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Jul 03 2024
The World’s Best Coffee: A Connoisseur’s Guide
What is the best coffee in the world? It sounds like a simple question until you begin tasting truly exceptional coffee. A delicate Ethiopian coffee scented with jasmine and citrus bears almost no resemblance to a syrupy Sumatran coffee filled with dark chocolate and spice. A Panamanian Gesha can taste astonishingly like tea and tropical …
Jul 02 2024
Best Home Espresso Machines: Types, Features & Buying Guide
Buying an espresso machine for home should be exciting. Unfortunately, the terminology can make it surprisingly confusing. Semi-automatic. Fully automatic. Super-automatic. Thermoblock. Dual boiler. PID. 15-bar pump. Built-in grinder. Pressurized basket. Automatic milk frothing. How much of that actually matters? The good news is that you do not need the most expensive espresso machine to …
Jul 01 2024
Best De’Longhi Espresso Machines: Which Model Is Right for You?
De’Longhi makes everything from compact manual espresso machines to sophisticated bean-to-cup systems capable of grinding beans, brewing espresso, and frothing milk with almost no effort from you. That variety is one of the brand’s strengths—but it can also make choosing a De’Longhi surprisingly confusing. Should you buy the slim Dedica Duo? Is the La Specialista …
Jul 01 2024
Light Roast Coffee: Flavor, Caffeine, Brewing & Best Beans
Light roast coffee is where coffee gets wonderfully interesting. Instead of emphasizing the smoky, bittersweet flavors created by prolonged roasting, a light roast can allow more of the bean’s original character to remain noticeable in the cup. Depending on where the coffee was grown and how it was processed, a light roast might taste like …
Jul 01 2024
Coffee Plant Guide: How Coffee Grows From Flower to Bean
Every cup of coffee begins somewhere very different from the grinder, espresso machine, or coffee maker on your kitchen counter. It begins on a leafy tropical plant covered with glossy green leaves, delicate white flowers, and clusters of colorful fruit. And those familiar brown coffee “beans”? They aren’t really beans at all. They are the …
Jun 30 2024
The Art and Science of Pour Over Coffee
Pour over coffee looks almost deceptively simple. Place ground coffee in a filter, pour hot water over it, and wait for the finished brew to drip into your cup. Yet within those few steps is one of the most controllable and rewarding ways to make coffee. Unlike an automatic coffee maker, pour over brewing puts …
Jun 29 2024
Best Keurig Coffee Makers: Models, Features & Buying Guide
Few coffee makers have made single-serve brewing as familiar as Keurig. Drop in a K-Cup pod, press a button, and you can have a fresh cup without grinding beans, measuring coffee, or brewing an entire pot. Choosing a Keurig, however, has become considerably more complicated. The lineup now includes everything from compact brewers for tiny …
Jun 27 2024
Coffee-to-Water Ratio Guide: How Much Coffee Per Cup?
Great coffee starts with two simple ingredients: coffee and water. Yet getting the balance between them right can make the difference between a rich, flavorful cup and coffee that tastes weak, harsh, bitter, or strangely flat. The easiest way to improve consistency is to use a coffee-to-water ratio. Instead of guessing how many scoops to …
Jun 27 2024
Lungo Coffee: What It Is, How to Make It & Lungo vs Espresso
If you enjoy espresso but sometimes wish the experience lasted a little longer, lungo coffee may be exactly what you’re looking for. Rich, aromatic, and more spacious in the cup than a traditional espresso, a lungo is made by allowing more water to pass through the coffee grounds during extraction. The result is not quite …
Jun 27 2024
How Much Caffeine Is in a 12 oz Cup of Coffee?
That 12-ounce mug of coffee may feel like a perfectly ordinary morning serving, but how much caffeine is actually in it? For a 12 oz cup of regular brewed coffee, a useful general range is about 113–247 mg of caffeine. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration lists that range for a typical 12-fluid-ounce serving of …
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