Oat groats, fuck yeah

Sick of playing video games, my cycle of habits is back to creation. It’s 1am, I was digging through my cupboard for the wheat berries I thought I bought 3 months ago. No such luck, I did find oat groats though. What the fuck are oat groats — surely my thought at the time I purchased them. I flipped open the book Michele gave me for Christmas 2014 “Healing with Whole Foods” and found the page they are mentioned. It explains a few things in regards to the flavor, what the nutrients do for your body, etc. Most important to me was that if you want a sweeter or nuttier taste out of the oats, you should roast them a bit before use, and of course the recipe for…

Oat Water:
2 TBSP Oat Groats
946ml Water
Boil together for 30 to 120 minutes, the longer the more viscous and nutritional the water will be.

It’s 1am, I think 30 minutes is fine for the first two attempts. This is the result.

Oat Water:
Color between ivory and light brown with green notes.
Aromas of boiled oats (oatmeal) and boiling pasta
Texture is much thicker than expected — almost like fresh soy milk, the flavor is even pretty similar. Flavor all comes at the end, the frontal flavors are weak and watery.

Toasted Oat Water:
Color is slightly darker than untoasted version, same scheme though.
Aroma is more pronounced, but similar. Smells sweeter — like instant oatmeal with brown sugar.
Lost texture in comparison to regular oat water, but this could be because of less boiling time or less cooking time overall. It was at most 5 minutes different, but it was a poorly controlled test.
The flavor is front heavy, and much sweeter than the untoasted version.

Should do a 1 hour version of both and see the difference.

From the flavors of the water, I gather I could make a pretty decent cocktail with it. From the beginning I was hoping it would be a nice flavor base for tea, and it might be — but I’ll put that idea away for now. I think it will have a great synergy with rum (because of the sweetness) and based off that. t

The first cocktail concept is: Oat water, coffee, rum, banana
Coffee can be a shot of espresso, or a liqueur base… probably a liqueur base.
Banana puree with oat water and rum, into an ISI canister, and made into a mousse.
Serve as a latte or cappuccino like the menu we’re running for dinner right now.

The second concept is: Oat water, maple, tequila, cream
Maple to sweeten the tequila, cream to thicken further, tequila to intoxicate. The texture would be pretty thick.. like a pudding? pudding shots? is it still a drink at this point…?

Go oats, 2:20am time for bed.