Turkish Coffee

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Years ago, I first read about Turkish coffee on these boards.

I have since had the opportunity to try it. It is wonderful. I have since acquired a burr grinder and an ibrik and learned to make it.

I suppose there are worse things to be addicted to. :smiley:

Just wanted to say thanksā€“Turkish coffee is wonderful, and I doubt I would have ever known of it had I not read of it on these boards.

ā€“James

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We have a local place that adds ground cardamom to it. Good stuff.

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Yes ā€¦ Except itā€™s Greek coffee, and the pot is a briki, not ibirk. :stuck_out_tongue:

Yia sou!

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Sorry, but I believe they meant Armenian coffee?

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Except itā€™s Greek coffee, and the pot is a briki, not ibirk.

http://www.sweetmarias.com/sweetmarias/coffee-brewers/ibriks.html

a 5 sec google search - donā€™t know anything about the site.

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I needed rested after that last post. I think I got the vapors.

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I think Sweet Mariaā€™s is where got our ibrik back when I first started getting into Turkish coffee.

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I believe itā€™s also called a cezve for Turkish coffee, but ā€œibrikā€ was the first term I encountered when I started reading about how to make it yourself, and the term stuck in my head.

No matter what you call it, you can make wonderful coffee with it.

ā€“James

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Yes, I was only teasing. :slight_smile: I came to it via my Greek significant other, and I still have our little briki, as well as the set of traditional flintzania (cups) we had custom-made. I always enjoyed it straight, with loukoumi on the side if we could get it.

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I tried it on a whim one day at the Middle-Eastern restaurant, since Iā€™d been saying for months I needed to (but so rare that I got there not in the eveningā€¦which is NOT when I wanted to be drinking large amounts of caffeine!).

Whoever made it in the kitchen did it PERFECTLY and I was immediately hooked. And yep, quickly obtained my own ibrik. I make it every weekend. (Have never tried with loukoumi, but I do like to have a maamoul with it sometimes! You gotta get the NBCC brand with the burgundy packaging that boasts of ā€œmade with finest Saudi dates.ā€ Iā€™ve compared with at least one other brand and these are the best. :slight_smile: )

Part of me misses going out for it, though, and experiencing how different people at different restaurants make it (my rule is not to specify how I like it-- just see how it comes according to who made it that day). But then again, it also avoids the problem I had once, where I wanted to go for a run, and I wanted coffee, so I went for a run to the nearest Middle-Eastern placeā€¦ arrived and was told ā€œwe donā€™t have Arabic coffee.ā€ (I think the waitress just didnā€™t want to make it or didnā€™t know how, because Iā€™ve had it there before and since.) Was not amused. It was only a run of not even two miles so no big deal, but that was the SPECIFIC reason I went there!