大蒜咖啡,？你沒有聽錯(cuò),，而且這種咖啡的原料真的全是大蒜。除去烤大蒜的香氣和咖啡不大相同外,，這種大蒜制成的新飲料無論是看起來還是嘗起來都和真的咖啡很像,。來看看大蒜變咖啡的神奇過程吧。

When you think about coffee alternatives, garlic is probably one of the last things that comes to mind, but that is exactly the ingredient that one Japanese inventor used to create a drink that looks and tastes like coffee.

提到咖啡替代品時(shí),，你怎么也不會(huì)想到大蒜,，但一位日本發(fā)明家正是用大蒜創(chuàng)造出了一種看起來和嘗起來都像咖啡的飲料。

74-year-old Yokitomo Shimotai, a coffee shop owner in Aomori Prefecture, Japan, claims that his unique “garlic coffee” is the result of a cooking blunder he made over 30 years ago, when he burned a steak and garlic while waiting tables at the same time. Intrigued by the scorched garlic’s aroma, he mashed it up with a spoon and mixed it with hot water. The resulting drink looked and tasted a lot like coffee. Making a mental note of his discovery, Yokimoto carried on with his job, and only started researching garlic coffee again after he retired.

74歲的Yokitomo Shimotai是日本青森縣的一位咖啡店主,，他聲稱自家獨(dú)特的“大蒜咖啡”的靈感來自于自己在30多年前一次烹飪失誤,，當(dāng)時(shí)他在招待客人時(shí)不小心把牛排和大蒜燒焦了。由于被大蒜的焦香味所吸引,，這位店主就用勺子把大蒜搗碎,，然后將其和熱水混合,?；旌铣龅娘嬃贤庥^和味道都很像咖啡。當(dāng)時(shí)他只是把這一發(fā)現(xiàn)記在心里,，繼續(xù)工作,，直到退休后才開始研究大蒜咖啡。

Committed to turning his bizarre drink into a commercial product, Yokitomo Shimotai spent years optimizing the formula, and about five years ago, he finally achieved a result he was satisfied with. To make his soluble garlic grounds, he roasts the cloves in an electric oven, and, after they’ve cooled off, smashes them into fine particles and packs them in dripbags.

一心想將這種奇特飲料轉(zhuǎn)變?yōu)樯唐返腨okitomo Shimotai花了數(shù)年時(shí)間優(yōu)化配方,，大約五年前,，他終于調(diào)出了自己滿意的配方。為了制造出可溶大蒜泥,，他先將蒜瓣放在電烤箱里烘烤,，在冷卻之后，將蒜瓣搗成微小顆粒,，然后將其放入滴水包（掛耳包）中,。

“My drink is probably the world’s first of its kind,” the garlic coffee inventor told Kyodo News. “It contains no caffeine so it’s good for those who would like to drink coffee at night or pregnant women.”