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Eva Solo CafeSolo Coffee Maker
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Experience the original taste of coffee with this CafeSolo Coffee Maker. Brewed on the basis of the original method — simply coffee beans and water.
Spoon the ground coffee beans into the glass flask and add boiling water. Stir and serve. Coffee has never been better — or easier to make. The included neoprene cover keeps the coffee hot for up to half an hour.
Contents: heat-resistant glass flask, filter funnel with smart tip-up lid, cover, and plastic stirrer.
Morning Mugs
Start your day with these Morning Mugs! Are you a morning person? If not, our “Rise & Whine” mug is just the mug for grumpy gals and guys everywhere.
Or, you can choose to face reality and get your morning coffee with the “Stress” mug. As the mug indicates, “Good morning! Let the stress begin!” Each piece is individually hand-painted. Lead free, dishwasher and microwave safe.
Coffee Tasting Tips
Why should professionals have all the fun? ‘Cuppers’ taste coffee as an adjunct to professional buying, judging contests, writing reviews and so forth. But the joy of sitting before a half-dozen cups of Tanzanian Peaberry, Monsoon Mysore and the rest is a delight anyone can experience.
The cupper tastes (and smells) for aroma, flavor, body, acidity, finish and a wide variety of more subtle attributes. To reproduce the professional setting at home one can start with a simple arrangement.
Have an ample supply of fresh, filtered water. Even the best grounds are spoiled by tainted water. Water can become ’stale’, by absorbing odors from the air, by excessive distasteful minerals such as sulfur or even by the growth of mildew in pipes. Avoid distilled or softened water that retains too much of the softening salts.
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Specialty Coffees 101
In the 1930s, physicists started discovering a whole zoo full of exotic atomic particles. There were muons and kaons and who-knows-whatelse-ons. When told of these, the famous physicist Enrico Fermi said: ‘If I wanted to remember all that I would have become a botanist.’ Ironically, later he invented the process used in atomic bombs.
I feel the same way about coffee. It may be fascinating and delicious and even romantic, but sheesh - all those names!
There’s the elegant and simple Frappe, but with a silent ‘e’. Widely consumed in Europe and Latin America, it’s a cold espresso made with two teaspoons of sugar and milk with crushed ice cubes. For a nice variation, add a quarter cup each of brandy and crème de cacao. Since it’s served with a straw, I just wish those drinking it were silent, too.
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