Coffee: Moka Pot or French Press?

Which do you prefer to use to make your coffee? Why?

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Which do you prefer to use to make your coffee? Why?

Neither as I prefer mine just like this....

Heart attack here we come ;p

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It looks absolutely delicious Elusive 🙂
That is another way to have it, the most memorable thing being the especially strong aromas.
As a variant one could use cinnamon sticks to stir or dark bitter chocolate sticks to add another layer of flavour.

Posted by TheLadyScorpio
Which do you prefer to use to make your coffee? Why?

Haha I see you continued the topic, Scorpette...

Oh my beloved French Press. Countless are the ways I love you.

Reasons:
The texture is silkier than normal coffee
I like not having to use a filter.

Scopette,

If you have the palette for it (and I know you do), indulge yourself by finding a coffee joint that will prepare it via a Siphon

While it one may initially think...
"Hey! It's a freaking bong!"
it is actually used to make one of best cups of coffee I've ever tasted. Crisp, clean, purified.

Let's say your bean selection is described as:
"It is slightly darker roasted to create a full-bodied coffee with distinct notes of baker's chocolate, dried apricot, toasted almond and cardamom. "

You will taste each individual note of the chocolate, apricot, almond, and cardamom along with the coffee.

Posted by Neurotoxin
Neither.

Dragonwell green or silver needle white tea loose in a cast iron pot with filtered water 🙂

Silver needle white tea, Mmmm.
You have taste, a wonderful choice albeit rare NT 🙂
Have you ever tried a cold brew?

Yes, darling VH.

I have tried that before, definitely purified, very clean even mineral in flavour, depending upon the specific bean and roast. Although it does not leave that nice residue which one gets from a Moka Pot.

So...it seems you DO have a fine palette, ah the Virgo man reveals himself 🙂

Posted by Nemesis
everday life - i have a nespresso machine - when on vacation in the south of europe i drink "homemade" coffee which is turkish coffee - the spoon literally gets stuck that is how strong it is lol. after drinking the coffee - we read the cup. 😄

Nespresso = George Clooney 😄

Plate on cup, flip it over, let it cool and read. The best, more often than not very interesting too, surprisingly.

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everday life - i have a nespresso machine - when on vacation in the south of europe i drink "homemade" coffee which is turkish coffee - the spoon literally gets stuck that is how strong it is lol. after drinking the coffee - we read the cup. 😄

Nespresso = George Clooney 😄

Plate on cup, flip it over, let it cool and read. The best, more often than not very interesting too, surprisingly.

in my defense - i drank nespresso before GC became their testimonial 😛 i'm not his biggest fan lol.

yeah...flip it over and see what happens - i see a black future lol. 😄

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LOL

Not a fan either but he stuck in my mind in regards to Nespresso, especially the piano falling advertisement.

Have you tried the purple/pink capsule - Limited Edition Grand Cru Naora? Very intriguing palette 🙂

Posted by geminicandle
I understand Eusive. It's not the best quality either that they import here. Sometimes it's just dry and too rubber-y or overly sweet:/

I like some sort of rose-water flavored sugar cubes that I find in Arabic shop, but I can't remember the name.
Perhaps, Lady Scorpion knows?
It's very delicious when paired with bitter "Turkish" coffee.

—?? ———? ——? - Morsel of Rose-Water

Though technically, this sweet did not come from Arabia but the Ottoman Empire as it were. Therefore the official term would be called Lokum (Turkish), not to be confused with Lokma, another type of desert made with dough.

Lokum comes in a variety of flavours including - plain, rose, pistachio, hazelnut, walnut, almond, coconut and almond, cream, cream with cinnamon (usually available during the winter season), mint, mastic, fruit flavoured (including sour-cherry, strawberry, orange, apricot, and lemon) date, cinnamon, ginger, clove and coffee.

The Rose-Water flavour in combination with Pistachio is delicious, alternatively one could crushed Pistachios into a rough grind and incorporate it within the Turkish Coffee for an entirely new yet different experience 🙂

To be more specific, in Arabic it would be - Rahat al-halko(u)m

in Turkish - Rahat?_lhulkum

Quite literally translated as, "comfort of the throat".

Posted by feby16aqua
Whatever you would make for me Lady Scorp, I would enjoy very much I'm sure. Picturing that seaside...

Ah the Amazonian visits, are you a coffee or a tea person?

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Whatever you would make for me Lady Scorp, I would enjoy very much I'm sure. Picturing that seaside...

Ah the Amazonian visits, are you a coffee or a tea person?

🙂 You ALWAYS make me smile.
A friend of mine has gotten me more into tea...but more adoring of coffee I am. Lattes and cappuccinos are my favorite but I do enjoy a good biting espresso as well. 🙂

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One could part waves than simply sit on the seaside, just like your avi 🙂
Mmmm, a Moka Pot and well heated milk, strewn out nicely would make a wondrous latte, nicely balanced without loosing the bite of the foundation palette.