How do you prepare coffee at home? I was recently talking to pet84rik on Mastodon and he mentioned that one should buy ground coffee in bags of 100g and I noted that here in Switzerland the smallest bags seem to be 250g. To this he said that ground coffee loses its taste quite rapidly so that you shouldn’t keep ground coffee around for more than a week. Is the alternative grinding your own coffee? And once you have ground your coffee, how do you prepare it?
pet84rik uses a French press. I use a Moka pot. A friend at the office said he uses a an AeroPress. Another friend at the office said he recently bought an espresso machine and a grinder for nearly CHF 2000.
What about you? And why did you end up doing it this way? Did you go to coffee tastings? Did you read coffee nerd blogs? Is this simply the way your parents prepared coffee? My mom likes coffee and she drinks filtered coffee. Here in Switzerland most people would claim that this is bad coffee, but one never knows whether they think this is so because they tried it, or because they think it’s a German invention and they don’t like Germans and they don’t want to like what Germans like or something silly like that.
I was recently at a Vietnamese restaurant here in Zürich where they served Vietnamese coffee (with condensed milk) and I liked it. Wikipedia says: “The coffee may be brewed into ice for *cà phê đá*, or when had with condensed milk for *cà phê sữa đá*.”
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We buy ground coffee in the normal size (500g Dalmayr Prodomo) and keep it in a Mason jar. We brew it “Turkish style” (no idea if it’s really Turkish) - that means coffee goes into a cup and we put hot water on top of it. Stir, wait til the coffee sank to the ground and drink carefully leaving the grounds in the cup.
– Andreas Gohr 2018-02-16 20:27 UTC
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According to Wikipedia, Turkish coffee means that the coffee is boiled for a bit, and the coffee is “very finely ground,” whatever that means. No idea for how this happens, either. Perhaps the external links at the end have more information?
Then again, if you like it that way, there’s no reason to change.
– Alex Schroeder 2018-02-16 21:19 UTC
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Long answer by kvothe on his phlog.
– Alex Schroeder 2018-02-18 16:27 UTC
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Long answer by dbucklin on his phlog.
– Alex 2018-02-21 07:24 UTC
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Very long answer by solderpunk on his phlog.
Very long answer by solderpunk
– Alex 2018-02-25 21:15 UTC
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Long answer by ckeen on his phlog.
– Alex Schroeder 2018-02-27 14:09 UTC