There's a lot of different ways to make coffee, the drip coffee maker sitting in the kitchen is only the beginning. They get pretty crazy with things that sound more like household items - the vacuum method, the plunger - to name just a couple. All of the methods produce a slightly different final product and just about all of them are at least worth trying once.
The most common method is with the Drip Coffee Maker, which is also called the filter method. Just about every household has at least one of these.
Coffee is made when water is poured on to grounds. The water filters through the grounds and into a coffee pot or mug below. For further instruction, please locate the nearest coffee maker in your house and take a look inside.
Another common method with enthusiasts is the French Press. They also call this the Plunger or Cafetiere.
Ground coffee is added to the bottom of this glass and metal cylinder shaped device. Hot water is poured in and then stirred around. The water saturates with the grounds for a few minutes before the plunger is pushed down to separate out the grounds. It's said to extract the most flavor of any method.
At one point, the Percolator was the most common way to make coffee, however it was replaced by the drip coffee maker about fifty years ago. The reason that it lost it's popularity is pretty simple, it produced horrible tasting coffee.
The Percolator looks like a kettle with an electrical cord attached to it. Water is put into a heated reservoir in the bottom, then as it heats up it cycles through the top where the grounds are. It goes through the cycle over and over until it's ready. It makes the kitchen smell delicious, it even sounds good, but the taste has become sub par.
An increasingly popular appliance in many households is the Espresso Machine. They can be used to make espresso, but also cappuccinos and lattes.
While they can be sometimes very complicated machines, the process is simple. Hot water is injected into coffee grounds at high pressure into the waiting cup below.
Turkish Coffee or the Arab Method is the way coffee was mostly likely made originally. It produces a very dark and strong brew, so it isn't for everyone.
It's made by first grinding the beans by hand into grounds. Then it's put into a pot called an ibrik with sugar and water. They bring it to boil three times, then it's poured into cups to drink.
The Vacuum Coffee Maker is probably one of the most unusual looking methods. It looks like two glass pots placed on top of each other.
The vacuum method involves water heated up to near boiling, then it's forced through coffee grounds into a chamber above. The mixture steeps until the heat is turned off and as it cools, the water is sucked back into the lower chamber.
If you don't mind waiting for your coffee, you can try the Cold Water Method.
It's a ten to twelve hour process that starts with ground coffee mixed into a large container with water. It's left at room temperature for the day, then the grounds are removed and the extract can be mixed with hot water to make a cup of coffee.
The Neapolitan Flip may sound like some sort of ice cream desert, but it's another interesting looking method of making coffee. It looks like two metal coffee pots on top of each other.
The two metal looking coffee pots are actually two chambers with grounds between them. The lower chamber is filled with hot water and brought to a boil. It's then removed from the stove and flipped over. The water drips through the grinds into the serving pot below.
Some might argue that it's not a legitimate way of making coffee, but Instant Coffee is made in thousands of cups across the country every morning.
It's the easiest form of coffee to make, just add water, but taste is often a causality of the process.
Instant coffee is made by removing the water from grounds by freezing or heating it. That produces the powder that you can buy at the grocery store.
Growing in popularity lately because it's so simple to use is the Single Serve Coffee Machines. Some consider it to be the future of coffee because you only have to insert a k-cup, pod or disc into it and press start. The result is a fresh cup of coffee in a few moments.
Mike Crimmins is a coffee fanatic. He's not your traditional coffee expert or barista. He's just your average joe, looking for that perfect cup of coffee. You can learn more about coffee at his blog http://dailyshotofcoffee.com/
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