Immersion Iced Coffee: A Better & Easier Technique

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A technique I have been using to minimize the ratio of hot to cold water is to pour the coffee into a metal jug (used to steam milk). Then I immerse this jug into tap water (I fill a salad bowl till the middle with tap water and then I place the metal jug with the coffee in the center). Then with a spoon I stir the coffee. The metal jug will take all the heat away from the coffee into the surrounding water very quickly. In less than 20 seconds the coffee becomes <30C and then I use *very* little ice. I usually do 450gr coffee and just 50gr ice. Think of this like reversed Bain-marie (cold instead of hot).

Ugh, I wish I could find a tea equivalent to James… interesting, entertaining, experimental, good personality and a gorgeous understated aesthetic. I don’t actually drink coffee, but I am obsessed with specialty tea. I always watch James with a gaiwan of tea, and wistfully imagine a parallel universe where he discovered tea before coffee. Edit: it’s over two years later! I love that people are still contributing and I wanted to tell you my current answer: Jesse’s Tea House. He’s great. Some tea snobs don’t like him, but their arguments were only valid the first year that he was running his shop, and he’s now my go to guy, both for tea videos and frequently for purchasing tea as well. I focus on Chinese gong fu tea, but I hear Nioteas is good if you want to learn about Japanese tea. You will see a lot of people here recommending Mei Leaf (including me) and I understand why, but I personally don’t recommend him and no longer buy his tea due to issues I personally have with the way they do things from a business/ethics perspective, and because I think Jesse just does it better. I encourage everyone to keep sharing less well known tea channels that could use a signal boost!

I've been doing the longer aeropress steep for years. It's called start your steep, go prep breakfast, forget you had your aeropress going, and rush back to the press after breakfast is ready. Didn't know this was a legitimate technique 😅

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4:35 "and i realised saline would be a good solution. " good one mate :D

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instantly tried this after watching, used washed Ethiopian beans with an Aeropress and the result was very pleasant. I usually associate iced/cold brew drinks with a distinct bitterness but this method barely had any bitterness, probably because of the salt. The fruity flavours were very noticeable, was very balanced and definitely something I will brew again in the future. You made me like iced coffee, lol!

As a former wearer of the green apron, I'll share that Starbucks used to have a dedicated iced coffee blend. It was shipped to the store in portioned out, vacuum sealed, pre ground bags to be ripped open and brewed and chilled with a few scoops of ice. It was a washed Kenyan coffee. It's no longer made/used in any Starbucks in the US, except maybe at the "first" store in Seattle.

"I realised saline was a great solution here" 🤣🤣🤣