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blzrfn

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Re: Ibirk, Turkish Coffee Maker - Traveling Road Show
« Reply #15 on: February 28, 2012, 08:42:08 AM »
LOL at Peter! 

Surely somebody else has been curious about Turkish coffee.  I for one can't wait to get this in my hands and sport my fez as I try to learn the routine. 

Any suggestions on a blend or bean/ roast style to use with an ibrik?

milowebailey

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Re: Ibirk, Turkish Coffee Maker - Traveling Road Show
« Reply #16 on: February 28, 2012, 09:54:50 AM »
Any suggestions on a blend or bean/ roast style to use with an ibrik?

a Yemen is traditional.... roasted city - city+,  ground like flour.

Good description here:

http://coffeegeek.com/guides/turkishcoffee
« Last Edit: February 28, 2012, 10:01:54 AM by milowebailey »

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Re: Ibirk, Turkish Coffee Maker - Traveling Road Show
« Reply #17 on: February 28, 2012, 10:01:48 AM »
OK.  In.  Payment soon.
"During the early 19th century, most Americans subsisted on a diet of pork, whiskey, and coffee.  ----- Where did we go wrong?

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Re: Ibirk, Turkish Coffee Maker - Traveling Road Show
« Reply #18 on: February 28, 2012, 10:35:47 AM »
In Croatia (and all parts of former Yugoslavia), where I come from, Turkish coffee is the coffee we drink at home.  Espresso is the coffee we drink at bars, or cafes.

To illustrate how important coffee making is, when young girl makes a good coffee, it's was custom to say "Coffee is good, you can get married now."

Turks were expelled from the town where I grew up back in 1688, not far, just 25 km to Bosnia.  The Turkish coffee making, and some Turkish origin words remain to today’s date.  Like Dzezva is the other name for Ibrik.

Note that cups are small, specially made for Turkish coffee.

Common way to cook Turkish coffee:
1.   Boil water in full ibrik (add sugar if you like it sweet)
2.   Pour out one cup of water
3.   Add one full tea spoon per cup of coffee, and stir
4.   Boil again, and remove ibrik right before coffee overflows - this is tricky part as if coffee overflows, you have to start again
5.   Wait few seconds to settle
6.   Add the water back
7.   Distribute one scoop of crust to each cup
8.   Pour the coffee to the cups
9.   Wait few moments for coffee to settle, and serve

How to bake Turkish coffee:
1.   Add coffee and sugar in ibrik and stir
2.   Once sugar start caramelizing, add half ibrik of water and stir until all sugar is dissolved
3.   Add water to the top
4.   Wait for water to boil, and remove ibrik right before coffee overflows
5.   Wait few seconds to settle
6.   Distribute one scoop of crust to each cup
7.   Pour the coffee to the cups
8.   Wait few moments for coffee to settle, and serve

I will continue later with what comes after you drink the coffee...

Enjoy

Miroslav

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Re: Ibirk, Turkish Coffee Maker - Traveling Road Show
« Reply #19 on: February 28, 2012, 10:52:16 AM »
You are a very old man.

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blzrfn

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Re: Ibirk, Turkish Coffee Maker - Traveling Road Show
« Reply #20 on: February 28, 2012, 11:01:27 AM »
Peter is on a roll today! 

It sounds like cardamom is something I will need to pick up in order to brew authentic Turkish coffee.  Can I get pre-ground so I don't have to run it through the grinder (that would never be ok with me).

BoldJava

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Re: Ibirk, Turkish Coffee Maker - Traveling Road Show
« Reply #21 on: February 28, 2012, 11:47:05 AM »
I plan on trying a microplane with some cardamom seeds from the co-op.  Can't be too tough. If that isn't the route, mortar and pestle.  Loved the Croatian recipe we got from SMico.  We have a resident expert!

SMico, you would be right at home in our area.  Tons of Croats, Serbs.  This is the restaurant we went to when GCBC out-of-towners were here:

http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/43/472101/restaurant/Bay-View/Three-Brothers-Milwaukee
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PozzSka

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Re: Ibirk, Turkish Coffee Maker - Traveling Road Show
« Reply #22 on: February 28, 2012, 12:08:36 PM »
Hej prijatelj! Kako je bilo?

Ja sam pola i pola, Hrvatski i Srpski (rodjen na Amerika).

moji hrvatski prijatelji bi tursku kafu kad smo dugo auto vožnja kući noću.

(goodness, I hope that is right, my Croatian is terrible.)

I cook all sorts of ethnic food (cevapcici, pogaca, janjetina, sarma, grah i kupus, etc.), but never made Turkish coffee, I look forward to learning.


BoldJava

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Re: Ibirk, Turkish Coffee Maker - Traveling Road Show
« Reply #23 on: February 28, 2012, 12:49:30 PM »
MMW is in.  One lucky member still needed.  Who will it be?

BoldJava

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Re: Ibirk, Turkish Coffee Maker - Traveling Road Show
« Reply #24 on: February 28, 2012, 02:05:43 PM »
Behind the quick, magic curtain, Pozz helped me count to 10.  Need one more player.

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Re: Ibirk, Turkish Coffee Maker - Traveling Road Show
« Reply #25 on: February 28, 2012, 03:06:59 PM »
I am in if here is room.

BoldJava

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Re: Full - Ibirk, Turkish Coffee Maker - Traveling Road Show
« Reply #26 on: February 28, 2012, 03:10:43 PM »
I am in if here is room.

Should be room.  Squeeze in.  Send in your magic $5.15. Throw Peter off the bus for thread pollution, non-interest, and poor attempts at humor.  <wink>.

Full up with Jeremy.  I will ask JJRoaster to have Denise pull two numbers.   JohnF to have his spouse pull two numbers.  Bill has one of those email verifiers turned on.

B|Java
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Re: Full - Ibirk, Turkish Coffee Maker - Traveling Road Show
« Reply #27 on: February 28, 2012, 03:19:42 PM »
I am in if here is room.

Should be room.  Squeeze in.  Send in your magic $5.15. Throw Peter off the bus for thread pollution, non-interest, and poor attempts at humor.  <wink>.

Full up with Jeremy.  I will ask JJRoaster to have Denise pull two numbers.

B|Java

David,

Patti said she'd pull my number!  ;)  No need for Denise!

BoldJava

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Re: Full: Ibirk, Turkish Coffee Maker - Traveling Road Show
« Reply #28 on: February 28, 2012, 04:21:19 PM »
...
I will continue later with what comes after you drink the coffee...

Enjoy

Miroslav

Miroslav is going to teach us to read the grounds.  You just wait and see...

BoldJava

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Re: Full: Ibirk, Turkish Coffee Maker - Traveling Road Show
« Reply #29 on: February 28, 2012, 05:51:03 PM »
Thanks to Ms John F, I have won my first traveling road show, 1 and 7. Quit the groaning:

2. Milowebailey, paid
3. JW, paid
4. JSpain, paid
5. BLZFan, paid
Winner
1. BoldJava


6. ModelMaker, paid
8. PozzSka, paid
9. MMW, paid
10. ScareYourPassenger, paid
Winner
7. ECC, paid


I will get these off in the mail to Milo and ModelMaker on Thursday morning.
« Last Edit: February 28, 2012, 05:53:25 PM by BoldJava »