Wednesday, December 26, 2012
* Daily coffee brew *
So this is the photo-explanation of the process of how I make my coffee on most days (including today).I turn on the coffee machine first to heat up the coils, before going on to prepare the rest of the equipment such as beans (pictured in jar), scoop, coffee mug.
So first, grind the beans during the electric grinder (pictured on the hooper).
Secondly, take the ground coffee powder and put into the tamp, making sure it's compacted.
Thirdly, click it into the machine and turn on the machine's pump and let the water run through the ground compacted powder for about 20 seconds. Starbucks recommends 18 seconds for the best espresso, but I pull a little bit more because I think it's a little bit wasteful. Anyway, 20 seconds seems to result in the just right volume and taste for my formula.
Fourth picture, the final result. Usually the volume of coffee pulled in 20 seconds is less, but today I was too distracted by taking photos that I exceeded the timing way off, to about 30 seconds.
