My personal coffee biography 

For the longest time, I did not like coffee. Didn't like the taste, didn't like making it, etc. I was very much a tea person, especially at home. I would drink coffee when up and about and felt I needed some energy, but never made any myself.

Until I made #coldbrew. Suddenly, I had coffee that was not only incredibly convenient (More to how I make coffee later.), but I also liked the taste much more!

So now, I drink ... a lot of coffee. :blobpats:

How I make coffee, a warning 

First, a note of warning: As a #nerd with Strong Opinions™ on ... many things, I respect that #coffee nerdery is very much a thing and people have Strong Opinions™ on this too. That said, if somebody feels the need to argue or correct me on this I will block with delight.

I've met too many annoying coffee nerds and self-styled "connoiseurs" to care anymore.

Questions, even friendly coments are nice, pedantry or one-true-way-ism is not. Save it for somebody who cares.

How I make coffee 

My personal coffee recipe:

Take a cup of ground coffee (Different ones will taste different, but I'm at the intersection of "poor" and "feels bad about fucking up the world even more", so I just buy the cheapest fair trade that I can afford.) and put it in a 2-3 litre freezer bag.

Add 4-5 cups of water (Cold or room temp or whatever.), clip the bag shut so it won't leak and then give it a good shake so that all the grounds get wet and to dissolve any clumps.

Put the bag in the fridge.

How I make coffee 

Keep the bag there for 10-12 hours. Or longer, whatever. Give it a shake whenever you remember to.

I strain the coffee using a cloth tea strainer (One I only use for that purpose, because I prefer my tea to keep tasting like tea.) as paper coffee filters took AGES and who has that time, really.

(With the cloth filter, I can just pour the whole thing in < a minute if I was careful not to disturb the settled grounds too much when getting the bag from the fridge.)

How I make coffee 

It's a bit of a skill, but after you do that a couple of times, most of the ground coffee remains in the freezer bag, so you can just throw that away without any mess.

(Don't forget to squeeze it a bit to get most of the liquid out, tho.)

Wash the filter under some running water, hang it to dry and you're done:

A litre+ of delicious, concentrated #coldbrew #coffee. :blobaww:

I keep it in a jug in the fridge and I've yet to see how long it keeps because it's gone way before that. 😆

How I make coffee 

Once that done (Total workload: 15 minutes at the most, spread over two days.) and I want to drink coffee, I just do one of two things:

If it's hot coffee I want, I just mix roughly one-third to half a cup of coldbrew with water or milk (I take mine half coffee, half milk, personally.) and heat it in the microwave.

In the summer, I also like to drink it cold, either sinly from the fridge or over ice. Again, water, milk or alcohol can be added to taste.

Delicious coffee, almost no effort.

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How I make coffee 

@minx Oooh, thanks for writing this up. I was wondering about the whole coldbrew thing. I like coffee but my stomach doesn't, so I'm a tea person myself.

But maybe I give this a try, it sounds so simple.

Is there a reason you use the bag instead of, I don't know, an empty bottle? The squeezing part?

How I make coffee 

@Jules Part of it is space, part of it is lazyness of the "Don't wanna have to clean a bottle" variety.

At the beginning I tried it with two washable jugs, but my fridge door, where I could keep a jug over night, is generally pretty full already so i tried it with the bags and found the "Most of the mess stays in the bag and I can just dump that" part extremely attractive in its convenience.

How I make coffee 

@minx Sounds very low spoon. I just took some coffee home with me and will give it a try later.

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