Everyone hates being ripped off by coffee shops and their inferior drinks. Their drinks are carefully concealed behind infantile flavours. Flavours masking tasteless buckets of coffee to try to make them drinkable. However, coffee shops also provide a space for budding novelists to write their first blockbuster.1 So they’re not all bad.
Barista Coffee is the real thing. You make it to suit your taste. But! You need to extend your kitchen equipment2 with a cafetiere. Once you start make Barista Coffee the cafetiere will be used as often as a frying pan.
If you’re happy with Starbucks, or Instant Coffee Barista Coffee isn’t for you.
Ingredients
Good quality ground coffee – Lavazza3 is a good starting point BUT you need an intrepid heart to try and test. Barista Coffee is your coffee to suit your taste. There are lots of opportunities at different strength levels.
Hot water
Technique
Roughly, two level tea spoons of coffee, per person, put into cafetiere. (Listen to your taste buds they’re never wrong.)
Boil water and let it to go off the boil
Pour into cafetiere – sufficient for one cup per person.
Leave about 3-4 minutes
(It’s commonplace, in Britain, to have milk and sugar with coffee but Barista Coffee isn’t enhanced by masking tastes. Go hard core!)
Outcome
You’ll never pay £3 for an inferior coffee again unless you’re an aspiring novelist.
Notes
1 The forgotten Edinburgh cafe where JK Rowling actually wrote Harry Potter – Edinburgh Live
2 Satin Stainless Steel Double Walled | ProCook. A 360 ml cafetiere is roughly £24 or about 8 coffees at Costa. Smaller one-cup cafetieres are available.
3 Ground coffee | Sainsbury’s (sainsburys.co.uk) Aldi and the other bargain chains have a poor selection
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