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Turkish Coffee

Turkish coffee is said to be the oldest method to brew coffee. Powder like, very fine ground coffee is slowly heated up with cold water in a Turkish pot, called ibrik, cezve, briki, mbiki or toorka. The ibrik is traditionally made off copper or brass but nowadays you will ofte...

26 Jun 2010 Hits:1166 All about Coffee

There are many different types of coffee available from various parts of the world. There are different types of roasts, cappuccinos, lattes and the best-selling instant. There are a few tips to remember when selecting your coffee. Caffe Latte The latte or cafe...

26 Jun 2010 Hits:2622 All about Coffee

Latte art is a style of pouring steamed milk into a shot of espresso that creates a pattern or design on the surface of the resulting latte. It can also be created or embellished by simply “drawing” in the top layer of foam. Latte art is particularly difficult to create consistently, due to the...

26 Jun 2010 Hits:1076 All about Coffee

Does all milk foam? Yes, as long as there is protein present in the milk and the milk is fresh. All milk will foam: fully skimmed, semi-skimmed, whole fat, soya, goat milk etc. Steaming, which is forcing air bubbles into the milk, causes the protein to ‘connect’ with the air bubbles. This mea...

23 Jun 2010 Hits:1263 All about Coffee

Many coffee shops officially use the title for their coffee makers. The role of a barista is to have enough knowledge of the entire process of coffee to effectively contribute to the products intended result which almost always includes caffeine. This knowledge includes the correct oper...

23 Jun 2010 Hits:598 All about Coffee

Looking at a map of the world, if you highlight all of the major coffee producing countries, you will notice that the majority of them lie within the confines of the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. These two imaginary dividing lines lie apart with the equa...

23 Jun 2010 Hits:2730 All about Coffee