Today afternoon I found myself craving for a cup of black drip coffee! So I though I would take you through the making of black coffee and share some of my personal favorite tips!
Let's get started then!
This is my coffee machine, warming up. See the orange light!
It's ready when the green light pops up. While the machine warms up, I filled it up with fresh water. This is important! EVERY TIME you make coffee you must use fresh water. If there's some water left from the previous day, discard it first, and then add fresh water.
That's the water compartment. And then I'll add my ground coffee over the filter.
A personal trick...
When I'm grinding my coffee, I'll always add a few sticks of cinnamon along with the beans into my grinder! This blends the cinnamon flavor very smoothly with the grind. I prefer grinding the cinnamon stick together with the beans instead of separately adding cinnamon powder as I feel adding the cinnamon separately doesn't give the smoothness as it does when you incorporate it into the grind itself! Just my two cents, form years of experimenting!
The machine has warmed up and ready to let the flavors flow into my cup!
Cinnamon flavored Black Coffee, as smooth as you like!
Final 2 cents, let nothing go to waste!
What have you been doing with the ground that remains after the coffee extraction is done? Discarding it?
Don't just throw them away! You've heard of scrubbing, haven't you! Yes, you can use these as a facial scrub or even as whole body scrub if you're making 4-5 cups of coffee at a time and you have enough of these ground to discard!
Scrap out the grind, squeeze half a lemon and add a teaspoon of honey and voila! You have yourself a 100% natural and free facial scrub! Scrub once or twice a week, it works wonders!
Keep in mind though, that if you wanna scrub, the coffee has to be ground very, very finely. A coarse grind if used as scrub might actually injure your skin!
Enough tips and tricks! Let me enjoy my cinnamon coffee now!
Until next Time!
Keep Calm and Drink Coffee!
