How do you prepare a excellent coffee (cafe)?

Question

Please, write the recipe (coffee)... Thank you.

Answer 1

Most fine restaurants use a press pot, also known as the French Press, which produces an extremely rich cup of coffee.



Press pot coffee is coffee steeped for 3-4 minutes between 195 to 205 degrees F. It produces a thicker and much richer taste than an auto-drip machine can produce.



A disadvantage of the French Press is it may leave trace amounts of coffee sediment. But the rich taste more than makes up for the small amount of sediment at the bottom of your cup.



So first, start off with a quality medium roast coffee, which is what most restaurants use. I can give you a couple of good recommendations.



Seattle's Best Breakfast Blend, Starbucks Breakfast Blend or Starbucks Sulawesi Coffee is 3 excellent choices. These are full-bodied coffees yet very smooth tasting. They are some of our best sellers at PerfectCoffees.com and work well for French Press brewing.



You want to grind the coffee slightly larger than you would for drip coffee. Too fine of a grind will produce a bitter cup of coffee. If your grind is too coarse, the coffee will taste weak. A quality grinder is the best thing you can do to improve the taste of French press coffee.



Remove the plunger from the press pot and put 1 rounded tablespoon of coarse ground coffee per each 6oz. of water into the pot. You can adjust this to your own taste.



Coffee is 99% water so use clean filtered or bottled water free from chlorine and other minerals that affect the taste of coffee.



Boil the water and remove it from the heat for five minutes before you pour it. This will give you the 195 to 205 degree water that is ideal to brew with. Now pour the 195 to 205 degree water over the ground coffee.



Stir the coffee to get total saturation of the grounds then place the plunger on top of the pot and let the coffee steep for 3 to 4 minutes.



Depress the plunger slowly to push the grounds to the bottom of the pot.



Serve all the coffee in the pot after the 3 to 4 minutes of steeping. Otherwise the coffee will keep getting stronger.



If you have any left, you can always transfer it to a clean, preheated air pot or a stainless steel Thermos. This will keep the coffee hot about an hour without hurting the flavor.



The French press brewing method definitely takes more time but gives us the result we are looking for. Restaurant quality coffee in the comfort of your own home.





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Answer 2

You would need about a tablespoon of coffee per cup. You choose the finest ground, darkest coffee you can get (often it should say on the can/bag or you can choose a dark coffee and have it ground on fine). An Expresso blend or Latin American coffee or Turkish coffee is more likely to be of a fine, dark blend.



For this you can use a coffee pot, or melita drip for average good coffee and the filter absorbs the fats. There the boiling water pours over the filter with the grounds.



Or for really rich strong coffee an alternative is to actually boil the coffee in a pot with the water on a stove. Then, you pour the coffee off of the top and leave the grounds in the pan. A few grounds will remain at the bottom of the cup, of course but very fine. This would be a "turkish" style coffee.



If you don't want to deal with grounds you can pour it through a clothe filter or place a clothe filter with the grounds in it into the boiling water (just make sure that you don't have a gas stove actually on while the filter is in the pan to be safe).



And, of course, you can buy an Expresso maker for not very much. I'm sure the directions are on the box. But, once again you would want a finely ground dark expresso blend.



Really what determines coffee quality is richness and quality of the coffee, how fine it is ground, the amount of coffee used and the amount of time the coffee is in contact with hot water.



If you find this too strong just reduce the amount of grounds. And, if you are boiling the coffee make sure you don't burn it or over-boil it!



Hope this helps.

Answer 3

What is a good cup of coffee depends on how you like it, doesn't it? Some people like it strong, others like it mild.



In general, though, any cup of coffee must be made without boiling water - that is, after bringing water to a boil, it must be cooled to 190 degrees Farenheit. The reason is that coffee is made by a process called thermal fractioning - heat causes "fractions" of what is in the grounds to be extracted and above 190 F undesirable fractions are extracted. At 190 F, just the flavors and caffeine are extracted. You can get it at 190 F by letting the pot set for about one minute.



So start with good water, not your questionable tap water, and with excellent ground coffee. An automatic coffee maker probably gives water less than boiling, but it might be less than the desirable 190 F. And there is no control over how long the coffee steeps. An infuser, aka "French press," is best.



How much coffee per oz of water? Tastes vary. Start with a nicely rounded tablespoon per only 6 oz of water. Adjust in future to your tastes.

Answer 4

I have gone through many coffee receipt's and the only things that make great coffee are the three hundred dollar machines. You could go to a coffee store and they have hundreds of different blends and the french press coffee maker is good I heard.

Answer 5

Use filtered water (like Brita etc...) and fine ground coffee. The filtered water will make all the difference and you will taste it too! It will also look better (more sharp). Lastly, serve it in a nice mug or cup, with some smooth Jazz music in the background....

Answer 6

Clean your coffeemaker with a cup of white vinegar and a pot of water every month. Gourmet coffee is expensive, but some blends are worth the price. Most people make coffee to taste; depends on how strong you like it. One scoop per two cups of water is how I like it.

Answer 7

take six to eight tablespoons of fine grade, autodrip ground coffee. Place in filter basket of pourover style coffee pot.

Bring 8 cups of COLD water to boiling, wait ten seconds, pour hot water (just under boiling) over grounds slowly until saturated and fill pot.

Discard used grounds.

Answer 8

In a coffee press, but not bulk roasted coffee like those previously listed, but small batch roasted by a master roaster.

see web page below. Jim is a master roaster and I thnik that he roasts the greatest beans!!!

Answer 9

get yourself a french press (about $14) at Target. Follow the instructions on the package and you can't go wrong!!! It'll be the best cup of coffee you've ever had!

Answer 10

3 scoops of coffee to 8 cups of water.

Answer 11

For cheap coffee, you need 1 Tbsp. per cup of water on your pot. (cheap = Maxwell House, Folger's, etc.)



For good coffee, you can slide down to about 1 Tbsp. for every 2 cups of water. (good=Starbucks, Krispy Kreme, Gevalia)



I think most people make their coffee to weak, so it has no flavor. Buy a lighter roast, but brew it stronger for incredible flavor.

Answer 12

Fill your coffee filter with 3 generous tbls spoons of coffee and add 9 cups of water...allow perculation to commence!!!!!



I prefer wet (cream) and sugar!



DRINK and then DELIGHT in your brilliant first accomplishment of the DAY!!

Answer 13

Free internet and spill proof keyboards, good tasting coffee helps to, good luck!

Answer 14

espresso is the most excellent. mmmmmmhhhmmmm

Answer 15

Recipes







Add these recipes to your menu and wow your guests! Vary your palate-pleasing java drinks according to the season with offerings both hot and cold. Tried and true, these are sure to delight even the most hardened cafe connoisseur.



Ice Cream Parlor Mocha Soda



� 1/2 cup hot water � 8 teaspoons finely ground coffee � 2 cups milk � 4 scoops chocolate ice cream � 1 quart club soda � Sweetened whipped cream or prepared whipped topping Place hot water in a medium-sized pitcher. Stir in coffee. finely ground into a powder texture, until blended. Stir in milk. Place 1 scoop or ice cream in each of 4 ice cream soda glasses. Pour coffee/milk mixture equally into each glass. Fill glasses almost to brim with club soda. Top with sweetened whipping cream or prepared whipped topping. Serves 4.



Coffee Frost



� 1 cup freshly brewed coffee � 1/3 cup sugar � 1/3 cup brown sugar Dissolve all sugar in the coffee and cool. Pour into a metal tray or bowl and freeze until almost hard. Beat well, and freeze again to sherbet consistency. Turn into sherbet glasses, and top with whipped cream. Serves 4.



Cafe Mexicano



Whip 1/4 cup heavy cream with 1/4 tsp. cinnamon, 1/4 tsp. nutmeg and 1tbs sugar, put a tsp. chocolate sauce into the bottom of four demitasse cups add 1/2 tsp. the cinnamon to the coffee, pour into cups and stir the syrup. Now spoon on the whipped cream.



Thai Iced Coffee



Make some extra strong coffee with 6 to 8 tablespoons dark roast and 1/2 cup boiling water, then mix with 2 tsp. sweetened condensed milk and pour over ice.



Black Forest Coffee



6 ounces fresh brewed coffee 2 tablespoons chocolate syrup 1 tablespoon maraschino cherry juice Whipped cream Shaved chocolate (optional) Maraschino cherry 1. Combine coffee, chocolate syrup, and cherry juice in a large mug; mix well. 2. Top with whipped cream, chocolate shavings and a cherry. Serve immediately. Makes 1 serving.



Peanut Butter Mocha



6 ounces fresh brewed coffee 2 tablespoons chocolate syrup 1 tablespoon maraschino cherry juice Whipped cream Shaved chocolate (optional) Maraschino cherry 3. Combine coffee, chocolate syrup, and cherry juice in a large mug; mix well. 4. Top with whipped cream, chocolate shavings and a cherry. Serve immediately. Makes 1 serving.



Brazilian Iced Chocolate Back to Drinks - Non-Alcoholic



Makes 5 cups



Ingredients 2oz unsweetened chocolate 1 � oz sugar 8 fl oz double-strength coffee 20 fl oz milk 12 fl oz Coca Cola Whipped cream or ice cream



Melt chocolate in 'bain-marie' over hot water. Stir in sugar. Gradually stir in hot coffee, mixing thoroughly. Add milk and continue cooking until all particles of chocolate are dissolved and mixture is smooth - about 10 minutes. Pour into jar, cover and chill.



When ready to serve, stir in chilled Coca Cola. Serve over ice cubes in tall glasses. Top with either whipped or ice-cream.



Chocolate Orange Back to Drinks - Non-Alcoholic



Put the juice from one half of a freshly-squeezed medium-sized orange into a large cup. Place several squares of semi- to sweet chocolate in the cup. Pour dark roast coffee over top. Stir well to melt chocolate.



Melya



Melya Back to Drinks - Non-Alcoholic



Ingredients 1 mug espresso coffee 1 tsp honey 1 tspn unsweetened cocoa powder cream



Brew some espresso coffee. Then, in a coffee mug, place the unsweetened cocoa. Cover a teaspoon with honey and drizzle into the mug. When the coffee is brewing, stir the honey and cocoa. It looks as though the honey and cocoa will never mix but suddenly it does - it turns into something that looks like dark chocolate sauce. Pour the hot coffee over the honey and stir to dissolve. Serve with cream (optional).



Cafe Speciale



Caf� Speciale Back to Drinks - Non-Alcoholic



Serves 4



Ingredients 4 tspns chocolate syrup � tspn nutmeg 4 fl oz heavy cream 1 tblspn sugar � tspn cinnamon 12 fl oz extra-strength hot coffee



Put 1 teaspoon chocolate syrup into each of 4 small cups. Combine cream, � teaspoon cinnamon, nutmeg and sugar. Whip. Stir remaining � teaspoon cinnamon into hot coffee. Pour coffee into cups. Stir to blend with syrup. Top with whipped cream.

Answer 16

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