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  • The Coffee Bean
    Coffee is a beverage, served hot or with ice, with or without cream and sugar, prepared from the roasted seeds of the coffee plant. These seeds are almost ......... Read More

  • Before You Purchase A Home Espresso Machine
    Instead of running to your local coffee shop or favourite corner café for the perfect cut of espresso, consider making your own at home. If the thought of ......... Read More

  • Coffee Maker Glossary
    Coffee Maker Glossary Coffee has a language all its own. Here are a few of the frequently used coffee maker terms.Auto Frother: device that automatically ......... Read More

  • Coffee - Avoiding Brewing A Bad Cup
    If a good cup of coffee was so easy to make by simply just throwing in your choice of coffee grinds into water and then into your percolator, then you could ......... Read More

  • Coffee Maker Types
    When we hear the term ‘coffee maker' most of us think of only one type of coffee maker. Most often, the drip style coffee maker or the espresso type machine ......... Read More

  • Is That Hot Coffee Really Good For You
    It is common knowledge that the caffeine content in coffee is not good for human health. In spite of that caffeine consumption the world over has increased in ......... Read More

  • Using The Coffee Grinder For A Cup Of The Brew
    To a coffee lover freshly ground beans have the greatest attraction. The fragrance itself can make you long for a cup of the brew so earnestly. However, ......... Read More

  • Cappuccino - Other Worldwide Coffees Ideas
    There was a time in America where Folger's coffee dominated, with instant and drip varieties, taken with sugar and/or milk. Then, our world expanded with ......... Read More

  • The Coffee Pot And Its Variety Of Shapes And Styles
    The shape and size of a coffee pot will vary. When coffee makers were introduced in the late 1950s, the look of the coffee pot changed.Before that time, the ......... Read More

  • From Green Coffee Beans To Aromatic Powder
    Coffee does not exist in the form that we are used to purchasing it in at the stores. Coffee comes in the form of green coffee beans that grow on the coffee ......... Read More

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We all know only too well time and history change most things - even the way we
brew coffee in our own homes. Do you remember back to when the only piece of
equipment we had to brew espresso was a percolator? My Mum had one that she
used to put on the top of the stove. As a child I found it fascinating to watch
the water heat until the pressure forced it up a small tube and over a metal
basket full of freshly ground beans. Here in Australia, the Bushells brand of
coffee was popular then and came in a glass vacuum sealed jar with the brand
name inscribed onto the glass. The quality of the cup of coffee it made was
fairly ordinary by today's standards. I can tell you from past experience that
boiling water and then running the liquid over grounds more than once produces a
brew that is far from perfect.But fortunately for us
….home coffee brewing methods and appliances have certainly improved over the
years.By the 1970s the drip method turned up on the market and changed our
coffee drinking habits forever. This was brewing simplicity at its best and soon
took the domestic market by storm. Its main features were that it was
inexpensive, quick to use and provided a marked improvement in flavour against
anything the stove top percolator could produce. Basically this model comprised
a plastic container that was lined with coffee filter paper which was then
filled with ground beans. This was then set on top of a glass container in which
water, that was almost boiling, was poured over the beans and left to drip
through to the glass pot on the bottom. Still today I have a china single cup
version of this model and find it very quick and handy to use with very little
mess to clean up afterwards.A bit later on coffee bags turned up on the shelves
of supermarkets here in Australia under brands like ‘The House of Robert Timms'
variety. Basically they are coffee bags and are made and used in exactly the
same manner as tea bags. In the US and other countries they have coffee pods. A
similar idea to the coffee bag and come in different shapes and sizes – you can
have the choice of either single or double cup sizes of your favourite blend of
ground beans. The Coffee Pod was also designed to be used in coffee making
machines where water temperature is always near 200F (93C). With varying sorts
of controls the brew and internal spouts can be adjusted to spread the water
evenly over the grounds. Coffee pods are either cone or flat in design and made
of porous type paper which holds a measure of ground beans. They certainly are
convenient and save a lot of mess and fuss in making a quick cup of coffee that
tastes ok. So why not step outside your usual routine and be a little
adventurous. In this day and age there are literally dozens of different
methods of brewing coffee just waiting for you to try.