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What is the best temperature to brew coffee?
Sun, 2006-01-15 22:13 — Daniel
According to the SCAA, the optimal water temperature for coffee is 92 - 96C (197.6 - 204.8F) for 90% of the contact time.
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Massive Metric Mahem
Since we live in a multicultural land with many languages and at least two mathematical systems can't you bother yourself enough to do the math for the millions of morons who can't and won't?? Simply wasting the time of the author wouldn't be a big deal but when you are ignorant enough to state a temperature in only one measurement then you immediately waste the time of millions of Americans who have been raised with their own standard and are now forced to convert the term.
Yup, I just queried the web to find out the optimal temperature for keeping coffee hot and now I'm tasked with converting centigrade to farenheit so I can figure out what temperature you are stating.
Well, I don't do it so I don't read any further into your article because down deep I'm convinced you don't want any Americans reading your stuff.
So, now I've lost interest in how hot coffee should be and I'm wasting more time letting you know just how dissapointed I am in your article.
If you haven't guessed it, I write electronic technical materials and I am one of those who must deal with both systems daily at work and I must make those conversions daily and write my document with both so others can read it without having to do those conversions.
Keep writing, maybe I'll finish your next article.
Thanks
Really?
Why would you waste your time writing that much negative, critical feedback if you didn't spend at least as much time reading the whole article? Your motives are in question and your credibility, as a result, is suspect. Perhaps some of the energies that motivated such a response would be better directed to more important things. Best of luck to you.
Obvious troll
Is obvious
dumb and proud of it.
yep, that's you. whenever someone starts talking about "us americans" then i know right away that i am dealing with a bigoted, moronic, flag waving, bible thumping hypocrite. you've got to be one gd dumb mother &^($er if you never look up information about anything you have no knowledge of. but wait, you did attempt to look up coffee brew temps didn't you so i guess you just don't want to learn about anything "unamerican". still makes you one dumb ass mfer. for your information decimal and centigrade will be the american standard in a few years. if you were still alive what would you say then? even now, all measurements in science, medicine, electronics, engineering, etc. etc. are in your so called unamerican systems. look on the next box of fruit loops or bag of potato chips you buy. you are soon to be extinct, like the dinosaur. and good riddance. Oh, and there is no way you write any thing technical unless it is the shade tree mechanic section of your local hick town paper where your favorite response to questions about problems on newer vehicles is "we don't work on no cars with stinkin' computers in them". plus, if you do these conversions on a daily basis then you would not have had to go anywhere to convert Celsius,. You could have done it off the top of you head, or at least worked it out in a couple seconds with a pencil and paper. you must take most people that can read and think even a little for idiots. technical writer my ass. P.S. for your information the author did convert C to F. right there in the text right after the centigrade temp. maybe you didn't know that F stood for fahrenheit mr. technical writer.
Lame
So he's "bigoted" and a "bible thumping hypocrite"... which reinforces the stereotype that people who believe the Bible tend to push it down other people's throats and are usually hypocrites. Nope, no bigotry there! And why are you bringing up the decimal system? Americans use decimals like 99.9% of the time! Do you even understand what the decimal system is, in contrast to the metric system? The former is a 10 based numeric system, the latter is a system of measurements. One does not necessarily require the other. The English system of measures (which is used by us dump, bigoted, God-loving 'Mericans!) of course employs the decimal system. So while you're throwing down allegations of all types of profane studity for those who fail to do some research, remember that you are soundly in that same group of people! (Don't be embarassed to have a friend help you with the big words in this response- I know you'll get it eventually!)
Dumb & Proud of it, sure is
Why not take the time to learn to spell and capitalize correctly. By the way, I'm not sure that Americans will ever adopt the universal decimal system. We were supposed to do it a long time ago and lo and behold, we still use are old, antiquated system of measurments.
Grow up and stop acting like a victim
First, the conversion is there--maybe you wanted it not to be there because someone pissed in your Cheerios this morning and you were looking to lash out at someone. Evidently, though, you need a basic reading lesson.
I'm sorry, but there is nothing more off-putting than a US citizen acting like you are a victim of some vast conspiracy. Guess what, most of the world reads things on the web with only inches, miles, teaspoons, etc. I challenge you to look at virtually any recipe online. Where is your anger then?
Yes, I am a US citizen, too, but I'm embarrassed when flatulent jerks like you feel the need to defend the rest of us.
Grow up.
RE: Massive Metric Mahem
I'm not sure I can follow your comment here. The post reads "92 - 96C (197.6 - 204.8F)" and has read that way since at least 2006 (last edit time) and I believe going back to the origin of that answer.
Bialetti temperature
I have a question about espresso making temperature. If the ideal brewing temperature is 92 to 96 C, then why does espresso (or in my case I actually use a stove top Bialetti pot) taste good? In making espresso you are pushing steam through coffee grounds and iisn't steam at a temperature over 100C?
RE: Bialetti temperature
In a moka pot the steam pushes hot water through the grounds. You are not actually making coffee with the steam.
I should also clarify that while a moka pot makes perfectly good coffee it is not espresso. Espresso by definition of coffee made with high pressure. Espresso requires a minimum of about 9 bars of pressure. A moka pot is more in the 1-1.5 bar range. If you look at your moka pot there should be a pressure release valve that will pop long before anything approaching 9 bars. The pot just is not designed for that pressure and without the pressure release valve could actually explode.