Coffee: Magical Bean Water

With roots in Ethiopia and Yemen over a 399 years ago. Coffee did not grow in popularity until America made it the drink of chose. This is closely linked to the history of our own country. After the tax from the Tea Act of 1773, America rejected Tea sold by the British East Indian Trading Company, and went to the cheaper alternative of coffee. This brought it to the masses, and began to march towards global domination.

Types of coffee

Pour overs

The most popular form of coffee in the world is the pour over. It is a process where you pour hot water over coffee in a paper filter. The process is the basis of the drip coffee machine. It yields a fast to make cup of decent quality coffee.

A famous coffeemaker that created the drip market is the Mr. Coffee. Have a listen:

Peculated Coffee:

The older brother to the modern day drip coffee machine is the percolator it has one major downside of it resteeps the coffee, multiple time causing it to become bitter it was very uncommon to drink this coffee black, Most people who drank percolated coffee haven very little issue drinking black drip coffee though as it is far less bitter.

It was also famous for its sound. Take a listen:

Espresso

Currently the king of caffeine. Espresso uses pressurized water to put the coffee grinds under pressure. You also have to grind the coffee finer to allow the extraction process to work faster. This process required some decently expensive equipment, and therefore is not a process normally done in home, but budget espresso makers are becoming available. Starbucks made Espresso widely available in the United States.

A guide for espresso

Moka pot

Before the modern high pressure espresso machine there was still a way to make a higher pressure more caffeinated coffee than drip it was called the Moka pot to use it. You would fill the bottom with water, a cup with coffee and then screw it together. Placed upon a source of heat. It would force the water through the coffee under steam pressure. When finished it would make a noise that sounds like the word Moka. This told you it was done.