The divination pattern of Turkish coffee explains how Turkish coffee is made and why it doesn't filter dregs.

Walking on the romantic streets of Turkey, you will find many street vendors who sell a strange kind of coffee. The coffee pot is boiled in hot sand. Whenever the coffee pot is full, the stall owner pours part of the coffee into the cup and then continues to heat the coffee pot. After that, the coffee pot overflows again, and the stall owner is pouring out part of the coffee. Repeat it several times, quite interesting! This is the famous Turkish coffee.

In front of the street, there is a small popular science here. Turkish coffee does not refer to the coffee in Turkey now, but to the coffee from the Ottoman Empire. Arabs before the Turks have used a large pot of water outlet called Dallah like a big-billed bird in the Middle East to cook extremely light-roasted and perhaps even unroasted raw coffee. The Turks modified the Arab pot, using a small long-handle pot called Cezve (called Ibrik in Greece). As always, they threw water and coffee into the pot and cooked it with charcoal fire, which slowly evolved into today's Turkish coffee.

With the expansion of the Ottoman Empire, Turkish coffee was exported to all parts of the empire and European countries as a culture. For example, Greek coffee and Armenian coffee are actually of the same origin as Turkish coffee, and Turkish coffee is sometimes called Arabica coffee.

The principle of Turkish pot brewing coffee

The utensils for making Turkish coffee are Turkish pots called [Cezve]. The pot is usually made of brass and is characterized by a long handle connected to a cylindrical container with a narrow opening. Until now, high-quality Turkish pots are all handmade, copper pots are 1-1.5mm thick, ensuring hardness and heating at the same time.

In the current era of brewing coffee, Turkish coffee is one of the few "extracted" coffee in the form of brewing. The biggest difference between Turkish coffee and the commonly used brewing method is that now most coffee grounds are filtered to get a clean cup of coffee, while Turkish coffee is drunk with powder and liquid.

Nowadays, the coffee beans commonly used in Turkish coffee are commercial beans from Brazil, which is one of the reasons why Turkish coffee has a bad flavor, but now some coffee shops also use high-quality Arabica coffee beans to make Turkish coffee.

The coffee grinding used in Turkish coffee is as fine as fine flour, which is finer than that used in espresso. The traditional heating source is sand heated to 200 ℃, but now gas stoves and charcoal stoves are also used as heating sources.

First use a 1 cup Turkish pot, pour in 12 grams of finely ground coffee powder, and then add 120-180 grams of cold water (depending on the cup you taste). Then bury it in the heated sand stove (the other heating sources are heating at the bottom). The sand wraps the whole body of the pot, making the heat in the pot more uniform.

The traditional method of cooking is "three rolls", which means that when heated, about 5-7 minutes later, the coffee reaches the boiling point and rolls. When there is a tendency to expand and erupt, pull up the Turkish pot, keep away from the heating source, put in and continue heating, repeat twice, and pour the coffee into the cup when it boils for the third time.

There are also some practices that first pour about 1/3 of the coffee into each cup, and then put the remaining coffee on the fire again and continue to boil until it is boiled and then distributed to the previous cup in order.

Divination interpretation

Drinking Turkish coffee also leads to an interesting culture, and the most widely spread is coffee grounds divination. After drinking the coffee, first put the coffee plate on the coffee cup, then reverse it, and when the coffee powder condenses, you can interpret the journey from the texture. Of course, this has become part of the entertainment of Turkish coffee culture (not superstition).

Full moon: it means that today is a very lucky day. Luck will be on your side unswervingly. No matter what you do, you will succeed.

Half-moon type: today will be a smooth day, be able to cooperate with others smoothly, complete the work in accordance with the plan in advance, and make a small fortune if you seize the opportunity today.

Three days and the moon: there will be some small troubles in work and life. As long as you adjust your mood and put down the bad things, you will still be able to achieve your goals.

Crescent type: extremely bad day, everything should be careful, remember to calm down, lest sexual emergency bad things, resulting in an uncontrollable. Everything is treated with a normal mind, patience and modesty can not guarantee the problem.

Other types: there are no signs of anything, God knows what will happen, anyway, this day is thrilling and exciting, but as long as you are normal, nothing bad will happen.

Other graphic interpretations

An animal or tree with four legs.

It usually represents success, such as a promotion in the job, going well in the exam, getting a famous position, etc.

Heart type

It usually means that love is coming, if there is a heart in the cup, the person who has no object "means that there will be love coming, but if there is a partner at present, it means that the other person will give up his heart to love you. If there are two hearts in the cup, it means that they are close to each other. If you add the circle of the ring, it means that the possibility of marriage is quite high.

Ring

It usually represents an engagement, or within the last three months, there may be people around you who will get married.

The current number or date is usually related to the month or date. If it is a figure of special significance to an individual, special attention should be paid to it. For example, if the eighth of this month has passed and it is now May, it is likely to refer to August.

English letter

Usually represents someone's surname, maybe C stands for "Zhang", or "Zheng", etc., while K may represent the surname "Jin" and so on.

A bird or something like a bird

It usually means that there will be some unexpected surprises, or there may be good news. if it is a bird that spreads its wings, it means that something amazing will happen, or something surprising will happen soon.

A blank rectangle

Usually indicates the arrival of wealth, the larger the rectangle, the greater the wealth, so you can buy lottery tickets recently, or pay attention to uniform invoices. As for whether you can keep the money, it depends on the degree of stickiness of the cup and plate at the moment you open it. The tighter it is, the less likely it is to lose money.

A snake-like shape

It usually represents something bad, especially around you, where a small person may appear or be set up. In short, it is best not to have a direct conflict with others; and if it is in the shape of S, it may also have something to do with the surname, such as "Xie" or "Xu".

Tubular

If there is a tube on the wall of the coffee cup, it usually means travel, or there is going to be something about migration. The longer the shape of the pipe, the farther you want to go, while if it is an impassable pipe at the end, it means that the journey is blocked and it is not easy to travel.

Eye

It usually means to be envied. The more eyes appear, the more serious the situation is, and you should pay more attention to your words and deeds.

Circles, lines, triangles

The appearance of a circle usually represents some good things, such as success; the appearance of a straight line indicates success; and the appearance of a triangle also represents success, but it is mostly related to the entertainment, communication and art circles.

Stars or patterns related to constellations

If there is a star shape, it usually means that dreams and wishes come true. If there is a zodiac sign, or a symbol, it indicates the nature of something. For example, Aries represents impulsive action, while Libra may have something to do with love.

There are unicorns.

A unicorn usually indicates the secrets and fantasies in someone's heart. If there is a unicorn pattern, it usually means that there are secret secrets in one's heart, such as an affair or a love triangle.

If the coffee grounds can't drop anything else on the wall of the cup,

It means that the diviner is under a lot of pressure at present. if there is some gap between the cup wall and the cup wall, it means that there is still room for thinking. if not, it means that the diviner needs to talk to someone and try to talk about the pressure in his heart.

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