Do You Know How Important Water Is For A Good Cup Of Coffee?
I guess anyone that reads this would give a loud sigh and think they know it. Well, the secret is to use hot water right? But do you know that, too hot the water and your coffee can be ruined?
This is what I have learn from a free coffee course that I attended recently. well, the course is pretty good in the sense that it is straightforward, easy to understand and of course it has very useful tips for me to improves my brewing skills!
So, where can you find such coffee course? Well, you can simply follow any links highlighted in this article and learn more about the course. Not only did they make it a free coffee course, they segment it into bite size so that you would not suffer from information overload.
Anyway, the whole idea about this article is about the water temperature and not about this course, so I would leave you to explore the links yourself. Back on the topic of water temperature, were you informed on the best temperature to brew the perfect coffee?
If you are like me, spoiled by the technology of today’s modern coffee makers, I bet you would not have a clue on the perfect temperature to brew a great cuppa.
The answer is actually 198F. You would noticed that it is not 212F, the temperature that water boils and this is the common mistakes that many of us makes that spoil our coffee. How many times have you poured boiling water unto your coffee grounds?
What was the resulting taste? It is anything but sweet right? Personally, I have brewed many cups in such manner that is bitter. And I would blame everything and anything from the blend of the coffee beans, the roast to even the grind. When in fact, the culprit is really the boiling water, as highlighted by the free coffee
If not for the coffee course, I would not have known that water temperature plays such an important role in determining the taste of our brew.
Like most of you, I know that coffee cannot be brew at too low a temperature, in fact freshness of coffee is always associated with hotness. Naturally, I thought that the hotter the water, the better the coffee, not knowing that boiling water would burn and ruin the entire brew.
There you have it, a good tip on how not to burn your coffee. If you really want to timed it, then it would take about 4 minutes to let the boiling water cool down prior to dosing it on your coffee ground and that would provide you the best extraction…
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on Sunday, September 14th, 2008 at 10:01 pm and is filed under Beverages.
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