Jul 10 2024
If you love cold brew and you love ice cream, this cold brew coffee ice cream recipe brings the two together in one incredibly creamy dessert. Rich heavy cream and whole milk create a smooth Philadelphia-style ice cream base, while cold brew coffee concentrate delivers deep coffee flavor without requiring you to brew hot coffee …
Jul 03 2024
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 …
Jun 18 2024
Few coffee drinks are as dramatic—or as surprisingly simple—as dalgona coffee. A glass of cold milk topped with a thick cloud of glossy whipped coffee looks like something that should require barista skills and specialized equipment. In reality, the famous topping begins with just three pantry ingredients: instant coffee, sugar, and hot water. Also known …
Jun 03 2024
Espresso is small, concentrated, intensely aromatic, and responsible for an enormous portion of the modern coffee menu. A cappuccino begins with espresso. So does a latte, macchiato, flat white, mocha, Americano, cortado, and affogato. Yet despite espresso’s familiarity, there is still plenty of confusion about what it actually is. Espresso is not a type of …
Jun 01 2024
You don’t need to wait overnight for cold brew—or even wait an hour for hot coffee to cool in the refrigerator—to make a genuinely good iced coffee. The easiest method is to brew hot coffee a little stronger than usual and chill it immediately over plenty of ice. You get the aromatic extraction of hot …
May 28 2024
Coffee and smoothies solve two very different morning problems. Coffee provides the familiar roasted flavor and caffeine many of us want first thing in the morning. Smoothies make it easy to blend fruit, milk, yogurt, oats, nut butter, or other ingredients into something cold and portable. Put the two together and you get a coffee …
May 24 2024
Starbucks changes with the seasons almost as reliably as the weather. Spring brings floral flavors and colorful iced drinks. Summer shifts toward cold brew, Refreshers, and shaken espresso. Fall means pumpkin, pecan, chai, and baking spices. Then winter arrives with pistachio, peppermint, caramel brulée, gingerbread, and the holiday drinks people wait all year to order. …
May 19 2024
If you make coffee every morning, throwing a pile of used grounds into the trash can feel wasteful. Coffee grounds are organic material. They contain carbon, nitrogen, small amounts of minerals, and compounds left behind after brewing. Surely plants would appreciate them—right? Sometimes. But the internet has dramatically oversold what coffee grounds can do in …
May 05 2024
Ascaso occupies an interesting place in the home espresso market. The Barcelona-based company combines distinctive European design with serious home-barista features such as professional 58 mm portafilters, PID temperature control, programmable pre-infusion, adjustable brewing parameters, stainless-steel components, and fast-heating thermoblock technology. Unlike many traditional prosumer espresso machines that rely on large boilers and long warm-up …
Apr 26 2024
Percolator coffee has a personality all its own. It’s typically hot, robust, aromatic, and fuller-bodied than the coffee many people associate with an automatic drip machine. Because a percolator repeatedly circulates hot water through the grounds during brewing, the beans and grind you choose can have an especially noticeable effect on the final cup. The …
