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Calculated Shard: 63 (from laksa163)

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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa063.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.glamour.com/story/dalgona-coffee-recipe\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.glamour.com/story/dalgona-coffee-recipe\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

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{"found_url":"https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/story\/dalgona-coffee-recipe","crawl_time":1775675990,"first_indexed_time":1585944960,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"com,glamour!www,\/story\/dalgona-coffee-recipe s443","src_root_hash":"1739234327605658463","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"Dalgona Coffee Recipe: How to Make the Internet's Favorite, Fluffiest Quarantine Drink | Glamour","meta_descriptions":["The easy instant coffee trend only takes five minutes and only calls for three ingredients, and it’s absurdly photogenic."],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"All products featured on Glamour are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and\/or from purchases of products through these links.\nNothing—not even a\npandemic\n—should come between us and iced-coffee season. Enter: this simple, impressive dalgona coffee recipe.\nRemaining inside for weeks on end, staring out the window, preparing increasingly decadent grilled cheese sandwiches—these all pass for premier indoor activities now. I feel fortunate to be safe and never farther than three feet away from a wheel of Brie, but there is one thing I miss. No, it’s not face-to-face interactions with friends or the feeling of fresh air. It’s the mellifluous, clink-clink springtime jingle of a delicious, cold iced coffee, procured at an overpriced café! I should be doing my annual routine of taking two sips of cold brew, seizing with anxiety, and then wondering if this is what drugs feels like!\nBut of course that’s off the table, so please join me in letting this new, Instagram-friendly drink save you from despair. If you’ve seen a mouthwatering, visually delightful, obscenely fluffy coffee beverage pop up on social media, you can thank South Korean food vloggers, who innovated the DIY latte trend under their own recent quarantine. Named after a Korean toffee candy—because both are brown-sugar-colored and delightful in their cloudlike presentation—dalgona coffee is here to fill the iced-coffee-shaped hole in your quarantined heart. It's simple to make, contains only ingredients you already have around the house, and is very, very photogenic. In other words, it is the opposite of a sourdough starter.\nHere’s what you’ll need to make (a single serving of) dalgona coffee:\nInstant coffee\nSugar\nHot water\nA hand mixer (or a whisk or a spoon, but see notes below)\nMilk or an alt-milk\nYes, that's really it.\nFirst, measure out equal amounts of instant coffee, sugar, and hot water. (Start with two tablespoons each, and scale up from there.) Then pour the ingredients into a bowl. The water needs to be hot or boiling to help the coffee and sugar dissolve.\nThe definitive recipe comes from South Korean YouTuber\nDdulgi\n, who somehow managed to make a video with a hand mixer a soothing\nASMR experience\n. Like her tutorial, most recipes call for even proportions—a 1:1:1 ratio of instant coffee, boiling water, and sugar.\nAs someone who has woken up family members every day this week with the whirring sounds of a hand mixer as I manically blend my new favorite ingredients, I must warn you that if you use less than one tablespoon of instant coffee plus one tablespoon of water plus one tablespoon of sugar, there really won't be enough liquid to whip up. It will look like you are making onion dip for a single ant. Please learn from my mistake:\nFor a single serving, a minimum of two tablespoons of instant coffee and hot water works best. That being said, you absolutely do not need to add an equal amount of sugar, depending on your tastes. But you do need some sugar, to create the creamy whipped peaks effect. I tried subbing out a spoonful of Nutella for sugar—it tasted good, but it did not look good enough to impress a TikTok teen and thus was pointless. You cannot use drip coffee, but if you really don't have any instant, you can allegedly\nuse finely ground coffee beans instead\n. You can also mix in cocoa powder or cinnamon. Or you can make a matcha version.\nMost Popular\nThe dalgona coffee recipe works best with an electric mixer. Using a standard mixer on a medium setting, I made the coffee in about three minutes. Watching the raw ingredients morph into a chocolatey paste and then ripple into golden waves in a matter of minutes is quite satisfying and made me feel like a mad scientist.\nBut! I have a hand mixer only because I am now living with my parents in a\nGrown-Up House\n. If I were in my Brooklyn hovel, I would have only mismatched teaspoons, so I also tried making the coffee with nothing but a glass bowl and a spoon:\nIf you do decide to go the homesteader spoon route, doubling the recipe will make it a little easier\nThis approach felt, I will admit, insane. I felt like I was on a homestead, whipping cream into butter before the menfolk come back from the fields. My arm muscles withered in their flesh prison. I watched the better part of an episode of\nThe Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt\nand fed myself half a bag of baby carrots with my left hand before I was able to make something resembling the desired coffee topping. I also tried making dalgona coffee with a\nhand frother\n, which was a little more efficient than the spoon.\nIf you're looking for a quick cup of coffee, do not do this. If you are looking for a fulfilling quarantine activity and you aren't trying to learn how to knit or bake sourdough, start stirring. You are a modern corona-homesteader, and soon you will have one Michelle Obama arm!\nOnce your creation looks golden and sea-foamy (but not too stiff, or it won't settle over the milk), fill a glass with ice, pour in milk or a milk substitute, and gently top it with the coffee.\nMost Popular\nDon't let the coffee get too much lighter than this, or the consistency will be too thick to mix well with the milk.\nOnce you make your dalgona coffee, you are under legal obligation to take many, many photos of it, which you must upload to the internet. Then stir before you drink, to avoid consuming a cup of icy milk followed by straight-up sugar coffee.\nCongratulations! You are now a chef, a scientist, and a valuable member of the internet. When you get out of quarantine, tip your barista extra.\nJenny Singer is a staff writer for\nGlamour.\nYou can follow her on\nTwitter\n.","attrs_markdown":"[Skip to main content](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/story\/dalgona-coffee-recipe#main-content)\n\n[Newsletter](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/newsletter)\n\n[STYLE](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/fashion)\n\n[BEAUTY](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/lipstick)\n\n[WELLNESS](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/health-fitness)\n\n[ENTERTAINMENT](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/entertainment)\n\n[SHOPPING](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/shopping)\n\n![Curation Banner](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/verso\/static\/glamour-global\/assets\/thespringshop.svg)\n\n[Spring Fashion Trends](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/story\/2026-fashion-trends)[Floral Dresses We Love](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/story\/how-to-style-floral-dress)[Sandal Stock Up](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/story\/sandal-trends)[Our Top Curling Irons](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/gallery\/best-curling-irons-wands)[Glowy Tinted Sunscreens](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/gallery\/best-tinted-sunscreen)[LED Face Masks We Tested](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/gallery\/best-led-face-masks)\n\n[Style](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/fashion)\n\n[Celebrity Style](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/fashion\/celebrity-style)[Outfit Ideas](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/fashion\/outfit-ideas)[Style Your Size](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/fashion\/petite-plus-size-clothing)[All Style](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/fashion)\n\n[Beauty](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/lipstick)\n\n[Skin Care](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/lipstick\/skincare)[Hair](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/lipstick\/hair)[Make Up](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/lipstick\/makeup)[Celebrity Beauty](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/lipstick\/celebrity-beauty)[Product Reviews](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/lipstick\/product-reviews)[How-Tos](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/lipstick\/beauty-how-tos)[All Beauty](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/lipstick)\n\n[Wellness](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/health-fitness)\n\n[Healthy Recipes](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/health-fitness\/healthy-eating-recipes)[Workouts](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/health-fitness\/workouts)[Sexual Health](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/health-fitness\/sexual-health)[Body Image](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/health-fitness\/body-image)[What I Live With](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/story\/conditions)[All Wellness](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/health-fitness)\n\n[Entertainment](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/entertainment)\n\n[Tv](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/entertainment\/tv)[Music](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/entertainment\/music)[Movies](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/entertainment\/movies)[Celebrity News](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/entertainment\/celebrity-gossip)[All Entertainment](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/entertainment)\n\n[Shopping](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/shopping)\n\n[Culture](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/inspired)\n\n[Politics](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/inspired\/51-million)[Women To Watch](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/women-to-watch)[Easy Eating](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/easy-eating)[Books](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/glamour-bookshelf)[All Culture](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/inspired)\n\n[Gifts](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/gift-ideas)\n\n[Video](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/video)\n\nMORE\n\n[Women of the Year](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/story\/2025-glamour-women-of-the-year)\n\n[Newsletter](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/newsletter)\n\n[Search](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/search)\n\nQuarantine\n\n# Dalgona Coffee Recipe: How to Make the Internet’s Favorite, Fluffiest Quarantine Drink\n***\n\nIt takes only five minutes, it calls only for three ingredients, and it’s absurdly photogenic.\n\nBy [Jenny Singer](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/contributor\/jenny-singer)\n\nApril 3, 2020\n\n![An easy dalgona coffee recipe to make at home.](https:\/\/media.glamour.com\/photos\/5e8787c7c4091000082cceed\/master\/w_2560%2Cc_limit\/lede_social%2520\\(7\\).jpg)\n\nClara Hendler\n\nAll products featured on Glamour are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and\/or from purchases of products through these links.\n\nNothing—not even a [pandemic](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/story\/can-you-have-sex-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic-an-investigation)—should come between us and iced-coffee season. Enter: this simple, impressive dalgona coffee recipe.\n\nRemaining inside for weeks on end, staring out the window, preparing increasingly decadent grilled cheese sandwiches—these all pass for premier indoor activities now. I feel fortunate to be safe and never farther than three feet away from a wheel of Brie, but there is one thing I miss. No, it’s not face-to-face interactions with friends or the feeling of fresh air. It’s the mellifluous, clink-clink springtime jingle of a delicious, cold iced coffee, procured at an overpriced café! I should be doing my annual routine of taking two sips of cold brew, seizing with anxiety, and then wondering if this is what drugs feels like\\!\n\nBut of course that’s off the table, so please join me in letting this new, Instagram-friendly drink save you from despair. If you’ve seen a mouthwatering, visually delightful, obscenely fluffy coffee beverage pop up on social media, you can thank South Korean food vloggers, who innovated the DIY latte trend under their own recent quarantine. Named after a Korean toffee candy—because both are brown-sugar-colored and delightful in their cloudlike presentation—dalgona coffee is here to fill the iced-coffee-shaped hole in your quarantined heart. It's simple to make, contains only ingredients you already have around the house, and is very, very photogenic. In other words, it is the opposite of a sourdough starter.\n\nWATCH THIS\n\n[This is Your Pregnancy in 2 Minutes](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/video\/watch\/this-is-your-pregnancy-in-2-minutes)\n\nHere’s what you’ll need to make (a single serving of) dalgona coffee:\n\n- Instant coffee\n- Sugar\n- Hot water\n- A hand mixer (or a whisk or a spoon, but see notes below)\n- Milk or an alt-milk\n\nYes, that's really it.\n\n###\nGet the best sales and editor recs\n\nBy signing up, you agree to our [user agreement](https:\/\/www.condenast.com\/user-agreement) (including [class action waiver and arbitration provisions](https:\/\/www.condenast.com\/user-agreement#introduction-arbitration-notice)), and acknowledge our [privacy policy](https:\/\/www.condenast.com\/privacy-policy).\n\nFirst, measure out equal amounts of instant coffee, sugar, and hot water. (Start with two tablespoons each, and scale up from there.) Then pour the ingredients into a bowl. The water needs to be hot or boiling to help the coffee and sugar dissolve.\n\n![Image may contain Food and Seasoning](https:\/\/media.glamour.com\/photos\/5e87894dd9989e0008a9dbc2\/master\/w_1600%2Cc_limit\/IMG_7997.JPG)\n\nThe definitive recipe comes from South Korean YouTuber [Ddulgi](https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oENpvyppGEw), who somehow managed to make a video with a hand mixer a soothing [ASMR experience](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/story\/maybe-now-is-a-good-time-for-you-to-get-really-into-asmr?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=glm&utm_mailing=GLM_Daily_040320&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&bxid=5dd317a905e94e6ce90d2711&cndid=59197797&hasha=e86fbde6aa799223a054e643cf50e320&hashb=d2130338c554abf4ca37b91d4050d7c3fc17e653&hashc=4a651c394dabac61ebf550eb8642a50b9cce455ebe68a7c482b365c327653e60&esrc=bounceX&utm_content=B&utm_term=GLM_Daily). Like her tutorial, most recipes call for even proportions—a 1:1:1 ratio of instant coffee, boiling water, and sugar.\n\nAs someone who has woken up family members every day this week with the whirring sounds of a hand mixer as I manically blend my new favorite ingredients, I must warn you that if you use less than one tablespoon of instant coffee plus one tablespoon of water plus one tablespoon of sugar, there really won't be enough liquid to whip up. It will look like you are making onion dip for a single ant. Please learn from my mistake:\n\n![Image may contain Cutlery Spoon Bowl Cooking Batter and Mixing Bowl](https:\/\/media.glamour.com\/photos\/5e8789a98ddec20008bfb914\/master\/w_1600%2Cc_limit\/IMG_7984.JPG)\n\nFor a single serving, a minimum of two tablespoons of instant coffee and hot water works best. That being said, you absolutely do not need to add an equal amount of sugar, depending on your tastes. But you do need some sugar, to create the creamy whipped peaks effect. I tried subbing out a spoonful of Nutella for sugar—it tasted good, but it did not look good enough to impress a TikTok teen and thus was pointless. You cannot use drip coffee, but if you really don't have any instant, you can allegedly [use finely ground coffee beans instead](https:\/\/www.elitedaily.com\/p\/heres-how-to-make-dalgona-coffee-without-instant-coffee-for-at-home-treat-22663941). You can also mix in cocoa powder or cinnamon. Or you can make a matcha version.\n\n#### Instagram content\nTo honor your privacy preferences, this content can only be viewed on the site it [originates](https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B-SPyPYBhmh\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link) from.\n\nMost Popular\n\n- [![Here’s How to Make Leggings Look Incredibly Chic in 2026](https:\/\/media.glamour.com\/photos\/69d3ca6466efd7e1493e901c\/1:1\/w_120%2Ch_120%2Cc_limit\/undefined)](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/story\/how-to-style-leggings#intcid=_glamour-right-rail_d6a13b6a-c560-4aee-991c-48b26e6e78ce_popular4-2)\n  \n  Shopping\n  \n  [Here’s How to Make Leggings Look Incredibly Chic in 2026](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/story\/how-to-style-leggings#intcid=_glamour-right-rail_d6a13b6a-c560-4aee-991c-48b26e6e78ce_popular4-2)\n  \n  By Jake Henry Smith\n- [![The Best Granny Jeans to Wear With Flat Shoes This Spring](https:\/\/media.glamour.com\/photos\/69cd80eaa9212472e1dc7887\/1:1\/w_120%2Ch_120%2Cc_limit\/undefined)](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/story\/the-best-granny-jeans-to-wear-with-flat-shoes-this-spring#intcid=_glamour-right-rail_d6a13b6a-c560-4aee-991c-48b26e6e78ce_popular4-2)\n  \n  Shopping\n  \n  [The Best Granny Jeans to Wear With Flat Shoes This Spring](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/story\/the-best-granny-jeans-to-wear-with-flat-shoes-this-spring#intcid=_glamour-right-rail_d6a13b6a-c560-4aee-991c-48b26e6e78ce_popular4-2)\n  \n  By Alex Sales\n- [![How to Style Linen Shorts, Summer’s Most Versatile Styling Solution](https:\/\/media.glamour.com\/photos\/69cfe8287e83c9fcfa8599c8\/1:1\/w_120%2Ch_120%2Cc_limit\/undefined)](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/story\/how-to-style-linen-shorts#intcid=_glamour-right-rail_d6a13b6a-c560-4aee-991c-48b26e6e78ce_popular4-2)\n  \n  Shopping\n  \n  [How to Style Linen Shorts, Summer’s Most Versatile Styling Solution](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/story\/how-to-style-linen-shorts#intcid=_glamour-right-rail_d6a13b6a-c560-4aee-991c-48b26e6e78ce_popular4-2)\n  \n  By Kelsey Stiegman\n\nThe dalgona coffee recipe works best with an electric mixer. Using a standard mixer on a medium setting, I made the coffee in about three minutes. Watching the raw ingredients morph into a chocolatey paste and then ripple into golden waves in a matter of minutes is quite satisfying and made me feel like a mad scientist.\n\nBut! I have a hand mixer only because I am now living with my parents in a [Grown-Up House](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/gallery\/kitchen-organization-ideas). If I were in my Brooklyn hovel, I would have only mismatched teaspoons, so I also tried making the coffee with nothing but a glass bowl and a spoon:\n\n![Image may contain Drink Milk Beverage and Food](https:\/\/media.glamour.com\/photos\/5e878a3da171480008816485\/master\/w_1600%2Cc_limit\/IMG_7991.JPG)\n\n*If you do decide to go the homesteader spoon route, doubling the recipe will make it a little easier*\n\nThis approach felt, I will admit, insane. I felt like I was on a homestead, whipping cream into butter before the menfolk come back from the fields. My arm muscles withered in their flesh prison. I watched the better part of an episode of *The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt* and fed myself half a bag of baby carrots with my left hand before I was able to make something resembling the desired coffee topping. I also tried making dalgona coffee with a [hand frother](https:\/\/www.homedepot.com\/pep\/Ovente-Stainless-Steel-Milk-Frother-Coffee-Mixer-Wand-Black-FRS1020B-FRS1020B\/312191905?mtc=Shopping-BA-F_HDH-G-D29B-29_28_SMALL_ELECTRICS-MULTI-NA-Feed-PLA-NA-NA-Coffee&cm_mmc=Shopping-BA-F_HDH-G-D29B-29_28_SMALL_ELECTRICS-MULTI-NA-Feed-PLA-NA-NA-Coffee-71700000048833948-58700005310601545-92700052333958917&gclid=CjwKCAjwvZv0BRA8EiwAD9T2VaL7MsAqCB6AAWos7dJH9LRT0wobEbhRpyFZHp7v8eJF_rA-TQxYKxoC3N8QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds), which was a little more efficient than the spoon.\n\nIf you're looking for a quick cup of coffee, do not do this. If you are looking for a fulfilling quarantine activity and you aren't trying to learn how to knit or bake sourdough, start stirring. 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Then stir before you drink, to avoid consuming a cup of icy milk followed by straight-up sugar coffee.\n\nCongratulations! You are now a chef, a scientist, and a valuable member of the internet. When you get out of quarantine, tip your barista extra.\n\n*Jenny Singer is a staff writer for* Glamour. *You can follow her on [Twitter](https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeanValjenny).*\n\n[Jenny Singer](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/contributor\/jenny-singer) is a staff writer at *Glamour*, covering all things from seltzer trends to reproductive rights to Chrissy Teigen's pet lizard. Before *Glamour*, Jenny worked as the deputy lifestyle editor at the *Forward*, a historic Jewish publication. Her work has also been seen in *Time Out New York* and ... 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However, we may receive compensation from retailers and\/or from purchases of products through these links.\n\nNothing—not even a [pandemic](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/story\/can-you-have-sex-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic-an-investigation)—should come between us and iced-coffee season. Enter: this simple, impressive dalgona coffee recipe.\n\nRemaining inside for weeks on end, staring out the window, preparing increasingly decadent grilled cheese sandwiches—these all pass for premier indoor activities now. I feel fortunate to be safe and never farther than three feet away from a wheel of Brie, but there is one thing I miss. No, it’s not face-to-face interactions with friends or the feeling of fresh air. It’s the mellifluous, clink-clink springtime jingle of a delicious, cold iced coffee, procured at an overpriced café! I should be doing my annual routine of taking two sips of cold brew, seizing with anxiety, and then wondering if this is what drugs feels like\\!\n\nBut of course that’s off the table, so please join me in letting this new, Instagram-friendly drink save you from despair. If you’ve seen a mouthwatering, visually delightful, obscenely fluffy coffee beverage pop up on social media, you can thank South Korean food vloggers, who innovated the DIY latte trend under their own recent quarantine. Named after a Korean toffee candy—because both are brown-sugar-colored and delightful in their cloudlike presentation—dalgona coffee is here to fill the iced-coffee-shaped hole in your quarantined heart. It's simple to make, contains only ingredients you already have around the house, and is very, very photogenic. In other words, it is the opposite of a sourdough starter.\n\nHere’s what you’ll need to make (a single serving of) dalgona coffee:\n\n- Instant coffee\n- Sugar\n- Hot water\n- A hand mixer (or a whisk or a spoon, but see notes below)\n- Milk or an alt-milk\n\nYes, that's really it.\n\nFirst, measure out equal amounts of instant coffee, sugar, and hot water. (Start with two tablespoons each, and scale up from there.) Then pour the ingredients into a bowl. The water needs to be hot or boiling to help the coffee and sugar dissolve.\n\n![Image may contain Food and Seasoning](https:\/\/media.glamour.com\/photos\/5e87894dd9989e0008a9dbc2\/master\/w_1600%2Cc_limit\/IMG_7997.JPG)\n\nThe definitive recipe comes from South Korean YouTuber [Ddulgi](https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oENpvyppGEw), who somehow managed to make a video with a hand mixer a soothing [ASMR experience](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/story\/maybe-now-is-a-good-time-for-you-to-get-really-into-asmr?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=glm&utm_mailing=GLM_Daily_040320&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&bxid=5dd317a905e94e6ce90d2711&cndid=59197797&hasha=e86fbde6aa799223a054e643cf50e320&hashb=d2130338c554abf4ca37b91d4050d7c3fc17e653&hashc=4a651c394dabac61ebf550eb8642a50b9cce455ebe68a7c482b365c327653e60&esrc=bounceX&utm_content=B&utm_term=GLM_Daily). 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I tried subbing out a spoonful of Nutella for sugar—it tasted good, but it did not look good enough to impress a TikTok teen and thus was pointless. You cannot use drip coffee, but if you really don't have any instant, you can allegedly [use finely ground coffee beans instead](https:\/\/www.elitedaily.com\/p\/heres-how-to-make-dalgona-coffee-without-instant-coffee-for-at-home-treat-22663941). You can also mix in cocoa powder or cinnamon. Or you can make a matcha version.\n\nMost Popular\n\nThe dalgona coffee recipe works best with an electric mixer. Using a standard mixer on a medium setting, I made the coffee in about three minutes. Watching the raw ingredients morph into a chocolatey paste and then ripple into golden waves in a matter of minutes is quite satisfying and made me feel like a mad scientist.\n\nBut! I have a hand mixer only because I am now living with my parents in a [Grown-Up House](https:\/\/www.glamour.com\/gallery\/kitchen-organization-ideas). If I were in my Brooklyn hovel, I would have only mismatched teaspoons, so I also tried making the coffee with nothing but a glass bowl and a spoon:\n\n![Image may contain Drink Milk Beverage and Food](https:\/\/media.glamour.com\/photos\/5e878a3da171480008816485\/master\/w_1600%2Cc_limit\/IMG_7991.JPG)\n\n*If you do decide to go the homesteader spoon route, doubling the recipe will make it a little easier*\n\nThis approach felt, I will admit, insane. I felt like I was on a homestead, whipping cream into butter before the menfolk come back from the fields. My arm muscles withered in their flesh prison. I watched the better part of an episode of *The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt* and fed myself half a bag of baby carrots with my left hand before I was able to make something resembling the desired coffee topping. I also tried making dalgona coffee with a [hand frother](https:\/\/www.homedepot.com\/pep\/Ovente-Stainless-Steel-Milk-Frother-Coffee-Mixer-Wand-Black-FRS1020B-FRS1020B\/312191905?mtc=Shopping-BA-F_HDH-G-D29B-29_28_SMALL_ELECTRICS-MULTI-NA-Feed-PLA-NA-NA-Coffee&cm_mmc=Shopping-BA-F_HDH-G-D29B-29_28_SMALL_ELECTRICS-MULTI-NA-Feed-PLA-NA-NA-Coffee-71700000048833948-58700005310601545-92700052333958917&gclid=CjwKCAjwvZv0BRA8EiwAD9T2VaL7MsAqCB6AAWos7dJH9LRT0wobEbhRpyFZHp7v8eJF_rA-TQxYKxoC3N8QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds), which was a little more efficient than the spoon.\n\nIf you're looking for a quick cup of coffee, do not do this. If you are looking for a fulfilling quarantine activity and you aren't trying to learn how to knit or bake sourdough, start stirring. You are a modern corona-homesteader, and soon you will have one Michelle Obama arm\\!\n\nOnce your creation looks golden and sea-foamy (but not too stiff, or it won't settle over the milk), fill a glass with ice, pour in milk or a milk substitute, and gently top it with the coffee.\n\nMost Popular\n\n![Image may contain Cooking Batter](https:\/\/media.glamour.com\/photos\/5e878ac7a171480008816486\/master\/w_1600%2Cc_limit\/IMG_7998.JPG)\n\n*Don't let the coffee get too much lighter than this, or the consistency will be too thick to mix well with the milk.*\n\nOnce you make your dalgona coffee, you are under legal obligation to take many, many photos of it, which you must upload to the internet. Then stir before you drink, to avoid consuming a cup of icy milk followed by straight-up sugar coffee.\n\nCongratulations! You are now a chef, a scientist, and a valuable member of the internet. 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Boilerpipe Text	All products featured on Glamour are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. Nothing—not even a pandemic —should come between us and iced-coffee season. Enter: this simple, impressive dalgona coffee recipe. Remaining inside for weeks on end, staring out the window, preparing increasingly decadent grilled cheese sandwiches—these all pass for premier indoor activities now. I feel fortunate to be safe and never farther than three feet away from a wheel of Brie, but there is one thing I miss. No, it’s not face-to-face interactions with friends or the feeling of fresh air. It’s the mellifluous, clink-clink springtime jingle of a delicious, cold iced coffee, procured at an overpriced café! I should be doing my annual routine of taking two sips of cold brew, seizing with anxiety, and then wondering if this is what drugs feels like! But of course that’s off the table, so please join me in letting this new, Instagram-friendly drink save you from despair. If you’ve seen a mouthwatering, visually delightful, obscenely fluffy coffee beverage pop up on social media, you can thank South Korean food vloggers, who innovated the DIY latte trend under their own recent quarantine. Named after a Korean toffee candy—because both are brown-sugar-colored and delightful in their cloudlike presentation—dalgona coffee is here to fill the iced-coffee-shaped hole in your quarantined heart. It's simple to make, contains only ingredients you already have around the house, and is very, very photogenic. In other words, it is the opposite of a sourdough starter. Here’s what you’ll need to make (a single serving of) dalgona coffee: Instant coffee Sugar Hot water A hand mixer (or a whisk or a spoon, but see notes below) Milk or an alt-milk Yes, that's really it. First, measure out equal amounts of instant coffee, sugar, and hot water. (Start with two tablespoons each, and scale up from there.) Then pour the ingredients into a bowl. The water needs to be hot or boiling to help the coffee and sugar dissolve. The definitive recipe comes from South Korean YouTuber Ddulgi , who somehow managed to make a video with a hand mixer a soothing ASMR experience . Like her tutorial, most recipes call for even proportions—a 1:1:1 ratio of instant coffee, boiling water, and sugar. As someone who has woken up family members every day this week with the whirring sounds of a hand mixer as I manically blend my new favorite ingredients, I must warn you that if you use less than one tablespoon of instant coffee plus one tablespoon of water plus one tablespoon of sugar, there really won't be enough liquid to whip up. It will look like you are making onion dip for a single ant. Please learn from my mistake: For a single serving, a minimum of two tablespoons of instant coffee and hot water works best. That being said, you absolutely do not need to add an equal amount of sugar, depending on your tastes. But you do need some sugar, to create the creamy whipped peaks effect. I tried subbing out a spoonful of Nutella for sugar—it tasted good, but it did not look good enough to impress a TikTok teen and thus was pointless. You cannot use drip coffee, but if you really don't have any instant, you can allegedly use finely ground coffee beans instead . You can also mix in cocoa powder or cinnamon. Or you can make a matcha version. Most Popular The dalgona coffee recipe works best with an electric mixer. Using a standard mixer on a medium setting, I made the coffee in about three minutes. Watching the raw ingredients morph into a chocolatey paste and then ripple into golden waves in a matter of minutes is quite satisfying and made me feel like a mad scientist. But! I have a hand mixer only because I am now living with my parents in a Grown-Up House . If I were in my Brooklyn hovel, I would have only mismatched teaspoons, so I also tried making the coffee with nothing but a glass bowl and a spoon: If you do decide to go the homesteader spoon route, doubling the recipe will make it a little easier This approach felt, I will admit, insane. I felt like I was on a homestead, whipping cream into butter before the menfolk come back from the fields. My arm muscles withered in their flesh prison. I watched the better part of an episode of The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and fed myself half a bag of baby carrots with my left hand before I was able to make something resembling the desired coffee topping. I also tried making dalgona coffee with a hand frother , which was a little more efficient than the spoon. If you're looking for a quick cup of coffee, do not do this. If you are looking for a fulfilling quarantine activity and you aren't trying to learn how to knit or bake sourdough, start stirring. You are a modern corona-homesteader, and soon you will have one Michelle Obama arm! Once your creation looks golden and sea-foamy (but not too stiff, or it won't settle over the milk), fill a glass with ice, pour in milk or a milk substitute, and gently top it with the coffee. Most Popular Don't let the coffee get too much lighter than this, or the consistency will be too thick to mix well with the milk. Once you make your dalgona coffee, you are under legal obligation to take many, many photos of it, which you must upload to the internet. Then stir before you drink, to avoid consuming a cup of icy milk followed by straight-up sugar coffee. Congratulations! You are now a chef, a scientist, and a valuable member of the internet. When you get out of quarantine, tip your barista extra. Jenny Singer is a staff writer for Glamour. You can follow her on Twitter .
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By [Jenny Singer](https://www.glamour.com/contributor/jenny-singer) April 3, 2020 ![An easy dalgona coffee recipe to make at home.](https://media.glamour.com/photos/5e8787c7c4091000082cceed/master/w_2560%2Cc_limit/lede_social%2520\(7\).jpg) Clara Hendler All products featured on Glamour are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. Nothing—not even a [pandemic](https://www.glamour.com/story/can-you-have-sex-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic-an-investigation)—should come between us and iced-coffee season. Enter: this simple, impressive dalgona coffee recipe. Remaining inside for weeks on end, staring out the window, preparing increasingly decadent grilled cheese sandwiches—these all pass for premier indoor activities now. I feel fortunate to be safe and never farther than three feet away from a wheel of Brie, but there is one thing I miss. No, it’s not face-to-face interactions with friends or the feeling of fresh air. It’s the mellifluous, clink-clink springtime jingle of a delicious, cold iced coffee, procured at an overpriced café! I should be doing my annual routine of taking two sips of cold brew, seizing with anxiety, and then wondering if this is what drugs feels like\! But of course that’s off the table, so please join me in letting this new, Instagram-friendly drink save you from despair. If you’ve seen a mouthwatering, visually delightful, obscenely fluffy coffee beverage pop up on social media, you can thank South Korean food vloggers, who innovated the DIY latte trend under their own recent quarantine. Named after a Korean toffee candy—because both are brown-sugar-colored and delightful in their cloudlike presentation—dalgona coffee is here to fill the iced-coffee-shaped hole in your quarantined heart. It's simple to make, contains only ingredients you already have around the house, and is very, very photogenic. In other words, it is the opposite of a sourdough starter. WATCH THIS [This is Your Pregnancy in 2 Minutes](https://www.glamour.com/video/watch/this-is-your-pregnancy-in-2-minutes) Here’s what you’ll need to make (a single serving of) dalgona coffee: - Instant coffee - Sugar - Hot water - A hand mixer (or a whisk or a spoon, but see notes below) - Milk or an alt-milk Yes, that's really it. ### Get the best sales and editor recs By signing up, you agree to our [user agreement](https://www.condenast.com/user-agreement) (including [class action waiver and arbitration provisions](https://www.condenast.com/user-agreement#introduction-arbitration-notice)), and acknowledge our [privacy policy](https://www.condenast.com/privacy-policy). First, measure out equal amounts of instant coffee, sugar, and hot water. (Start with two tablespoons each, and scale up from there.) Then pour the ingredients into a bowl. The water needs to be hot or boiling to help the coffee and sugar dissolve. ![Image may contain Food and Seasoning](https://media.glamour.com/photos/5e87894dd9989e0008a9dbc2/master/w_1600%2Cc_limit/IMG_7997.JPG) The definitive recipe comes from South Korean YouTuber [Ddulgi](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oENpvyppGEw), who somehow managed to make a video with a hand mixer a soothing [ASMR experience](https://www.glamour.com/story/maybe-now-is-a-good-time-for-you-to-get-really-into-asmr?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=glm&utm_mailing=GLM_Daily_040320&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&bxid=5dd317a905e94e6ce90d2711&cndid=59197797&hasha=e86fbde6aa799223a054e643cf50e320&hashb=d2130338c554abf4ca37b91d4050d7c3fc17e653&hashc=4a651c394dabac61ebf550eb8642a50b9cce455ebe68a7c482b365c327653e60&esrc=bounceX&utm_content=B&utm_term=GLM_Daily). Like her tutorial, most recipes call for even proportions—a 1:1:1 ratio of instant coffee, boiling water, and sugar. As someone who has woken up family members every day this week with the whirring sounds of a hand mixer as I manically blend my new favorite ingredients, I must warn you that if you use less than one tablespoon of instant coffee plus one tablespoon of water plus one tablespoon of sugar, there really won't be enough liquid to whip up. It will look like you are making onion dip for a single ant. Please learn from my mistake: ![Image may contain Cutlery Spoon Bowl Cooking Batter and Mixing Bowl](https://media.glamour.com/photos/5e8789a98ddec20008bfb914/master/w_1600%2Cc_limit/IMG_7984.JPG) For a single serving, a minimum of two tablespoons of instant coffee and hot water works best. That being said, you absolutely do not need to add an equal amount of sugar, depending on your tastes. But you do need some sugar, to create the creamy whipped peaks effect. I tried subbing out a spoonful of Nutella for sugar—it tasted good, but it did not look good enough to impress a TikTok teen and thus was pointless. You cannot use drip coffee, but if you really don't have any instant, you can allegedly [use finely ground coffee beans instead](https://www.elitedaily.com/p/heres-how-to-make-dalgona-coffee-without-instant-coffee-for-at-home-treat-22663941). You can also mix in cocoa powder or cinnamon. Or you can make a matcha version. #### Instagram content To honor your privacy preferences, this content can only be viewed on the site it [originates](https://www.instagram.com/p/B-SPyPYBhmh/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link) from. 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Using a standard mixer on a medium setting, I made the coffee in about three minutes. Watching the raw ingredients morph into a chocolatey paste and then ripple into golden waves in a matter of minutes is quite satisfying and made me feel like a mad scientist. But! I have a hand mixer only because I am now living with my parents in a [Grown-Up House](https://www.glamour.com/gallery/kitchen-organization-ideas). If I were in my Brooklyn hovel, I would have only mismatched teaspoons, so I also tried making the coffee with nothing but a glass bowl and a spoon: ![Image may contain Drink Milk Beverage and Food](https://media.glamour.com/photos/5e878a3da171480008816485/master/w_1600%2Cc_limit/IMG_7991.JPG) If you do decide to go the homesteader spoon route, doubling the recipe will make it a little easier This approach felt, I will admit, insane. I felt like I was on a homestead, whipping cream into butter before the menfolk come back from the fields. My arm muscles withered in their flesh prison. I watched the better part of an episode of The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and fed myself half a bag of baby carrots with my left hand before I was able to make something resembling the desired coffee topping. I also tried making dalgona coffee with a [hand frother](https://www.homedepot.com/pep/Ovente-Stainless-Steel-Milk-Frother-Coffee-Mixer-Wand-Black-FRS1020B-FRS1020B/312191905?mtc=Shopping-BA-F_HDH-G-D29B-29_28_SMALL_ELECTRICS-MULTI-NA-Feed-PLA-NA-NA-Coffee&cm_mmc=Shopping-BA-F_HDH-G-D29B-29_28_SMALL_ELECTRICS-MULTI-NA-Feed-PLA-NA-NA-Coffee-71700000048833948-58700005310601545-92700052333958917&gclid=CjwKCAjwvZv0BRA8EiwAD9T2VaL7MsAqCB6AAWos7dJH9LRT0wobEbhRpyFZHp7v8eJF_rA-TQxYKxoC3N8QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds), which was a little more efficient than the spoon. If you're looking for a quick cup of coffee, do not do this. 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Once you make your dalgona coffee, you are under legal obligation to take many, many photos of it, which you must upload to the internet. Then stir before you drink, to avoid consuming a cup of icy milk followed by straight-up sugar coffee. Congratulations! You are now a chef, a scientist, and a valuable member of the internet. When you get out of quarantine, tip your barista extra. Jenny Singer is a staff writer for Glamour. You can follow her on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/JeanValjenny). [Jenny Singer](https://www.glamour.com/contributor/jenny-singer) is a staff writer at Glamour, covering all things from seltzer trends to reproductive rights to Chrissy Teigen's pet lizard. Before Glamour, Jenny worked as the deputy lifestyle editor at the Forward, a historic Jewish publication. Her work has also been seen in Time Out New York and ... 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Readable Markdown	All products featured on Glamour are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. Nothing—not even a [pandemic](https://www.glamour.com/story/can-you-have-sex-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic-an-investigation)—should come between us and iced-coffee season. Enter: this simple, impressive dalgona coffee recipe. Remaining inside for weeks on end, staring out the window, preparing increasingly decadent grilled cheese sandwiches—these all pass for premier indoor activities now. I feel fortunate to be safe and never farther than three feet away from a wheel of Brie, but there is one thing I miss. No, it’s not face-to-face interactions with friends or the feeling of fresh air. It’s the mellifluous, clink-clink springtime jingle of a delicious, cold iced coffee, procured at an overpriced café! I should be doing my annual routine of taking two sips of cold brew, seizing with anxiety, and then wondering if this is what drugs feels like\! But of course that’s off the table, so please join me in letting this new, Instagram-friendly drink save you from despair. If you’ve seen a mouthwatering, visually delightful, obscenely fluffy coffee beverage pop up on social media, you can thank South Korean food vloggers, who innovated the DIY latte trend under their own recent quarantine. Named after a Korean toffee candy—because both are brown-sugar-colored and delightful in their cloudlike presentation—dalgona coffee is here to fill the iced-coffee-shaped hole in your quarantined heart. It's simple to make, contains only ingredients you already have around the house, and is very, very photogenic. In other words, it is the opposite of a sourdough starter. Here’s what you’ll need to make (a single serving of) dalgona coffee: - Instant coffee - Sugar - Hot water - A hand mixer (or a whisk or a spoon, but see notes below) - Milk or an alt-milk Yes, that's really it. First, measure out equal amounts of instant coffee, sugar, and hot water. (Start with two tablespoons each, and scale up from there.) Then pour the ingredients into a bowl. The water needs to be hot or boiling to help the coffee and sugar dissolve. ![Image may contain Food and Seasoning](https://media.glamour.com/photos/5e87894dd9989e0008a9dbc2/master/w_1600%2Cc_limit/IMG_7997.JPG) The definitive recipe comes from South Korean YouTuber [Ddulgi](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oENpvyppGEw), who somehow managed to make a video with a hand mixer a soothing [ASMR experience](https://www.glamour.com/story/maybe-now-is-a-good-time-for-you-to-get-really-into-asmr?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=glm&utm_mailing=GLM_Daily_040320&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&bxid=5dd317a905e94e6ce90d2711&cndid=59197797&hasha=e86fbde6aa799223a054e643cf50e320&hashb=d2130338c554abf4ca37b91d4050d7c3fc17e653&hashc=4a651c394dabac61ebf550eb8642a50b9cce455ebe68a7c482b365c327653e60&esrc=bounceX&utm_content=B&utm_term=GLM_Daily). Like her tutorial, most recipes call for even proportions—a 1:1:1 ratio of instant coffee, boiling water, and sugar. As someone who has woken up family members every day this week with the whirring sounds of a hand mixer as I manically blend my new favorite ingredients, I must warn you that if you use less than one tablespoon of instant coffee plus one tablespoon of water plus one tablespoon of sugar, there really won't be enough liquid to whip up. It will look like you are making onion dip for a single ant. Please learn from my mistake: ![Image may contain Cutlery Spoon Bowl Cooking Batter and Mixing Bowl](https://media.glamour.com/photos/5e8789a98ddec20008bfb914/master/w_1600%2Cc_limit/IMG_7984.JPG) For a single serving, a minimum of two tablespoons of instant coffee and hot water works best. That being said, you absolutely do not need to add an equal amount of sugar, depending on your tastes. But you do need some sugar, to create the creamy whipped peaks effect. I tried subbing out a spoonful of Nutella for sugar—it tasted good, but it did not look good enough to impress a TikTok teen and thus was pointless. You cannot use drip coffee, but if you really don't have any instant, you can allegedly [use finely ground coffee beans instead](https://www.elitedaily.com/p/heres-how-to-make-dalgona-coffee-without-instant-coffee-for-at-home-treat-22663941). You can also mix in cocoa powder or cinnamon. Or you can make a matcha version. Most Popular The dalgona coffee recipe works best with an electric mixer. Using a standard mixer on a medium setting, I made the coffee in about three minutes. Watching the raw ingredients morph into a chocolatey paste and then ripple into golden waves in a matter of minutes is quite satisfying and made me feel like a mad scientist. But! I have a hand mixer only because I am now living with my parents in a [Grown-Up House](https://www.glamour.com/gallery/kitchen-organization-ideas). If I were in my Brooklyn hovel, I would have only mismatched teaspoons, so I also tried making the coffee with nothing but a glass bowl and a spoon: ![Image may contain Drink Milk Beverage and Food](https://media.glamour.com/photos/5e878a3da171480008816485/master/w_1600%2Cc_limit/IMG_7991.JPG) If you do decide to go the homesteader spoon route, doubling the recipe will make it a little easier This approach felt, I will admit, insane. I felt like I was on a homestead, whipping cream into butter before the menfolk come back from the fields. My arm muscles withered in their flesh prison. I watched the better part of an episode of The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and fed myself half a bag of baby carrots with my left hand before I was able to make something resembling the desired coffee topping. I also tried making dalgona coffee with a [hand frother](https://www.homedepot.com/pep/Ovente-Stainless-Steel-Milk-Frother-Coffee-Mixer-Wand-Black-FRS1020B-FRS1020B/312191905?mtc=Shopping-BA-F_HDH-G-D29B-29_28_SMALL_ELECTRICS-MULTI-NA-Feed-PLA-NA-NA-Coffee&cm_mmc=Shopping-BA-F_HDH-G-D29B-29_28_SMALL_ELECTRICS-MULTI-NA-Feed-PLA-NA-NA-Coffee-71700000048833948-58700005310601545-92700052333958917&gclid=CjwKCAjwvZv0BRA8EiwAD9T2VaL7MsAqCB6AAWos7dJH9LRT0wobEbhRpyFZHp7v8eJF_rA-TQxYKxoC3N8QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds), which was a little more efficient than the spoon. If you're looking for a quick cup of coffee, do not do this. If you are looking for a fulfilling quarantine activity and you aren't trying to learn how to knit or bake sourdough, start stirring. You are a modern corona-homesteader, and soon you will have one Michelle Obama arm\! Once your creation looks golden and sea-foamy (but not too stiff, or it won't settle over the milk), fill a glass with ice, pour in milk or a milk substitute, and gently top it with the coffee. Most Popular ![Image may contain Cooking Batter](https://media.glamour.com/photos/5e878ac7a171480008816486/master/w_1600%2Cc_limit/IMG_7998.JPG) Don't let the coffee get too much lighter than this, or the consistency will be too thick to mix well with the milk. Once you make your dalgona coffee, you are under legal obligation to take many, many photos of it, which you must upload to the internet. Then stir before you drink, to avoid consuming a cup of icy milk followed by straight-up sugar coffee. Congratulations! You are now a chef, a scientist, and a valuable member of the internet. When you get out of quarantine, tip your barista extra. Jenny Singer is a staff writer for Glamour. You can follow her on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/JeanValjenny).
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