You're welcome Roopal! I knew you were waiting 😎 Another Matcha video is on the list, but not any time soon...🤷🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️🤣 I've got some matcha recipes in my Matcha playlist in the meantime 😆
Hi Sarah! Congratulations. Let me begin with this: It might help if you see the volume measurements as milliliters instead of ounces: 350ml is 12oz 500ml is 16oz 700ml is 24oz If you look at it that way, it's easier to make conversions. So - 350 x 2 = 700ml. So if you want a 700ml drink, simply multiply all the recipes ingredients by 2. For the 500ml size, multiply by 1.5 Next - deciding what size cups you want for your shop will partially depend on the competitors within a 30-minutes drive. You'll need to size and price compare every other boba shop. Also are they doing larger cups because they're including ice? Are you wanting to include ice too? What about fruit pieces? These are all important things to take into consideration when deciding on cups styles and sizes. Hope that helps! 👍🏼
Hi Kristin, I love all you videos and you have inspired me to open up my own Bubble tea shop here in the US. I have ordered all my equipment but I am struggling to find quality ingredients. Any help on where I can buy restaurant grade ingredients for my new shop?
Hi Fraide, Thanks for the comment. I don't know the US suppliers personally like I do for the UK. But I would suggest doing a Google search and see which are in your area to keep shipping costs low. Then pay for sample boxes from every one of them to compare quality and flavor. You'll want to find out their MOQs and order/shipping turn overs as well. Hope that helps 😊
@@chefjaysonrecipes thanks for watching! Well, if I was given the choice, I would make the drink using the ingredients I planned on... Then trial it both ways using fructose and cane sugar. I would do a side by side comparison of the overall flavor. If they taste exactly the same, then I would figure out other deciding factors such as cost, the USP of the shop, customers and what they expect, the ability to source it, etc. Hope this helps!
Hi Kristin. I currently own a home bakery and we looking to expand to a store front and we are looking to add coffee and boba. As in my area no boba shop at all. We have just settle on location m, can you recommend a very good black and oolong tea base please. Thank you.
Absolutely. My favorite for majority of all milk teas is Assam Black Tea. There's also a really good Roasted Oolong with is a great choice for certain tea flavors like Lychee & Peach. But Assam is perfect for other fruit tea flavors like Mango and Pineapple. So it just depends. 👍🏻
Hey Melinda, Depends if you're making it for a shop, or if you're making it for home use... the flavor will be exactly the same. However fructose powder is much more expensive than fructose syrup. If you've got a shop I would definitely recommend the syrup form. But if you're just doing it for home use then it's easier to get fructose powder. If you do simple syrup, the amount you will need to put in will probably be much higher, so just bear that in mind. Personally I prefer the fructose over the simple syrup, but simple syrup is more of a natural form depending on what type of sugar you're using. So really just comes down to personal preference.
@@melinda3242 definitely. I can get a 25 kilo pail for next to nothing considering that you only use 7 to 14 ml per drink. I think it's the best cost effective option and is super easy.😇
On average how many TBS can you get out of 2 lb. bag? I'm trying to start a boba business and trying to figure out the cost per oz. Thanks and you are the BEST!!!
Hi Jamie - thanks! I'd suggest measuring it yourself from one bag... each flavor & brand will be different. Once you have perfected your recipe in terms of flavour, write it down. So let's say for example you're using my recipe because it just so happens to work out perfect for whatever brand you are using, which is a 2-2-2 recipe... So what you do is take a small weight scale and measure out one brown scoop or whatever measurement you are using in your shop. Use the weight of the full bag which is usually 1 kg, and divide it by the weight of that one scoop, which should be done in grams if you are doing a kilo. That will tell you how many scoops are in each bag. Don't forget that when you're training your staff it is important they understand each scoop needs to be a flat scoop every time. This is so you have a better idea of how much is in the bag, and also that way the flavour will be consistent for the customers every time. Hope this helps and makes sense! This is also how you figure out on a minute level, the exact way to find the precise cost of every single drink in all different sizes that you might be selling it for. :)
Thank you 😍 For my shops in the UK I used the supplier 'Boba Box UK'. (They're also for Europe too 👍🏼) This brand is 3TEA. But they offer 2 other variety brands.
Hello 🤗 Is it a liquid non-dairy creamer? Because we have this in the UK. It would probably be the same proportion, unless the taste is vastly different. 😇
@@BubbleTeaKristin thanks for replying! I was wondering more of whole milk, etc. Some customers substitute the non dairy creamer for the regular milk, just wanted to know if you had an idea how much whole milk it woulf take to replace the non dairy creamer 😊
@Yeli.itzeld Okay. To begin, each brand of non-dairy creamer will be slightly different. In fact, there are even vegan non-dairy creamers as well... So I would think that probably two scoops with maybe 100 ml of water would suffice. But for the vegan non-dairy creamer, you might need to do three or four scoops. Because you want to keep the essence of the creaminess of it, but you want to also have enough liquid in the drink in order to actually make it a beverage. But not too much water because then it will make it very watery tasting and lack flavor and creaminess. This might change your technique for actually making the beverage as well. So if you were going to normally shake it then it won't be a problem. But if you're already using a cold liquid such as whole milk, you're probably not shaking the beverage... It might be that if someone requests the non-dairy creamer that you will need to do a different technique for that drink in particular, such as shaking it. I have a lot of videos where I use the non-dairy creamer powder and do the shake method, so you might need to just watch some of my videos where I'm using the non-dairy creamer powder and I'm shaking the drink. It will probably be a different technique as I mentioned as opposed to a fresh milk product... Usually when I am creating fresh milk product drinks for my clients, we use a whisk or we simply stir them. As opposed to when using a powder, we add a hot liquid, stir it, and then shake it. Hopefully all of this makes sense 😃 It will definitely take a little bit of experimenting on your part for sure in order to get the perfect recipe.
Great! Feel free to watch all my free videos here on TH-cam. There are numerous playlists to learn everything you need to know for making drinks in a bubble tea shop. ❤️
Personally I would add 100-200ml (depending on the size cup) of Assam Tea. The amount of tea they put in there is so small. But... Always do side by side taste tests.
Hi Linda, Great question. 💜 Instead of creamer powder, I would probably recommend a mixture of a whipping cream and whole milk base. (Milk alone might would be too thin and you need to give it some buoyancy.) But if you are using pre-diced canned taro like you can usually find an Asian market, you could blend that up and put in some whole milk and give it a really good blend with some sweetness. Then add ice and tea and shake it up really well. It would be a very tasty treat that way 😎😎😎
@@Geetha-q8i aw yay! 😁 Really it's totally up to you, and dependent upon price. If in India getting creamer powder is really expensive and doesn't make sense financially, then go for whole milk. But you're going to want to make sure that you're using pasteurized whole milk. Because I know there are different ones out there and you probably already know that but just in case. So personally I would go for the bubble tea creamer powder which is a specific creamer powder for bubble tea, however if you're unable to get it or it doesn't make sense financially, then go for the pasteurized whole milk. 👍🏼
@@BubbleTeaKristin it is very useful , thank u so much , I watch ur all videos , ur inspirational , ur videos are very informative ,thank u for all ur replies 😊keep going 💜 from India 🇮🇳
@@Geetha-q8i you're very welcome 🥰 And I really appreciate your support in watching my videos and also I'm so happy you're finding them useful 😁 TH-cam is an amazing platform to bring the world closer together like that!👍🏼
Hi Kristin. I have a ice cream parlour and was wondering is there any way you can mix ice cream in a bubble tea drink. If a person can have you got any recipes for me to try out.
Hi Ivan, Definitely. Many people who own ice cream parlors offer the option of adding a scoop of ice cream to the top of the bubble tea for an additional fee (or menu built specifically with it on top.) Just take any normal recipe, and put it into a bigger size cup... And add the ice cream to the top. You can even get creative with prepping the rims with frosting and sprinkles... Adding candy on top, etc. There are many Instagram accounts which show the style of this technique you can find online. ☺️
Fructose Syrup, Honey, Coconut Sugar, Palm Sugar, Beet Sugar, artificial sweeteners, monk fruit, brown sugar, etc etc etc. I wouldn't know the exact quantities of how much to use, because the sweetness level is completely different on every single one. For example if I use coconut sugar, I have to use a lot more than just a teaspoon in my tea, but the coconut sugar has a very strong flavor to it. The white sugar has less flavor, but yields a higher sweetness level. However it may or may not spike someone's insulin levels... So there's definitely pros and cons to each type of product that you might use to sweeten a drink. Hopefully you can find something that works good for you. 😇🧋😎
@@noreengraham1761 This is an ongoing list I have created. I am in no way affiliated with these companies and you must make sure to do your own research. I don't know if they're any good products either, only recommended to me from friends/clients. Supply Chainly www.bubbletea.tw/ QBubble Lollicup Bossen TeaZone Webstaurant www.webstaurantstore.com/57339/bubble-tea-supplies.html POSSMEI (have an EU branch) milkteafactory.com Boba Box UK (& EU) Bubble Tea House Company SunnySyrup.com (currently ship worldwide) Hope that helps 👍🏼👍🏼🧋🧋 Please let me know how it goes for you So I can update the list as well. 🥳
Hey again 👋🏼 I am using the Boba Box UK item 3TEA Taro. When you're asking if it already has creamer in it, is that because you are referring to an all-in-one, a 3-in-1 type product? That type of product you will put 4 scoops and nothing else. But if your product simply has a little bit of milk in it, don't be fooled in thinking that you don't need to add creamer as well. So double check and make sure if you are using an all-in-one product then of course you wouldn't add any additional creamer, but if you are only using a base flavor product then you definitely want to get the creamer and the fructose in there 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Hey Kristin I tried taro milk tea with Thai tea as you said I think black Assam tea would be better. I don't know if I got a different brand taro powder but the Thai tea takes over the taro flavor. I can't taste the taro taste. It's like a Thai milk tea with purple colour.
@@BubbleTeaKristin 🤣🤣I didn't have any condensed milk so I add creamer powder and it still taste bitter so I add brown sugar and it taste too sweet and I don't like it so i make another taro milk tea and i didn't have black tea so that i add a packet of black milk tea powder and 3 scoops of taro and it tastes super good. 🥳🥳🥤🥤
Hi Kristin! You mentioned ube in this video. Do you have any recipes for it? I had an ube smoothie many years ago when I was a kid and it was great! Haven't seen it anywhere else since then in drink form, but have had various ube filling desserts. I think it would be great as a boba drink!
Hello 👋🏼 If you're using Ube powder, then the recipe will be done the exact same way. However are you referring to actual Ube that's been cut into chunks and steamed? There's different recipes online for that version, and also the frozen version. It's basically treated the same as Taro. Hope that helps! I love both Taro and Ube drinks... Any type or style it's amazing 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 (I'll keep the idea in my notes for a fresh Ube or Taro smoothie in the future.)
Depends if it's for home use or personal use. Have you seen my other taro video using taro from a jar? It's really tasty and gives more of an authentic flavor for consistency in the mouth feel. But really it depends on so many factors. Is it for your shop customers or personal use. Who is your target market if you're a business. What's your price point and break even point for the sale of it. Count the hours to takes to cook it and prepare it. How long does it last? If it's not popular will it be throw away. Maybe making it and freezing it in all cubes in an option opposed to a cooked down fresh paste. Etc etc etc. If I am given the option between a milky one from powder vs a paste, I'd choose the latter. But majority of people I speak to prefer the creamy smoothness of the powder version. So really it's up to you or your customers, and break even point. Also, don't forget you can buy pre-cooked taro chunks in syrup from suppliers. Simply blend it with some cream and viola! Don't get caught up on the actual root of it and the time consumption of staff costs to make it. Personal use is easy at home. But staff at $15 an hour around the world, we need to factor all these things in, unless your price point is premium and you're in an area people will pay it. 💯 Just my two cents 🤣
@@BubbleTeaKristin thank you for the thorough response. I only have a need for personal use but of course it’s not an effective use of my time to go through all of that for a single serving. I don’t have a good idea of how involved the process is because most of the recipes I see online are from powder. I would like to be able to control the sugar content and make it from whole foods as much like as possible and making food from scratch yields a better quality product with high nutrition content most of the time. I don’t know the expenses of running a business and I’m sure it’s costly to make all of these from scratch yet buying a drink is also not inexpensive, so as a customer I was just curious if I’m getting ripped off for something made from concentrate frankly, haha . I will look for your other taro videos! I just found your channel and I really enjoy watching them because I like the way you teach and deliver the message. Thank you and I THINK you are American, so happy Thanksgiving!
Hi Kristin. I noticed that boba box doesn't do fructose powder. Whats the fructose syrup equivalent amount? Thank you! Also, is taiwanese brown sugar a good substitute / in the same proportions?
Hey Sean, Yes, I bought fructose syrup from Amazon as I travel so much and it's easier to carry around 🤣 Also, this series is for people making drinks as home, so they're going to have an easier time sourcing fructose powder opposed to the syrup, which can usually only be found from a bubble tea company. Anyways, so it's approx 1 tsp powder equivalent to 7ml of the syrup. If you're using a pump from Boba Box for the syrup, it will be two pumps. I like to keep things as easy as possible... So a 2-2-2 equation is good. 2 scoops creamer 2 scoops powder And 2 pumps fructose Done 👍🏼 You can try the taiwanese brown sugar, but it will take too long to dissolve, so make sure the water is very hot. And you'll probably need to double the sweetness amounts. But feel free to experiment with it and let us know either way 😇
Hi Kristin! I love your videos! I just had a question about the shaker - what's the difference between the cocktail shaker and a Blender Bottle? I want to be able to mix the milk tea powder (so mostly non-dairy creamer) and in cold tea. I see that inside a Blender Bottle there is a little whisk-like steel ball so my assumption is that it makes the tea and powder mix better? And on the other hand the shaker bottle does not have any sort of whisk-like thing in it, but I see many people using one (more than the blender bottle) Which one do you recommend? Thanks!
@@행국 Well then, it's totally up to you. My method of making a milk tea at home is to take the powder and sweetener and melt it down with the hot tea. Once you've done this then you add the ice and when you put it in the shaker at that point with the ice, the ice will melt and make the drink nice and frothy at the same time. It's a really cool technique and you can use a shaker or anything you have on hand. If you do decide to use the shaker that has the metal ball on the inside, you'll have a difficult time if you do this with ice. And you also don't want to shake it with just hot liquids or it will explode. So if you are going to do it that way, then after you've melted and stirred down the powder with the hot tea, then put in lots of cold water with your little metal ball thing and shake it around. It won't be ice cold but at least your drink will be room temperature to drink... Just bear in mind that it will be difficult for bubble tea powder to completely dissolve if you are only using cold liquid. At some point you really need to get some hot liquid in there. Hope that makes sense 😄🥳
@@BubbleTeaKristin Oh I had one more question! The bubble tea store I go to use the electric shaker - and I think they put the room temperature tea, ice, powder, and it melts well even though it's not hot water. Is the powder dissolving well in cold tea and ice because it's a machine that has lots of power than shaking by hand?
Do you offer online classes? I took one course in person and I feel like they didn’t teach me good at all. Waste of my money. They told me it’s not good to mix tea with taro powder so they didn’t teach me how to do that. 😢 I hope to hear from you soon ❤
Hello 👋🏼 Wow. Interesting. Well, mixing Taro Powder with Tea night be personal preference. Yes of course the current trend is like milk, usually from doing a paste on the wall and letting the customer mix it in themselves... But the reality is, from my experience, it's best offered as a Milk Tea... And if the customer doesn't want the tea, they can ask for it to be left out. 😅 I don't have any online classes where I teach you how to make drinks... Partially because I have so many TH-cam videos, no one has asked yet actually. But what I DO have is online video mentoring... One-on-one, I answer any questions you have or difficulties coming up in your journey... Or alternatively I can lead and guide you all the way from beginning to end. I have different price ranges and more information on my Website 🧋 www BubbleTeaExpert.com Hope that helps 😇🙏🏼👌
@HawaiianOrchid if you are starting a Boba Tea Shop you can get great advice from Kristin. She had a boba shop in the UK for many years and was very successful, winning many awards. I watch her videos and her recipes are precise and very well made. She knows what she is speaking about. Plus there are some videos from other shop owners she has mentored, helped them to open their shops.
I attempted this and it was a big disappointment. Didn’t taste anything like taro (or a tarp drink from the local shop). I got the tea one brand for everything except the fructose and creamer powder. Used the jasmine green instead of black tea. It tasted meh. Do you think it was the tea? Or do I need the teazone creamer powder?
Every brand of taro powder tastes totally different. I would try experimenting with a different Taro powder brand first. The supplier I used in my shops carried 2 different brands of Taro flavored powder and they also had Ube which tastes very similar to Taro. The place you buy Taro might be using Ube powder or wise versa. Next, which brand of creamer are you using? Coffee Mate or a bubble tea company? This will make a difference too. Hope that helps! Keep going until you find a company you like the taste of their products 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🧋🧋🧋
@@ando2985 😳 Are you able to get ahold of any other brands of creamer and flavor powder? I think TeaZone is available on Amazon type thing...? (I'm assuming you're making this at home...?) Hey, why not see the price, and then ask the shop you enjoy their Taro if they'll sell you a bag at the same price? Or say you'll double the price of whatever they pay you for it. It's a bit 'cheeky' as we say here in the UK, but at least you know it will taste good 😅 They might say no, but if you've built a relationship over time, they might say yes too! 🙏🏼🤔
Cool 😎 💜😁 There's so many different brands out there. The UK supplier I use offers 3. Two of them are bright purple, and have more of an Ube flavor. But the other one I used in my video is a darker color... It has a stronger Taro flavor. So I prefer to choose flavor over color I guess 🤣
I was just at a Chinese restaurant and saw they had Taro boba tea on the menu so I ordered it. Low sugar for me. The tea was good, not very strong, but the boba wasn't in it. They put jellies I think they were instead. So sad. I had been looking forward to the boba.
Hey Codi, I use a brand here in the UK called Boba Box UK. This specific powder is called 3TEA Taro Powder. I am not sure which country/region you are in... but ya definitely be sure to look up reviews before you buy... I have tried a lot of 'not so good' bubble teas in my day... it's usually due to the recipe or the base product. (looking at the variables) So... when you read a bad review for a product, did the customer actually KNOW how to make the drink correctly? Or were they just throwing Taro powder into water!? 😂 Or if they're actually a shop owner and know how to use the product... perhaps the actual powder isn't any good.😬 Those are the two main variables for knowing if the review is accurate... sometimes you just have to try buying it yourself to know. Then when you find a good brand/powder or syrup you like... don't buy anything else, because you don't need to! It's a long winded answer, but I hope you get the idea. 🤩
@@Balta211 okay. So try doing everything as normal, with a really strong tea base... Add the taro powder and maybe a heaping teaspoon of sugar, Then shake with some ice... And only add some whole milk at the very end instead of having added in creamer powder. Give it a quick stir and try it and next time change the levels of everything to suit your taste. Hope this helps 😇
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Taro is one of my fav flavor ever
Yes 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 It is so tasty 😋🙏🏼
Amazing!! You look beautiful and did a great job explaining how to make this delicious milk tea - Taro is so delicious! 🧋
Aw thanks so much 🤩 That's so very kind of you 😍 Yes, Taro is such a tasty flavor 💜
OMG YES! I’VE BEEN WAITING ON THIS!!! THANK YOU KRISTIN!!! love you so much! you’re so amazing
You're welcome 😁😄
I knew it was on your list!!! 😎💜
Kristin, you're amazing! I've been patiently waiting for this one 🤗.
Matcha next pls x
You're welcome Roopal! I knew you were waiting 😎
Another Matcha video is on the list, but not any time soon...🤷🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️🤣
I've got some matcha recipes in my Matcha playlist in the meantime 😆
@@BubbleTeaKristin ☺
My favorite part of your every video was you felt taste like heaven with background music so cool 😇👏👏👏
Yay!!!! So happy to hear the great feedback. Thanks so much 🙏🏼👏🏼🧋
Very helpful, thank you! 💜🧋
You're welcome 😁
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Yay!!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I like the music in this one!
Me too 😎👍🏼☺️
Taro tea is delicious 🤤. Thanks for your video…
Yes🙏🏼😇🧋
Your welcome 😁
Hello Kristen! I'm opening up a bubble tea shop and am curious how you do different measurements for 16, and 24 oz or if you just offer one size?
Hi Sarah! Congratulations.
Let me begin with this: It might help if you see the volume measurements as milliliters instead of ounces:
350ml is 12oz
500ml is 16oz
700ml is 24oz
If you look at it that way, it's easier to make conversions.
So - 350 x 2 = 700ml.
So if you want a 700ml drink, simply multiply all the recipes ingredients by 2.
For the 500ml size, multiply by 1.5
Next - deciding what size cups you want for your shop will partially depend on the competitors within a 30-minutes drive. You'll need to size and price compare every other boba shop. Also are they doing larger cups because they're including ice? Are you wanting to include ice too? What about fruit pieces? These are all important things to take into consideration when deciding on cups styles and sizes.
Hope that helps! 👍🏼
Hi Kristin, I love all you videos and you have inspired me to open up my own Bubble tea shop here in the US. I have ordered all my equipment but I am struggling to find quality ingredients. Any help on where I can buy restaurant grade ingredients for my new shop?
Hi Fraide,
Thanks for the comment.
I don't know the US suppliers personally like I do for the UK.
But I would suggest doing a Google search and see which are in your area to keep shipping costs low.
Then pay for sample boxes from every one of them to compare quality and flavor.
You'll want to find out their MOQs and order/shipping turn overs as well.
Hope that helps 😊
Is Jasmine green a good choice for taro also, since it brings out the color also?
Definitely. I forgot to mention, but I'll leave it in the description 🤣😂🤣😂 Jasmine Green Tea is another good choice for Taro.
Thanks Kristine for ur more and upcoming videos
You're welcome 😊
Thank you for your comments and dedicated viewership! 🤩
Can I use cane syrup? Thanks
Absolutely 😁
What is better Fructose or Cane Sugar for bubble tea? I always watch your videos. Thanks
@@chefjaysonrecipes thanks for watching!
Well, if I was given the choice, I would make the drink using the ingredients I planned on... Then trial it both ways using fructose and cane sugar. I would do a side by side comparison of the overall flavor.
If they taste exactly the same, then I would figure out other deciding factors such as cost, the USP of the shop, customers and what they expect, the ability to source it, etc.
Hope this helps!
Looks delicious! Side note, your hair is gorgeous.
Aw! Thanks so much 🥰🥰🥰
Hi Kristin. I currently own a home bakery and we looking to expand to a store front and we are looking to add coffee and boba. As in my area no boba shop at all. We have just settle on location m, can you recommend a very good black and oolong tea base please. Thank you.
Absolutely.
My favorite for majority of all milk teas is Assam Black Tea.
There's also a really good Roasted Oolong with is a great choice for certain tea flavors like Lychee & Peach.
But Assam is perfect for other fruit tea flavors like Mango and Pineapple.
So it just depends. 👍🏻
Is it best to make fruit tea with syrup and the milk tea with powder?
If you're able, yes 😉
Can I use assam tea Kristine
Yes you can - I would recommend it. 👍🏼
Do you prefer the fructose powder over fructose syrup and/or simple syrup?
Hey Melinda,
Depends if you're making it for a shop, or if you're making it for home use... the flavor will be exactly the same.
However fructose powder is much more expensive than fructose syrup.
If you've got a shop I would definitely recommend the syrup form. But if you're just doing it for home use then it's easier to get fructose powder.
If you do simple syrup, the amount you will need to put in will probably be much higher, so just bear that in mind.
Personally I prefer the fructose over the simple syrup, but simple syrup is more of a natural form depending on what type of sugar you're using.
So really just comes down to personal preference.
@@BubbleTeaKristin aw ok thanks. Do you prefer fructose over simple syrup in your shop?
@@melinda3242 definitely. I can get a 25 kilo pail for next to nothing considering that you only use 7 to 14 ml per drink. I think it's the best cost effective option and is super easy.😇
@@BubbleTeaKristin aw that makes sense. Thanks so much! Love the videos!
On average how many TBS can you get out of 2 lb. bag? I'm trying to start a boba business and trying to figure out the cost per oz. Thanks and you are the BEST!!!
Hi Jamie - thanks!
I'd suggest measuring it yourself from one bag... each flavor & brand will be different.
Once you have perfected your recipe in terms of flavour, write it down. So let's say for example you're using my recipe because it just so happens to work out perfect for whatever brand you are using, which is a 2-2-2 recipe... So what you do is take a small weight scale and measure out one brown scoop or whatever measurement you are using in your shop.
Use the weight of the full bag which is usually 1 kg, and divide it by the weight of that one scoop, which should be done in grams if you are doing a kilo. That will tell you how many scoops are in each bag.
Don't forget that when you're training your staff it is important they understand each scoop needs to be a flat scoop every time. This is so you have a better idea of how much is in the bag, and also that way the flavour will be consistent for the customers every time.
Hope this helps and makes sense!
This is also how you figure out on a minute level, the exact way to find the precise cost of every single drink in all different sizes that you might be selling it for. :)
Hi Kristine, can you substitute the creamer with double cream or condensed milk?
Absolutely! Give it a try. Or a combo of the two. 😎
Yummy flavour, u make it so simple to understand. Is there just one type of taro powder or there is a specific brand you would recommend
Thank you 😍
For my shops in the UK I used the supplier 'Boba Box UK'.
(They're also for Europe too 👍🏼)
This brand is 3TEA. But they offer 2 other variety brands.
@@BubbleTeaKristin thank you so much for your reply
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Hi kristen, if someone asks to subsititue the non dairy creamer for milk how many mL of milk would be used to substitute the non dairy creamer?
Hello 🤗
Is it a liquid non-dairy creamer? Because we have this in the UK. It would probably be the same proportion, unless the taste is vastly different. 😇
@@BubbleTeaKristin thanks for replying! I was wondering more of whole milk, etc. Some customers substitute the non dairy creamer for the regular milk, just wanted to know if you had an idea how much whole milk it woulf take to replace the non dairy creamer 😊
@Yeli.itzeld Okay. To begin, each brand of non-dairy creamer will be slightly different. In fact, there are even vegan non-dairy creamers as well... So I would think that probably two scoops with maybe 100 ml of water would suffice. But for the vegan non-dairy creamer, you might need to do three or four scoops.
Because you want to keep the essence of the creaminess of it, but you want to also have enough liquid in the drink in order to actually make it a beverage. But not too much water because then it will make it very watery tasting and lack flavor and creaminess.
This might change your technique for actually making the beverage as well. So if you were going to normally shake it then it won't be a problem. But if you're already using a cold liquid such as whole milk, you're probably not shaking the beverage...
It might be that if someone requests the non-dairy creamer that you will need to do a different technique for that drink in particular, such as shaking it.
I have a lot of videos where I use the non-dairy creamer powder and do the shake method, so you might need to just watch some of my videos where I'm using the non-dairy creamer powder and I'm shaking the drink. It will probably be a different technique as I mentioned as opposed to a fresh milk product...
Usually when I am creating fresh milk product drinks for my clients, we use a whisk or we simply stir them. As opposed to when using a powder, we add a hot liquid, stir it, and then shake it.
Hopefully all of this makes sense 😃
It will definitely take a little bit of experimenting on your part for sure in order to get the perfect recipe.
Hi Kristen in bubble shop also they use powder to make tea I want to open bubble tea shop and want to learn how to make all these bubble tea
Great! Feel free to watch all my free videos here on TH-cam. There are numerous playlists to learn everything you need to know for making drinks in a bubble tea shop. ❤️
I use Bossen powders. Should I use tea instead of water even though the powder has tea in them?
Personally I would add 100-200ml (depending on the size cup) of Assam Tea.
The amount of tea they put in there is so small.
But... Always do side by side taste tests.
Vegetable that tastes like sugar cookies?!!! Yesssss plz lol
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What would you substituted for the creamer powder and the taro powder? Can you use fresh taro? And how much of each?
Hi Linda,
Great question. 💜
Instead of creamer powder, I would probably recommend a mixture of a whipping cream and whole milk base. (Milk alone might would be too thin and you need to give it some buoyancy.) But if you are using pre-diced canned taro like you can usually find an Asian market, you could blend that up and put in some whole milk and give it a really good blend with some sweetness. Then add ice and tea and shake it up really well. It would be a very tasty treat that way 😎😎😎
Hi Kristen ,we use milk instead of creamer
👍🏼 Great! How much in ratio for others who might be interested. 😁
@@BubbleTeaKristin u tell me which is better milk or creamer or mix both , I want to open boba shop in india
@@Geetha-q8i aw yay! 😁 Really it's totally up to you, and dependent upon price. If in India getting creamer powder is really expensive and doesn't make sense financially, then go for whole milk. But you're going to want to make sure that you're using pasteurized whole milk. Because I know there are different ones out there and you probably already know that but just in case. So personally I would go for the bubble tea creamer powder which is a specific creamer powder for bubble tea, however if you're unable to get it or it doesn't make sense financially, then go for the pasteurized whole milk. 👍🏼
@@BubbleTeaKristin it is very useful , thank u so much , I watch ur all videos , ur inspirational , ur videos are very informative ,thank u for all ur replies 😊keep going 💜 from India 🇮🇳
@@Geetha-q8i you're very welcome 🥰 And I really appreciate your support in watching my videos and also I'm so happy you're finding them useful 😁 TH-cam is an amazing platform to bring the world closer together like that!👍🏼
Hi what oz is your shaker?
500ml shaker which is 16.9 oz
Love this! What’s the brand of the taro powder you’re using please? 😍
Thanks 😍
For my shops in the UK I used 'Boba Box UK'.
They're also for Europe too 👍🏼
This brand is the 3TEA one.
@@BubbleTeaKristin Ok cool! Thanks so much 😊💜
Hi Kristin. I have a ice cream parlour and was wondering is there any way you can mix ice cream in a bubble tea drink. If a person can have you got any recipes for me to try out.
Hi Ivan,
Definitely. Many people who own ice cream parlors offer the option of adding a scoop of ice cream to the top of the bubble tea for an additional fee (or menu built specifically with it on top.)
Just take any normal recipe, and put it into a bigger size cup... And add the ice cream to the top.
You can even get creative with prepping the rims with frosting and sprinkles... Adding candy on top, etc.
There are many Instagram accounts which show the style of this technique you can find online. ☺️
@@BubbleTeaKristin Thanks for the feedback going to do that
What can I use instead of fructose, creamer powder, and loose leaf tea I haven't been able to find any of those things where I live- :'^
Have you tried looking online? Amazon, eBay, home bubble tea shipping kits, etc?
Fructose - Sugar
Creamer Powder - half and half or whole milk
Loose Leaf tea - normal tea bags
Hope that helps 😁
@@BubbleTeaKristin I can definitely check if i can find it online, thank you so much for the help! 😁
is there anything else i can use instead of fructose powder?
Fructose Syrup, Honey, Coconut Sugar, Palm Sugar, Beet Sugar, artificial sweeteners, monk fruit, brown sugar, etc etc etc.
I wouldn't know the exact quantities of how much to use, because the sweetness level is completely different on every single one. For example if I use coconut sugar, I have to use a lot more than just a teaspoon in my tea, but the coconut sugar has a very strong flavor to it. The white sugar has less flavor, but yields a higher sweetness level. However it may or may not spike someone's insulin levels...
So there's definitely pros and cons to each type of product that you might use to sweeten a drink.
Hopefully you can find something that works good for you. 😇🧋😎
Hi there. Where can I get supplies wholesale?
Which country do you live?
@@BubbleTeaKristin USA
@@noreengraham1761 This is an ongoing list I have created. I am in no way affiliated with these companies and you must make sure to do your own research. I don't know if they're any good products either, only recommended to me from friends/clients.
Supply
Chainly
www.bubbletea.tw/
QBubble
Lollicup
Bossen
TeaZone
Webstaurant
www.webstaurantstore.com/57339/bubble-tea-supplies.html
POSSMEI (have an EU branch)
milkteafactory.com
Boba Box UK (& EU)
Bubble Tea House Company
SunnySyrup.com (currently ship worldwide)
Hope that helps 👍🏼👍🏼🧋🧋
Please let me know how it goes for you So I can update the list as well. 🥳
@@BubbleTeaKristin thank you so much!!
Hi , if the taro powder already has creamer do you still need to put creamer powder also is you tea powder from bobabox?
Hey again 👋🏼
I am using the Boba Box UK item 3TEA Taro.
When you're asking if it already has creamer in it, is that because you are referring to an all-in-one, a 3-in-1 type product?
That type of product you will put 4 scoops and nothing else.
But if your product simply has a little bit of milk in it, don't be fooled in thinking that you don't need to add creamer as well.
So double check and make sure if you are using an all-in-one product then of course you wouldn't add any additional creamer, but if you are only using a base flavor product then you definitely want to get the creamer and the fructose in there 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
@@BubbleTeaKristin I am referring to the AQ TARO
@@RecessiveGamer AQ Taro is a flavor powder. You'll still need to use creamer powder and fructose syrup 👍🏼 it's a 2.2.2 recipe
@@BubbleTeaKristin the ingredients say it has creamer powder in it also
@@BubbleTeaKristin which option is better for bubble tea store...the all in one or the AQ or 3TEA
Is thai tea good with taro milk tea?
Oh! I've never tried that combination 😎 Maybe if you try making it, you can let us know how it is 😍
@@BubbleTeaKristin Sure I will try it tomorrow
Hey Kristin I tried taro milk tea with Thai tea as you said I think black Assam tea would be better.
I don't know if I got a different brand taro powder but the Thai tea takes over the taro flavor. I can't taste the taro taste. It's like a Thai milk tea with purple colour.
@@lucario6201 🤣🤣🤣 Ya... The Thai tea flavor overpowering the taro flavor makes sense 🤣 Thanks for letting us know 👏🏼👏🏼😎😎
@@BubbleTeaKristin 🤣🤣I didn't have any condensed milk so I add creamer powder and it still taste bitter so I add brown sugar and it taste too sweet and I don't like it so i make another taro milk tea and i didn't have black tea so that i add a packet of black milk tea powder and 3 scoops of taro and it tastes super good.
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What size is your shaker?
500ml shaker. Recipes makes a 350ml drink.
(500ml if you add all the ice and everything into the cup) 👍🏼😎
Hi Kristin! You mentioned ube in this video. Do you have any recipes for it? I had an ube smoothie many years ago when I was a kid and it was great! Haven't seen it anywhere else since then in drink form, but have had various ube filling desserts. I think it would be great as a boba drink!
Hello 👋🏼
If you're using Ube powder, then the recipe will be done the exact same way.
However are you referring to actual Ube that's been cut into chunks and steamed? There's different recipes online for that version, and also the frozen version. It's basically treated the same as Taro.
Hope that helps!
I love both Taro and Ube drinks... Any type or style it's amazing 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
(I'll keep the idea in my notes for a fresh Ube or Taro smoothie in the future.)
What are your thoughts on making taro milk tea from scratch? Is it not worth the hassle?
Depends if it's for home use or personal use. Have you seen my other taro video using taro from a jar? It's really tasty and gives more of an authentic flavor for consistency in the mouth feel.
But really it depends on so many factors. Is it for your shop customers or personal use. Who is your target market if you're a business. What's your price point and break even point for the sale of it. Count the hours to takes to cook it and prepare it. How long does it last? If it's not popular will it be throw away. Maybe making it and freezing it in all cubes in an option opposed to a cooked down fresh paste. Etc etc etc.
If I am given the option between a milky one from powder vs a paste, I'd choose the latter. But majority of people I speak to prefer the creamy smoothness of the powder version.
So really it's up to you or your customers, and break even point.
Also, don't forget you can buy pre-cooked taro chunks in syrup from suppliers. Simply blend it with some cream and viola!
Don't get caught up on the actual root of it and the time consumption of staff costs to make it.
Personal use is easy at home. But staff at $15 an hour around the world, we need to factor all these things in, unless your price point is premium and you're in an area people will pay it. 💯
Just my two cents 🤣
@@BubbleTeaKristin thank you for the thorough response. I only have a need for personal use but of course it’s not an effective use of my time to go through all of that for a single serving. I don’t have a good idea of how involved the process is because most of the recipes I see online are from powder. I would like to be able to control the sugar content and make it from whole foods as much like as possible and making food from scratch yields a better quality product with high nutrition content most of the time. I don’t know the expenses of running a business and I’m sure it’s costly to make all of these from scratch yet buying a drink is also not inexpensive, so as a customer I was just curious if I’m getting ripped off for something made from concentrate frankly, haha .
I will look for your other taro videos! I just found your channel and I really enjoy watching them because I like the way you teach and deliver the message. Thank you and I THINK you are American, so happy Thanksgiving!
Hi Kristin. I noticed that boba box doesn't do fructose powder. Whats the fructose syrup equivalent amount? Thank you! Also, is taiwanese brown sugar a good substitute / in the same proportions?
Hey Sean,
Yes, I bought fructose syrup from Amazon as I travel so much and it's easier to carry around 🤣 Also, this series is for people making drinks as home, so they're going to have an easier time sourcing fructose powder opposed to the syrup, which can usually only be found from a bubble tea company.
Anyways, so it's approx 1 tsp powder equivalent to 7ml of the syrup. If you're using a pump from Boba Box for the syrup, it will be two pumps.
I like to keep things as easy as possible... So a 2-2-2 equation is good.
2 scoops creamer
2 scoops powder
And 2 pumps fructose
Done 👍🏼
You can try the taiwanese brown sugar, but it will take too long to dissolve, so make sure the water is very hot. And you'll probably need to double the sweetness amounts.
But feel free to experiment with it and let us know either way 😇
@@BubbleTeaKristin understood thanks!
Hi Kristin! I love your videos! I just had a question about the shaker - what's the difference between the cocktail shaker and a Blender Bottle? I want to be able to mix the milk tea powder (so mostly non-dairy creamer) and in cold tea. I see that inside a Blender Bottle there is a little whisk-like steel ball so my assumption is that it makes the tea and powder mix better? And on the other hand the shaker bottle does not have any sort of whisk-like thing in it, but I see many people using one (more than the blender bottle) Which one do you recommend? Thanks!
Hello 👋🏼
Are you thinking for at home use or a shop location?
@@BubbleTeaKristin just for home! :)
@@행국 Well then, it's totally up to you. My method of making a milk tea at home is to take the powder and sweetener and melt it down with the hot tea. Once you've done this then you add the ice and when you put it in the shaker at that point with the ice, the ice will melt and make the drink nice and frothy at the same time. It's a really cool technique and you can use a shaker or anything you have on hand. If you do decide to use the shaker that has the metal ball on the inside, you'll have a difficult time if you do this with ice. And you also don't want to shake it with just hot liquids or it will explode. So if you are going to do it that way, then after you've melted and stirred down the powder with the hot tea, then put in lots of cold water with your little metal ball thing and shake it around. It won't be ice cold but at least your drink will be room temperature to drink...
Just bear in mind that it will be difficult for bubble tea powder to completely dissolve if you are only using cold liquid. At some point you really need to get some hot liquid in there. Hope that makes sense 😄🥳
@@BubbleTeaKristin wow thanks for your detailed response!!
@@BubbleTeaKristin Oh I had one more question! The bubble tea store I go to use the electric shaker - and I think they put the room temperature tea, ice, powder, and it melts well even though it's not hot water. Is the powder dissolving well in cold tea and ice because it's a machine that has lots of power than shaking by hand?
This one looks so pretty 💜
Yes 💜💜💜💜💜
Do you offer online classes? I took one course in person and I feel like they didn’t teach me good at all. Waste of my money. They told me it’s not good to mix tea with taro powder so they didn’t teach me how to do that. 😢 I hope to hear from you soon ❤
Hello 👋🏼
Wow. Interesting. Well, mixing Taro Powder with Tea night be personal preference.
Yes of course the current trend is like milk, usually from doing a paste on the wall and letting the customer mix it in themselves... But the reality is, from my experience, it's best offered as a Milk Tea... And if the customer doesn't want the tea, they can ask for it to be left out. 😅
I don't have any online classes where I teach you how to make drinks... Partially because I have so many TH-cam videos, no one has asked yet actually. But what I DO have is online video mentoring... One-on-one, I answer any questions you have or difficulties coming up in your journey...
Or alternatively I can lead and guide you all the way from beginning to end. I have different price ranges and more information on my Website 🧋 www BubbleTeaExpert.com
Hope that helps 😇🙏🏼👌
@HawaiianOrchid if you are starting a Boba Tea Shop you can get great advice from Kristin. She had a boba shop in the UK for many years and was very successful, winning many awards. I watch her videos and her recipes are precise and very well made. She knows what she is speaking about. Plus there are some videos from other shop owners she has mentored, helped them to open their shops.
Hi kristin
Can you make without bubbles please 😊
Absolutely. Just leave them out. No need to add any toppings 😎🧋🧋🧋
Thank you for rapid reply 😊cheers kristin
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I attempted this and it was a big disappointment. Didn’t taste anything like taro (or a tarp drink from the local shop). I got the tea one brand for everything except the fructose and creamer powder. Used the jasmine green instead of black tea. It tasted meh. Do you think it was the tea? Or do I need the teazone creamer powder?
Every brand of taro powder tastes totally different. I would try experimenting with a different Taro powder brand first.
The supplier I used in my shops carried 2 different brands of Taro flavored powder and they also had Ube which tastes very similar to Taro. The place you buy Taro might be using Ube powder or wise versa.
Next, which brand of creamer are you using? Coffee Mate or a bubble tea company? This will make a difference too.
Hope that helps!
Keep going until you find a company you like the taste of their products 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🧋🧋🧋
@@BubbleTeaKristin Sorry, the brand is teazone taro premium powder. But creamer was just a generic non-dairy coffee creamer.
@@ando2985 😳
Are you able to get ahold of any other brands of creamer and flavor powder? I think TeaZone is available on Amazon type thing...?
(I'm assuming you're making this at home...?)
Hey, why not see the price, and then ask the shop you enjoy their Taro if they'll sell you a bag at the same price? Or say you'll double the price of whatever they pay you for it.
It's a bit 'cheeky' as we say here in the UK, but at least you know it will taste good 😅
They might say no, but if you've built a relationship over time, they might say yes too! 🙏🏼🤔
Every bubble tea shops we have here the taro drink is always purple?
Cool 😎 💜😁
There's so many different brands out there.
The UK supplier I use offers 3. Two of them are bright purple, and have more of an Ube flavor. But the other one I used in my video is a darker color... It has a stronger Taro flavor.
So I prefer to choose flavor over color I guess 🤣
Hola Kristin, eres hermosa!!!😘
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I was just at a Chinese restaurant and saw they had Taro boba tea on the menu so I ordered it. Low sugar for me. The tea was good, not very strong, but the boba wasn't in it. They put jellies I think they were instead. So sad. I had been looking forward to the boba.
Aw. Ya, a lot of places don't cook up the boba anymore, they only offer QQ pearls instead. 😭
What about the name of the taro powder ?? That would b helpful! 🤦🏻♀️
There are so many bad reviews on powders & mixes.
Hey Codi,
I use a brand here in the UK called Boba Box UK. This specific powder is called 3TEA Taro Powder.
I am not sure which country/region you are in... but ya definitely be sure to look up reviews before you buy...
I have tried a lot of 'not so good' bubble teas in my day... it's usually due to the recipe or the base product. (looking at the variables)
So... when you read a bad review for a product, did the customer actually KNOW how to make the drink correctly? Or were they just throwing Taro powder into water!? 😂 Or if they're actually a shop owner and know how to use the product... perhaps the actual powder isn't any good.😬
Those are the two main variables for knowing if the review is accurate... sometimes you just have to try buying it yourself to know. Then when you find a good brand/powder or syrup you like... don't buy anything else, because you don't need to!
It's a long winded answer, but I hope you get the idea. 🤩
I only have taro powder 😪
That's great! Is it the all-in-one type of powder or just the flavor?
@@BubbleTeaKristin taro flavoured bubble tea
@@Balta211 okay. So try doing everything as normal, with a really strong tea base... Add the taro powder and maybe a heaping teaspoon of sugar, Then shake with some ice... And only add some whole milk at the very end instead of having added in creamer powder. Give it a quick stir and try it and next time change the levels of everything to suit your taste.
Hope this helps 😇