What milk tea in cooking teaches about coffee milk ratio?

Netizens have been using fresh milk tea and fruit tea in everyday dishes, braising pork ribs with Mixue Bingcheng's fresh orange smash, swapping in iced lemonade as a dip, and kneading Four Seasons Spring milk tea into dough for steamed buns. A short video of the orange version drew around 50,000 likes, and the brand's official account joined the discussion.

Drinks in cooking follow the same logic as cola chicken wings, where the liquid supplies sugar, acidity and aroma. That balance is close to the question of how to make coffee at home with milk, since the coffee milk ratio decides whether the drink tastes rounded or thin. Applying the same reasoning to a pan, the drink's sweetness and acidity replace part of the seasoning.

Using drinks in cooking is nothing new—cola chicken wings are already a household name. But recently, a group of creative netizens has brought freshly made milk tea and fruit tea into the frying pan: Mixue Bingcheng's "Bang Da Xian Cheng" (fresh orange smash) is used to braise pork ribs, iced fresh lemonade replaces dipping sauce, and Four Seasons Spring milk tea is kneaded into dough to steam buns. This "Mixue Bingcheng goes into the kitchen" trend has quickly gone viral on social media, with tens of thousands of likes, and even the official account has joined the interaction. Some think it's dark cuisine, while others who tried it exclaim it's truly delicious. Is using freshly made drinks in cooking actually reliable? What intriguing details lie behind it? This article will take you to find out.

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For people who often cook, using drinks to make dishes is nothing new—for example, the universally known cola chicken wings, whose key ingredient is a bottle of cola. Because there are such precedents of successfully cooking delicious food with drinks, some imaginative netizens have set their sights on freshly made milk tea and tea drinks, trying to use them to cook everyday dishes.

On social media, in a short video that received 50,000 likes, the blogger poured more than half a cup of Mixue Bingcheng's Bang Da Xian Cheng into the pan while stir-frying, thus completing a plate of braised pork ribs that looked appealing in color, aroma, and taste, and at the end of the video said the result of the experiment tasted acceptable, and even shouted, "I support Mixue Bingcheng going into the kitchen."

Once the video was released, it attracted a large crowd of onlookers and discussion. Many people found the operation of "Mixue Bingcheng going into the kitchen" very novel, saying bluntly that this style is somewhat similar to the way overseas students cook abroad, exuding a vibe of dark cuisine. However, some people believe in "practice brings true knowledge," and after watching the video immediately ordered drinks, picked up the spatula, and followed along to make this orange-scented braised pork ribs, wanting to personally verify how it tastes.

Those with stronger hands-on ability drew inspiration from it and further played out new tricks, using other Mixue Bingcheng products to pair with more dishes: iced fresh lemonade was used to replace the seasoning sauce for small marinated seafood, a few-yuan sundae was baked into a plate of egg tarts, and fragrant lemon passion fruit became part of the sour soup beef broth base. One netizen even mixed Four Seasons Spring milk tea with flour and kneaded it into dough, steaming a pot of milk-tea-flavored buns.

For a time, social media set off a wave of using Mixue Bingcheng tea drinks to cook home-style dishes, and "I support Snow King going into the kitchen" once became a hot topic on the platform. Searching with the keyword "Mixue Bingcheng cooking," you can see strange and bizarre recipes developed by all kinds of "kitchen gods," as well as the "homework" submitted by imitators, so much so that some netizens joked that the new generation in charge of the kitchen has already developed the "Mixue cuisine system."

It is worth mentioning that the videos posted by fans also attracted the attention of Mixue Bingcheng itself. The official account not only praised the posters in the comments section for being clever and skillful, but also reposted some videos on its own account, with the caption: "I am Snow King, and I support Mixue Bingcheng going into the kitchen!"

As mentioned earlier, using drinks to replace kitchen seasonings is actually quite common. Therefore, in the eyes of people who cook, netizens pouring Mixue Bingcheng's freshly made tea drinks into the frying pan and cooking them together with other ingredients may seem a bit bizarre at first glance, but the method itself is not improper, and it can also conveniently use up drinks that cannot be finished—one could say it kills two birds with one stone.

Of course, some people hold different views. They believe that among these drinks that have squeezed into the track of "kitchen seasonings," besides the visible lemon slices, milk, and water, there are also invisible ingredients such as high-fructose corn syrup and concentrated juice, and they joked that using freshly made drinks to cook home-style dishes "successfully solves the problem of not having additives when cooking by yourself."

In addition, although many people feel that buying ready-made drinks from stores to replace kitchen seasonings somewhat saves the step of handling ingredients themselves, those who are careful with money have done the math: rather than spending money on a cup of fruit tea as a seasoning, it is more economical and convenient to just sprinkle a handful of sugar.

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