If you are particular about coffee, you know how frustrating it is to get a consistence good cup of coffee from your neighborhood coffee shop. The coffee is either too thin, too thick, sourish, bitter, not hot enough or you are helpless to control the sweetness.
Like all good things in life, to brew a good cup of coffee you must be patience, meticulous and paying attention to details.
Coffee Powder
If you did not already had a good source of coffee powder, I recommend you get from the supermarket. There are couple of brands being package by Limmy Food, the 500 gm superior Robusta cost about $3 or the more fragrant Arabic which cost about $5.20. Robusta has more body but less fragrant but just as good. I won't recommend any other local brand besides those package by Limmy, not my cup of tea!
Milk
I like my coffee "not too sweet", anyway that's your choice. However, you my like to add evaporated milk in addition to condense milk which will produce a smoother cup of coffee. If you got the Angmo taste, you may prefer to add full cream milk etc...
Equipment
Here I use the traditional cloth coffee strainer, 1 stainless steel container with cover, good enough for 2 cups or more and 1 sauce pan, big enough to to fit in your stainless steel container.
Brewing
Bring to about boil the amount of water needed in the saucepan. Important, make sure water is beginning to bubble and not bubbling away. If you bring the water to complete boil make sure you let it cool for 3 minutes, without cover. Ok, when water is ready, for each standard cup of coffee you need a table spoon sharp of coffee powder. Spoon it into the metal container, pour in the hot water and cover. Place the container back into the saucepan ( with a cm of the reminding hot water in it), and use the smallest fire that you can adjust on your stove and let it sits or 5 minutes ( max 10 minutes depending on your fire).
Straining
Strain the coffee slowly into your cup and discard the leftover. I have to stress that you boil more water then needed, ie. for each cup you make, give an allowance of one third cup to waste, that is because the residue that sits on the bottom are bad.
Well that's it, have a nice cuppa.
cs
Like all good things in life, to brew a good cup of coffee you must be patience, meticulous and paying attention to details.
Coffee Powder
If you did not already had a good source of coffee powder, I recommend you get from the supermarket. There are couple of brands being package by Limmy Food, the 500 gm superior Robusta cost about $3 or the more fragrant Arabic which cost about $5.20. Robusta has more body but less fragrant but just as good. I won't recommend any other local brand besides those package by Limmy, not my cup of tea!
Milk
I like my coffee "not too sweet", anyway that's your choice. However, you my like to add evaporated milk in addition to condense milk which will produce a smoother cup of coffee. If you got the Angmo taste, you may prefer to add full cream milk etc...
Equipment
Here I use the traditional cloth coffee strainer, 1 stainless steel container with cover, good enough for 2 cups or more and 1 sauce pan, big enough to to fit in your stainless steel container.
Brewing
Bring to about boil the amount of water needed in the saucepan. Important, make sure water is beginning to bubble and not bubbling away. If you bring the water to complete boil make sure you let it cool for 3 minutes, without cover. Ok, when water is ready, for each standard cup of coffee you need a table spoon sharp of coffee powder. Spoon it into the metal container, pour in the hot water and cover. Place the container back into the saucepan ( with a cm of the reminding hot water in it), and use the smallest fire that you can adjust on your stove and let it sits or 5 minutes ( max 10 minutes depending on your fire).
Straining
Strain the coffee slowly into your cup and discard the leftover. I have to stress that you boil more water then needed, ie. for each cup you make, give an allowance of one third cup to waste, that is because the residue that sits on the bottom are bad.
Well that's it, have a nice cuppa.
cs
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