Let’s clear something up right now: the soy milk you carton at the store and the soy milk you make at home are not the same drink. One tastes like coffee creamer that gave up. The other is nutty, clean, …
Whipped Coffee Wonders: A Guide to Perfection
Whipped Coffee: The Two-Minute Showpiece You Already Have the Ingredients For Let’s settle something right now: whipped coffee looks like it took barista school and a fancy machine, and it took neither. It took three pantry ingredients and a little …
The Ultimate Shake: Iced Brown Sugar Oatmilk Shaken Espresso
Starbucks charges you the better part of six bucks for this drink, and the kicker is that you can make a better one at home in about four minutes flat. The Iced Brown Sugar Oatmilk Shaken Espresso isn’t some unknowable …
Mastering Soy Milk: Preventing Curdling When Heating for Coffee
Picture it: you pull a gorgeous shot of espresso, pour in your soy milk, and instead of a silky little cloud you get sad, grainy flecks floating on top like cottage cheese that wandered into the wrong cup. Annoying, right? …
A Guide to Keeping Your French Press Clean
Let’s be honest about something. Your French press makes a gorgeous, full-bodied cup precisely because it lets all those coffee oils through instead of trapping them in a paper filter. The catch? Those same oils stick around. They cling to …
How Is Instant Coffee Made? An Amazing Process
Here’s a secret the coffee snobs don’t want you to know: that jar of instant in your pantry isn’t a shortcut or a sin. It’s freshly brewed coffee that somebody very cleverly took the water out of. That’s it. That’s …
Maintaining Your Coffee Grinder: A Guide to Cleaning and Care
Here is the uncomfortable truth nobody selling you a fancy burr grinder mentions: that gorgeous machine is slowly sabotaging your coffee, one stale ground at a time. Coffee beans are oily little things, and every time you grind, you leave …
From Beans to Brew: A Focus on Coffee Roasting with Hottop
Here’s the thing nobody tells you when you fall down the home-roasting rabbit hole: the machine matters less than you think, right up until it matters more than anything. And the Hottop is the machine that finally makes you stop …