Brewing coffee?

[matarius777]

Was your Ma a very fit lady. Some of those streets and steps are steep!

She was pretty nimble for her age, she’d have been about 85 then, she loved gardening. The very next day she got out of hospital with her second knee replacement, we were shocked to find her busy digging with a full size fork in the garden! The seaside town where Montalbano “lives” is fairly flat though, but no, at that stage, she was like a whippet!

 

[EdS]

An ibrik

 

[choffee]

I have an aeropress Go. It comes with a good mug I use for all other things and packs down neat.
Clean up is simple as pushing the puck out and wiping the end so I'm not trying to fish grounds out the bottom of a pot.
I use the filters and you don't need to rinse. You get hundreds in a pack so its not a big thing to use them. You can get a metal filter but it's just another faff in the clean up from my perspective.
It makes, what I think, is a great coffee.

I like a long black coffee that is sweet and not to bitter.

I've tried one of the minipresso pod style and did not like the coffee it made. (The picopresso makes a decent espresso if that's what you are after but I normally am looking for something longer when at the camp site.)
I have tried mocca pot before but without some careful control of temperature it tasted very bitter and off to me. I did have some success by taking it away from the heat so it just trickled out.

When I am at home I use a v60 pour over but there feels like too many things like wind cooling things down and pouring from a pot to contend with at the camp site.
I used to take a grinder with me but it's just more weight to carry so go with pre-ground now.

 

[crlthrn]

It’s available on Netflix, also on Amazon Prime Video, although you have to pay per episode on there. Wasn’t a fan myself, although my late mother was, we had to make a pilgrimage to the town where it was filmed when we took her to Sicily!

Sadly Montalbano is not available on Netflix and Amazon's 'rights' have expired for all episodes, except for the final two series, each of which consists of only two (pay to view) episodes. Sigh.

 

[Paul_B]

I was in Farrers today and they have a mesh strainer on the end of a stick with a little holding cup for it when not in use. The idea is you put your favourite coffee in there and filll your mug or cup of choice with boiling water. Then you put the mesh strainer in the cup and swirl it around with the stick part. Then pull it out and you have coffee.

No idea how good they are but they are £15.99 each.

 

[dnarcher]

I find it hard to make bad coffee with an aeropress. It seems remarkably tolerant of all the variables. Now, I'm sure lots of you could make better coffee with more care, effort and measurement, but more or less whatever I do, the aeropress makes decent coffee. I'm using one thats about 12 years old, and still going strong. If anyone cares, my daily driver is an Alex Duetto, with a Mazzer grinder and a behmoor roaster, so I'm quite a long way down the rabbit hole...

 

[StuB]

lots of love for the aeropress - never tried one... Anyone just do a 'turkish cowboy" - finer grind, 2/3 x near boil, prob in a small pan/kettle not an cevze/ibrik?

 

[Pattree]

It works but the crema (foam) isn’t so intense.

 

[StuB]

"It works but the crema (foam) isn’t so intense." I can live with that. Next time I'm out I'll do a few tests and if I remember I'll post results here.

 

[Herman30]

Foam is important on beer but not on coffee. At least that is my view on the matter.

 

[Broch]

But the crema is the sweetest oils and caramels from the coffee roast!

 

[Pattree]

This ^^^^^^**

Take a look at the Greek coffee making video above.

Even my black cocoa (No milk) needs a frothy top to taste its best.

Try both and see what you think.

 

[Herman30]

I make coffe with french press or moka pot. Neither one makes any froth.

 

[Broch]

I make coffe with french press or moka pot. Neither one makes any froth.

Probably down to the roast TBH; an Italian, strong, roast will produce a crema using any high temperature (98C) method in my experience.

 

[Pattree]

@Herman30
Me too but it’s not Greek coffee

Your French Press and your Moka pot make different coffees from the same bean.
The briki is yet another.
For Greek coffee I’d use a dark roast, 4 or 5, fine ground. Greek coffee isn’t filtered so you don’t want a grainy grind.

 

[widowulf]

After testing all kinds of fancy coffee brewing styles I finally stuck on classic "cowboy coffee" or "kokkaffe" as they say in Sweden. With that style of coffee pot and the right method, there is almost no coffee grounds in the mug. Works best for me but I am a not a coffee afficionado.

 

[Billy-o]

Years ago, a friend, who would often invite me over for scrambled eggs and smoked salmon, introduced me to mud coffee. Put sugar and that finely ground, mediterranean coffee directly into a cup. Add boiled water. Let it sit for a bit. Give the bottom of the cup a bit of a tap on the table to settle the grounds. Drink up! Just not all the way to the bottom. Take care with how much coffee you put in the cup. You can fritz yourself by accidentally overdosing.

I'll drink coffee anyway it presents itself, pretty much - for functional purposes. But, I don't really like the taste of it except when super sweet and strong. Nescaff with evap and maple syrup - which doesn't really taste of coffee at all - is probably my favourite.

 

[Herman30]

Put sugar and that finely ground, mediterranean coffee directly into a cup. Add boiled water. Let it sit for a bit.

That method is called student coffee in Estonia. Probably refers to students not affording a coffee machine.

 

[captainhastings]

I have getting big in cow boy coffee even at home. The results can vary though some times the coffee settles perfectly other times not

I might just deploy a tea strainer job done

 

[Pattree]

I’ll say it again
Coffee, hot water, all in the one cup. No extra equipment.
Stir, wait, push down the strainer.
Swallow.
The only simpler way that I am contemplating is drinking Greek (very finely ground) coffee straight from the briki. That is an experiment in waiting (among so many others!)

It’s simplest when you don’t pollute the coffee with sugar/ish or dairy/ish products