How To Make Fantastic Gourmet Ground Coffee In The Comfort (and Cheapness) Of Your Own Kitchen

Okay, so times are tough financially

Okay, so times are tough financially. Youve done the numbers, and you understand that its time to tighten the purse strings a little (whatever purse strings actually are) and youve come up with a couple of brilliant ideas about packing lunches and eating breakfast at home.

Sandwiches! Carrot sticks! Cereal! Eggs! This is easy. Whats tripping you up is coffee.

Your parents drank coffee in the kitchen every morning of your childhood. Remember waking up to that smell? How nice that was? People make coffee at home all the time, and you can, too. Itll save you, what, four bucks a pop for that vente frappe you usually grab on your way into the office. Since youre number crunching already, thats like $1,460 a year.

Except the thing is, that vente frappe thing tastes a whole lot better than your parents coffee. No offense, mom. Its just that youve gotten used to a certain gourmet coffee scene, and its hard to go back to Folgers.

The good news is, you dont have to. There are ways to make gourmet coffee at home that tastes as good as anything youll find in the green and white chain. You can even splurge on a travel mug and carry it to work with you. And thats not even a splurge, when you think about the trees youre saving.

1.Choose high-quality beans, freshly roasted in small batches. Know where your beans are coming from, how theyre grown, when they were roasted. Dont settle for less. This is your morning cup were talking about here. Your whole day depends on it.

2.Store your beans in an air-tight package in the refrigerator to maintain freshness. (If youre keeping them for more than two weeks, freeze them. But for my money, why bother? Better to buy smaller batches of freshly roasted beans more frequently. You can join a gourmet coffee club and have freshly ground beans delivered once a week, if you want to get super organized.)

3.Grind your own beans every morning. Once ground, coffee will begin to go stale within 24 hours. Coffee grinders are cheap, and believe me, it makes all the difference.

4.Pick a brewing method that gives you pleasure. The French press is a tried-and-true method. We also like the individual cup Melitta filtertheres something about pouring the boiling water by hand that makes us feel closer to our cup of coffee.

5.Drink your coffee fresh. Sit down, enjoy it. Coffee deteriorates in the cup, too. By the time youre at the bottom of that vente, its not the quality coffee it was when you started. Its just that by then, youre too jittery to notice.

6.If you know yourself, and youre still going to want another cup (Why else would God have invented coffee breaks?), look into making coffee at your workplace. See if you can get your co-workers to pitch in and join a gourmet coffee club together. Theyll be into itjust remind them it leaves more in your pockets for happy hour.

by: Mark Etinger

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