Can you make coffee without professional utensils? Simple and rough "cowboy coffee" is not necessarily bad!

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Cowboy coffee is to cook coffee powder and water directly in a pot.

In the early days, this was a relatively shoddy method of coffee brewing, probably because soldiers directly heated empty cans on a campfire, and the coffee charred was so bitter that it had to be sweetened or spiced to cover up its thick negative taste.

However, if you can master the characteristics of this method of cooking, you can actually make good coffee.

This is also a good way to enhance the experience of campfire during camping and barbecue, not only roasted marshmallows, but also try cowboy coffee!

This article provides common mistakes and suggested recipes for cowboy coffee, but it's important to try and like it yourself.

Error demonstration

Because many people make cowboy coffee in the wrong way, ask people to equate it with poor quality and try to avoid the following mistakes:

1. Instead of cooking according to the proportion of powdered water, casually add coffee powder and water, just like cooking rice by feeling, or even directly heat the cold water and coffee powder directly at the beginning, resulting in an imbalance in concentration.

two。 Put the pot or jar on the source of fire and heat it to a boiling state, which will not only prevent the powder floating on the surface from being extracted evenly, but also cause the pot to be overheated and make the coffee bitter.

3. After heating, for fear of being scalded, let the coffee sit in the can and wait for cooling, resulting in more negative flavor extracted.

4. After removing the fire from the pot, pour cold water on the pot to cool down, which will make the state of the coffee more unstable.

5. When pouring coffee, the coffee grounds are not allowed to precipitate, resulting in a large amount of coffee grounds in the cup, affecting the drinking experience.

Cowboy coffee formula

Cowboy coffee can also be made well, and all you need to prepare is coffee powder, water, a source of fire and a pot:

1. Heat the water to a boil

two。 Remove the boiling water from the fire and let it cool for two or three minutes, when the water temperature drops to a temperature suitable for cooking.

3. It is best to know the capacity of pots and spoons in advance, because only spoons and pots and pans can be used in the wild, and when you cannot weigh water and coffee, you can use 250 grams of water to 2 tablespoons of coffee powder:

a. Stir coffee powder and hot water

b. Stand still for about two minutes and stir again

c. Stir and rest for another two minutes.

d. Add some cold water and let the coffee powder precipitate to the bottom.

e. Pour coffee as slowly as possible to prevent coffee grounds from flowing into the cup

When the coffee is finished, it is better to pour it out as soon as possible, so as not to become bitter again caused by excessive extraction. If you want to refill the cup, try not to drink the rest of the coffee in the pot, or pour it into the thermos after it is cooked, and pour it out when you want to, lest the last cup spoil the beauty of the previous cup of coffee.

Although the reputation of cowboy coffee is generally not very good, it does not mean that you cannot enjoy good coffee in the wild, all the brewing conditions are still in your hands, as long as you do not do the wrong demonstration, the coffee will not be difficult to swallow.

What needs to be confirmed is the use of pots and pans, the mastery of weights and measures, and, of course, the quality of coffee beans themselves must also be good.

Article Source: Chengzhen Coffee

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