Great tip from How To Basic on Youtube.

(via Jeff Preston)

First, blogfriend Brian Raymond pointed me to this Satanic coffee from Geekologie:

I can only assume the barista sweetened it with the blood of infants and added the milk of murderous cows for colour, yet still referred to it as black coffee.

Next, in this old post of mine about butter in coffee, a commenter named Nathan linked to this article about HOW TO MAKE YOUR COFFEE BULLETPROOF. Spoiler alert: you put butter in it.

I’ve done this a few times before. Butter Chicken Coffee Minus Chicken was not too shabby, but Cafe Benedict caused involuntary convulsions. This David Asprey fellow recommends unsalted butter, which would probably be bearably delicious.

He also goes a bit further, claiming that this coffee provides “level energy” for 6 hours, “programs the body” to burn fat, and will “make you feel Bulletproof” (yes, with a capital B). These claims seem to come from the “I made this shit up because it sounds cool” school of nutrition rather than, you know, science, but hey, whatever it takes to justify chugging butter. I wouldn’t recommend testing the Bulletproof claim, however. Placebos don’t work so good against bullets.

I’m working on some, um, interesting coffee creations. I will be back to write about them when I have time. By the way, buying stuff from the PWTIC store or leaving a tip, on that sidebar to the right there, would really inspire me to hurry my butt up. Hiiint.

See also: Optimum Biopower Xtreme Coffee.

You are in luck, fictional PWTIC reader. PuttingWeirdThingsInCoffee dot Com is proud to be a part of the world’s first Coffee Hack! It ain’t internet smells, but if you can get to the fine city of London, Ontario, Canada on February 12th, you can see me and others doings very weird, almost unforgivable, things to coffee.

We’ll be brewing coffee in uncommon ways then putting unusual things in it. This will be at the UnLab—a shared hacker space where unconventional is unoffensive.

This is a collaborative event, and all are welcome. Get more details and post your ideas at the Coffee Hack Wiki, and confirm your attendance on the Coffee Hack Facebook page (or just show up).

tl;dr info:

What: Coffee Hack, in which weird things are done with coffee.
When: February 12th, 2011, 2:00pm.
Where: The UnLab. At the Convergence Center (lower level), 999 Collip Circle, UWO, London Ontario.
Why?: Why not?

Regular pictures and words from the event will roll out on PWTIC.com over the next few weeks.

See you there or see you square.

Little gingerbread houses perched on a mug! The smell alone would probably enhance the flavour of coffee in that mug, but I don’t think anyone would be too disappointed if the house got soggy and fell in. Gingerbread lattes have been my drink of choice for keeping warm through the snowstorms around here.

Here is how to make your own precariously perched gingerbread houses, and thanks @nataliese for tweeting about this.

It was in that spirit in which I found myself with lobster and sweet potatoes, and decided to make a unique poutine out of them.

You can read more about this sweet potato lobster poutine over on this other blog. No, I don’t have any lobster left to dump in coffee; maybe next time.

In other news, Cate sent me a link to these recipes using blood (probably not a good idea to click that if you’re sensitive to the red stuff). I’ve eaten some gross things, but these managed to make me a bit queasy. I’m sure blood could taste pretty good in coffee, but the instruction to “pour the fresh cow’s blood through a sieve, separating it from the clots” made me consider having a quick barf.

PWTIC will be back with your regularly scheduled coffee concoctions soon. Some monumental projects are in the works. Stay tuned.

P.S. Remember to send suggestions and the results of your own coffee experiments to suggestions (at) puttingweirdthingsincoffee (dot) com.

(Thanks Shora!)

P.S. I bet the title fooled you into thinking I’d thrown a carp in coffee. Not yet, my friends, not yet.

P.P.S. Also for your consideration:

(thanks BRay)

¹ Note: PCIWT will probably never actually exist.

I came across this video over on Sensible Erection (possibly NSFW link). Gonna go try this now.

By the way, I am extremely appreciative of the love this blog has received in the last few days. It’s been picked up by a few food blogs and news sites (starting with Reddit and The Smithsonian’s Food & Think blog), sending thousands of people this way. Now that people are actually paying attention, I’ll try to update more than once a month.