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Adventures in coffee-making: Parte the Firste

Today I am trying to sort out the order of operations in making iced coffee.  DON’T MOCK ME, coffee is serious stuff.  Empires have been raised and fallen over it’s use.

I have the following ingredients in hand:

64oz of old brewed coffee (in the fridge).

cup of sugar

cup of heavy cream

cup of ice

 

Attempt#1

Order:  Fill glass with ice.  fill to 3/4 with cold coffee.  Add 1 tbsp cream and 1 tbsp sugar.  stir.

Result:  The cream freezes to the ice cubes and the sugar stays mostly undissolved.

Assessment:  Tasty, but not very sweet.  When the coffee is gone you get this sugar-water mix because the sugar doesn’t dissolve.

If it jams, force it. If it breaks….


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Image courtesy Core77

I have a special place in my heart for brute-force solutions.  I tend to have a “make it work, d*mnit” approach to many of the projects I take on.  If you peek under the cowling, it may not be all pretty, but the end product will do what it’s supposed to.