Start with fresh roasted coffee beans and grind to a medium fine grind. For each cup of fresh cold water add ½ tablespoon of ground coffee. Your coffee machine should be very clean before brewing. Auto-Drip coffee, percolated or French press (bodum), everyone has a preferred method. Water temperature is critical and should be between 195 and 200 so don't use rapidly boiling water.
Drip brewing has been around since the 1800's. Vacuum brewers cam out in 1840. Percolators were patented in 1865 were greatly improved in about 1914. Then there are the even older ways which was boiling water and adding a handful of coffee grounds and letting them settle while it cooled (Cowboy coffee or river coffee).
They all very in size and shape. But typically, # You'd place coffee grounds in the basket, # The basket in or on top of carafe or pot (depending on your style) # Pour hot to boiling water over grounds # Wait till water completely drips through basket # Coffee in Pot is ready to use. As another tidbit, metal or aluminum drip-o-lators were designed to sit on stove or campfires to keep coffee warm. Wouldn't try it with Porcelain carafes or any other materials though.
put in iced water and dont heat water
Making good coffee takes ground coffee, good quality filters, cold water and of course, a coffee pot. For a drip pot, insert the filter in the basket, dump the coffee into the filter depending on how strong you want it to be, pour cold water into the top of the pot and turn it on.
Coffee percolators went out of fashion when drip coffee makers became available. Percolators take much longer to brew a pot of coffee and people love the convenience of the drip models.
Pod coffee makers use packets of coffee instead of grounds and filters. This saves the hassle of measuring out coffee and spilling grounds like when using a drip coffee maker.
Instant coffee is pre brewed coffee ready to rehydrate with boiling water. It dissolves and is ready to drink with no residue. Filter coffee is ground roasted beans through which you pour boiling water and the liquid is passed through a filter leaving only the fresh brew. The grounds stay trapped in the filter.
Benjermin Thomis
I have same problem. RCA refrigerator with no drip pan that pools water once or twice a month.
A medium drip.
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