How to choose Turkish coffee pot and brew the best coffee in your life.
Here's what you need to know about Turkish coffee:
1. It'll work for any coffee: light, medium and dark roast
2. It'll open the potential of even the most expensive coffee (sometimes even better than pour over)
3. Use freshly ground coffee
4. Grind size: the smaller the better (2 clicks on Comandante is great)
5. Water temperature - either cold or warm (up to 60°C) is fine
6. Better to brew slower (it's ok to have 4-7 minutes brewing time)
7. Ratio is 1:10. Meaning for 100 g of water we need 10 g of coffee
HOW MUCH COFFEE TO USE
For 120 ml Cezve it's better to use 8 g of coffee and 80 g of water. Up to 10 g.
For 200 ml Cezve - 14 g is the best dose, but up to 17 g.
Lower dose will allow you to control the motion of the foam.
TASTE CONTROL:
It's done by two things: COLOR of the foam and MOTION of the foam.
COLOR:
If it's too bright - coffee will be under extracted, sour.
If it's too dark - coffee will be bitter.
While brewing, it'll change the color from light to dark and you need to take off the brewer just in time in order to achieve the best balance of taste.
MOTION:
There is a WRAP and SWIRL motions. And alternative to WRAP is the CRACK.
We don't need a swirling motion, that way coffee will be over extracted and bitter, tasteless.
Be sure to make a full wrap and take it off immediately.
If your coffee foam (crust) don't wrap, but cracks - serve it after a few seconds after the crack of a foam (crust).
It's important to pay attention to the final part of the brewing and remember the color and motion. To adjust the taste in the next brewing if taste wasn't that great.
HOW TO DRINK:
Right after taking the coffee from the heat, serve it into the cup. And wait for around 5 minutes. It needs to cool down. And small particles will go down, so that the coffee will be clean. Make 3-5 sips at first, to drink some foam and then - clean coffee.
In order to perceive all of the tastes - let it cool down almost to the room temperature.
HOW TO CHOOSE THE SIZE OF A TURKISH COFFEE POT:
1 person - 120-200 ml cezve is great
1-2 persons - 200 ml
2-3 persons - 270 ml
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Timecodes:
0:00 - Turkish coffee
0:20 - What taste to expect
1:16 - Freshness of a coffee
1:38 - Turkish coffee grind size
2:01 - Water temperature
2:42 - Heat application
2:53 - How to control the taste
4:26 - How to drink Turkish coffee
4:49 - Foam motion (taste control)
6:07 - WRAP and SWIRL, CRACK
7:24 - What size of Turkish pot to choose