Let's face it. Without coffee, our world is a fragile shell of itself, teetering towards chaos. Everyday innocent bystanders are forced to take on frustrated cries for help from exhausted souls yearning for caffeine. In an effort to prevent anyone from being deprived from their morning coffee ever again, I've come up with 3 must have Kitchen Tools for Coffee Lovers. Nothing surprising in this list; however, sometimes we have to shake the dust a little and try out new things. So here are 3 great methods for making Coffee in the morning!
Coffee Methods:
3. Pour Over
Coffee lays in a disposable filter and introduced hot water drips into a container below. It is slow, yields a rich cup and can be a little greedy with the grounds. Lo tech versions in glass with permanent filters and some technique are a step up in results to Mr. Coffee.2. Press Pot
Coffee and hot water mingle in a glass pot and a fine mesh strainer locks the grounds at the bottom. This has a nice presentation value (Michael Mina used to use this same tool to serve Court Bullion table-side) and brews in about 5 minutes. Pretty good results for an above average cup of Joe.1. Aero Press
Hands down the heavy weight champion of home coffee brewing. The geniuses who executed this simple design must have worked dozens of iterations before they arrived at this nearly perfect tool kit. Fine ground coffee is poured into the 2" tube and water poured atop and inserting the plunger, you press with air, the coffee through a 2" flat round filter into a mug waiting below (You need a good sturdy mug to carry out the operation without wearing a java explosion -- I use a cocktail mixing glass.) The results are just south of a full blown espresso machine, and the clean up is the simplest of all of the above. Coffee shop coffee gets a run for it's money ... without the wait at the end of the counter.
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