POPULAR METHODS FOR BREWING COFFEE IN THE OFFICE

by Ronald Wolf Business Consultant

When it comes to preparing coffee, ever since this beverage started getting popular in human societies, there sprung up multiple ways to prepare it.

Whether it's simply pouring some hot water over ground coffee beans, or mixing milk powder with coffee, sticking the resulting concoction in a tubular bag and calling it '3-in-1 instant coffee', preparing coffee has become a matter of pride and joy for everyone who enjoys this delicious beverage.

Some countries have gone farther than others in the art of making coffee.

In Italy, for example, you can get your macchiato, marocchino, cappuccino, and many other subtypes in virtually any café worth its salt.

On the other hand, in other places around the world, people pride themselves in their regular black coffee – but it's the unique way they prepare it that they keep insisting upon.

In Turkey, the most common variation for preparing coffee amounts to the amount of sugar you want in it. The coffee is finely ground, is prepared in a special coffee pot called cezve, and it's served in special small cups, too.

In this article, we're going to list four different ways to prepare coffee. To add a special bend to this piece, we'll concentrate on the ways you can make coffee while at work. As you will see, each of the different ways we will mention will give you a different sort of finished product, so to speak.

Here's the deal.

French Press

One of the most rudimentary coffee machines out there that still can make one heck of a cup of coffee if you use it right – would the French press.

While not much about the design of this machine will tell you immediately that it's French, the other word in its name is a dead giveaway, so to speak.

What this thing is essential, is a press that allows you to force hot water through the finely ground coffee and then through a filter. So, the resulting liquid that makes it to the bottom of the container is what you drink.

Here's how to prepare coffee this way step by step:

·         Place the press on a flat surface and remove the plunger

·         Add 7 or 8 grams of medium-ground coffee per 200 ml of water

·         Add the ground coffee first and then the water you've preheated

·         Make sure the water is hot when you pour it in, but not boiling

·         Stir the water with the coffee gently

·         Insert the plunger into the slot over the liquid, but don't use it yet

·         Allow the mixture to sit for about 3 minutes

·         After three minutes, apply steady pressure to the plunger and press it downwards

·         Remove the liquid from the press and into a clean, pre-heated container (you may also need to pre-heat the plunger itself before starting the process)

·         Once you've finished making coffee, clean the press, so it's ready for use immediately next time

Pour-Over

Even though the name of this technique implies that it's quite simple (which it is), we should mention here that to make coffee this way you will require a paper filter.

The reason behind this is that you will be using coffee that's not ground into a fine powder, but rather a slight courser one that resembles sand.

Now, the idea is to place this sand-like powder into the paper filter and then carefully pour hot water over it, so that the liquid you will be drinking would slowly pour down into the container you've placed the filter over.

Here's how to do this.

·         Heat fresh water to 93.3° Celsius

·         Prepare 45 ground coffee beans (with a sand-like texture)

·         Set up the paper filter and the container you'll be using

·         Pour hot water over the filter to remove the taste of paper and pre-heat the container (typically a carafe is used in this coffee-making technique)

·         Get rid of the hot water you used for pre-heating, fit the filter at the top of the container and place the coffee into it

·         Add a little bit of hot water in a spiral pattern to cover all of the coffee, then let it sit for about 30 seconds

·         After 30 seconds, pour the rest of the water and wait for it to pass through into the container

 

Cold Brew

Representing one of the most unusual ways of making coffee, cold-brewing your favorite beverage does make a lot of difference in how it will taste and the amount of caffeine in it.

The idea behind the so-called 'cold-brewing' technique is to allow the coffee beans to get release their flavor into the water slowly, rather than forcing it out of them by attacking them with hot water, so to speak.

To be fair, this technique of making coffee may not be the best one for offices, as workers would rather have a coffee ready in one minute, rather than one day, but since it's an interesting way of making coffee, we're including it anyway. Plus, you probably could make it in the office, too, provided you schedule it well and you've got a fridge handy.

What's more, the technique itself couldn't be simpler.

Here's how to do it:

·         Get some coarsely-ground coffee and place it in a glass container

·         Pour cold water over the ground coffee and seal the container

·         Place the container in a fridge and allow to sit from 12 to 24 hours (the longer the coffee sits, the stronger it will taste and the more caffeine it will have)

·         After this period has elapsed, take the container with the coffee out of the fridge and pour the coffee through a filter to remove chunky pieces of coffee

 

Aeropress

An Aeropress is a special coffee-making contraption most similar to the aforementioned French press.

The basic principles are pretty much the same, as there's a filter involved and you need to add hot water to it to make it work.

Here's how the process goes.

·         Use 200 ml of water and 15-18 grams of coffee

·         Make sure the coffee is ground till it’s beans become smaller than sea salt

·         Prepare a filter and place it in the plastic Aeropress cap

·         Pour some hot water over it to make the filter adhere to the cap and also to pre-heat the container you're going to drink the coffee from

·         Add the ground coffee to the Aeropress chamber and add about 30 ml of hot water to it

·         After about 30 seconds, add the remaining water into the chamber

·         Seal the chamber with the cap and the filter in it you've prepared

·         Turn the thing upside down and position it over the receptacle

·         Apply pressure to the top of the filter and wait until the receptible below fills up

If this process takes too long for you to pull off in your office, you can always consider getting one of the coffee bean machines that can make coffee from bean to cup automatically.

All in all, whether you like making your coffee the old-fashioned way or you prefer getting a fresh cup of coffee quickly from a special machine that does it on its own, coffee is a beverage that many workers simply cannot live without.

 

You get great taste and also you get to bring colleagues closer together as an employer, which is of great importance for fostering good relations in the workplace – and it's all thanks to coffee. 

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