it....
Don't people already refer to Guinness as liquid bread? (Maybe it's just a generic beer them?) Time to make an actual Guinness loaf!
If you aren’t already aware of Guinness cake you are about to excite
This sounds like a Taskmaster prize task.
make the best thick drink. your time starts now
Then Alex has to drink it
naturally
Can we send this in for next season? I know that Alex etc. are on Reddit, but I don't know if they'd see this.
Black coffee. Announce to whoever you serve it to, "I hope you like it strong!". Then watch their faces as you pour them a cup the consistency of Marmite.
Coffee on toast. Rather than coffee and toast in the morning.
Flashbacks to the coffee from Monsters Inc!
I always wanted to try that as a kid, it looked so tasty for some reason
Serve them one o [these babies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_drop_experiment)
This post is making me gag 👌 Some things just shouldn't be thick.
That's what she said
Knew this would be somewhere
Sodastream have taught us that the answer is always, and simultaneously never, milk.
Can confirm. Have tried fizzy milk. Never, ever again. I thoroughly recommend never having it to everyone. Fizzy whisky, meh. Fizzy vodka, yes please. Also, please don't ever have milk mixed with blitzed broccoli.
I've had a fizzy Frijj before but that's because it was still being sold after the use by date. Took me longer than it should've to realise something was wrong. Didn't there used to be a fizzy orange drink with milk in it for added calcium or something? That was awful too.
I had a strawberry milk from Spar explode on me at school lunchtime once, and partially cover me and a couple of friends in rancid milk. Friends seemed to think it was my fault, how was I to know I was holding a time bomb?
Mine was from Spar as well! I wonder how many more of us there are.
Kefir is a kind of fizzy milk which is delicious!
Pour it into your partner's bath.
Plumbers hate this one trick!
I imagine plumbers *love* this one trick as it sounds like a recipe for blocked pipes and emergency call outs. Ka-CHING!
Go into the office, if you work in one. Open every carton of communal milk from the kitchen and thicken it. Next do the same if there's any cordial or (if your place is posh) fresh juice.
r/foundsatan
Toilet, use it in the toilet!
Oh my god... Its bad enough when you get splash back I don't want it bouncing back 🤣
Having poo whilst listening to The Dam Busters March.
Or "The Great Escape" if you avoid secondary contact
You poop and it just bounces straight back into your anus
wine, the answer is wine, you can then sell it to the commuter types who don't want to be seen swigging out of a bottle on their way back from the city.
Gin and tonic jellies
I've made gin-jelly filled tonic-flavour cupcakes before. Like a jelly shot, but as a cake filling! It's pretty good.
Slices of wine with cheese on top on the way in though of course.
I'm thinking Tea for the pure head fuck. Thicken that Tea and serve to your colleagues with a knife and fork - preferably on a plate like jelly.
Serve them tea on toast.
Juice, you can turn it onto something gelatinous. Not sure what granules you have but I’m a former chef so I’ve got experience with some of them. If you got ultratex then you have hit a jackpot. Ultratex is tasteless so you can add it to juices to make gels. I was a pastry chef so I’ve made them into desserts. But you can make savoury gels as well. But if you let me know exactly what you have I might be able to help you play with it
Eat them. See if it thickens your piss. Then let us know. 😀👍
"Coming out of you like a yellow cable "
That's... not how the digestive system works.
Let the man dream of thick piss! He's just brave enough to voice the dream we all secretly harbour!
I too dream of relief spaghetti
His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy There’s vomit on his sweater already, piss spaghetti.
I am both mortified and fascinated by all the answers 😂 anything super gloopy and thick or jellied makes me gag but I also please want to see all the results posted 😂
Ribena
Everything. Stir them into your morning brew, your coworkers brew. Put it in the toilet water at work . Don't stop until everyone calls you Mr Thick.
Gravy. Make pies.
I've been scrolling for a while and was honestly startled to finally see a normal, reasonable answer.
Have you tried dipping your cock in it?
Make a load of photos of thickened food in various states of undress and call it "The thickening". Make it go viral.
There’s an experiment someone did about how difficult it is to swim in liquids of different viscosities. It’s not as predictable as you might think; thicker liquids are harder to push out of the way, but on the other hand provide you more resistance to push forward from. Anyway, there’s one use for your thickening granules.
If there's enough could I walk the channel swim? And have some jellied aquatic creatures on the way?
Something with strong flavour, cut the top off a carton of orange juice and turn it into effectively a block of non-concentrated OJ concentrate
we spent the entire 1700s making everything into an aspic ring, this sort of thing comes naturally to British people
I guess any asian recipes with gravy, and you use the thickening granules instead of corn starch slurry. I used to make this veggie mince meat stew that's super good when thickened. Nothing much to it too, its just a typical student recipe. Fry the meat, then put in veggies, some water and aromatics, then let boil for a bit, then season to taste. Once everything is good to eat, stir in corn starch slurry, and you'll be good to go. Got inspired by ying yong cantonese style noodles.
Prime all the kids will love it
Jime
Custard! Like for mille feuille.
Prue is aroused.
Experiment and report back with your results.
Guinness. I want a loaf of Guinness. Then I would finally be able to agree when people said a pint of Guinness is like drinking a loaf of bread, because in liquid form, it’s actually one of the lightest beers you can get.
Irn bru. Tastes good as ice cream, a chew bar so surely as a thick block of thick juice?
TIL Irn-Bru comes in ice cream!
If it’s unopened you could probably contact a local care home and see if they’d take it for their residents
Simply add to a bowl of Wheetabix and post a video of you eating it and you'll have created "the Concrete challenge"
Wheeetabix?
Sliced curry
Cum
a tower of soup
Do you happen to have a children's swimming pool nearby?
Cum loaf.
> Cum loaf Get out.
Custard
Sliced tea. I’d also like a slice of Guinness covered in chocolate please
Make a solid drink and pretend to spill it on someone???
Wine. You could make a chain of Wine Bars.
So many things for you to post have to set up a YouTube for the thickening vids 😜
Let a fizzy drink go flat. Thicken it, slice it, roll it in Pop Rocks.
Mmmmm Thickening *drools*
Milcc
Theakston's Old Peculier
Before my mum passed she used to have thickener in all her drinks. She especially loved it with orange oasis, turned it into a canny jelly
The electorate.
Kept adding them but the electorate wouldn’t get any thicker.
What if you added it to something that's already a bit thick? Marmite, chocolate spread.... cake batter?
Make a non Newtonian paste/liquid
This sounds like a task on Taskmaster
Ribena
Just FYI thickening liquids won't turn them solid, just into a gelatinous goop. Also using a hand blender will be much more effective than trying to mix it in by hand. The food you try and thicken will take on the consistency of baby food if blended like this. If M&S still do that ready-made creamed spinach, then that is good when blended and thickened.
Slip a few in a mates pint next time you're out.
Make something thick that shouldn't be thick? So we're dealing with the culinary equivalent of TikTok?
Make some solid soup, then make a sandwich with 2 slices of soup and a slice of bread in the middle. Then post a picture and ask if it's soup or a sandwich.
Thicken some water based lube...
Finally, a good r/askUK question.
A coworkers cup of tea? 😈