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Okay, I finally defeated the Turkish coffee today. Hurraaaaaaaaaay.
You'd think this stuff would be easy to make, reading the instructions. Combine water, coffee, and sugar into your ibrik (which is a fancy little pot used for making coffee this way.) set it on heat, wait for it to foam, take it off the heat and stir until the foam goes down, repeat four times omitting the stirring down the foam the last time, and drink it. Simple enough, right?
Yeah, well, it's not. First I had to figure out what kind of ibrik I had. XD They come in two ounce incriments, I think... 2oz is the smallest, and it goes up who knows how much. I have a four ounce ibrik, which I was able to figure out thanks to some converting between cups and ounces. MATH ARGH. ANd you have to use the amount your ibrik is; in other words, if you have a six ounce ibrik, you can't make only two ounces of coffee.
But anyway, for every two ounces of water you have you need to put in a heaping teaspoon of coffee and a teaspoon to two teaspoons of sugar, depending how you like it. Fill your ibrik with water to it's little neck, add your sugar... And then the important part.
Okay, the coffee. First, you have to have it in a Turkish grind; otherwise, it won't be fine enough. If you look at coffee grinder machine thingys at the grocery store, the setting after espresso is usually Turkish. So anyway, you should also get an actual Turkish TYPE of coffee too, or the flavor'll be funny.
And when you add the coffee, you don't do level teaspoons... Or even slightly uneven teaspoons. Refer to this very helpful page for good instructions and a pic of how much coffee you need to put in. This is the site that helped me figure out how to make this coffee, and it took me four tries. DX
So anyway, put your coffee on top of the water, and set it on heat. I use about the medium on the stove. Then you stare at your ibrik for like... Five minutes straight. It's really boring. But the moment you turn away, it'll screw itself up, and I speak from experience. XD
So you watch it until it starts foaming. Boiling is a no-no, and means you need to start over. When it foams to the top of the ibrik, pull your ibrik off the heat, gently stir the foam back down, and set it back on the burner. It'll foam again in much less time. Repeat, then repeat again. The fourth time your ibrik foams, take it off the heat and don't stir. Just set it down for about a half minute for the ground to settle. Pour it into your fancy demitasse cups, unless you don't have them, like I don't... Then just use a normal mug. XD Anyway, pour carefully, and don't worry about pouring all of the stuff out of the ibrik, as the bottom is coffee grinds.
And then drink it! XD *Slurps*
Okay, I finally defeated the Turkish coffee today. Hurraaaaaaaaaay.
You'd think this stuff would be easy to make, reading the instructions. Combine water, coffee, and sugar into your ibrik (which is a fancy little pot used for making coffee this way.) set it on heat, wait for it to foam, take it off the heat and stir until the foam goes down, repeat four times omitting the stirring down the foam the last time, and drink it. Simple enough, right?
Yeah, well, it's not. First I had to figure out what kind of ibrik I had. XD They come in two ounce incriments, I think... 2oz is the smallest, and it goes up who knows how much. I have a four ounce ibrik, which I was able to figure out thanks to some converting between cups and ounces. MATH ARGH. ANd you have to use the amount your ibrik is; in other words, if you have a six ounce ibrik, you can't make only two ounces of coffee.
But anyway, for every two ounces of water you have you need to put in a heaping teaspoon of coffee and a teaspoon to two teaspoons of sugar, depending how you like it. Fill your ibrik with water to it's little neck, add your sugar... And then the important part.
Okay, the coffee. First, you have to have it in a Turkish grind; otherwise, it won't be fine enough. If you look at coffee grinder machine thingys at the grocery store, the setting after espresso is usually Turkish. So anyway, you should also get an actual Turkish TYPE of coffee too, or the flavor'll be funny.
And when you add the coffee, you don't do level teaspoons... Or even slightly uneven teaspoons. Refer to this very helpful page for good instructions and a pic of how much coffee you need to put in. This is the site that helped me figure out how to make this coffee, and it took me four tries. DX
So anyway, put your coffee on top of the water, and set it on heat. I use about the medium on the stove. Then you stare at your ibrik for like... Five minutes straight. It's really boring. But the moment you turn away, it'll screw itself up, and I speak from experience. XD
So you watch it until it starts foaming. Boiling is a no-no, and means you need to start over. When it foams to the top of the ibrik, pull your ibrik off the heat, gently stir the foam back down, and set it back on the burner. It'll foam again in much less time. Repeat, then repeat again. The fourth time your ibrik foams, take it off the heat and don't stir. Just set it down for about a half minute for the ground to settle. Pour it into your fancy demitasse cups, unless you don't have them, like I don't... Then just use a normal mug. XD Anyway, pour carefully, and don't worry about pouring all of the stuff out of the ibrik, as the bottom is coffee grinds.
And then drink it! XD *Slurps*