How to make a strong mug of filter coffee without any Coffee machine?
The filter coffee that I have purchased contains 53% Coffee and 47% Chicory.
Since I don't have a machine yet, what I did is as follows:
Spoon measure: 6 ml
- I put heaped Coffee spoon in a steel glass.
- Added 60ml boiling water to the same, stirred and kept in untouched for 6 minutes.
- Then I added 200ml hot milk to the same with 2 spoons sugar.
- Filtered the mixture using a strainer.
The result was NOT strong Coffee.
Questions:
- Do I need a Coffee with less amount of Chicory?
- Do I need to add more Coffee OR steep the same amount of Coffee for a much longer duration?
Best Answer
Chicory is completely a matter of personal taste.
Trying to make a coffee concentrate and then dilute it with milk is a very unusual practice (at least without an espresso machine). I don't know if the water will become saturated, but you might try brewing in a much larger volume of water, and then adding cream after which is a more typical practice.
6 minutes is a little long for most peoples' tastes; 4 minutes is more typical. You may be getting a more bitter cup than necessary due to overbrewing.
6 ml to 260 ml total beverage is very weak; you may try closer to 30 ml to 200 ml as a more typical starting ratio, which you can then adjust according to your taste.
Other than that, make sure your water is at appropriate brewing temperature (without a thermometer, bring it to a boil, then turn it off for a few seconds). Don't use metal glasses, which lose heat quickly; use something glass or ceramic.
See also: Coffee Geek discussion on rations (in metric)
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In addition. Variables that will effect the strength of your brew are the amount of coffee to water. Typically with an immersion brewing process like you're roughly doing, I use 7grams(~1tbsp) per cup. You can increase for more potent coffee. I use 205 degree Fahrenheit water(10seconds off boil) to brew, any higher will extract tastes you don't want, any lower will underextract. Without a filter you should expect sediment in the bottom of your cup.
Something you could try, since you don't have many tools needed to brew coffee, is a cold water extraction. In Costa Rica, they take the coffee beans and either crush them between 2 stones, much like they would mill corn for tortillas, or they would roughly crush the coffee using something like a mortar and pestel or even something like a rolling pin and a hard surface. Basically you just need to crush the bean into a coarse form. Then they would submerge a burlap sack of the ground coffee in water and just remove the bag after 24 hours.
This brewing process removes a lot of the variables that can contribute to make bad coffee. You don't have to worry about water tempurature, even ground coffee, or precise brewing times.
You could try submerging crushed ground coffee in cold water for 24 hours in a small cloth(food safe) sack of some sort. A ratio of 12oz of coffee per gallon(2liters) of water should work well. I've seen people use cotton clothes for similar processes, and even old tshirts(not recommended). Whatever you use make sure its food safe.
This will produce a very strong coffee concentrate, you could then dilute this with hot water or hot milk to heat it.
Where I used to work we had a drink that used cold water coffee extract(Toddy) and steamed it with milk to heat it up. You could try something like this, heating milk on the stove and adding it to the cold water coffee extract. The extract can be kept for up to a week in the fridge.
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