Coffee - gween tea

[Not A Cat Person]

For a while there I was going to a lot of trouble to make the best possible coffee, with a moka pot on the stove, filtered water, fresh-ground beans I picked up from the roaster the day before, all that. It was pretty good.

But eventually I decided it simply wasn't worth the effort and now I just put a spoonful of instant stuff in some tap water. If I am feeling fancy I warm the water up first.

 

[Squanto Airi]

Any recommendations for an inexpensive French press?

 

[WhatInTheActualFuck]

Any recommendations for an inexpensive French press?

Bodum makes a bunch, but I think this one is their least expensive "standard" 34oz/1L one. They also have a 51oz/1.5L model of similar construction for a few bucks more.

 

[Squanto Airi]

Thank you fren

 

[The Last Stand]

So, supposedly, you're not meant to drink these as is, but blend them with ice in a blender. Okay, then. I'll still enjoy it as a plain drink.

 

[Martys_not_smarty]

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So, supposedly, you're not meant to drink these as is, but blend them with ice in a blender. Okay, then. I'll still enjoy it as a plain drink.

That's the first is heard of that, they're not that strong wouldn't the water from the ice thin it out its not a concentrate.

Thread tax: speaking of iced coffee drinks any old heads here remember from the early 90s Maxwell House Cappio? Shit was surprisingly good.

 

[Helvítis Túristi]

How well would brewing coffee with coconut water would work out? Was thinking of adding coconut milk and sugar for a super coconut coffee drink.

 

[asr]

How well would brewing coffee with coconut water would work out? Was thinking of adding coconut milk and sugar for a super coconut coffee drink.

Define brewing in this context. In theory you could just pull an espresso shot into a blend of coconut milk + water. What taste profile are you hunting for? That'll determine the ratios of each that you want. Or you could instead of espresso use a highly concentrated cold brew if need be. That's the easiest way to go about it I think, espresso shot or cold brew concentrate. If espresso shot I would do a turbo/soup shot, so higher volume shot, think 1:6 ratio so little under 100mL of espresso. I'd ice it with about 100g of ice at least + maybe 5-10g of cubed coconut bits + 120g of coconut water mixed with coconut milk in a 1:1 ratio.

 

[Ted's of Beverly Hills]

Any recommendations for an inexpensive French press?

Espro makes some that aren't super expensive and have some innovative design features to them. You can get a cheap functional french press anywhere for like $10-15 bucks, but you should expect your coffee to be a little silty at the end. If you don't mind that, go with whatever's cheapest. For around $40, the Espro P5 uses a double-filter system (triple-filter if you optionally use their paper filters as well) to keep the mud out of your cup. IMO it's much better than the cheaper ones I had been using. It's not the most efficient beans-to-cup ratio though, but if you care about that, you should be looking into pour-overs in the first place.

 

[Helvítis Túristi]

Define brewing in this context. In theory you could just pull an espresso shot into a blend of coconut milk + water. What taste profile are you hunting for? That'll determine the ratios of each that you want. Or you could instead of espresso use a highly concentrated cold brew if need be. That's the easiest way to go about it I think, espresso shot or cold brew concentrate. If espresso shot I would do a turbo/soup shot, so higher volume shot, think 1:6 ratio so little under 100mL of espresso. I'd ice it with about 100g of ice at least + maybe 5-10g of cubed coconut bits + 120g of coconut water mixed with coconut milk in a 1:1 ratio.

I mean using coconut water instead of normal water for the brewing. Unsure on cold brew vs heating the coconut water to boiling temperatures. The idea was to make a sweet coffee drink using only things obtained from a coconut. Hence coconut water, milk, and sugar.

 

[asr]

I mean using coconut water instead of normal water for the brewing. Unsure on cold brew vs heating the coconut water to boiling temperatures. The idea was to make a sweet coffee drink using only things obtained from a coconut. Hence coconut water, milk, and sugar.

So in a french press you just toss in hot coconut water/milk and then add in your ground coffee? I mean you could do that, I just don't think it would be as tasty as adding espresso or coldbrew into a drink and having it cold. If you want to enjoy the flavors of coconut + coffee you want it to be colder, the tongue picks up on taste best at or below physiological temperature. that said, nothing stops you from doing it like you mentioned. Do note that you'll likely have to give it more time to brew if going the french press route do to how extraction curves and solubility of water works (the coconut water/milk as a solvent already has other solutes in it and the molar solubility of that mix is less than just pure water so extraction is going to be slower) so give it like another 5-6 min in the french press. Also taking if you boil the coconut water/milk you're gonna burn up some organic compounds that you might not want to, not though since IDK the boiling point off those various compounds off the top of my head. If less than water they're gonna boil off, if higher than water you're gonna boil off the water and concentrate those compounds. I'd say give both a shot and experiment, sounds like a fun idea tbh. I might steal this idea and do a shot into iced coconut water from costco just to see if it's good for the summer.

EDIT: There is also the option of making a coconut flavor forward simple syrup and using that as a base to add to other things with the coffee like for example espresso + tonic water + ice + that syrup. Again it all depends on what flavors you're chasing and what mouth feel.

 

[Helvítis Túristi]

I tried cold brewing in coconut water and seemed not to taste much of coffee. Only when I added coconut milk did I get a stronger coffee flavor... Will say you don't need to add any sugar at all if you use the coconut water. Maybe normal coffee with coconut milk added to it would be better.

 

[asr]

I tried cold brewing in coconut water and seemed not to taste much of coffee. Only when I added coconut milk did I get a stronger coffee flavor... Will say you don't need to add any sugar at all if you use the coconut water. Maybe normal coffee with coconut milk added to it would be better.

Adding sugar is a taste preference, if you think you'd like it with sugar, give it a shot and see what you prefer. It's hard to give anything more than starting points than hard recommendations since taste is such a personal and subjective thing. I happen to not really like additives in my coffee but i'm an autistic purist who wants to min max the ultra light roast beans.