Turkish coffee or Ibrik and a cafeteria are your first thoughts in the morning when you are still in bed and it is a cold, snowy morning outside. You are slowly awakened by the familiar inviting and intoxicating smell of coffee. You stretch once or twice, someone made the coffee for you too. How nice and attentive. Darling brings you coffee in bed, but sometimes mom didn't do that. Or if you got sick. Oh, how nice it was.
There is also a coffee pot on the stove and some coffee in it, and on the table is a cup of intoxicating specialty real coffee, which was roasted with care and love and a lot of knowledge in the home roaster. It's a good thing that they discovered it, because from then on they enjoy Turkish coffee, also called lbrik for connoisseurs, every morning.
While drinking the same Turkish coffee as in your favorite coffee shop in town, you think why it is not as tasty as the one made by Marina or Klemen, professional coffee roasters and baristas?
Turkish coffee: how to conjure up a superb cup of coffee at home with simple tricks?
Don't worry, even at home you can conjure up a superb cup of your favorite coffee with a few simple tricks. Marina and Klemen will come to your aid with their knowledge and experience, because we ourselves created and invented how to make it so that your taste buds sing with joy and pleasure at the taste of fruit and nuts in your Turkish coffee. Your task is only to choose Mariposa coffee according to your taste, suitably ground for your coffee preparation method or you can grind it at home using your own grinder.
He trusts you with a secret about the two most widespread ways of preparing coffee at home, which are the ibrik or Turkish coffee and the cafeteria.
How to choose the right Turkish coffee or cafeteria coffee?
To prepare coffee, it is first necessary to choose the most suitable coffee for a certain method of brewing coffee. Some types of coffee offer a creamy and chocolaty flavor profile, while other coffees offer more of a fruit flavor.
Some coffees are more suitable for espresso, others for cafeteria and still others for Turkish coffee. Still other types of coffee are more for the filter method of preparation, but it depends on you how you like it, because you can also use the coffees in a special way of your own. This is actually the point of enjoying coffee.
How should the coffee be ground?
Another important thing in the preparation of any coffee is, of course coffee grinding, which affects its aroma. It is ideal to grind the coffee just before preparation, as this is the only way to give the coffee a chance to really show its flavors. It's the same with herbs, if you crush them before adding them to the dish, they will have the strongest and most pleasant smell and taste. Pre-ground coffee quickly loses its aromas. This is the same for all other ground plant grains. That is why it is most important to always have freshly roasted and at the same time freshly ground coffee on hand.
Correct preparation of water for coffee
Given that water represents 98 % of coffee extraction, it is also important what kind of water we have. Ideal water means that it is neither too hard nor too soft, so it has just the right amount of positive particles. If you always want good coffee, we recommend using filtered water.
Another important thing about water is its temperature, which also affects the taste of coffee. Ideally, it should be between 87 C° and a maximum of 95 C°.
Turkish coffee or lbrik
There is no wrong way to prepare Turkish coffee or lbrik, because we can tell you from our own experience that every individual has his own way, which suits him best, so we will describe in more detail the most widespread way of preparing Turkish coffee in the correct way.
Turkish coffee: a recipe for preparing Turkish coffee or lbrik
For making Turkish coffee or lbrik you need the following ingredients:
- 15 g finely ground coffee
- 150 ml of water
- coffee maker
You fill the coffee pot with water and place it on the hot stove. It is important to avoid high heat, otherwise the water will boil too quickly.
Just before the water boils, put the coffee aside and add the coffee and mix well so that a foamy layer forms on the surface. Then put the džezva back on the hot plate for a few seconds. When the coffee rises to the edge of the dzhezva, carefully set it aside and serve.
You can sweeten Turkish coffee or lbrik, add any milk or cream and enjoy its taste.
Cafeteria
A question that we baristas often encounter is what is the trick when making coffee in the cafeteria, because it is rarely ever ideal. The trick is to be careful when grinding the coffee, as each method of coffee preparation has its own grind thickness.
Recipe for making coffee in the cafeteria
To prepare coffee, you need the following ingredients:
Heat the water in a container or heater and prepare coffee and cafeteria.
Fill the sieve of the coffee machine to the brim with freshly ground coffee, but do not press the coffee in any way. Pour hot water, which you heated earlier, into the lower part of the cafeteria, just up to the safety valve. Why is this important? In this way, you will shorten the preparation process, and the taste of the coffee will be richer.
Carefully insert the sieve into the lower part of the cafeteria and place everything together on the hot plate. When you hear bubbling, remove the coffee maker and immediately pour the coffee into the cup.
Be sure to rinse the coffee maker as soon as possible after brewing so that the coffee remains do not dry out, so the coffee will always be delicious without unwanted aftertastes.
