No, this is not a post on how to make perfect coffee.\u00a0 I have my hands full with a Perfect Martini.\u00a0 But I wanted to elaborate on something about which I’ve been preaching.\u00a0 And that is properly chilling the martini stem.\u00a0 And to illustrate that I’m going to use hot coffee.<\/p>\n
Have you noticed that when you pour your freshly brewed coffee into your mug in the morning that its not as hot as it was in the pot?\u00a0 Its because the room temperature mug cools the coffee slightly.\u00a0 Just as a room temperature Martini stem immediately warms the colder just shaken Martini.<\/p>\n
Now you won’t notice this affect at Starbucks (OK, or Peets, or Dunkin Donuts, or Coffee Bean, etc.) because they put their hot coffee in a paper cup.\u00a0\u00a0 A paper cup which has a very low thermal mass, so it doesn’t affect the coffee temperature much.<\/p>\n
Try this at home.\u00a0 Brew your coffee and simultaneously pour equal amounts of coffee into both a ceramic mug and a paper cup.\u00a0 Or plastic ‘solo’ cup.\u00a0 Then immediately taste the two side by side.\u00a0\u00a0 Which one is hotter?<\/p>\n
So how to solve this problem?\u00a0 Well when I turn my brewer on I also take my mug, fill it with water and pop it into the microwave for 3 minutes.\u00a0 While the coffee brews the microwave heats the water in my mug which\u00a0 heats the mug.\u00a0 When the coffee is brewed I dump the water from the mug and put the hot coffee into the hot mug…. problem solved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
No, this is not a post on how to make perfect coffee.\u00a0 I have my hands full with a Perfect Martini.\u00a0 But I wanted to elaborate on something about which I’ve been preaching.\u00a0 And that is properly chilling the martini … Continue reading