/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>15451327
*family's

>>12577777

Sucking all the flavour out of it so you end up with basically a porous piece of water ice. Putting that in your glass of storebrand cola.

>>10995609
>I was bamboozled by the devilish mayo jews!

>>9806023
>basmati rice
fucking cancer, i swear
otherwise good stuff.

>This thread
>ctrl+f "cold brew". Zero results.
>These replies

/ck/ cannot into coffee.

>>9499383
Good cold brew only requires quality semi-coarse ground coffee, good water, a sealing glass container, and letting it sit overnight.

For the coffee beans, start with a medium-dark roast and experiment as you get time. If you have a local roaster, definitely start there. If not, get some Starbucks Eithiopian. Yeah, I know, "Starshmucks", but they're solid at roasting and everyone I've brewed the stuff for demands to know which beans I used. And ideally, buy whole bean and grind right at brew time. But if you have to start out with pre-ground, go ahead. Whichever you do, keep those beans/grinds in an airtight container, out of sunlight. A mason jar in a cabinet is great for this. Don't trust store bought containers that *seem* airtight. I've bought and donated many of those.

If your tap water tastes good, use it. If not, get a charcoal filter or use bottled water. Or just tolerate your tap water. Never use distilled. As for the glass container, mason jar works great. Do not let the coffee sit in the open air during brewing(or ever). It will taste like shit. And avoid using plastic. There are fats in the coffee and fats in plastics are a nusiance to clean and keep fresh tasting.

Filter the grinds with your Aeropress. Do not use a french press. The silly reclaimed screen-door filter mesh is shit. If you grind coarse enough for the filter, the coffee brew well. If you grind fine enough for the coffee, the filter doesn't filter it. They also sell parts for regular mason jars that keep the coffee inside a mesh during the brewing so you don't have to filter it. I have one but I never get around to trying it so I can't talk about it.

Besides tasting better, cold brew only needs to be pressed(or not if you use the mason jar internal mesh thingy?), so it's often the fastest.

>throw on some nujabes somewhere in the house so you can lightly hear it in the background

>>6089403
I visited my family in Wisconsin.
My sister made the Alton Brown recipe fruitcake, so I have one of those.
And my mom gave me a wax-covered cheese so I can take it with me on the plane.
It was good, but I wish I could have taken home leftovers, because I roasted the chicken and it turned out 9/10

>lapsang souchong
>not the ultimate god-king of rainy day teas

Y'all are missing out.