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How to Make Butter Coffee

Also known as Bulletproof coffee, butter coffee is a nice fatty, tasty treat to start your morning and fuel your day. by Jeff Sarris, updated November 6, 2016 Posted on April 4, 2016

Jeff Sarris
Jeff Sarris has been paleo since 2009 and started Paleo Porn in 2010. He's a Primal Health Coach, co-author of Pigskin Paleo, and resident food photographer, filmmaker and doer of all things here at Paleo Porn. He's also the co-founder of SPYR where he helps fellow entrepreneurs develop their brands. He lives in Chicago.

It’s been months since I’ve prepared butter coffee. I just never feel right taking some excellent coffee beans from 20 Below or Intelligentsia and then “ruining them” with butter, MCT oil, and collagen.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think butter coffee ruins good coffee per se. It’s just a bit like taking juicy, perfectly seasoned pork belly and slathering it in ketchup. Sure it can still be pretty great, but man that’s pork belly under there!

Despite my hesitation in preparing butter coffee, when I do make a cup I never regret it. It’s always a tasty treat.

I make a very conventional butter coffee, with the addition of collagen. The main point I differ on from most is that I use a simple milk frother instead of a blender. I prefer simplicity, hence our film, so the first thing I did when starting to make butter coffee was look at our existing tools. We have a milk frother? That’ll do.

Preparing a cup of coffee mindfully and deliberately is a key part of my morning ritual. If you’re new to preparing your own handcrafted coffee I recommend the following kit:

  • Aeropress
  • Porlex Grinder
  • Bamboo stirrer
  • Milk frother

The grinder nests in the, essentially self-cleaning, Aeropress so it’s a tiny, efficient kit that makes an amazing cup of coffee. I even tend to bring all but the milk frother along when we travel so I can keep up my morning ritual.

Preparing a cup of butter coffee is extremely simple. Simply add the few ingredients to your mug, prepare the first half of an Aeropress Americano (video below), blend, and top with water.

How to make an #Aeropress Americano (in 15 seconds) #coffee #morningritual #caffeine @aerobieaeropress @20belowcoffee @counterculturecoffee

A video posted by Jeff Sarris (@jeffsarris) on Mar 3, 2016 at 12:33pm PST

Butter Coffee

Prep Time: 5 min Total Time: 5 min Yield: 1 cup

Ingredients

  • 1 tablespoon grass fed, unsalted butter
  • 1 tablespoon MCT oil
  • 1 tablespoon grass fed collagen
  • 2 tablespoons whole coffee beans

Directions

  1. You can use a blender, as most do, but I prefer to prepare it all in the mug. Add everything except the coffee to a 12oz mug.
  2. Prepare the AeroPress version of a double shot. Grind 2 tbsp of coffee. Add to Aeropress followed by hot water up to the '2'. Wait ten seconds. Stir to agitate the grounds. Insert the plunger and plunge for approximately 30 seconds until the plunger has bottomed out in the Aeropress.
  3. Since we've yet to top it off with water (we're essentially preparing an Americano) there should be a couple inches of space to use the milk frother to blend the ingredients.
  4. Once it's nice and frothy top it off with hot water, as you would an Americano, and enjoy!

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About the Author Jeff Sarris

Jeff Sarris has been paleo since 2009 and started Paleo Porn in 2010. He's a Primal Health Coach, co-author of Pigskin Paleo, and resident food photographer, filmmaker and doer of all things here at Paleo Porn. He's also the co-founder of SPYR where he helps fellow entrepreneurs develop their brands. He lives in Chicago.

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