Using A Coffee Grinder Will Improve The Taste Of Your Coffee
Who doesn’t love a good cup of coffee? Good coffee can be made much better if you use a coffee grinder and crush the coffee beans yourself. This makes your coffee taste much fresher since the grounds have not been exposed to air for a long period which causes them to oxidize and become stale.
With coffee grinders, you can create enough coffee for what you are going to drink right away. In that way you can ensure you will always have the freshest coffee available.
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Iced Coffee Recipe
Everyone loves coffee. Try the iced version for the warmer months.
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How to Use a Mokka Pot (Stovetop Espresso)
The Mokka Pot can be a very tricky mode of preparation. Because of the propensity of the water to be too hot, scalded, harsh coffee can be the result if you’re not careful. The grind is very important in Mokka pot coffee – a burr grinder gets better results.
1. Grind your coffee quite powdery, and fill the filter full so that the coffee is mounded above the level of the top of the filter in the center. Do not compress the coffee as you would in an espresso machine.
2. Fill the pot slightly below the line indicating the water level – use good water.
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How to make an Espresso
Entire volumes have been written about espresso preparation. Rather than a step-by-step guide, what’s appropriate here is a handful of general principles, a bibliography, and sincere good wishes.
While the type of machine that you have is important, the grind is a critical part of the process in creating a tasty espresso. You must have a burr grinder that grinds evenly, and it must be easily adjustable.
The single most often repeated error in both home and professional situations is overextraction – too much water through the coffee. In a professional capacity machine, a 17 gram dose of coffee (double shot)should get you no more than 1.5 ounces of intensely flavorful espresso – any more than that and the syrupy goodness that is possible in a great espresso gives way to harsh, thin, brownish water. In a home machine shot volumes should be kept closer to one once.
The tamp should be firm – 30-50 pounds of pressure. The water must work hard to evenly extract the maximum flavor from each speck of coffee in the portafilter.
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Coffee is Good for the Brain and Liver
Hamburg – A German health organization has issued a brochure with new conclusions about the effects of coffee on human health, saying that it is good for the brain and the liver.
Germany’s Green Cross said coffee speeds up digestion and protects people from age-related diabetes, Alzheimer’s Disease and cirrhosis of the liver. The brochure summarizes the results of several studies on coffee consumption.
Coffee has a preponderance of positive influences on health and well-being. Caffeine plays an important role not only by improving the ability to concentrate, but also by decreasing the risk of liver cirrhosis by up to 80 per cent among people who drink at least four cups a day.
In addition coffee contains a number of health promoting ingredients such as chlorogene acid, a substance that has antioxidant effects and that can cut nearly in half the risk of Alzheimer’s Disease.
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How to Use Filter Drip
* For each 8 oz of water use three to five level tablespoons of coffee.
* Put double the amount of good quality water than you intend to drink in a kettle or other vessel that is used only for heating water.
* While water is heating, grind the coffee. The grind should be soft but still a little gritty, fine enough that it forms into a clump when pressed between thumb and forefinger. Almost an espresso grind. One of the most common preparation errors in making filter drip is that the grind is too coarse.
* Bring water to the boil.
* Place the kettle on the counter for 45 seconds or so (or, better yet, until an instant-read thermometer reads 198 degrees). Alternatively, pouring boiling water into a glass measuring cup cools the water to nearly the ideal temperature, and allows you to use exactly the amount of water necessary.
* If you use Chemex filters omit this step. If you do not use Chemex filters, pour water through the empty filter into the cup to get rid of as much papery taste as possible and to warm up the filter and cup.
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Clothes made from coffee satisfy eco-friendly fitness fans
Most of us need that caffeine jolt to kick-start us into the day. But how many of us, over a quick cup of coffee, would think about spinning our latte on a lathe and turning it into a top?
Jason Chen, the general manager of the Taiwanese Singtex Industrial Company, had a brainwave as he was sipping coffee in – where else? – Starbucks. Most coffee grounds end up in landfill, but Singtex is now collecting waste grounds from the drinks giant to turn into sportswear.
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How to Use a French Press
* For each 8 oz of water use three to four level tablespoons of coffee.
* Measure the capacity of your coffee cup and the amount of servings you wish to make and use the above guide to determine the proper amount of coffee.
* Put double the amount of good quality water than you intend to drink in a kettle or other vessel that is only used for heating water.
* While water is heating, grind the coffee. Press pot coffee requires an even grind, so having a burr grinder is recommended. The grind should be gritty, resembling beach sand: pleasant to walk on, but not too powdery. More Santa Cruz than Carmel.
* Bring water not quite to the boil. Place the kettle on the counter for 30 seconds (or, better yet, until an instant-read thermometer reads 198 degrees). Alternatively, pouring near-boiling water into a glass measuring cup cools the water to nearly the ideal temperature, and allows you to use exactly the amount of water necessary.
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Coffee at Home Is Money in the Bank
With consumers shunning Starbucks and its $4 Frappuccinos, firms that make brew-at-home coffee products are reporting strong sales and steady profit as the recession drags on. In particular, producers and distributors of premium coffee beans and coffee makers are on a bit of a caffeine high.
More than half of adult Americans drink coffee, and more of them are starting their day with a shot of java at home. About 80 percent of coffee drinkers now make their own coffee , the National Coffee Association says. But instead of trading down to no-name brands, they’re imbibing the good stuff without shelling out extra money to have someone else brew it.
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Rancilio Rocky Burr Coffee Grinder for Espresso Machines
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