Hi, Ardith Hinton! -> Anton Shepelev
I read your message from 17.06.2022 01:48

Alexander's wording leaves the time frame more open to question.
Because he's telling a joke, I imagine this is probably the effect
he wanted.

Charles M. Schulz used a similar strategy in a 1989 PEANUTS
cartoon:

Linus: I hear your grandfather has taken up golf.
Charlie: He's been playing for about a year..
Lucy: That's a long time to be out on the course..

;-)

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140 grams is my daily portion.

In wet or dry measurements? If you mean the former, that's about
the same amount I usually drink in a day... but (as with my
briefcase) I don't lift it & put it down just once. The preparation
alone involves a bit of lifting... I take my time over anything
containing alcohol or caffeine... and on occasions when I have a
second cup within 24 hours I'll drink a smaller amount.

As a teacher I worked with someone from the Netherlands who
obviously preferred stronger coffee. When it was her turn to make
coffee, I would dilute it 50/50 with boiling water before drinking
it. I've heard the same applies in other European countries but
don't know what the average Russian would do. :-)

The size of a coffee cap in Russia depends on what you are going to eat with your coffee. ;)

I buy freshly roasted coffee beens, grind them myself immediately
before brewing, and make my coffee in an electronically-contolled
jezwe.

My mother used a coffee percolator, which works with a campfire or
an oil/wood/electric/gas stove or whatever other source of heat is available. I'm not sure what a "jezwe" is. But nowadays I generally
prefer the Melitta filter system, which requires little of me
except to add a cup of boiling water to the pre-ground beans & wait
60 seconds when I'm making coffee just for myself. :-)

I tried several times to make coffee from ground roasted coffee beans, but could not make anything worth with my cezve. Have you seen a video in the Internet how to prepare a really good coffee?

Bye, Ardith!
Alexander Koryagin
english_tutor 2022

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Hello, Alexander Koryagin - Ardith Hinton.
On 21/06/2022 08:20 you wrote:

I tried several times to make coffee from ground roasted
coffee beans, but could not make anything worth with my
cezve. Have you seen a video in the Internet how to prepare
a really good coffee?

Of course. I find these quite good:

https://youtu.be/h3TzDLH7ecg
https://youtu.be/KYAMJkllAKc
https://youtu.be/HJ3s7AusE4Y

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Hello, Ardith Hinton - Anton Shepelev.
On 17/06/2022 01:48 you wrote:

629 grams of coffee? You strange Americans! 1) I'm

Canadian, actually, but I realize that to many folks from
the other side of the pond everything in the western
hemisphere is "American". :-Q

Your coffee habits sounded so American that I plum(b) forgot the
location if Wits' End (-:

2) I didn't specify the weight of the coffee. I specified
"a mug of home made coffee" because I wanted you to
understand that I wasn't referring to a flimsy plastic or
paper cup. The example I chose weighs 370 grams when it is
empty, and 629 grams when it's filled with tap water. I
suppose it might weigh a bit more when filled with coffee &
whatever a person might prefer to add. My point was that
such items often weigh more than we consciously realize....
:-)

They sure do, so your serving is just 259 grams, whereas should
expect a mug to accomodate at least 400 grams of water or 400
milliliters of empty space.

140 grams is my daily portion. In wet or dry

measurements? If you mean the former, that's about the same
amount I usually drink in a day... but (as with my
briefcase) I don't lift it & put it down just once. The
preparation alone involves a bit of lifting... I take my
time over anything containing alcohol or caffeine... and on
occasions when I have a second cup within 24 hours I'll
drink a smaller amount.

140 grams of dry coffee? No! I rather mean 140 grams of the
prepared beverage. It contains about 13 grams of coffee beans.

As a teacher I worked with someone from the Netherlands who
obviously preferred stronger coffee. When it was her turn
to make coffee, I would dilute it 50/50 with boiling water
before drinking it. I've heard the same applies in other
European countries but don't know what the average Russian
would do. :-) AS> I buy freshly roasted coffee beens,
grind them myself AS> immediately before brewing, and make
my coffee in an AS> electronically-contolled jezwe. My
mother used a coffee percolator, which works with a campfire
or an oil/wood/electric/gas stove or whatever other source
of heat is available.

As far as I understand, the percolator tends to overheat and
overextract coffee, and is therefore uncapable of brewing a
sweet cup. I have never tried one, though...

I'm not sure what a "jezwe" is

It is the traditional vessel for brewing coffee, made of a
material with high heat conductance and low heat capacity (for
finer control), slightly tapering towards a neck at the top,
which helps form a coffee "tablet"--a method of visual
temperature control.

The Jezwe is the oldest, simplest, and IMHO best method of
brewing coffee.

. But nowadays I generally prefer the Melitta filter
system, which requires little of me except to add a cup of
boiling water to the pre-ground beans & wait 60 seconds when
I'm making coffee just for myself. :-)

Sounds like the Vietnameese brewing method, whereby ground
coffee is deposited in a special vessel with a filter at bottom,
hot water is poured over the coffee, and the brew drips slowly
into the cup below.

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