A good quality coffee tamper or espresso tamper is an essential tool for the serious coffee lover or aspiring (home) barista. Unfortunately, there are A LOT of lousy coffee tampers out there. Monsieur Coffee wants to help you pick a tamper that works like a tamper should. We scoured the web, did some testing and […]
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Butter Coffee is all the rage right now. It is a drink made with coffee (duh!), butter (preferably grass-fed), and a thingy called medium-chain triglycerides (MCTs). At first, I had my doubts. Putting pure fat in coffee? Wouldn’t that just look and taste like an oil spillage? I imagined a layer of grease floating on
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Knowing how to make coffee without a coffee maker can be a lifesaving skill. What if, one morning, you wake up, stumble into your kitchen turn on your coffee maker, and… nothing. No lights, no bubbling, no comforting smell of freshly brewed coffee. What do you do? Or what do you do when you are
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An Americano coffee is not a drink for the purists among us. By no means is it a straight-up espresso. It is not a filter coffee or drip coffee either. And it is not a latte, although some do add milk. How to make an Americano Coffee was an enigma that took me a while
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When the snow melts, the trees grow new leaves, and shorts or skirts and t-shirts start to dominate our wardrobe, you know: summer is here, and it’s time to venture out into the wild. I love camping. Messing around in nature. Living with little of the comforts you know from home and just relax. It
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The Hario V60 is one of the great tools to make manual pour over coffee. Any coffee enthusiast should, in my opinion, dive into pour over coffee at some point. The experience and taste are on a different level than say an espresso. Pour-over coffee is rich, but delicate and can bring out the best in your
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The Chemex is one of the great tools to make your perfect pour over coffee. If you are a coffee enthusiast, you should try the Chemex. I guarantee you’ll love it. For one, it’s a great showpiece on your countertop. Second, its design is proven and long-lasting (it has been around since the 1940’s). And finally, produces
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