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New Product Alert - Kilner Cold Brew Coffee Making Set
New in for spring the Kilner Cold Brew Coffee Making Set is an easy and efficient way to enjoy great ice coffee at home.
Tuttocrema Milk Frother
The Bialetti Coffee Process - 4 easy steps
Add Water
Fill the lower chamber with cold water just below the valve.
Add Coffee
Insert the funnel and fill it with ground espresso (do not tamp). Remove any coffee grounds on the edge of the funnel. Tightly screw the upper part of the pot on to the base. Avoid using handle for leverage.
Add Heat
Select burner size to fit bottom of pot. For gas stovetop, make sure the flame is not larger than bottom of pot. The flame should not come around the sides of the pot. Heat until the water boils and coffee begins to come out of the center post. There will be a gurgling sound during this process.
Enjoy
When the top of the pot is full of coffee, remove from stove. Before pouring coffee, stir it in the upper chamber with a small spoon to equalize all the different coffee layers for optimum flavor.
Cleaning
Wash by hand with warm soapy waterDry thoroughly with a towel
Finding the perfect Coffee Grind at home.
Having freshly ground coffee for your daily cup has become even easier to do consistently at home with the Hario and Porlex ceramic burr hand grinders. But how do you know how fine or course a grind you need for your brewing method?
Stovetop
The stovetop needs to build up pressure from the steam to force the water through the coffee. If your grind is too fine, you can over extract or burn the coffee, causing it to taste bitter. If your grind is too course and you will end up with a weak and watery cup.
Look for a medium grind with a texture like white sugar. From here you can adjust it to suit your taste.
Plunger /French Press
Needs a courser grind of coffee as the beans are immersed in the water over time to extract the coffee oils. Tend towards a grind that has a feel like raw sugar.
EspressoEspresso machines need a fine grind to extract the best from the coffee. An electric burr grinder is recommended for its consistency. The grind should have the feel of brown sugar and hold in the group head when tamped and then turned upside down.
Filter / AeroPress
Should be a medium grind similar to the stovetop.
An Interesting little Bean
What makes the peaberry so special?
Normally the coffee cherry contains 2 seeds that develop a flatten side as they grow facing each other. Sometimes only one of the seeds develops with nothing to flatten it. This oval shaped bean is known as peaberry. Only a small amount of all coffee develops with this characteristic and as a result the peaberry needs to be hand sorting after picking and specially treated adding to its value and rarity.
Our Tanzania peaberry comes from the Mbeya region in southern Tanzania border with Zambia.
This fully washed peaberry has toasty, malty notes and a balanced citrus acidity with a smooth cocoa finish.
