While I don't have quite the lab that
@CraigT78 does, I do okay with my morning brew. I will say, I am happy drinking his nitro brew.
I recently picked up a burr grinder (Niche) and use a Mokka pot, and a French press, as I have not afforded an espresso machine. The grinder and choice coffee has made a huge impact to the quality and taste of my morning.
Here is an in-depth look at my process:
I put filtered water in the kettle and set it on high on the stove.
Beans (16g) into the grinder with an espresso grind, but at the upper end of the grind settings (17ish) (larger espresso grind) because I use the Mokka pot and smaller particles will bleed through the 'filter'. dump the grinds into the basket of the Mokka pot and sit the basket into the top of the Mokka pot while the water boils.
I pre-warm all of my equipment, I run hot water into the French press, bottom of the Mokka pot, frothing pitcher, Turkish cezve, and coffee cups. Its at this time I also put a pot of water on the stove and boil water.
Once the Kettle says 'good morning', I dump out the warm water from the Mokka pot, and pour in the Kettle water, drop the basket into the bottom, spin on the top and toss it on the burner on high.
I dump the warm water out of the Turkish cezve, and fill it up with milk, that goes in the boiling pot of water, I turn the burner to med while the milk warms up. You don't want to 'break' the milk, by heating it too high, if it has an odor you should dump it and start over on the milk. You want it to be very warm, I use a spoon to drop it on my wrist for temp.
I dump the warm water out of the coffee cups and toss in a little sugar, just enough to balance the bitterness of the coffee, I like it to be neutral not sweet or bitter.
Once the Mokka pot has produced enough creama I pour (in a swirling method) over the sugar to melt it, only putting in about 1/4-1/3 a cup.
The milk is typically at temp, I pour the milk into the French press to froth it, and then into the milk pitcher, pour over the coffee - ta-da glorious Capuchino!
While this seems like a lot it's really not, most of the effort goes into milk prep, as I don't have a milk steamer. I have put this together over time using James Hoffman's educational videos, his tube channel is one of few that I would highly recommend.
Not the greatest of photos
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