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.”
#Coffee
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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.
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.
