Organic Coffee E Juice
A cup of coffee and cigarette used to be part of the roadside diner culture. Then people began to quit smoking. One of the approaches is to use an electronic cigarette which lets you inhale water vapor, a flavoring and nicotine without the carcinogens in cigarette smoke. The liquid used to create flavors for an e cigarette is called e juice. A nickname for getting your nicotine by this method is vaping. But what if you really liked your coffee and cigarette? You could drink healthy organic coffee and get your nicotine fix with an e cigarette or you could bunch it all into the e juice and inhale it. That is where the idea of organic coffee e juice comes from.
Inhale Your Latte
If you like coffee house coffee you may be a fan of latte.
Here are the derivatives of espresso that you can typically find at your local coffee house:
- Americano
- Breve
- Cappucino
- Latte
- Mocha
Americano
Americano is a coffee house coffee made from espresso and diluted with water. This goes back to the World War II era and after when GI’s who were used to Mom’s home perked or boiled coffee asked the barista to add water to their espresso to make it less strong. Think “weak espresso.”
Breve and Latte
Both of these are made with espresso and foam. Latte is made with steamed milk and breve is made with half and half. For latte think “coffee with milk” or café au lait and for breve think “coffee with milk and cream.”
Cappuccino
Cappuccino is made with espresso plus hot milk plus lots of steamed foam.
Mocha
Mocha is for coffee and chocolate lovers. It is made with espresso plus chocolate syrup plus milk.
But now you can organic coffee e juice with the hint of sweet cream and Arabica coffee from organic e juice suppliers. Or you can get organic Kona coffee.
Organic Kona coffee is grown on mountainous slopes on the Big Island of Hawaii. Kona coffee benefits from mild weather and moist growing conditions as well as the volcanic soil of the Hawaiian Islands. Because of its scarcity as well as its quality Kona coffee is one of the world’s most expensive coffees. Organic Kona coffee is therefore rarer and somewhat more expensive. Coffee was first grown in the Hawaiian Island in the early 19th century from cuttings brought form Brazil. The Kona brand itself dates back to the 19th century and an Englishman, Henry Nicholas Greenwell. Although Hawaiian coffee was first grown on large plantations a crash in the worldwide coffee market in 1899 led owners to lease or sell land to their workers. This started a tradition of family operated coffee farms of five to twelve acres. The fact that families continue to grow on the same land has led to the tradition of sustainable coffee growing that is the hallmark of growing healthy organic coffee. Top grades Kona coffee are Kona Extra Fancy, Kona Fancy, Kona Number 1, Kona Select, and Kona Prime.
Remember that cup of coffee and a cigarette? Recreate the memory with organic coffee e juice but don’t forget the real coffee either.
What Is Egg Coffee?
An article in the Minnesota online magazine Eater brought back memories of family farm gatherings with good eats and lots of coffee. The magazine reminds us that you might crack an egg into your coffee.
I remember watching my grandmother make us egg coffee when we’d visit her summertime cabin home on the orange-tinged shores of Lake Esquagama, Minnesota. She’d crack an egg into a small bowl and beat it until thoroughly blended, then mix the egg into dry coffee grounds (we were a Hills Bros. family, but Folger’s sometimes stood in at the cabin). The mixture was then put into a large stove-top coffee pot and brought to a boil. Once it was good and roiling, she’d turn the heat off and allow the grounds to steep for 10 minutes.
After resting the pot, she’d dump a coffee cup’s worth of cold water into the pot and then gently pour several cups of coffee.
The point of the cold water at the end is that it caused to coffee grounds to settle to the bottom of the pot. This description fits coffee made by my aunts Frieda, Marian, the other Frieda, Anna, Sylvia, Katherine, Lizzie or my mother, Wilma. But in Southern Minnesota on German farmsteads they just cracked the egg and tossed it in the pot, shell and all. The end result was as described in Eater, delicious coffee with the bitterness removed.
From the Era of Egg Coffee
Larger Grind, Less Bitter Taste
Another way to reduce the bitterness in coffee is not to grind it too finely. CBC News discusses the secret to a perfect cup of coffee.
According to researcher Kevin Moroney, the size of the grounds is “vitally important” to the extraction of coffee. The larger the grind in drip coffee the less bitter the taste, partially because there are more gaps between the grinds and the hot water can circulate more easily.
The bitterness occurs when the surface area of the grain is high (a fine grind), preventing water from easily flowing between the grounds and increasing the amount of coffee extracted from the beans.
However, you will get less caffeine with less finely ground beans. So, if you want to wake up grind the beans a lot and if you want taste and to be able to sleep at night use less finely ground beans.
Arabica Coffee
And no matter how you prepare your coffee the best organic coffee leads to the best results and that is Arabica organic coffee.
There are two basic species of coffee, Arabica and Robusta. Arabica coffee is generally believed to be the first type of coffee to be cultivated. So, if you buy Arabica organic coffee you are buying into a tradition stretching back over a thousand years. The so called coffee shrub of Africa is believed to have originated in the mountains of Yemen although there is also evidence that the species originated in the highlands of Ethiopia and the Sudan. When you buy Arabica organic coffee you are choosing the species of coffee with superior taste according to many experts. Café Arabica also contains less caffeine than Robusta. Although wild Arabica coffee plants can reach 12 meters in height coffee growers typically prune the plant to no more than 5 meters and often as short as 2 meters high to make the coffee easier to pick. Arabica coffee grows best at just under a mile in altitude although it is grown at sea level and as high as 7,500 feet. This healthy organic coffee species does well with a meter or meter and a half of rain a year, planted on hillsides with good drainage.
So, remember to buy good quality organic coffee and remembrance of grandmas and aunts from times long past try a little egg coffee from time to time.
Single Serve Coffee without Pods
We have one more item to add to our list of gift ideas for coffee lovers. It is a way to make single serve coffee without pods. The Spinn coffee maker is high tech and getting lots of attention in the online tech media. Digital Trends reviews the Spinn coffee maker.
The Spinn coffee maker is aimed at being totally self-contained. In other words, it takes care of all the steps for you – it grinds the beans to the perfect fineness, heats the water, then uses a spinning cylinder, hence the name Spinn, to get the water to go through the beans at the right pressure. It’s a pretty neat concept, and it should make for some great tasting coffee.
Another major bonus to Spinn is that it doesn’t make a mess. The grounds themselves are completely drained of all water, and then they’re spat out into a waste container, where they can be simply dumped into the bin.
And you can use this brand new gizmo to make a single cup of coffee! A drawback for most of us mere mortals is the price which ranges from $499 to $999. However, if you want to get in on this neat way to make single serve coffee without pods you can take advantage of an introductory offer for 40% off making the cheap version about $300.
The Verge also reviews the Spinn coffee maker, saying that it thinks it is better than pods.
But now, a company called Spinn wants you to know that it too can make a convenient single-serving cup of coffee, without using wasteful, expensive pods.
The Spinn coffee machines vary in size but all are marketed as the future of coffee because they take whole beans, grind them, heat them, and brew them without any human interaction or plastic waste. Take that, pods. Spinn connects to a companion iOS / Android app over Wi-Fi so users can specify how they want their coffee done, or schedule a cup ahead of time, although this can also be done directly from the machine or through Alexa voice commands. Spinn can make a shot of espresso, or even a latte in its larger machines that come with milk steamers. The app also connects coffee drinkers with local roasting companies to order beans directly.
Coffee lovers, welcome to the world of high tech. But just remember that if you want a great cup of healthy organic coffee you still need to consider organic coffee from Colombia, Panama, Brazil or other areas when they grow the best Arabica coffee. If your object is great coffee made with a high tech gadget that reduces waste don’t skimp on the quality of the beans.
Better Coffee, Delivered to Your Door
The best Arabica coffee comes from the Eje Cafetero in Colombia. Your coffee loving hard to buy a present for friend will be very impressed if you contact us at Buy Organic Coffee and set up UPS or FEDEX monthly delivery of either green or freshly roasted coffee from the mountains of Colombia or even Panama. Check out our coffee price list page or contact us today.
Organic Decaf Coffee K Cups
If you like organic coffee but too much coffee gives you the jitters, you may want organic decaf coffee.
To meet FDA labeling requirements 97% of the caffeine has to be removed. A six ounce cup of Robusta coffee commonly has as much as 200 milligrams of caffeine. A cup of shade grown organic coffee from Arabica beans usually has between 70 and 130 milligrams of caffeine. To be labeled as decaf these coffees need to be reduced to six and about three milligrams per six ounce cup. The moral is that if you want to avoid caffeine you should start by looking for decaf Arabica coffee. Unfortunately most commercial brands of decaf are made from Robusta beans. Remember that decaf does not mean caffeine free.
If you are also tired of wasting coffee by making a batch and throwing out half then you may want to look a single serve coffee approach.
The USA is steadily consuming less coffee, not because anyone is cutting back but because of the single serve revolution. Bloomberg Business reports on how single-serving pods have decreased coffee consumption.
Single-serve brewing machines popularized by Keurig Green Mountain Inc. are now used by more than one in four Americans and are altering the way coffee is consumed. Almost every brand, from Folgers to Dunkin’ Donuts, is sold in disposable 2-inch-by-2-inch plastic pods that yield just one serving. They’re more efficient than drip-brewing pots capable of making 10 cups, some of which isn’t consumed and gets dumped.
While Americans still drink more coffee than any beverage except water, expanded use of single-serve machines has slowed demand growth for a $52 billion market in the U.S., the world’s biggest consumer. That’s hurt sales at a time when ample inventories of the commodity have sent prices tumbling.
One observer says that coffee farmers have lost their most lucrative consumer, the kitchen sink where unused coffee poured.
And if you like single serve, organic and decaf then you need organic decaf coffee K cups. At Keurig online you can order Newman’s Own Organics decaf coffee in a k cup. Bed Bath and Beyond offers Gorilla Decaf from the Organic Coffee Company. And Green Mountain offers Colombian Fair Trade decaf in k cups as well.
Organic Decaf Coffee K Cups
The argument for decaf coffee is that it does not make you nervous. However, if you drink high quality Arabica coffee it has less caffeine than cheaper Robusta. And if you limit your coffee intake the issue of nervousness goes away. The advantages of k cups are the ease of making a single cup of coffee and not wasting excess coffee along the way. The drawback to getting your organic coffee, decaf or not, via a k cup is that you are contributing a lot of plastic containers to the landfills of the world which may not make sense if you are going organic to protect the planet.
Keurig sells a lot of coffee and a lot of folks like the singe serving approach because it is easy and does not waste coffee. The trouble is that there is a lot of other waste with this product that goes against protecting the environment.
The best solution is to look for biodegradable containers for your k cups and then you are home free.
Gift Ideas for Coffee Lovers
The holiday season is almost upon us and it is time, again, to find gifts for those hard-to-shop-for people in your life. If any or all of those folks enjoy their cup of java here are a few gift ideas for coffee lovers.
Gift Cards
First of all for the coffee lover who picks up a cup on the way to work in the morning how about gift certificates? As an example you can buy a Starbucks gift card along with your coffee or purchase one online. On their gift card page you can also recharge cards as well. You can also get gift cards for Caribou, The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, Tully’s, etc. This a practical gift for the otherwise hard to shop for coffee lover.
Home Roasting
On the other end of the spectrum from those who only buy coffee house coffee are those who buy green coffee beans and roast their own. Our roast your own coffee article has a few suggestions.
If you are a true coffee aficionado you may choose to roast your own coffee. What does this entail? Can you get good at it? What do you have to buy? We looked on the internet for a list of coffee roasters and found a few suggestions and brands. Here is some info if you want to start to roast your own green coffee beans.
Here you either need to know just what the person wants or buy a gift card for a store that sells a variety of coffee roasting devices.
Whole Bean, Grind Your Own
Your hard to find a gift for coffee lover may not want to roast their own coffee but may like the fresher taste of high quality whole bean organic coffee ground just before brewing. In this case you need to find a nice coffee grinder or a shop that sells a variety of them and offers gift cards.
Organic whole bean coffee may be the best way to preserve organic coffee antioxidants when buying organic coffee. Antioxidants are chemicals that inhibit damage done to the human body by chemicals called free radicals. The health benefits of antioxidants are many and, in fact, organic coffee contains antioxidants capable of reducing the chances of getting diabetes, colon cancer, and prostate cancer. An often overlooked problem with antioxidants is that these chemicals themselves breakdown with time and improper storage conditions. To preserve antioxidants in foods such as organic coffee they should be kept at less than 68 degree Fahrenheit and out of the light. Ideal containers are dark and products such as organic coffee should ideally be kept in a closed cupboard.
And make sure to include a high quality storage container with your gift of a coffee grinder.
Better Coffee, Delivered to Your Door
The best Arabica coffee comes from the Eje Cafetero in Colombia. Your coffee loving hard to buy a present for friend will be very impressed if you contact us at Buy Organic Coffee and set up UPS or FEDEX monthly delivery of either green or freshly roasted coffee from the mountains of Colombia or even Panama. Check out our coffee price list page or contact us today.
What Is Organic Ganoderma Coffee?
A mushroom that only grows in remote mountain regions of China is nick named the treasure of life or spiritual potency (after its Chinese name, Lingzhi). Now this renowned product is certified organic. What is organic ganoderma coffee but a combination of organic coffee and organic ganoderma? What are the benefits of ganoderma coffee? Very Well discusses the issue.
Ganoderma coffee is a powdered drink mix that typically contains instant coffee and the powdered extract of Ganoderma lucidum (a medicinal mushroom often referred to as “reishi” or “Lingzhi”). Other ingredients such as sugar, non-dairy creamer, and other herbs may be included. It’s a product that some proponents say offers a range of health benefits and is sometimes used by people who would like to reduce their coffee intake but still boost their energy level.
Despite the marketing claims for the benefits of Ganoderma coffee, however, there is no scientific support for the product’s health effects.
The fact of the matter is that no one has done any research to see if ganoderma coffee has any health benefits above and beyond the health benefits of drinking coffee. But some work has been done on ganoderma itself.
For instance, a 2003 study of 34 advanced-stage cancer patients found that Ganoderma may help strengthen the immune system in people with cancer. Published in Immunological Investigations, the study found that 12 weeks of treatment with Ganoderma supplements enhanced the immune response in most participants.
What’s more, findings from animal-based research and test-tube studies suggest that Ganoderma may help knock out breast cancer cells, reduce airway inflammation associated with allergies, and lower cholesterol levels.
Coffee is good for you and organic coffee is better but too much coffee gives you the jitters and keeps you awake at night. What are the side effects of ganoderma coffee?
Side Effects of Ganoderma
Ganoderma side effects include dry nose and throat, nausea interactions with medications like anticoagulants and chemotherapy meds. There are also case reports of people who came down with hepatitis after taking ganoderma products. At least one reported case was a fatality.
Is This an Herbal Supplement or an Unregulated Drug?
For more than a century the United States has had laws requiring that medications do not cause any harm. For forty years the law has required that medications do what they claim to do. These laws, unfortunately, do not apply to dietary supplements. Thus products like ganoderma are commonly marketed in such a way as to suggest that they have numerous benefits to your health. However, if you read the fine print they never really say that. If they make clear claims about the effectiveness of their products the Food and Drug Administration will require them to provide proof or take their products off the market. Thus the way these products are marketed is to provide “testimonials” about how someone felt better or suggests this product to friends. This level of “proof” is not scientific and not based on research. So, go ahead and try some organic ganoderma coffee but be aware that while there is a ton of proof that coffee is good for your health you may be wasting your money by adding the mushroom from China.
Organic Coffee with Chicory
Organic coffee is good for you and typically an organic coffee is high quality Arabica as well. Chicory is a time honored coffee substitute that you can obtain in organic form. Why would you want organic coffee with chicory? First let’s look at the benefits of chicory. The Organic Facts website discusses the benefits of chicory.
Chicory is a woody, herbaceous plant that has a wealth of health benefits, including the ability to ease digestive problems, prevent heartburn, reduce arthritis pains, detoxify the liver and gallbladder, prevent bacterial infections, boost the immune system, and reduce the chance of heart disease. It is also a natural sedative, and can protect against kidney stones, and benefit attempts to lose weight. All in all, this small plant is a powerful addition to any diet.
Chicory increases bile flow from the liver which is how it improves digestion. This increases the breakdown of fats that we eat. In addition chicory contains inulin which helps keep the bacterial flora in the intestine healthy. And chicory like many herbs is high in antioxidants which puts it right in the same ballpark as coffee as an antioxidant source.
Antioxidants help prevent the damage caused by excessive oxidation and to a degree inhibit the aging process. When an oxidative reaction brought on by disease gets going it produces free radicals that start chain reactions which in turn cause cell and tissue damage. The human body has or uses antioxidants to control this situation. Natural means of controlling oxidation include vitamins C and E as well as glutathione. It is low levels of antioxidants that can lead to a condition referred to as oxidative stress and resultant damage to cells in the body. Organic coffee antioxidants are in the same class of molecules that help reduce oxidation.
We have previously written the plant has also been used as a coffee substitute.
Chicory coffee is common in Southeast Asia, South Africa and the Southern USA, especially New Orleans. Elsewhere Chicory has been used when coffee is not available such as during the Second World War in Europe and everywhere outside of coffee producing countries in the Great Depression. Strong blond Belgian style ales often contain chicory to augment the hops.
Making Organic Coffee with Chicory
You can certainly buy coffee, chicory or a mixture of both. But if you want to do it right, how do you make chicory coffee?
Starting with fresh chicory root, preferably from your own garden, pick and clean.
Cut into slices and dry in the sun or in the oven on low temperature.
Roast the chicory in the oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for at least half an hour or longer for a “darker” roast.
Grind the roasted chicory chips, twice as they do not grind as well as coffee.
Grind your whole bean organic roasted coffee.
Make the first batch with half coffee and half chicory.
Then adjust to taste in later batches.
Chicory has a chocolate and malt-like aroma and flavor. It is slightly more acidic than coffee. Drink your organic coffee with chicory and think of New Orleans.
Do Coffee Stains Come Out?
You are in a hurry as you leave the coffee shop on the way to work and some of your coffee misses your mouth and ends up on your blouse, shirt, skirt or pants. Do coffee stains come out? That is the primary question provided that the coffee was not too hot in which case your concern would be second and third degree burns. But let’s get back to the stains.
Removing Coffee Stains
The first thing to do if you spill coffee on a garment is to rinse it in cold water rubbing gently. Repeat two or three times as needed. This advice is from the Cleanipedia web site. Here is the rest of what they say about how to remove coffee stains.
Coffee can be one of the most troublesome stains to get out of clothing and carpets, but there are several strategies you can use to treat the stain. Here’s a step-by-step approach to getting rid of a coffee stain. Depending on the age and size of your stain, more vigorous effort may be required, so simply follow each step and repeat until it’s gone.
If you cannot immediate remove the garment, blot the stain with a paper towel or tissue to remove excess liquid.
Then rinse as able with cold water for as long as 5 minutes running water from the back of the stain to the front. Rub gentle every minute or so.
Gently rub a small quantity of laundry detergent into the stain and massage. Rinse after five minutes.
A backup approach if the stain remains is to mix white vinegar with detergent, test on a corner of the fabric to make sure that it does not discolor and rub into the stain. Scrub with a brush and rinse.
Finally if nothing has worked so far try a stain stick like Persil but again test on a corner of the fabric first.
The last choice is to take the garment to a dry cleaner.
At all costs to not put the garment with any residual stain in a dryer or in the sun because heat will set the stain, permanently.
Don’t Spill in the First Place
Coffee stains in the work place are enough of an issue that Bloomberg published a review of the best spill-proof travel mug. If you want to avoid coffee stains in the first place consider this approach.
Stainless steel travel mugs can be the perfect workplace complement: The simple vessels promise to keep their cargo both warm and away from clothes and keyboards. We subjected five popular models to a battery of tests designed to simulate years of real-world use and abuse by workers.
We tested four of the bestselling and highest-rated travel mugs on Amazon-the Zojirushi SM-YAE48 Travel Mug, the Thermos Vacuum Insulated Stainless Steel Double Wall Direct Drink Bottle, the Contigo Autoseal West Loop Stainless Travel Mug with Easy-Clean Lid, and the Oxo Stainless Steel LiquiSeal Travel Mug. Then we threw in a wild card entry that claims to prevent virtually all knockover spills; The Mighty Mug Solo SS.
A top of the line spill proof mug runs from $20 to $50 but these high quality items last virtually forever and if you figure in the cost of occasional dry cleaning or buying new garments when the stain don’t come out the mug is worth it!
Organic Alternative to Coffee Mate
If you like a little cream in your coffee but cannot tolerate dairy products you may be using Coffee Mate, a non-dairy creamer that has been around since 1961. What is in this product and can you get an organic alternative to Coffee Mate? According to Organic Authority, Coffee Mate contains the following:
Corn syrup solids: this is mostly the sugar dextrose derived from corn starch
Partially hydrogenated soybean or cottonseed oil: hydrogen is added to these oils to make them solid and making them trans fats
Sodium caseinate: this is a milk protein but does not contain lactose so it is a dairy product that is digestible by those with lactose intolerance
Mono and diglycerides: these are emulsifying agents that extend shelf life typically used in foods that contain trans fats
Dipotassium phosphate: this is a water-soluble salt that prevents Coffee Mate from coagulating.
Carrageenan: a red seaweed extract gelatin
Is there a simpler and organic alternative to this product?
Organic Alternative to Coffee Mate and Other Coffee Creamers
If you would like to avoid putting cream in your coffee and avoid all of the junk that comes in non-dairy creamers here are three alternatives.
Coconut Milk
We wrote recently about organic coffee with coconut oil.
Food Dive writes about Café Whip, a coconut whipped cream!
Rich’s Products Corporation introduced the first whipped topping made with coconut milk, according to Perishable News. It contains coconut milk, coconut oil and sunflower oil.
The new topping, called Cafe Whip, is vegan and kosher pareve. It is made with sugar, has no hydrogenated oils, and is lower fat than sweetened and flavored heavy whipping cream.
This coconut milk topping could have many uses, but it was developed for coffee shops.
Look for organic and you have a healthy alternative to Coffee Mate.
Almond Milk
Almond milk is rich in vitamin B-12 as well as vitamins A and D. You can typically find this in the dairy aisle or buy organic almonds and make your own.
Soak the almonds overnight or up to 2 days
Drain and rinse the almonds
Combine the almonds and water in a blender
Blend at the highest speed for 2 minutes
Strain the almonds
Press all the almond milk from the almond meal
Sweeten to taste
Refrigerate almond milk
Lactose Free Milk
And if your problem with drinking milk is a lactose intolerance, like three fourths of the people on earth, you can get organic lactose free milk as an organic alternative to Coffee Mate. Also you can buy lactase tablets at the drug store and take one with your coffee with cream or milk, organic of course.
Organic Coffee
And if you are looking for an organic alternative to Coffee Mate make sure that your coffee is safe organic coffee.
Coffee used to be grown in the shade and commonly in forested areas. Historically the environment and spacing out the coffee plants took care of much of the problem of insects and plant diseases. However, new coffee strains were introduced which can grow in the full sun. With the use of synthetic fertilizers the grower produces more coffee. This also erodes the soil and leaves synthetic fertilizer residue in the coffee bean. Crowding of plants brings about more plant diseases and pests which growers commonly treat with fungicides and pesticides, which also end up on the coffee bean. Safe organic coffee, on the other hand is grown and certified to be grown without use of pesticides, herbicides, or synthetic fertilizers.
Buy organic coffee and an organic alternative to Coffee Mate.
Did Someone Just Hack Your Coffee Maker?
We have just come across another excellent reason to use a French press or traditional methods as with Turkish coffee. Computer World tells us about when coffee makers attack.
It was shocking to learn that the recent distributed denial-of-service attack of the nation’s internet infrastructure via DNS provider Dyn was aided and abetted by a hijacked army of products from the internet of things. It is thought to be the first DoS attack to rely overwhelmingly on a lot of “dumb” appliances that have little processing power of their own but are connected to the internet. That’s right, the internet was crippled because our coffee makers, washing machines and refrigerators were recruited to bring it down.
Hackers managed to take control of more than 100,000 dumb devices like your coffee maker or even your toothbrush, although for the life of us we cannot fathom why a toothbrush would need internet access! Nevertheless the hackers pulled off a so-called denial of service attack by having 100,000 or so devices request access to the internet taking down an internet service company in the process. If someone just hacked your coffee maker what can you do? Here are three simple answers.
Keep the Coffee Maker and Change Your Password
If you bought a single serving coffee maker that you could access via you smart phone to start making the coffee as you are parking the car, maybe you want to keep the device. The answer then is to routinely change your username and password for the device. Read the instructions that came with the machine or contact the manufacturer if you need help. Because most of us are not storing nuclear weapons secrets or passwords to our bank account on the coffee maker we might have thought that no one cared. The quick answer is changing your password and username.
French Press
You really can make great coffee with a French press.
A French press is a coffee pot, typically glass, with a fine wire mesh plunger. Coffee grounds are added to the pot followed by hot water. The coffee is allowed to steep for a few minutes and then stirred briefly. Then the plunger is pushed down through the coffee. The bulk of the grounds are pushed to the bottom of the pot.
When you use a French press the coffee steeps just like tea. Because no filter is used you get the oils and particulate matter that contains so much of the aroma and flavor of the coffee. And the temperature of the coffee remains the same throughout the process until you pour into your coffee cup.
This method does not involve computer chips, access to the internet, usernames or passwords. And it makes great coffee.
French Press Coffee Maker
Exotic Coffees
We have written about different ways to make coffee from around the world. None of these involves the internet or passwords and usernames. For example, Turkish coffee can be fun to make and is delicious as well.
Ibrik for Turkish Coffee
Ibrik for Turkish Coffee
Here is the short and sweet approach to making Turkish coffee.
- When making coffee Turkish style grind the coffee beans even finer than you would for making espresso.
- Make Turkish coffee in a small pot with a cup of water
- A small sauce pan will do although Turks use an ibrik (see image)
- Add sugar
- Plain: no sugar
- Little sugar: add half a level teaspoon to the coffee
- Medium: add a level teaspoon to the coffee
- A lot of sugar: add two level teaspoons to the coffee
- Bring the water with sugar to a boil and remove from heat
- Add coffee and stir until coffee sinks
- Some add a pod of cardamom as well (optional)
- Heat again slowly until coffee boils and foam appears on the top
- So not stir as this disturbs the foam
- Do not boil too long as prolonged boiling gives the coffee a burnt taste
- Remove from heat briefly and then heat again
- Repeat one more time
- Pour coffee directly from the ibrik or your sauce pan into demitasse cups similar to what you would use for espresso
- Ideal Turkish coffee has a lot of thick foam (think of Cuban coffee) and the person who gets the cup with the most foam has the best coffee.
Get back to the basics of making coffee and forget about internet access for your coffee maker.