On the plus side today, Mr. C inadvertently provided me with a good excuse to pick up some more coffee paraphernalia. 😁 Thankfully now that I do have proper health coverage, so we're not quite so broke for the moment!
He wasn't really thinking about the grind when he decided to pick up some preground Ottoman Bosnian coffee that caught his eye earlier.
There is A LOT of Turkish/Arabic/Balkan coffee hereabouts. (And yeah, besides the actual brewing/serving variations between styles? It can all get political quick. Not to leave out the Greeks, but there aren't nearly the number of immigrants from there locally.)
Anyway, that very much includes at our nearest supermarket in a particularly immigrant-heavy part of town ("Your personal grocery store with food from around the world")--which seems to be Turkish owned. Their sizeable coffee (and tea) aisle has a much bigger selection of assorted Ottoman varieties than anything else, with pretty much all of that coffee preground finer than espresso. It would choke any brewing method we've already got immediately, just way too fine.
(There are also not too surprisingly a number of other shops selling the stuff near us--and hopefully more whole bean stuff too!--but the assortment there is particularly impressive. Should get some pics of the coffee and tea next time I make it over there.)
I've been wanting to set myself loose more on their coffee assortment like the proverbial kid in a candy store basically since we moved into this place, but haven't had any good means of actually brewing or drinking it at home. Besides mugloads of the "small cooking pot" approach, which would certainly be doable but not ideal! And I've been holding off lately since funds have been tight.
But, this was just the prompt I needed to pull the trigger on some (fairly cheap) quick gratification. 😊 Yeah, I could--and no doubt ethically should--just find something locally. Probably readily available too! But, that is way trickier than it should be right now for my disabled ass.
In the end, I decided to go for a set of two different sizes of cezve, which should be good to make enough for one or two people at a time. Like with moka pots, you really want to match the size to how much you're brewing. I did consider stainless instead of the classic copper, but those would be too small to work on our induction stove burners without a plate iron skillet under them anyway. From experience. 😒
Plus just a set of cheap and cheerful ceramic espresso cups. The included stand was a major deciding factor there, tbh. Shouldn't take up too much space in here, even if we end up not using them super much.
Planning to divide it up and stash most of it in the freezer until we need it. Not sure how much it will help considering the super-fine grind which may already be super stale, but we'll see. Couldn't really hurt. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
