Recently read an article on how to brew iced coffee the way the Japanese brew theirs in Japan. There is a difference in taste and texture, and it seems the secret was to drip the coffee directly into a cup of ice, thereby cooling the temperature down immediately, instead of first dripping the coffee and then shaking it with ice.
The Korean family I used to work for at the restaurant where I was waitressing at used to make really good iced coffee and I'll be helping myself to it. I never discovered their secret... when I asked, she just pointed to the nescafe blend 43 cannister and told me to add hot water, a little sugar and then ice. Haha. I tried and couldn't make it quite the same way... for some reason.
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I don't have a drip coffee machine. This is the closest thing I guess, it's like a filter inside with coffee grinds that, when you -slowly- pour hot water through, will brew the coffee. It's like instant, but not so instant! I saw it from BW's site, "apparently" you can only get it from Taiwan's costco and does not exist in the Korean supermarkets at Strathfield, cos, you know, that's where I found it =P
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One thing you'd notice upon opening the packet is the aroma wafting from the packet. I could just smell it all day.
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Hooks onto the rim of the cup! The instructions specified something like 110mL of water or something, which is less than half a metric cup... so this is really just more like a short black? Or half a long black?
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Yea, I didn't bother with the instructions and probably poured too much water in... oh well! DIDN'T work either with the ice thing because I didn't expect the water to go through the filter so quickly... it was only after that I figured you should really just pour the water through slowly...
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Ended up using the first one like a teabag more than a filter, ha.
My next few attempts at using this filter coffee bag was much more successful and I've been bringing it to work almost everyday now. Each box comes with 10 packets and it's actually quite expensive in that each box costs $5, so technically you're paying 50c per cup of coffee. Instant coffee is definitely cheaper (like those huge canisters of nescafe blend43). There are two flavors- blue mountain and mocha. I have yet to try the mocha, but the blue mountain one was quite nice once you've successfully brewed it correctly, ie, less water and pouring the water evenly and slowly.... I prefer this though, perhaps purely for the novelty of it.
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I taste a hint of bitterness in this post.
Perhaps it's just the coffee.. but I may be mistaken.........
(It was an honest mistake :()
Yikes, 50c each? That's like the price of one of those capsule things. Except without the price of the machine I guess.. but those machines are dropping down in price so much.. probably doing the inkjet printer trick - cheap machine expensive consumables
that's quite dodgy... but yea, it is quite pricy so I probably won't continue getting them. They were fun to try out though =) I'm sure they are a lot cheaper in taiwan or korea where they imported it from, haha
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