before they had coffee filters... Did they just mix up the coffee grounds in water and drink it straihgT?
before they had coffee filters... Did they just mix up the coffee grounds in water and drink it straihgT?
They just at the beans.
You just proved you still don't know how to make coffee.
yyyyyy wrote:
You just proved you still don't know how to make coffee.
+5
We had a pot that we put on the stove top. It had a metal basket that sat on a hollow post to keep it above the water.
The hot water would go up the post and drip down over the coffee filters. I still have one of those old pots I use on camp outs. Excellent coffee!
The French press. It still sets the standard for making the best coffee.
Brewing coffee by boiling was the earliest method, and Turkish coffee is an example of this method.[61] It is prepared by grinding or pounding the beans to a fine powder, then adding it to water and bringing it to the boil for no more than an instant in a pot called a cezve or, in Greek, a bríki. This produces a strong coffee with a layer of foam on the surface and sediment (which is not meant for drinking) settling on the bottom of the cup.
If you boil the coffee too long, more than an instant, it will taste like poo.
If you drink the grounds (sediment) you won't like it.
I drink loose leaf tea all the time. You learn how not to drink the chopped up leaves. If you do drink a few bits of leaf it's no big deal.
With unfiltered coffee it should be the same as loose leaf tea. You should survive of you drink a little bit of the grounds.
Unfiltered coffee raises your LDL cholesterol, unfortunately. Can't resist a good cup from the french press, anyway, and I'll continue to drink it until my genetics set in and I have to stop.
first morning brew wrote:
If you boil the coffee too long, more than an instant, it will taste like poo.
As far as I'm concerned, that's how all coffee tastes.
We had the stove top percolator also. It was great!