Compared to the traditional hot coffee, iced coffee has become more and more popular among young people these days. In a hot summer afternoon, what can be more cool than a cup of iced coffee?
Basically you have 4 choices to get your iced coffee ready.
- Buy your cup from Starbucks
- Buy an iced coffee maker
- Buy Instant Iced coffee
- Make it at home by yourself
I think there is no need to explain the first method, we all can do it, pay the money, get your coffee. So let us move on to the next choice – an iced coffee maker. You can buy a coffee maker with iced-beverage function or buy an ice coffee maker which can be only used to make iced coffee in this case.
For a general coffee maker with ice-beverage function, i suggest you check out Breville Bkc700XL Gourmet Single-Serve Coffeemaker with Iced-Beverage Function. If I were you, i don’t want to buy an expansive coffee maker like $200 just for making iced coffee, unless the one i am using is break and i will consider this function for my next coffee maker.
In fact, I really like those cheap, cute little machines for making iced coffee or cold brewing only, there are a bunch of them out there and they take you about 30 dollars to get a good one such Hario V60 Ice Coffee Maker. Watch the video below to see how it works.
Another one is Toddy Cold Brew System. Watch the video below to see how it works.
The 3rd choice is also a popular choice because it is cheap and easy to do, as i said before, amazon.com is the best place to buy such things, cheap, high quality and some products you cannot get at local stores. If you need some names, here they are: Cappucino Coolers French Vanilla, Starbucks iced coffee, Maxwell house iced latte and so on. Search them by yourself, they are easy to find out. In fact, this choice the my favorite in the summer, not the best flavor, but sometimes we not only concentrate on flavor.
If you are ready to make it at home, you have to start from the easiest recipe. All you need are coffee, sugar and ice. Things you have to pay attention to are
You must add more ground coffee than you usually do, for example, if you use one tablespoon for your hot coffee, use 2 tablespoon for iced coffee.
If you want to add sugar, add it when the coffee is hot, when it cools down, the sugar cannot dissolve in.
Don’t pour hot water directly over ice, leave it there for a while to make cool, or you will end up with a weak and flavorless iced coffee. If you have seen the Hario V60 video, you must see that the machine has ice in the middle, this is a fast and convenient solution to make coffee cool down faster and without making it ruined by pouring it directly over ice when it is still hot or waiting hours to let it cool down especially in summer.
For other recipe, you just search homemade iced coffee recipe, I am sure you will find enough of them, if you want to grab an ebook in case you can see it when you are not online. Here is one I find for you.
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