Full: Ibirk, Turkish Coffee Maker - Traveling Road Show

[ecc]

Stoked!  Thanks and congrats to the B|double-bold java! (and don't let Peter use it!)

[smico]

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.

Pozdrav brate Pozzska. Korijeni su nam isti, drago mi je cuti nas govor.
Well, Pozzska is from my neck of the woods.  Nostalgia, nostalgia.

[smico]

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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...

How did you know...  I'll teach you the same way as you are trying to teach me how to cup.  Hints of lemon grass, like I know how to lemon the grass, or grass the lemon. 

When I was a kid I loved to sneak in the kitchen and listen women reading the coffee drags: money is comming you way, visitor will come this week, I see love...

The techique is: 
1. Drink the coffee
2. Turn the cup upside down on the plate, and swirl few times
3. After a minute or two, turn it back, mount serious face like you know what ya doin', look at the bottom of the cup
4. Depending on the patient's needs you can find all sorts of symbols, animals, roads, letters, rivers, angels...

Basic pointer is that you represent the handle.  If you find symbols pointing towards handle, you will be getting something, or something is approaching.  If symbol is pointing away, you will loose, or something will depart from you etc...

Once everything is read, then she licks her finger, and press the bottom of the cup, and then second round of reading takes place...

[JimsJava]

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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...

Oh, darn! I thought is was going to be something about

David,

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

 

[peter]

Stoked!  Thanks and congrats to the B|double-bold java! (and don't let Peter use it!)

A couple from church gave a beautiful ibrik as a Christmas gift, so I'm good.  That's the only reason I didn't join the fray on this round.

[ecc]

Stoked!  Thanks and congrats to the B|double-bold java! (and don't let Peter use it!)

A couple from church gave a beautiful ibrik as a Christmas gift, so I'm good.  That's the only reason I didn't join the fray on this round.

I'm just mad you beat me to the 300+ year old comment. 

You're really going to kick yourself when you realize that these are Ibirks (not just common ibriks) and they are also lucky. Lucky ibirks mean much better quality futures, and possibly superpowers.

[peter]

Stoked!  Thanks and congrats to the B|double-bold java! (and don't let Peter use it!)

A couple from church gave a beautiful ibrik as a Christmas gift, so I'm good.  That's the only reason I didn't join the fray on this round.

I'm just mad you beat me to the 300+ year old comment. 

You're really going to kick yourself when you realize that these are Ibirks (not just common ibriks) and they are also lucky. Lucky ibirks mean much better quality futures, and possibly superpowers.

How nice that you are filling in for Jeffo while he recuperates from his back surgery.

[ecc]

Jealous. 

[BoldJava]

Both pots shipped this morning via USPS.  Milo and ModelMaker, stand by.  I have only tested them for water retention/leaks.  Not a drop.  Wash before use; gets rid of manufacturing oils.  Sweetmarias recommends making a pot with grounds and tossing the first batch.  Seasons it.

Watch the 1st thread.  Practice for a week and then ship to next person in line.  PM them for address.

Directions?  Tons of variations out there.  Post your best results:

Miroslav's authentic Croatian approach:  http://greencoffeebuyingclub.com/index.php?topic=13320.msg211328#msg211328
CoffeeGeek's method:  http://coffeegeek.com/guides/turkishcoffee
Tom Owen on Sweetmaria's: http://www.sweetmarias.com/brewinstr/brew.inst.ibrik.php

Tasseography (didn't know that word before you hung out at GCBC, did ya? http://www.turkishculture.org/lifestyles/turkish-culture-portal/coffee-fortune-telling-205.htm?type=1   http://forum.kusadasi.biz/threads/fortune-telling-with-turkish-coffee.16657/

Thanks to whomever caught the thread title misspelling.  Golly.

[John F]

Thanks to Ms John F, I have won my first traveling road show

Congrats*

.

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*Send blue cheese to Vegasgirlie at 4615 W Mineral.....         

[Modelmaker]

Got it last night in good order. Tried a couple of batches and I'm ready to pass it on. PozzSka pm me your address and I'll get it off to you on monday.
My impressions: I'll pass, I like the shape, it brews nice but when I went to take it off the flame for the first boil (I use the 3 boil up method) the handle was too hot to lift it. I should have known since it is a brass handle that the heat transfer would be a problem. I lost the first batch because of this.
I'll stick to my original pot
Thank you for the opportunity

[PozzSka]

PM sent. Look forward to it.

[PozzSka]

Someone needs to turn some wood handles to slip over the metal ones.

I'm not a wood turner, but I'll see what I can do. :-/

[milowebailey]

Got home from the cabin today and there was a box on my doorstep...

The Ibirk has landed.   Let me see what I can come up with for a handle.  The one on it is too short, too small and at the wrong angle IMO.   On the other hand it's cool eye candy.

Who ends up with this one?  That will determine how easy I make it to take on and off.

[BoldJava]

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


Don't get funny.  You will have the Czarina to answer to.