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00:00 Hello there
00:42 A salty cup of joe
03:53 Chilly beans
08:22 Cinnaninnamonn coffee
12:07 Doing a bad thing
17:58 It’s buttering time
20:51 We survived, let’s put baking soda in our coffee
Read more about freezing coffee:
https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-freeze-coffee-beans/
https://methodicalcoffee.com/blogs/coffee-culture/should-you-freeze-your-coffee-beans?srsltid=AfmBOoq3YuX9302tz5yg_BhWIzS7CeMCkB8JG47CWYwe1p8uZx5VHl1K
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Try the sugar mixed in with the coffee grounds in the mocha pot not as a layer on top of the ground coffee; layer in about half of the coffee, add the sugar (max 3 teaspoons), gently tap down, add the remaining coffee grounds and gently tap down and level out. Comes out nicely every time.
As to the butter in coffee, if you like cream/milk in coffee and your out it's a in a pinch option. It's also for as you mentioned anyone following a keto diet. 🙂
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I don't drink coffee, but ai learned to make coffee from my dad. Every time I do make coffee, I add just a few granules of salt to the dry coffee gronds. Now this is using big percolators and cheap coffee for a crowd. I ALWAYS get so many complaints on my coffee.
I've purchased a coffee that had bits of broken up cinnamon sticks in it. It was a very winter season flavor.
You missed saying that when you remove the coffee from the freezer, let it warm up before you open the package so the warn and humid air in the kitchen doesn't condense on the beans. Many people think you can't refrigerate or freeze coffee becaause they use it directly while it's cold, thenn put the rest back in the fridge or freezer, over and over each time they make coffee.
I like to stir a spoonful of blackstrap molasses into my coffee. I need the iron and it has a nice rich taste.
As a retired secretary, I have made hundreds of pots of lousy coffee (not our fault, we didn’t have a good source to begin with) for meetings. We all used to add a tiny sprinkle of salt to the grounds in the corporate coffee makers. (The old Bunn coffeemakers with Farmer Brothers or Boyd coffee). Never added salt to the coffee itself.
Keto..the biggest con ever perpetrated on the American psyche
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One local coffee shop that really specializes in Indonesian Mandeling beans has that butter coffee as its main menu. The impression I’ve always had is that you have to see this as an extension of “Kopi” in Malaysia/Singapore, that extremely sugary cheap coffee you have with some toasts. So it makes sense to have this with some dessert breads that are very sweet and also greasy. Oh and the thing is they don’t serve the butter coffee whipped and mixed like that, the point is that the melted butter will float on top and you will sip it on your own alongside the main coffee. You know, something to further grease the desserts, huh?
I believe "bulletproof coffee" has MCT oil in it as well, but really don't bother. The guy who created it was good at marketing and the whole thing he did was based on completely bunk pseudoscience.
That 3rd hack is not really a hack if you add cinnamon, its just called cafe de olla … Obviously just a joke, that is not how cafe de olla is brewed, but it has given me good results in V60s but I prefer using cinnamon sticks roughly crushed by hand, I feel like it has a better aroma than grounded cinnamon.
Cinnaninnamonn
There was a coffee shop in Gettysburg called the Ugly Mug that had a version of the cubano style espresso. They would add a thin layer of raw sugar to the bottom of the portafilter and then tamp the espresso grinds on top of it. Had an almost caramel flavor to it.
Cafe closed in '22; but I still have fond memories of spending countless afternoons there drinking coffee while studying after class.
I am a newcomer to your show, I greatly appreciate it. Never seen someone delve so deeply into coffee, not to mention who likes it as much as you do. Then again I fell into your world accidentally and glad that I did!
For the bulletproof coffee, gotta also blend it a bit with a handheld milk frother or somethin… but also the idea isn't "latte but not" rather adding a fat to the coffee to help it feel a lil more satiating. Its weird. Keto as a baseline is weird, even before the fad diet things. Reminder that some people genuinely live on a keto diet for medical reasons, it can be livable…. but its not the insanity that is a stick of butter in your coffee every day or carnivore diets
as far as spicing your coffee grounds i highly recommend trying cardamom, it's a very popular flavouring agent for coffee here in Finland and comes through well in the brew!
A hack I heard about and tried a few years ago was to crush up half of an egg shell and put it in the grounds. (Peel the inner layer off the shell after the rest of the egg comes out.). It makes for an incredibly smooth cup of coffee.
Green cardamom combined with pink peppercorns is delicious added to coffee, turmeric and black pepper are good too.
I once brewed egg shells (thoroughly clean and baked), grinded together with filtered coffee. Tried with a cheap soured coffee and its works. The alkali in egg shells (calcium carbonate element) did a decent job of saving a bad coffee.
I've done that style of Espresso Cubano with a Flair. I wouldn't do it with my boiler machine. But with a Flair, sure go ahead and have fun. I tried the Cubano with the sugar in the basket and then just adding sugar after a regular shot. And the Cubano style did taste different. Running sugar water through the puck seems to be different than running clean water through the puck.
"It is butter…and coffee" I LIVE for Morgan!
The cubano and cinnamon things seem right up my alley! I like brown sugar, and my mother loves cinnamon.
Also, that's a very cute puck screen ^_^
I used to put cinnamon in my coffee grounds all the time when I was a professional pastry cook many years ago. It definitely works and you most certainly get flavor from the oils in the cinnamon. I was admittedly a less refined coffee drinker back then, but it I always had a good time with it! ☕️
So the butter in coffee thing. It can be great. I really like black coffee, but I did keto for a while and made butter coffee. I did it a while just because I had to and I wasn't looking for much with it that said, I have made some really excellent butter coffee especially after I got my own espresso machine and used Indian coffee. The coffee was really punchy. A local roaster got it and uses it for his milk drinks. Excellent, it really makes the drink. The other thing though is if you don't emulsify it, it will taste just like you described it.
combine the Cinnamon hack (with other spices) with a traditional Cubano and you've got a non-traditional but much easier Turkish coffee and that sounds pretty cool to me. not to discount the ritual of making Turkish coffee!! but I'm also disabled and depressed so having an easier option is helpful
I'm going to be trying cardamon in my coffee tomorrow – I know it's commonly added to Turkish coffee, but I've never thought about adding it to ground coffee for pourover before
The major problem I have with cinnamon in my coffee is it clogs my filter. A course ground or I prefer to use rubble cinnamon. If neither of those are an option put regular ground cinnamon on top of my grounds in my filter basket.
Cinnamon is great to control blood sugar
13:42 the sugar can return if the machine has a drainage valve
Note to fellow Southeast Asians, the fridge is almost always dryer than our "normal" humidity of 70+
I suggest putting the sugar in the portafilter first. Place a paper filter on the sugar and then add the coffee. -Toby
I'm thinking butter and cinnamon. -Toby
1:01 "Black Gang Coffee" back when the US Navy ran on coal 'the black gang' were the guys that shoveled coal, everyone was coated black with coal dust. they would receive double strength coffee with a 'heavy pinch of salt' added t the grounds before brewing to take off the bitter edge (it also softens the water). I Still drink my coffee that way at 52 years of age…
8:44 growing up my dad's best friend Larry would add a hefty amount of cinnamon to the coffee grounds before brewing, my brother still does that today.
how many grams of coffee are you brewing?
On flavorings…how does it work with home made spices and mixes? For example, I've got pumpkin spice, that's been dehydrated to be little flakes – I tried to pour hot coffee on it through a small filter, but it didn't work. I have a moka pot, and didn't wanted to put it in the coffee before brewing 😐 Should I try it with a coffee dripper?
Not sure how true it is.. but I heard that it is best to thaw your frozen coffee completely before opening the vacuum seal. Thought being that if you open it while it’s still cold, humid air can condense on the beans and introduce moisture… Haven't tried it, but it makes some sense.
If you liked coffee with cinnamon as a treat, Mexican Cafe De Olla is often coffee, cinnamon, clove and piloncillo(cane sugar)…. (sometimes allspice or orange peal is added to that)
The bullet proof coffee needs more than just a frothing tool. I recommend a hand blender. The end product needs to look as if you have added milk.