Iced Coffee.................
Debby
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Comments (1)They pay the empoyees there with beans?...See MoreWhat's your favorite recipe for Iced Coffee?
Comments (29)We normally drink a local brand, Peet's, selecting the Italian Roast (a lot stronger and more bitter than French Roast) and have it preground in a #2 grind, which is one small step above powder (Turkish). A standard drip grind is #6 and espresso is #4, for comparison. We do a Melitta drip with Melitta woven filters, which make a much better brew than standard paper filters. For iced coffee, we do a double-strength brew: make our usual coffee, then immediately use it to pour through a fresh batch of grounds. DH grew up in Hong Kong so he prefers the taste of sweetened condensed milk in iced tea and coffee drinks. If we make a large batch, we chill it in the frig for a few hours so that no ice cubes dilute it. But if we're desperate, a few ice cubes in a glass chill it quickly, and this brew is so strong, a 1/4 cup of water is barely noticeable in a tall glass. Chocolate syrup is a nice addition, except you have to add extra for it to make any impact on what is basically a triple-strength espresso drink. Unbelievably, my DH can drink this right before going to bed and drop off to sleep like a baby....yeah, I'm jealous of that!...See MoreIced coffee, do you enjoy it?
Comments (46)I love coffee! Hot coffee, iced coffee, coffee flavored desserts, cappuccino gelato. . . The list goes on and on and on . . . . .. You get the idea. Mornings I have one, sometimes two, cups of coffee with just powdered creamer, no sugar, no flavorings. (Much as I love coffee, I have never been able to drink it black.) I had been buying those bottles of Starbucks Frappuccinos in the grocery store, when one day a couple of years ago I realized I could make a reasonable facsimile a heck of a lot cheaper! And have a lot more favors. So now, on these hot, HOT afternoons, I enjoy my own version of iced coffee, no real recipe though. I fill my tall, insulated Yeti type tumbler with ice, add refrigerated coffee if I have it, room temperature if I don't, to within about an inch or so of the top of the ice. Add some cream, and some flavored liquid coffee creamer, stir, taste, and adjust amounts of whatever until it has the taste I want. I like a dark roast coffee, and I brew it pretty strong. My usual brand is either Dunkin Donuts' "Turbo" or their dark roast. I never thought about using sweetened condensed milk, may have to try that sometime. I like the iced coffee to be a just little sweet, with a only little bit of flavor. If I add enough of either to get it too the 'lightness' I want, it would be way too sweet or the flavor too overpowering, My current favorite flavors are caramel macchiato and amaretto. At one time, when I first started making my own, I probably had almost every flavor of liquid coffee creamer there is on hand. Now I usually keep two different flavors on hand. Oh, and I use the tall, slim, Yeti type tumbler because they don't sweat, and keep the iced drink iced for many hours. Or they would if the drink lasted that long. . . . . Rusty...See MoreIced Coffee (why do we need 15 characters?)
Comments (24)I agree with Debby. Hot coffee cooled isn't nearly as good as cold brewed. I put coffee grounds in a canning jar (quart) fill with cold filtered water stir very gently just to get the water into the coffee, add a lid and put in frig or counter for 12 to 24 hours. Strain well but don't press out the coffee. Store in frig. Debby have you tried a few Tablespoons of sweetened condensed milk along with the regular milk or cream? Its soooo good and even more creamy. I think its called Vietnamese iced coffee when adding the sweetened condensed milk. I don't add flavorings to mine....See MoreDebby
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