Brewing Coffee
Do you know that brewing coffee was never meant to be easy? A miss here or there and you could be left stranded with murky chocolate colored sludge.
A perfect start to a day demands a delicious cup of coffee - a nice,
perfectly brewed cup or mug, depending on your preference, with all the goodness and aroma intact. After all, there is certainly a reason coffee was known as the food of the gods. The tricky part, however, is that brewing coffee was never meant to be easy. A miss here or there and you could be left stranded with murky chocolate colored sludge. Disgusting, but true, this is what is going to happen if you are not careful enough with the coffee grounds. If you are a coffee lover and somehow are inept at the art of making coffee, you can always resort to instant coffee, and though the taste and aroma never matches up to the original, freshly brewed cup of coffee. However, in a pinch, instant coffee is still good.
How to Brew a Top-Notch Cup Coffee?
The world is essentially divided into two kinds of people; those who are satisfied with instant coffee and those who are not. If you belong to the latter category of coffee lovers, the ones who would die for the freshly brewed mug then read on. There are two things you will need to keep in mind while brewing coffee: cleanliness and precision when it comes to water temperature and quality, and kind of coffee grounds. Temperature is vital. Keep in mind that coffee is best made at temperatures ranging between 195 F and 205 F and always use filtered water for brewing the best coffee.
First make sure the container, percolator, the French press or whatever device you are going to use for making your coffee, is spotlessly clean. Dirty or unclean containers are a spoiler. It simply ruins the taste. So make sure you clean your pot and in particular your filter basket on a regular basis to prevent the buildup of oils.
You simply cannot afford to be lazy if you long for good quality coffee. There is hard work involved, and that means ditching your pre-ground coffee. Coffee grounds lose flavor and aroma quickly. It is a fact that the smaller the ground size, the quicker coffee loses its flavor. So act smart and grind only what you need.
Light and oxygen are, again, coffee spoilers. So make sure you store coffee in air tight jars and away from any source of light. Then again it is debatable whether you should or should not store coffee in a freezer.
As you can see, brewing a perfect cup is not rocket science. So go ahead and enjoy your coffee!
