Frothing coffee

(Barbara M) #1

Hey there frothing coffee people of the world. I have a handheld battery frother and am looking for wisdom on how you may prepare any morning hot beverages.

I’ve been adding a couple of tablespoons of hwc, a few shakes of salt, some iodine and then add the brewed coffee. At that point I froth about 30 seconds or so. Is there benefit to froth longer? Any other tips?

I’ve seen mention of adding a yolk instead of the hwc.

Are you frothing the egg as coffee is poured in?

I see the possibility of scrambled egg coffee to be not todays beverage goal or is it like egg drop soup coffee.

I may just need to be brave and go forth and froth with abandon.🥸:coffee::egg:

(KM) #2

:rofl:

My very unhelpful comment, I’d whip the cream separately and put it on top. Someone here makes “eggy coffee” which I assume is not a coffee souffle, maybe she’ll chime in.

Beyond that, I’m curious, have you noticed any changes, good or bad, due to the iodine supplementation? I’m using it in my coffee too. At first I felt good, now I seem to be in a slump, but unfortunately I have no idea which of my supplements is causing it, if any.

#3

I only make scrambled egg coffee when my drink cools down and I try to make it warm in the microwave and accidentally use too much time… It’s easy to keep the drink from this fate while making it but yes, I am careful and if I use hot liquid (not near boiling though), I pour it in while mixing (I use an immersion blender, once I had a frother but it was uselessly weak). It gets ready quickly and egg frothes nicely. Especially that I use whites too nowadays. But I usually just use milk or cream in my coffee, much quicker and easier. With whipped cream on top, it even has a lovely foam so all is well.

Happy frothing! :smiley: (Meanwhile I really should quit coffee… I still can make some nice creamy egg milks…)

(Barbara M) #4

I use iodine primarily as an preventative event for breast fibrosis. Dr. Ken Berry previously had stated that every cell in our bodies needs iodine. My hypothesis is that tissues that do not get the necessary amount will start proliferating to find it. If it doesn’t, the end result may be tumor growth.

Again, 2 years ago I had a very painful breast and was of course fearful of the dreaded C word. I began super supplementing iodine, up to 20 drops of 2% Lugols and the resulting scans were all negative. My hypothesis only.

It’s gotten to the point where I currently use 2-5 drops most mornings in coffee. I never taste it and believe Dr Berry indicates that any over consumption is excreted.

I do firmly believe that every cell requires some and wish there would be any adjunct treatment to recommend adding it while undergoing any disease treatment. Pretty bold of me, as a non medical provider. Just like penicillin was discovered by accident, iodine could be a secret weapon. Hopefully this theory doesn’t cross a sensitive line.

(Brian) #5

If you like your coffee, enjoy it! I put some butter and HWC in a half gallon jar and fill to about 7/8 full with coffee from the percolator. I use the immersion blender in it until the foam tries to overflow the jar, maybe 30 to 45 seconds. It goes with breakfast… or on occasion is breakfast.

Mostly, I like the richness the butter adds and know that if I don’t do the immersion blender thing I’ll end up with an oil slick on top of my coffee… and as much as I love butter, I’d rather not have it that way.

If you really want something else in there, iodine, egg, whatever, give it a go and see if you like it. If you do, great! If you don’t, don’t do that anymore. :slight_smile:

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #6

My procedure:

  1. Brew coffee

  2. Pour into cup

  3. Drink

  4. Enjoy!

(Minimum requirements: Container in which to brew coffee, container from which to drink coffee.)

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

(Brian) #7

I know the topic is dated, but just wanted to reply specifically to Hockeylady again in particular.

We, too, have been adding some Lugol’s 2% to our morning coffee! Still a bit new at it, maybe a week or so, so haven’t really seen anything dramatic in results.

We pretty much share the coffee 50/50, me and my wife and I’ve been putting that and some collagen in it, along with the butter and cream I mentioned above.

I started with 1 drop. Then 2, then 3, etc. I think this morning was 6 drops so roughly 3 drops each.

I read through a bunch of posts with the search function but didn’t really see much about dosing, starting small, ramping up, that kind of thing. Not sure if that’s a good thing or totally unnecessary. And how far to go seems to be related to who you’re listening to as some take just a tiny bit, others quite a lot.

I’m told that the body doesn’t really store iodine well so you can supplement and have it onboard but that in 48 hours or so after you have it, you’re likely in deficiency mode again. Not sure how much truth in that but if that’s the case, keeping the intake would seem important, even if it’s smaller.

I’d wondered whether it is even useful beyond a certain point if a person pees out the excess. But one would probably want to at least be at a point where a little is being peed out to make sure you have adequate intake. I’ve also wondered whether a higher dose initially and then a tapering down to a “maintenance” type dose would be more appropriate. (Could be that some book or article out there already talks about it, I haven’t seen it.)

As posted on another thread, my wife was recently diagnosed with CLL and I find it interesting that the Dr’s seem to be particularly interested in her glands, seems they do a quick manual exam at nearly every visit. My mind is connecting “glands - iodine” even though the doctors she’s seen haven’t mentioned it specifically though they know we’re supplementing a bit of it and they’ve not said not to.

Anyway, hoping no one will be upset at me for bringing up a thread from the past. Kinda seemed like it was relevant.

(KM) #8

I’ve been taking iodine since mentioning it, maybe 8 months. About four drops of 2% in my morning coffee. As I said back when, I saw an initial improvement in general well-being, now I just keep taking it because I assume it normalizes something I’m low on. I don’t know this has much of any benefit, but I haven’t stopped taking it to see. At least it doesn’t seem to be doing to anything detrimental.

(Barbara M) #9

Hi Brian, Sorry to see your wife’s CLL dx.

I absolutely believe that iodine is a necessary element that too many people are deficit in.

As you saw in my post, early on, when I was having suspicion of breast cancer (pre any diagnosis). I started with 20 drops daily in coffee. As you said excess gets excreted and I was using the mental analogy of, if I’m thirsty, I wouldn’t just drink a little, I’d initially drink a lot!

Truly, my thinking was that if cells are searching for iodine (via proliferation), I wanted to give them a good daily dose as soon as possible.

I also agree that there’s a big variation in dosing from multiple sources.

I read an article several years ago about the differing rates of breast cancer between USA and Japan. The Japanese and Asian countries seemingly eat much more seafood therefore getting more iodine naturally in their diet. The rates of difference to me were staggering! Could eating lots of seafood (that contains iodine) be an unknown secret?

I backed off to 3-4 drops after a negative mammogram including sonogram. My relief of that negative scan to my hypothesis, was a result of the increased iodine. My theory only as there’s no research study to prove it helped anyway. I’m a believer.

Just musing thoughts and I hope you both the best in this scary journey.

I know you can get bombarded with information during such a diagnosis, so I hope you are taking care of yourself too.

(Barbara M) #10

I have never felt anything different that was noticable after starting iodine. Before adding the liquid drop to coffee, I took kelp tablets (from my Wheat Belly by Dr William Davis books).

The coffee drops didn’t immediately change anything noticable, but I still believe, on a cellular level, good things happened. :crossed_fingers: Sending you healing vibes.

(Brian) #11

Thanks for the thoughts, Barbara M! I appreciate you posting.

I’ve been building the levels in the morning coffee, we’re at 4 drops of 2% this morning. Still contemplating how far I want to push it. The diagnosis of CLL was really kinda anticlimactic. Doc basically wanted to keep an eye on wbc and real basic lymph node exams (which I still find a bit fascinating as to how that relates) but other than that, he was like, “have a good life. I’ll retire before you likely need to do a thing”. Mmmkay.

Funny thing is, we both like a good piece of fish. Living in north central Tennessee, however, doesn’t put us within easy reach of real seafood and the stuff we consider worthy to eat might as well be made outta gold. OUCH!! So we don’t have a lot of it or all that regularly. And if the soil is depleted like they say it is, we’re just not getting it, nor are the chickens or cows or pigs grazing locally, which is where we get the majority of our animal proteins.

So many pieces of puzzle, so few real answers. For the most part, even the well intentioned docs seem to be more inclined to treat symptoms more than look at root causes. Not that they’re bad people. And information can be really isolated and scattered online as even really good stuff often is quite specific to the point where you really have to zoom out to get a big picture. Again, I get it, people (including me) love bunny trails. I keep thinking that this is ALL related, I just don’t have a great handle on all of the inter connectivity. LOL!! (If I did, I’d be writing books. LOL!)

Where does that leave us? We’ll do the best we can. :slight_smile: We’ll continue to learn what we can, implement as able, and hope for quality of life as we age. I know that if we stick around this earth long enough, we’ll all eventually reach our expiration, no exceptions. Hoping to at least not rush the process by stupidity… which is why I did NOT buy a box of donuts recently. Oh, I wanna, but I’m just not gonna do it. I know I won’t feel good after. But for some of us, those old desires never go away. Might be psychological. (Sorry rambling…)

(Brian) #12

Hey KM,

Thanks for the reply. Actually, we haven’t “felt” anything yet either. But we’re kinda watching a few things, actually the scale being one of them. We’ve noticed that energy levels seem to be up a bit but it’s short term enough that I don’t want to read too much into that. Dunno.

We are finding out that there have been a lot more thyroid issues in her family than previously spoken of. Interesting, for sure.

Funny thing is, if leukemia (in her case, it’s CLL) was something that was expected to pop up, I’d have expected it more on my side of the family than hers. I believe I may have had two siblings of my mom who died as children because of it. That was before I was brought in this world, probably in the 1920’s or maybe 1930’s, don’t know of any family cases since.

So many bunny trails…

In the meantime, we’ll keep on with the supplements. Lugol’s, D3+K2, Magnesium, for sure. A few other ones perhaps. And we’ll try to eat clean and quality food. Carnivore is probably not gonna happen. Keto, though, is, at least most of the time. Another funny little thing is that the cleaner we tend to be in our diet, the more dramatic it is when we stray. Eat junk for a couple of days and the ol’ body really complains! “Can’t get away with nothin’.”

(Barbara M) #13

I’ll still take that as a win. The C in CLL is chronic vs acute in ALL. Chronic is the better one to have and, of course, neither would really be the choices were available. You know keep calm and keto on.

I really believe keto is the best lifestyle for optimal health.