Discover the Coca Cola recipe secret | How To Cook That Ann Reardon

Food scientist figures out how to make Coke from scratch. Homemade Coca-Cola recipe.
Hi I am Ann Reardon, How to Cook That is my youtube channel it is filled with crazy sweet creations made just for you. This week I am attempting to make the coke recipe from scratch. There are various existing recipes for coca-cola out there but everyone who makes them says they do not taste of coke. Join me for debunking, creative cakes, chocolate & desserts, new video every Friday.

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[smradztoiek]

This is a new level of sadism. Ann forces Dave to make his own horrible concoctions and then taste them :))

[SesshouFan]

Anne: "Was that yours?"
Dave: *struggling to even breathe* "Might've been"

[BuIIetBiII]

Funny how even when Dave's making something for himself, he still ends up tasting something horrible

[annabethroberts]

Ann and James : *takes the experiment seriously*

Dave: *Is a little kid having fun*

[frozenpixie]

I loved Dave's mad scientist approach and James's true scientist approach. Like mother, like son.

[shaunaotoole]

Loved seeing James in this one. He has his mother’s sensibilities. And as always, Dave cracks everyone up.

[JuliaDeLand]

"How could I have cheated and mine still tastes worse than the other two?" HAHA Dave was making me laugh a lot in this video.

[dietotaku]

Dave tasting his own mixture: [choking] TASTES LIKE COKE
Ann: was that yours?
Dave: [still choking] MIGHT'VE BEEN
😂🤣

[Zela_Night]

I love how Anne and James try adding things carefully, and Dave just goes ham on the burnt caramel.

[onethingafteranother]

I used to work in soft drink manufacturing, not for coke but we did own brand versions of things. The recipe isnt so secret, its more the flavourings are trademarked and you are only allowed to make something that tastes sort of like it. Thats why when someone tried to sell pepsi recipe to coke they sent them on their way.
Coke, and other soft drinks, aim for 10 brix. In the UK we'd use glucose syrup as the base, US likely hugh fructose corn syrup, you balance with acidity, a combo of citric and malic acid (coke may not defo use the same ones). As an acidity reglator trisodium citrate is added. Colouring would mostly be malt extract, but super concentrated so you only use a little. But again cola might use this burnt caramel, own brands tend to avoid artificial flavours and big brands dont care.
Flavours are 'coke' and 'coke nut extract', the latter being white and opaque. Then ofc preservatives - usually potassium sorbate as its heat stable and flavourless. Coke will add caffeine but generally own brands dont.
Great video though! In industry sometimes we'd do something like this, or if its a more lucrative contract, whap it through a mass spectrometer 😅

[villarthi]

Brazil has a slightly different labeling law. So in mine it says the acid is " phosphoric acid" and it has nut of cola extract. Also caffeine (which is basic, may reduce the acidity), caramel IV food coloring (i'm sure there is a book somewhere that tells what this is in more detail) and a vague "natural flavor".

So, i imagine reading multiple countries labels may give you more clues.

[dp]

"How could I have cheated and yours still tastes more like coke?"
"HOW DID YOU CHEAT?"
🤣

[Bazziness]

At least Dave doesn't taste weird things Ann make. This time he make it himself 🤣🤣

[grabble]

Series pitch: Dave tries to recreate Ann's stuff and Ann has to taste them.

[billputt]

This is very cool. I am part of the Open Soda group. We spent many many years trying to create a great tasting cola as well as many other flavors. Our group is an off shoot of the original Open Cola recipe but we reformulated it a lot and improved method(thanks to the defunct Cube Cola in UK). Our flavor is some where between Coke and an American brand called RC. I have several notes on your attempt if you are interested.

The acid is VERY important to your flavor. For the right flavor you need Phosphoric acid, which is hard to get and hard to get in small quantities. I know you said you were waiting on an order. Maybe you are going to get some. But you defiantly need some kind of acid.

Next big one is, flavor oils don't like to mix with water. Maybe you did something to get them to mix that wasn't filmed or that I missed, cause i didn't see your oils separating and you didn't comment about them being on the top. We use gum Arabic, hopefully you know about blooming it, other wise defiantly look into that. We managed to get out hands on the professional pre bloomed stuff by just asking for a sample(which lasts us for years). Then you have to get the flavor oils to break down into very tiny particles. We use a whisk on a drill! Also oil is alcohol soluble, so just a TINY amount of vodka helps too.

I caught that you put salt in, which is not a bad plan. The sodium listed in the ingredients comes from Sodium Citrate and Sodium Benzoate. The 1st boosts the flavor a bit and the second is just a preservative. So salt is a good at home replacement.

Lastly, you didn't carbonate any of them(that you talked about, but I did see bubbles in the glasses so maybe you used soda water? ) so hopefully your flavor testing was against flat coke.

What we have found is the major flavors of soda are - Lemon, Lime, Orange, Grapefruit, and cinnamon(technically what we get in the states is cassia). I know that sounds really citrusy, but when you blend them together well, it makes a very good cola.

We have also found if you put angostura bitters in coke, it tastes just like pepsi(but bitter) so what ever pepsi's secret ingredients, is also in angostura's secret recipe.

If any one wants more info on our work, I would normally point you to our website(opensoda.org) but hackers have taken it down and I haven't put it back up some where safe yet. So for now here is the recipe and instructions for our cola..

Here's the youtube video of me making it(part 1 cause this was posted back in the 10 minute limit days)...

And here's our facebook group...

[ethancosta]

This should be a series. You, Dave and the kids racing to discover a recipe.

[Amira_Phoenix]

Dave: The secret ingredient for Coke is Pepsi.
Reg Coca Cola guy: "runs after Dave"

[fluffycritter]

In the US they call out the dark-brown color as being "caramel color, " so the burnt caramel syrup is almost certainly spot-on.

One ingredient I was surprised you didn't try adding in is nutmeg. Many of the recipes I've seen call for that.

[monskiski]

I love that you and your son are measuring things so precisely & making it look scientific; then Dave just goes at it like a bloody caveman screaming "MOAR!"

[thtotaku]

Last few months, she discovered the secret sauce for Cadbury Flakes, now she's discovering the recipe for Coca-Cola.

*No company nor recipe vault can defeat the power and the pure intellect of Ann Reardon.*