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Brewed Coffee
Learning Objectives:
Coffee
Brewing
The type of grind is often named after the brewing method for
which it is generally used. Turkish grind is the finest grind, while
coffee percolator or French press are the coarsest grinds. The
most common grinds are between these two extremes: a medium
grind is used in most home coffee-brewing machines.
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Learning Objectives:
Brewing
Electronic coffee makers boil the water and brew the infusion with
little human assistance and sometimes according to a timer. Some
such devices also grind the beans automatically before brewing.
Boiling
Boiling, or decoction, was the main method used for brewing coffee
until the 1930s[2] and is still used in some Nordic and Middle
Eastern countries.
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The aromatic oils in coffee are released at 96 °C (205 °F), which
is just below boiling, while the bitter acids are released when the
The simplest method is to put the ground coffee in a cup, pour hot
water over it and let cool while the grounds sink to the bottom.
This is a traditional method for making a cup of coffee that is still
used in parts of Indonesia. This method, known as "mud coffee"
in the Middle East owing to an extremely fine grind that results
in a mud-like sludge at the bottom of the cup, allows for
extremely simple preparation, but drinkers then have to be
careful if they want to avoid drinking grounds either from this
layer or floating at the surface of the coffee, which can be avoided
by dribbling cold water onto the "floaters" from the back of a
spoon. If the coffee beans are not ground finely enough, the
grounds do not sink.
The above methods are sometimes used with hot milk instead of
water. Turkish coffee (aka Arabic coffee, etc.), a very early
method of making coffee, is used in the Middle East, North Africa,
East Africa, Turkey, Greece, the Balkans, and Russia. Very finely
ground coffee, optionally sugar, and water are placed in a narrow-
topped pot, called an cezve (Turkish), kanaka (Egyptian), briki
(Greek), džezva (Štokavian) or turka (Russian) and brought to
the boil then immediately removed from the heat. It may be very
briefly brought to the boil two or three times. Turkish coffee is
sometimes flavored with cardamom, particularly in Arab countries.
The resulting strong coffee, with foam on the top and a thick
Steeping
Coffee bags are less often used than tea bags. They are simply
disposable bags containing coffee; the grounds do not exit the bag
as it mixes with the water, so no extra filtering is required.
Filtration methods
The amount of coffee used affects both the strength and the flavor
of the brew in a typical drip-brewing filtration-based coffee maker.
The softer flavors come out of the coffee first and the more bitter
flavors only after some time, so a large brew will tend to be both
stronger and more bitter. This can be modified by stopping the
filtration after a planned time and then adding hot water to the
brew instead of waiting for all the water to pass through the
grounds. In addition to the "cold press", there is a method called
"Cold Drip Coffee". Also known as "Dutch Ice Coffee" (and very
popular in Japan), instead of steeping, this method very slowly
drips cold water into the grounds, which then very slowly pass
through a filter. Unlike the cold press (which functions similar to
a French Press) which takes eight to twenty-four hours, a Cold
Drip process only takes about two hours, with taste and
consistency results similar to that of a cold press.
1. Coffee preparation
2. decoction (through boiling), infusion (through steeping),
gravitational feed (used with percolators and in drip
brewing), or pressurized percolation (as with espresso).
3. Boiling, or decoction
4. Cowboy coffee
5. Cafetière, or French press,
Learning Objectives:
With high-end coffee shops on the rise, our coffee options have
expanded. Enter one of these establishments, such as WTF Coffee
in Brooklyn, and it becomes clear. The question is no longer what
kind of coffee you want -- dark roast, breakfast blend, etc. -- but
how you want that coffee made. Between the pour over, French
press, siphon pot and Chemex, getting a cup of coffee has
become complicated.
People, we drank nine cups of coffee to find the perfect cup for
the good of coffee drinkers everywhere. This is what we learned:
first, you don't want to drink this much coffee. Ever. Second,
there are many ways to make a cup, and none of them are
created equal. Third, price isn't everything. (We found a $38
dollar machine to be better than a $300+ one.) Here's how they
ranked -- with No. 1 being the very best.
Please note that in no way was this taste test influenced or supported
by any of the products that were tested. Also, we fully recognize that
some coffee brewers were left out. We just couldn't drink another cup.
It would have been really bad.
Percolator
Sur La Table
This old-school style brewer will get you a strong cup of coffee, but it
won't be the best use of your beans. The problem with most
percolators is that you can end up accidentally boiling the coffee a
sure way to get a bitter cup. We worked hard to make sure this
didn't happen, but it still wasn't a crowd pleaser. Here's what the
Softbrew
Sowden
Mr. Coffee
Vacuum Pot
Coffee Cone
The coffee cone is the least intrusive and least expensive way to
make coffee. And, it's a crowd pleaser. The general consensus was:
"Not bad -- good and strong."
"Diana Nyad could swim through this."
French Press
Technivorm
This beautiful piece of equipment will set you back some, but not
without the reward of a great cup of coffee. Here's what people
thought: "Full flavor!" "Best cup!" "I like this!"
"A good stiff cup of Joe."
Maybe it's the filters (which are specially made by Chemex to make
a great cup), or maybe it's the genius of the doctor that created
this coffee brewer, but either way people loved it: "Nice!" "Strong and
not too bitter." "Working-man's brew!" "Nice smell with a smooth,
low-acid flavor."
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1. Vacuum Pot
2. Aeropress
3. French Press
4. Technivorm
5. Chemex
Performance Objective:
By the end of this exercise, you would be able to brewed coffee using
French press.
Supplies/Materials :
Steps/Procedure:
Assessment Method:
CRITERIA Ye No
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Grind coffee according to standards