My morning routine: The quest for the best cup of coffee

Let's talk coffee!

A few years ago I really started to love my daily coffee in the morning. It's not only the taste, but I think it has something coasy about it. In wintertime, I like to drink my coffee in front of the computer, catching up with the internet whilst staring outside to see daily life unfold next to me. In summertime, I love to take my coffee outside, read the newspaper and enjoy the sounds of the birds, the wind on my face, the feeling of the sunlight getting stronger by the hour... Ahhhhh coffee!

The passion for coffee took me to a little adventure two years ago. Since i drank it so much, I wanted to start the search for the best coffee I could make at home. I tried a few different things. I started out with the Senseo pads, switched over to Nespresso coffee, and ten decided I had to up the effort. I bought a French press, but that lead to me drinking waaaaay too much coffee (it was a pretty big one in volume...) so that idea didn't work either. In the end, I stumbled on the Aero press. It's a coffee press, easy to use and perfect if you only want to make one delicious cup of coffee. This morning I took some photo's of my routine. Here we go!

So first of all, since we try to make the freshest coffee possible, we start out with grinding our coffee beans. I do this manually, since most of the electronical ones have blades and therefore cut the beans instead of grinding them. It's said that would reduce the flavor of your ground coffee, so I chose to grind them.

Here you see the Aero-press on it's side. The Aeropress let's you make your coffee in two different ways, and I like to use the interved way. With this method you put the ground coffee in, pour hot water over it, stir for about 10 seconds and let it rest for another 30 seconds so it can brew.

After you let it brew for 30 seconds, you put on the filter (which has a paper filter inside which you have to buy separately.) I like to shake the Aeropress a little bit to stir the ground coffee up a second time in the brewing process. With the filter attached, I let it brew for another 20-30 seconds before I turn over the Aeropress.

So after about a minute of brewing, you can turn over the press into your desired cup. I love to drink my coffee out of my cow-cup. Now you need to press the coffee through the filter for about 30 seconds. When you hear a "siss" you can stop pressing and you're done!

It requires a little more time than making coffee with a machine, but for me it's totally worth it. I hope you've enjoyed this article as much as I enjoyed my cup of coffee!

See you next time.