Plain coffee is fast becoming a thing of the past. It’s now quite simple to whip up a gourmet hot beverage for guest, family, or just for yourself. Nowadays there are a number of coffee clubs and circles in which coffee drinking has become somewhat of a social club. These social clubs meet in the community or on the Internet.

Where did the good old days go where you could get just a regular, good cup of coffee all across America.

It’s all because there is a big craze over coffee these days. People are almost worshipping the coffee bean now. People get a thrill out of ordering and buying special coffees from specialty stores. They really like grinding their own coffee beans. They like visiting places such as Costa Rica and bringing back their (More...)

We all enjoy a good cup of coffee early in the morning but how many times do we stop and think about the technology that went into refining the machines that make a good cup of coffee? Coffee machines or automatic drip coffee makers all started out from coffee percolators. Coffee Percolators still have a following, as the distinctive taste of coffee brewed in a percolator is irresistible to true coffee connoisseurs.

How does a percolator work? The basic mechanism that is employed to make coffee in a percolator is to use boiling water to extract coffee from coarsely ground beans. A percolator consists of two chambers; one stacked on top of the other and connected to each other. One chamber at the bottom is filled with boiling water that rises through a small tube (More...)

There are many theories about the best way to store coffee beans or ground coffee to retain freshness. One of the theories is to put your beans or ground coffee in the freezer for later use. Is this method the best way to store coffee? Let’s explore the idea.

Freezing seems like a universally accepted way to keep foods fresher longer. Freezing is a great way to store many of our everyday foods. Vegetables, fruits, meat, bread, and even butter can be given a life extension through freezing. In fact, freezing often retains many of the important vitamins and minerals in foods. Unfortunately, coffee may not share the same benefits from freezing.

There are 4 main enemies of our precious coffee beans: moisture, light, heat and air. At first glance, freezing doesn’t seem like it (More...)