Coffee Beans Roasting

Turkish coffee is the perfect example. To begin with, this coffee is prepared by taking roasted coffee beans that have been ground into a powdered consistency. This powdered coffee is then boiled in a specific sized pot then the powder is allowed to settle to the bottom of the pot. Turkish coffee is the most favored brand of coffee in North Africa, Caucasus, and the Balkans. Coffee is very important to the Turkish culture so much so it has a major impact on it. For example the word “breakfast” is translated as “before coffee“. Aside from the grinding of the beans into a powder it’s the proper preparation of the powder that makes a true Turkish coffee. It isn’t some elaborate set up of equipment that is used. The preparatory equipment simply consists of a big pot, a means of heating the coffee and a teaspoon for measuring. It really couldn’t get much simpler than that. This doesn’t mean though that you just throw all the ingredients together in the pot and let it go. Sometimes the ground coffee used will be referred to as cardamom. The traditional type pots use for the preparation is usually made of copper and has a wooden handle. The size of the pot is normally just large enough to make the amount of coffee that is going to be required. It must be a specific depth as well which will allow the coffee particles to sink to the bottom where they can remain undisturbed. For heating, an ordinary stovetop burner works just fine but it must not be too hot of a heat source because the cooking time has to be at least five minutes. Another method that takes quite a bit longer to heat but is well worth the trouble is using a sand tray. Here the tray is filled with sand and the pot is set in the middle of it. The sand is allowed to heat and a slow transfer of the heat takes place to the pot. All too often, it becomes a habit to favor one type of coffee and not give thought to the other variations. It is fun and interesting to experiment with different versions such as the Turkish coffee for example. Often we make misinformed opinions thinking perhaps that Turkish coffee is a thick black extremely strong substance, which as you can see here is simply not the case.