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[denizaksulu]

Get your small coffee pot (for one cup).

Fill up to the neck with cold water..

Add one heap of Ground Cypriot coffee and stir

Add sugar to taste.

Bring to the boil gently, stirring occasionally.

You will see the froth rising from the sides and moving towards the centre. Remove pot from the heat source. You can repeat this three times (but NO MORE)

Never boil the coffee.

Now gently pour into small coffee cup and serve with a glass of water.

Sahha/Afiyetler olsun.

My uncle sells coffee for a living and I was surprised at the FURNACE he cooks his coffee on. Done in seconds???? Tastes delicious!!

You should ask your uncle to make a coffee at speed and one where you start from cold water and bring to the boil gently. You will notice the difference.

I wasn't dissing the slow version Deniz....Thats why I put all the question marks. It amazed me that it could be made that quick and still taste nice.

I was not dissing it either, but there is a difference. Just like cooking. But hen your taste budws may not be as sensitive/selective/differentiating as mine

[denizaksulu]

A sand coffee maker is called a 'jackie' (spelling?).

Ocak = pronounced odjack/ojack = hearth?

[fig head]

Sand coffee !! DOh it was hard enough doing proper cup of cypriot coffee !! (its worth it) what is that then!! does it make coffee taste even better!!!

[zan]

A sand coffee maker is called a 'jackie' (spelling?).

Ocak = pronounced odjack/ojack = hearth?

Bloody Greeks...Stole another Turkish/Irish word. O'Jackie!!

[kafenes]

A sand coffee maker is called a 'jackie' (spelling?).

Ocak = pronounced odjack/ojack = hearth?

Ojack - Ojacki - jackie, now we know where that word came from as well.

[zan]

Get your small coffee pot (for one cup).

Fill up to the neck with cold water..

Add one heap of Ground Cypriot coffee and stir

Add sugar to taste.

Bring to the boil gently, stirring occasionally.

You will see the froth rising from the sides and moving towards the centre. Remove pot from the heat source. You can repeat this three times (but NO MORE)

Never boil the coffee.

Now gently pour into small coffee cup and serve with a glass of water.

Sahha/Afiyetler olsun.

My uncle sells coffee for a living and I was surprised at the FURNACE he cooks his coffee on. Done in seconds???? Tastes delicious!!

You should ask your uncle to make a coffee at speed and one where you start from cold water and bring to the boil gently. You will notice the difference.

I wasn't dissing the slow version Deniz....Thats why I put all the question marks. It amazed me that it could be made that quick and still taste nice.

I was not dissing it either, but there is a difference. Just like cooking. But hen your taste budws may not be as sensitive/selective/differentiating as mine

It would be interesting to find out the perfect recipe for cooking coffee....My Nespresso machine just runs hot water over the coffee at pressure like all espresso. That too is a nice coffee.....sweeter.

[denizaksulu]

Get your small coffee pot (for one cup).

Fill up to the neck with cold water..

Add one heap of Ground Cypriot coffee and stir

Add sugar to taste.

Bring to the boil gently, stirring occasionally.

You will see the froth rising from the sides and moving towards the centre. Remove pot from the heat source. You can repeat this three times (but NO MORE)

Never boil the coffee.

Now gently pour into small coffee cup and serve with a glass of water.

Sahha/Afiyetler olsun.

My uncle sells coffee for a living and I was surprised at the FURNACE he cooks his coffee on. Done in seconds???? Tastes delicious!!

You should ask your uncle to make a coffee at speed and one where you start from cold water and bring to the boil gently. You will notice the difference.

I wasn't dissing the slow version Deniz....Thats why I put all the question marks. It amazed me that it could be made that quick and still taste nice.

I was not dissing it either, but there is a difference. Just like cooking. But hen your taste budws may not be as sensitive/selective/differentiating as mine

It would be interesting to find out the perfect recipe for cooking coffee....My Nespresso machine just runs hot water over the coffee at pressure like all espresso. That too is a nice coffee.....sweeter.

There is no perfect way for coffee. It is a matter of taste.

[kafenes]

A sand coffee maker is called a 'jackie' (spelling?).

Ocak = pronounced odjack/ojack = hearth?

Bloody Greeks...Stole another Turkish/Irish word. O'Jackie!!

I remember my grandmother pumping the old ojack to cook the meal.

[kafenes]

OK, try this. Put the sugar in the water and heat the water up to semi caramelise the suger, then put in the coffee, a quick stir and bring to the boil and pour in the cup. This is my favourite way of making coffee. Also another way to experiment is the mixture of different levels of toasted coffee (black mixed with the brown) to get the taste that you like.

[Nikitas]

Got to add my observations.

A sand oven and starting from cold is one part of the equasion. The other is properly roasted coffee, like the one sold in Cyprus in traditional kafeneia. In Greece they use a form of coffee which is called Robusta, which is not coffee really. And starting with that crap they just steam water through it from the espresso machine. The result is total crap that tastes like warmed topsoil. That made me stop my coffee habit to less than one per month.

To this day I am amazed that no Cypriot coffee or other foodstuffs are imported in Greece. So much for the much touted coming together of the two countries etc.