Nice little video from Sweet Maria’s.
Archive for the 'Coffee Knowledge' Category
I liked this video. I make coffee every day in my office, and lately I’ve been using the V60. I generally use around 18-22g of coffee and pour ~300ml to yield 250ml of brewed coffee (~8oz). I had been grinding fine and trying to mimic the pour-wait-pour-wait style I’ve often seen used with Melitta pourovers, but it results in an over-extracted brew. This continuous pour style, and a grind just slightly coarser than what i’d been doing, has produced much better results in the cup.
I love Alton Brown’s ‘Good Eats,’ and I just found an episode on espresso that really covers a lot of the basics and some history. Coffee geeks might take issue with a few points and technique (especially the milk frothing, which is terrible), but it’s a great introduction for anyone interested in learning a bit about espresso coffee.
Infotainment from TheOatmeal.com, click to see all 15. I’m a bit late posting this but I like it!
“Rice has long topped local food retailers’ best-selling list, but not this year. The country’s traditional staple lost its place for the first time in years, bumped by none other than instant coffee.”
Korea Times article here. Instant coffee is everywhere in Korea, I’ve never been in an office or meeting without it, even though most of them taste like cancer.
I think what this says is that Koreans love coffee, though there’s a long way to go in consumer education for specialty coffee to grow here.
“A psychology professor at Yale University found that holding a hot cup of coffee leads people to judge a stranger to be a warmer person, in terms of such traits as generosity and kindness, compared with a group of people who held a cup of iced coffee.”
Iced coffee drinkers must lead depressing lives. Stick to hot coffee, it’s better for your mental health.