Coffee talk

[Margit]

And the drawings are done so quickly and easily that it seems that everyone already knows how to do it. I thought you could do it too. I will try to photograph all my "masterpieces" and show them here.

Margit, and I would like to see, or better yet, learn. Masterpieces in the studio !!!

Margit, how often do you need to clean the oils? And how do you clean it? And when you churn milk, then remove the thick tip? I haven't bought a pitcher yet. : girl_cray: I can't find it.

[dandelion]

dandelion
There are pitchers here:

[Ritochka]

Ritochka - what a fine fellow you are: bravo: How beautiful I never did it. I read a bunch of information, watched the video - it seems that everything is not so complicated, but how to do it - nothing comes of it. Look - my car can make foam itself, there is also a French press and there is a special beater. on a battery for milk, pour the whisk. milk in a cup with coffee and at an angle and straight - it drowns, then pops up with some kind of mess and at that end Milk and coffee exhausted nemeryannom, itself was drunk to stupor, now I can not even look at this thing: crazy: But looking at yours creativity, I would still try If it is not difficult for you - describe the whole process in detail, how you whisk, what you whisk in, how long you whisk, how you pour, how such a pattern is obtained, etc.

Irish, I will try to shoot a video of how I whip and how I apply the simplest drawing.
In this picture, with syrup, I drew circles, starting from the middle and without lifting my hands, I bring the circles to the edge of the cup. Then with a toothpick (I have a Latte-art Pen, now I understand that it is absolutely unnecessary, you can do just fine with a metal hook), starting from the edge of the cup, draw a strip to the middle, and so several times, after each strip wiping a "pencil" with a napkin. Then, in the same way, but already from the middle of the cup to the edge, in the middle of the ready-made strips, and such a flower is obtained. You can improvise as you like, it always turns out unusual and beautiful. We only have three cups of coffee a day, my husband drinks two, and I always paint one cappuccino in the mornings.
I also tried a rosette, it turns out weak, I think it's a matter of practice, one cup a day is not enough for art.

Rituel, thank you. Even in the morning I wanted to ask you about the video, but I was ashamed to bother you. What kind of syrup do you have? Maybe you can show a photo too - tomorrow I plan to go to the Metro, at the same time I'll see

Margit, I'm looking forward to the video.

please look at the metro pitchers

I have pitchers (and we don't sell them in the Metro, I was looking for them there at one time), I generally have EVERYTHING for coffee, just see my hands don't grow from there But I forgot - I don't have any syrup, there must be some special need

Dandelion, how are you doing, whipping up the milk? I made a video, but not very well. Behind the scenes, the voice of her husband, the loud speaker of the TV, and at the end the battery also ran out. Confusion!
I decided to show only Irina - a nut and quickly removed it from YoTube. But I will definitely keep my promise, I will try to shoot better, and put the video here, in the subject.
And this is the morning cappuccino:

Ritochka - I also rehearsed in Today, I warmed the milk in a pitcher on the stove until 55 *, it was whipped like normal, but longer in time than the cold one, it poured in the first cup because something was already visible in the video, the foam was good, the picture was I didn't do it with syrup, because I can't drink coffee yet, but it's a pity to translate the product, but I understood the principle And you just have a masterpiece, what beauty

Star in shock.....

Margit SORRY THAT I HAVE NOT SEEN THE VIDEO. The milk was whipped only a couple of times, and this is how the froth comes out and coffee with milk under it. Drank cappuccino up to her throat.I started to like espresso. But I still try again. Tell me is the pitcher important in this business? What kind of coffee (brand) do you drink? What grind are you setting?

[zvezda]

Irina, I am sure that you will succeed!
It is better to warm milk to 65 * C, the taste will be more creamy, but not more than 70 * C. Wish you had panarello. I think it is better to warm milk in a glass flask of a French press in a micron, then pour it into a hot pitcher heated with boiling water and - go ahead, storm the latte art. Try it, I'll wait for your drawings.

zvezda Thank you!

dandelion : flowers: I may be wrong, but I think that a pitcher is needed. Not necessarily expensive, cheap Chinese will do if you find it.
We drank all kinds of coffee, at first mostly expensive sorts. Gradually, it became clear that expensive coffee is not necessarily good coffee. Good coffee is coffee that is as freshly roasted as possible and contains as little robusta as possible. Even elite sorts of roasted coffee lose all their taste and aroma a week after opening the package, and after two you don't want to drink such coffee. In the store, be sure to look at the date of roasting and do not buy large bags if you do not expect to drink a week. Now we mostly drink coffee, which I roast myself. I wrote out 3 kg of green Arabica coffee in one of the online stores. And today in Metro we saw Paulig coffee roasted from December 5th. Bought it just in case you run out of roasted homemade coffee unexpectedly. The grind was set at the very beginning to 1 with the coffee grinder running, that is, without beans, and did not change it any more. That seems to have answered all your questions!

Photo of green and roasted coffee, and another cup of coffee.

[Margit]

Margit, I apologize for the intrusiveness, but I would like to see a video of making foam drawings.

[tatjanka]

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[tatjanka]

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Tinka_tinka We did not drink a lot of coffee .... before the car ... A similar situation. Now we are jamming the whole family. It’s expensive, however. I thought for my beloved I bought KM: girl_manikur :, and here there are a lot of freeloaders.

In the last two weeks ... it's not expensive ... I have a cold ... I don't drink coffee ... especially with liquor ... eh ... pills .. wheels .. .. And I still bought the flavored one no more than 50-100g per month ..... before ... But now I don't buy it. More and more in teas ... I specialize with raspberries ... but my husband ... buys coffee in much larger volumes than before the coffee machine ... He prepares latte and makyatto, and just with cognac (I dived liqueur ....) ... Another moment .... if with a liqueur, then coffee from a coffee machine does not make me rush for 3-4 hours in extreme, and without it - horror ... adrenaline shoots like that ... and I don't feel like eating all day after such a drink - which is not very good for me. conveniently...

Teen_tinka Another moment ... if with a liqueur, then coffee from a coffee machine does not make me rush for 3-4 hours on extreme, and without it - horror ... adrenaline shoots like that ... and I don't want to eat all day after such a drink - which is not very good for me. conveniently..

Sorry, I didn't quite understand After what kind of coffee I don't feel like eating (I'm on eternal diets). Which brand is the liquor?

[Teen_tinka]

.. Another moment .... if with a liqueur, then coffee from a coffee machine does not make me rush for 3-4 hours on extreme, and without it - horror ... adrenaline shoots like that ... and I don't want to eat all day after such a drink - which is not very good for me. conveniently...

Teen_tinka
This is because alcohol is a caffeine antagonist. It's like: fire - water, calcium - magnesium, etc. In this case, at first it is advisable to drink weak coffee, over time, addiction and resistance to caffeine will develop, then you can drink stronger coffee. Coffee lowers appetite, so it is advisable for you to drink coffee after meals. In Italy, this is a matter of course. There they drink coffee after every meal, and coffee with milk only in the morning during breakfast, drinking coffee with milk at other times of the day is bad form.
And about syrups.Specialty coffee syrups contain starch to hold onto the surface of the frothed milk (latte). Starch free syrups are simple syrups and are used instead of sugar.
Delicious coffee to everyone!

[Margit]

After any coffee - I have "red bulls in my head and legs" .. And moreover, if I drink at 14 ... I will definitely not have supper ... and this is harmful for the digestive tract ... I force myself to eat ...
Margit , thanks for the mini-excursion to coffee. I absolutely cannot drink strong, either with milk or without ... in my life, I do not perceive a very coffee drink that way. And in the morning I can’t pour it into myself ... but after 14 or 17 sometimes ... as much as I want ... well, I’m not Italian .... but I’m afraid to drink at night ... Although the paradox : I have a reaction to 2 \ 3 of instant coffee .. if "byaka" after 15-20 minutes there is a rash on the forehead ... red ... a la measles .... but on normal, grain ... any. ... everything is normal ... And after the instant I want to sleep - at least push it ...

dandelion , And liqueur Baileys "Irish cream" .....

[Teen_tinka]

Teen_tinka
This is because alcohol is a caffeine antagonist. It's like: fire - water, calcium - magnesium, etc. In this case, at first it is advisable to drink weak coffee, over time, addiction and resistance to caffeine will develop, then you can drink stronger coffee. Coffee lowers appetite, so it is advisable for you to drink coffee after meals. In Italy, this is a matter of course. There they drink coffee after each meal, and coffee with milk only in the morning during breakfast, drinking coffee with milk at other times of the day is bad form.
And about syrups. Specialty coffee syrups contain starch to hold onto the surface of the frothed milk (latte). Starch free syrups are simple syrups and are used instead of sugar.
Delicious coffee to everyone!

Margit, but tell me pliz and where do you buy syrups? In which department should you look for them? And in general, what does the package itself look like? Can I walk past and turn my nose, not knowing that it is for me and Nana?

[Teen_tinka]

... a paradox: I have a reaction to 2/3 of instant coffee .. if after 15-20 minutes there is a rash on my forehead ... red ... a la measles .... but to normal, grain. .. any .... everything is normal ... And after the instant I want to sleep - at least push it ...

Teen_tinka
This is not a paradox, but a normal reaction of a normal organism. And lovers of instant coffee still do not want to admit that such coffee is full of chemicals and continue to drink.
In Marinina's novels, Kamenskaya is just a big man, he hardly eats, only drinks instant coffee and solves puzzles.

Margit, but tell me pliz and where do you buy syrups? In which department should you look for them? And in general, what does the package itself look like? Can I walk past and turn my nose, not knowing that it is for me and Nana?

tatjanka
IN this the topic has an answer to your question.

Good day! Help anyone in the subject!
I bought grain coffee. It smells just stupefying !!! But after grinding (in an ordinary coffee grinder), there is almost no smell, and when cooking in a drip coffee maker, one taste remains at all. What am I doing wrong?

Peace be with you bakers!

Well, what kind of fragrances they don't produce now, even with the smell of a hippopotamus

[Svetlana]

Svetlana, I have a similar case, if not strange, after I began to grind this coffee in a manual coffee grinder, the smell and taste began to manifest better, but still it smells stronger from the box, which is natural, there are still a lot of beans and the smell is more concentrated.

I'm not a coffee lover at all, but I have a spouse .....)))))) Any money can be spent on coffee. In the store, he practically does not buy, only if his "special order" is over, then we stand in front of the shelves for a very, very long time .... we smell through the valve, rustling grains and a number of other manipulations. The husband is brought coffee from Turkey, only one brand in green bags. I sometimes drink a cup of this creamy madness, but, honestly, I note that it is delicious, fragrant and that's it! He also sometimes examines the beans: if a straight strip in the center of the grain is robusta, coffee is of poor quality, in Arabica this strip is wavy.

What am I doing wrong?

It's not you. This coffee is not coffee.It happened several times too. What can I say, perhaps it is flour with the smell of coffee.
Robusta gives strength. Arabica has less strength, but the aroma ...

Husband gets coffee from Turkey

Which one then? Can I have a bag of photos?

coffee from turkey

Yes, if possible, a photo of the packaging. I don't like Turkish coffee, but I've never seen it in green coffee.

I bought grain coffee.

perhaps it is flour with the smell of coffee

What is it like? Nooo, grains after all. And where do such assumptions come from? already scared
and if you make flour, what will happen?

I also recently bought grain coffee, so it doesn't smell at all. And there is no taste.

What is it like?

I don't know the technology)))
Once I came across (I almost ditched the car.
Craftsmen make .. Dyes, flavors.
The grains are matte, of different sizes with even stripes. It was a long time ago, I no longer remember the details. And they rustle dully.

found

Counterfeit coffee
Today it is very difficult to buy truly high-quality grain coffee. A rare gourmet living in Russia will be able to distinguish the taste of real coffee from that to which, for example, 10% of fake coffee is added. It would seem that coffee beans are almost impossible to counterfeit. But there are craftsmen who, with the help of flour, starch, water, dye and coffee flavoring, can make coffee beans, which, after roasting, are visually no different from real ones. Some "advanced" counterfeiters make fake grains out of plastic. After all, no one will consider the sediment at the bottom of the cup, which remains after brewed coffee. An inexperienced coffee lover will be able to catch a fake if he throws the grain into cold water. Due to the dye, the water will acquire a light brown color, and real coffee will not color the water. In addition, counterfeit coffee sinks, while real coffee stays on the surface of the water.

Girls, I report - I threw it into the water:
- the water remains clear
- grains float from above
What remains - extremely low-grade coffee? It's a pity ... the smell - hurt yourself!

[Svetlana]

Svetlana, and yet, try a different grinding method, it might help ...

Today it is very difficult to buy truly high-quality grain coffee.

I don't know when this article was written, but I disagree with that. Who wrote this? What they just do not write on the internet.
I buy coffee all the time. Never met a fake

Never met a fake

Yes, I’m the same, not that I’m very picky about coffee, but I prefer French packaging, and thank God, I never came across a bad one. And the domestic one, that happened once, and then I changed the mill and the taste satisfied me. And then the proficouk coffee grinder is apparently too powerful, I don't know why there is such a difference, I grind this coffee with a manual mill and you can feel the aroma, I grind with an electric coffee grinder there is no such aroma

[Mandraik Ludmila]

Mandraik Ludmila, Luda, I think that the grains burn when you grind on a powerful one. IMHO

Svetochka, I think the same, but I bought a "red orange" flavored, well, I love this kind of coffee And apparently the flavor evaporates at high power

Peace be with you bakers!

Well, I don't remember where I mentioned
My friend worked for a couple of years on a coffee grinder Live coffee, well, a grain was sprayed from a spray can on a grain swept along the bottom
and it turned out - ELITE

[Svetlana]

Svetlana, perhaps, but you know what a thing ... that's when they used to cook on an electric geyser coffee maker (as they wrote to me the percolator was called), the aroma went all over the apartment! And now you are standing next to me and you can't smell it! And the coffee grinder from those times in our house ... all broken, but still working!
I'll try to steal a millstone from my friend, which I bought as a gift for Ali

[vatruska]

vatruska, and in what packaging was the coffee? In a vacuum? Has the term expired?

[$ vetLana]

$ vetLana, coffee JARDIN, packaging for 1 kg, (it is especially emphasized on the packaging - special to preserve freshness and quality!), production time - 12/2017, shelf life - 06/2019.

Jardine took it for a long time, when he first appeared, took the softest one I could see - No. 3. But it was 5-7 years ago, then, for my taste, it deteriorated, or maybe my taste preferences changed, I felt very bitter and I completely switched to French, they do not make me bitter. In principle, I can drink Finnish, the lightest roasted, Italian and German are not used at all.

[Mandraik Ludmila]

Mandraik Ludmila, took a hit on the share ...

Peace be with you bakers!
Already for about five years we have been drinking coffee of a certain type, sometimes we come across packages of a little bit fried to our taste, but we drink and do not bother how much we pay 400 rubles per kilo

[Anatoly]

Anatoly, Which one then?

Peace be with you bakers!
I'll take a picture tomorrow--

Nooo, grains after all. And where do such assumptions come from? already scared
and if you make flour, what will happen?

What is couscous groats? This is wheat flour processed in a special way and rolled into small grains, and after all, they do not boil at all during cooking

Apparently, tea and coffee can be processed in the same way.
After all, I sell tea with small and large tiles, rolled peas and so on ... when you pour it with boiling water, it dissolves into powder.

Gradually I switched to a light roast, or rather lard, to buy Viennese coffee roast, but on all packages they say so, then I take a medium or light roast. I liked Jardine, now she’s quit.

I consider myself an extremely coffee addict, I drink tea only in the evening, and that is because I try to exclude coffee after a working day. And I drink not with milk-cream, but with a circle of lemon and half a teaspoon of sugar. Here is such an incident of taste preferences. In our joint venture, they offer freshly roasted single varieties, which are also brewed in coffee houses. Delicious!