Stop getting hot drinks wrong!!

[pavlosmacwolf]

How the fuck does that work then?
It looks like the electric element heats the sand...?
How do you know when its the right temperature then?

Turkish/greek coffee rises like milk when boiling, and is served with the froth on top.

 

[pavlosmacwolf]

Had tea since i was about 5, still drink three or four cups of good black english breakfast tea a day.
To me, personally the only cup of earl grey that ever passed my lips in 70 years tasted like an ashtray.
I did say to me personaly.

 

[ROVERT47]

A bit late to the General hot drinks thread, I’ve got a Delonghi coffee machine, I have two mugs of what I would call Americano, two blasts of espresso topped up with hot water and a dash of cream every morning after I’ve been on my treadmill.
Coffee has to be intense at least strength 5.

 

[Alan]

Espresso.

 

[ROVERT47]

Ar thang yow!, Arthur Askey, google him.

 

[Quirkafleeg]

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO KENNY BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

[Kenny]

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO KENNY BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Have a cuppa and shut up

 

[Quirkafleeg]

 

[Alan]

Ar thang yow!, Arthur Askey, google him.

Being born in a place called "Dingle" really sets one up for a life of comedy.

 

[The Bear]

Sorry Kenneth. All my fault really.

 

[nimrod]

Turkish/greek coffee rises like milk when boiling, and is served with the froth on top.

one of my aunts would then do fortune telling from the sediment marks of upturned cups.

 

[Wolf Hunting]

As Leeds says, the water will boil and combined with the gasses from the coffee will rapidly expand. You brew by waiting for the slurry to expand to the top of the ladle, pull it out of the sand until the heat dissipates and the slurry settles. Repeat as desired.

Seriously, I've never seen one of those things before and I've been to Turkey and other Mediterranean countries a few times.
So you have this container with sand in it.... do you add water to the sand, then heat it?
In the meantime you have your fancy little pot with a handle, and I take it you put coffee grounds in that, but surely you dont put cold water in it to be heated up by the 'slurry' as Alan refers to it?
I just can't get it...?

 

[BillyDee]

 

[Wolf Hunting]

My daughter has a mug of fairly milky tea with a sweetener in it every morning. She's now 10.
And whilst I'm at it the best sweeteners I've ever had are made by Stockwell in Tesco.
They are Cyclamate and Saccharine based and apart from sweetening the tea, have no taste at all. Miles better than Aspartamane and all the others. Also you get 850 in a container and they're as cheap as you get about €2 for a container.

 

[Wolf Hunting]

So you actually MAKE the coffee in that little pot then heat it up in the hot sand thing....
Still don't get it!
If you make the coffee in that pot, You've made it! It's just very strong at first is it...?
Fascinating way of doing it.

 

[BillyDee]

Water and ground coffee beans go into the pot which is then heated in the sand to make the coffee.

 

[Wolf Hunting]

Water and ground coffee beans go into the pot which is then heated in the sand to make the coffee.

Got it!!
Just watched 4 or 5 videos on how to do this.
Foam seems to be the most important for the taste and the look of the stuff.
"Turkish coffee is nothing without the foam".
So everything, sugar and milk if you must goes in before you heat it, then she divides the foam between the mugs then pours the coffee carefully into the cups so the foam doesn't get destroyed!
Wow! Interesting process.
Thanks!

 

[sycophantia]

Cinnamon latte, that's all.

 

[pavlosmacwolf]

one of my aunts would then do fortune telling from the sediment marks of upturned cups.

Ha ha all the oldies here do it, still aint won the lottery though.

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

My kids (11 & 8) don’t drink tea but I drank it from a young age (definitely Primary School age) - milky with one sugar.

I now take it strong (little bit of milk) and about 1/3 spoonful of sugar. I am trying to drink it without sugar but still prefer a little bit in there.

We never drank coffee in my house and I have only started drinking it over the past few years. It has to be milky and sugary so I presume I probably don’t actually like the taste of coffee!

Thankfully I no longer put sugar on my cereal. It must be a generational thing as my Dad and my mother-in-law both still have sugar on cereal (my Dad puts it on strawberries too which is totally unnecessary!)