Yeah, Scorcher I know what you mean. That really comes down to not having enough liquid with the creatine. If your drinking a small shake all at once there is absolutely no reason to spoon it in your mouth. People worry that a little might settle to the bottom but you shake it or stir it up and slam it, so big deal. Then if you follow that with your second thing like Kane with plenty of liquid your good to go.
The only legitimate reason to spoon it in to your mouth is if you make one really big mixture like I do. You don't want to drink a really big one all at once so you spoon it in with the first half and you drink the second half more slowly. That way you don't take the chance of it degrading, settling to the bottom...and your shake tastes better.
One little point on this is that I think some people like to do too MUCH of everything for post workout. The idea of immediately post is to get some fast absorbing stuff to your muscles while you have the oppurtunity. It's better to use just enough protein and carbs and get them there fast than it is to try to load up on anything at this point. A lot of people use up to two scoops of protein, for instance, and think about it.....the more stuff you put in your stomach the slower it will all empty. So too much kind of defeats the purpose of all this "fast absorption" talk.
Of course malto and dex are better for all this because you can control the amount of carbs. But you know all this talk and the only reason I still use mono is because I have about ten million tons of the stuff I'm trying to use up
then I'll just use CEE.