I am on vacation and have time to investigate new things. Couple that with the coffee snob book I picked up used and you have a whole world to investigate. Currently we have on order a hand grinder for the beans. This is still in the mail, with the check. As I wait my son pointed out that he had a mortar and pestle decorating his kitchen window. Mortar and pestle are used to grind things. Coffee needs to be ground.
I gave it a try.
I hope the grinder arrives today because I don’t want to be forced to do this again.
It can be done but it is a lot of work. There are probably great techniques that develop from experience. I don’t want to go through that process. I ground the beans once and sifted out the finer parts. I ground it again. And again. I finally took refuge in the directions on the French press that I was to use coarse ground coffee. I heated my water and got ready to brew.
It was a lot of work. It came out okay. Tomorrow I hope to have the real grinder to compare results.
I do not recommend that you try it. Learn from my mistakes.
homo unius libri
Yes, but you are now a caffeinated and wiser man.
ReplyDeleteEither that or addicted.
DeleteGrace and peace.