Preparation is everything.
How better to begin a new blog than by explaining the raw fuel used in its creation. Coffee. None of your posh chrome filter grinding, Harrods arabia special blend ”proper coffee” machine here, oh no. That’s for people with more time and money than need for caffeine.
Instead, I’d like to share with you the recipe for perfect, instant ‘coffee from a jar’ kind of coffee, because it’s cheaper, quicker, and done properly, more effective.
This is one teaspoon of coffee. Heap it high.
Seven steps to coffee nirvana
So. For the perfect cup of coffee, you will need:
- one jar of normal caffeinated crumbly stuff. I’d recommend something Fairtrade, just in case.
- some fresh cold semi-skimmed milk
- sugar if required
- one kettle
- an adequate supply of power and water and gravity etc
- a mug
- a teaspoon
The pasty substrate begins to form.
Step 1: boil yer kettle.
Step 2: while it’s boiling, add one to two teaspoons of coffee into your mug: the more the merrier. Add sugar to taste – white or brown.
Step 3: add milk to taste – put in a fair bit. We’re aiming for strong and milky, and sweet if that’s your thing.
Step 5: when kettle has boiled, wait some more – not long, just ’til it’s stopped bubbling. NEVER MAKE COFFEE WITH BOILING WATER. Nevereverever. It ruins the milk and burns your mouth.
Step 6: when kettle nirvana has been achieved, pour water steadily into mug and stir well immediately, and/or while actually pouring. Don’t fill the cup to the brim, that’s just annoying. Three-quarters full is perfectly adequate.
A reasonably weak but perfectly formed example of the genre.
Step 7: drink. Enjoy the sensation of coffee that is strong, milky, smooth and sweet, not scaldingly hot.
