I can’t really tell the difference between the malts and shakes from our local Sonic Drive Inn, other than the shake is just a bit thicker. Anyone know which came first what the ingredients might be?
Do you ever eat malted milk balls? The difference is supposed to be that malts have some of that stuff at the center of the malted milk balls added to them. Someplaces just pretend to make malteds; i have caught them before and I was pissed.
25 years ago, for whatever reason, we had a jar of malted milk powder. You’d add it to a milk shake, and make a malted milk shake. And yeah, it tasted more or less like the middle of a malted milk ball.
Why you’d do this, I don’t know. It tasted different, not really better (although it sounds like Lee would disagree with this). I suspect that this isn’t the original way people made malts. Chocalate shakes seemed to hold up better to it than vanilla. A strawberry malt would probably have been a bad idea: I never tried it.
(*) Blatantly trying to look intellectual by using
“anecdota” instead of “anecdotes” :rolleyes:
When I worked for Baskin-Robbins, we had malts and shakes. Every so often we would have a cutomer ask for a chocolate malt.
(Clueless customer) “I’ll have a chocolate malt–Hey! What’s that brown powdery stuff your putting in there?”
(Me) “That’s the malt.”
As stated above, basically a malt is a shake to which malt powder has been added. In my experience, older folks prefer it, while younger folks just go for a shake.
I find the malt adds a certain extra bit of flavor to your garden variety ice cream shake. Can’t put my finger on it.
The difference is:
Malts rule… shakes drool.
A shake is just runny ice cream. It isn’t great till you add malt to the shake.
Baskin-Robbins Pralines & Cream Malt. My fave.
malt is made from sprouted barley (or sometimes other grain), which is usually then dried in a kiln.
malted milk, used in malted milkshakes, is a mixture of milk powder, malt, and sometimes other ingredients.
Malts are the way. Anyone here eat Malt-O-Meal. Way better than Cream of Wheat
Malts are my new favorite dessert. I ordered one on a whim from DQ a couple weeks ago…yummmm…
Dunno if anyone posting in here is from the Cities or the surrounding area, but Kemp’s Dairy makes a great “Baseball Malt” flavor ice cream. It’s got vanilla malt ice cream with fudge stripes AND malted milk balls in it. I’ve gorged myself on it today. GAaaaah.
From the Hamilton-Beach website:
Can I assume that the same malt that makes malts makes, say, Scotch? And other libations?
If my assumption is correct…
<homer> Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm, malts </homer>
As Bibliophage pointed out earlier in this thread, malted milk and the malt that is used to make scotch aren’t quite the same thing.
Don’t go to the ice cream store and ask for a single-malt shake.
Bibliophage pointed out that malt is sprouted barley (so called because the starch in the corn breaks down to maltose for the new plant to start to use & move around to where it’s needed…pointed out by me) & yes, that is the same stuff that is used in beer and scotch & irish whyskey etc - the fact someone is daft enough to put it in milk rather than make a decent alcoholic beverage from it doesn’t stop it from being the same stuff. (Just like you can use the same yeast to make bread or beer…beer is easier to drink*).
*Sorry, I’m in a slightly daft mood today!