Let’s settle the thing nobody warns you about: soy milk and coffee can absolutely turn on you. You pour, you stir, and suddenly your mug looks like a science experiment with little curdled flecks floating on top. It’s not your …
How to Colombian Coffee: World-Renowned Experience!
Colombian coffee has been on more mugs, in more grocery aisles, and behind more “100% Colombian” labels than just about any single-origin on earth. So here is the thing nobody tells you: buying great Colombian beans is the easy part. …
Coffee and Coughing: Finding the Best Coffee for Dry Cough
Here’s the thing nobody tells you when you’re hacking away into your elbow at 6 a.m.: your morning coffee isn’t necessarily the villain. Caffeine is a mild bronchodilator, which is a fancy way of saying it relaxes the muscles around …
How to Hawaiian Coffee: Exploring the Richness of Kona Coffee
Here’s the thing nobody tells you about Hawaiian coffee: it’s the only commercially grown coffee in the United States, and the good stuff costs more per pound than a decent steak. So if you’re going to spend that kind of …
How To Make Cuban Coffee (Café Cubano)
If you’ve ever stood at a Miami ventanita, handed over a dollar, and watched someone pour you a thimble of coffee with a caramel-colored foam on top, you already know: Cuban coffee is not here to be sipped politely. It’s …
The Ultimate Guide: How to Moka Pot Coffee
Let’s settle something right now: the moka pot is not a sad consolation prize for people who can’t afford an espresso machine. That little aluminum hourglass has been bubbling away on Italian stovetops since 1933, and when you treat it …
How to Make the Perfect Pour Over Coffee at Home
You’ve got good beans, a kettle, and high hopes. Then your pour over comes out thin and sour, or muddy and bitter, and you start wondering if the cafe down the street is secretly doing witchcraft. They are not. They’re …
Mastering the Art of Iced Mocha
Here is the truth about the iced mocha: most of the ones you have paid five bucks for are sugary chocolate milk wearing a coffee costume. The coffee whispers, the syrup screams, and by the time you hit the bottom …