{"id":8164,"date":"2016-01-24T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T17:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/?p=8164"},"modified":"2020-08-06T22:13:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T05:13:08","slug":"coffee-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/coffee-upgrades\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee information &#8211; A better cup of coffee"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Try to control these four things:\n<ul>\n<li>Grind size\n<ul>\n<li>Propeller blade causes inconsistent size<\/li>\n<li>Burr grinder will create similar sized grains<br \/>\nThey are expensive.&nbsp; Consider using Store Grinders<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Temperature\n<ul>\n<li>Temperature of brewing water should be 190 &#8211; 205\u00ba<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Proportion\n<ul>\n<li>Ideally 2 TBL coffee to 6 oz of distilled water<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Brew time\n<ul>\n<li>Brew time is 4-5 minutes &#8211; strained into a caraffe<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>TWO WAYS OF COOKING COFFEE<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Heat water to about 207-210 degrees and pour over coffee grounds in a ceramic filter.&nbsp; Rinse clear water through the coffee filter before running your coffee through.&nbsp; 2 TBL per cup of coffee.<\/li>\n<li>Drip coffee &#8211; about 210-211 degrees and poured through grounds<\/li>\n<li>Stovetop &#8211; Comes to a simmer, so it is about 212\u00ba so let it come to the MEAREST SIMMER don&#8217;t let it come to a rolling boil<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>ROASTS\n<ul>\n<li>Light City &#8211; high caffiene<\/li>\n<li>Full City<\/li>\n<li>French Vanilla<\/li>\n<li>Italian<\/li>\n<li>Espresso &#8211; low caffiene<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Bagged coffee should have a pressure release button on the bag<\/li>\n<li>COFFEE PRODUCTION LOCATIONS &#8211; Descriptions by Alton Brown\n<ul>\n<li>Hawaii and Central America &#8211; Bright and Snappy<\/li>\n<li>E Africa and Yeman &#8211; Brooding<\/li>\n<li>Sumatra and Indonesisa &#8211; Funky<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tip 1<br \/>\nPlace a cinnamon stick piece in the basket of your coffee maker<br \/>\nOptionally, a piece of star anise or an orange peel<\/p>\n<p>Tip2<br \/>\nPlace a piece of salted caramel chocolate in the bottom of your coffee cup<br \/>\nFill half with coffee, and then fill with warm half-and-half<br \/>\nStir<\/p>\n<p>Tip 3<br \/>\nCreate your own vanilla coffee syrup<br \/>\nScrape out the inside of one vanilla bean<br \/>\nPlace shell of vanilla bean in the pan<br \/>\nAdd 1 cup sugar and 1 cup water<br \/>\nHeat to about 180\u00c2\u00b0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Try to control these four things: Grind size Propeller blade causes inconsistent size Burr grinder will create similar sized grains They are expensive.&nbsp; Consider using Store Grinders Temperature Temperature of brewing water should be 190 &#8211; 205\u00ba Proportion Ideally 2 TBL coffee to 6 oz of distilled water Brew time Brew time is 4-5 minutes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/coffee-upgrades\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Coffee information &#8211; A better cup of coffee&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grandpas-private-collection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8164"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20014,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8164\/revisions\/20014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}