Brewing the perfect cup of coffee

Brewing the perfect cup of coffee. Find out how to brew the perfect cup of coffee.  See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv

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00:00For something so commonly available, it's really difficult to find a really good cup

00:13of espresso.

00:14Today we're here with Not Too Good, who will show us the art of how to brew a perfect cup

00:19of espresso.

00:20The most important thing about a really good cup of coffee is grinding the coffee fresh.

00:25So the coffee should only be ground just before you make the extraction.

00:29It doesn't matter if you're using an espresso machine, or you're grinding it for a plunger

00:32at home, or anything, the grinder is the key.

00:35Everything's nice and hot in here, see I've got an empty pack.

00:40It's quite dirty and it's got coffee oil and things in there now, so we need to make sure

00:43that that is perfectly clean before we start, so it's nice and clean.

00:47And with this grinder, this is an instantaneous grinder, so all I have to do is push the grinder

00:53in, and then it will actually dose the coffee into the portafilter.

01:01This has been set, it's got a timer on it so it gives the same dose every time.

01:04Then the next thing is to make the coffee perfectly level.

01:09So I'm using a stainless steel tamper to level it, and then I'm placing pressure onto it

01:15so the coffee's perfect.

01:16Cleaning off the outside, it's working beautifully.

01:20What I'm doing is just flushing the group here just to make sure that the temperature

01:22is correct all the way through, and there's no coffee grounds stuck in the top.

01:26Turning it on, and then my cup's under for extraction.

01:29What I'm looking for is a nice, creamy texture that's not coming out too fast, there's not

01:34too many air bubbles in it, and the coffee has got a beautiful colour, a nice caramel,

01:38dark caramel colour.

01:39And this will take approximately 25 seconds, this one here I've just got to go slightly

01:44slower.

01:45And then we always serve our espressos with a spoon, for the people who drink sugar.

01:56So we're going to do something that's kind of against my religion, I'm going to make

01:59Omar an instant coffee and macchiato, which I know he likes.

02:04I might get the instant coffee wrong, I'm not very good at it.

02:10Now I'm going to make a macchiato.

02:16I'm going to cheat a little bit, I'm going to put a bit of hot milk in here to try and

02:20make the instant coffee taste sort of somewhat like it should do.

02:25That's the macchiato, no doubt about that.

02:37That was a really perfect cup of coffee.

02:39It's very difficult to find one that's this well made, anywhere.