Hi, Ardith Hinton! -> Anton Shepelev
I read your message from 17.06.2022 01:48

 AH> Alexander's wording leaves the time frame more open to question.
 AH> Because he's telling a joke, I imagine this is probably the effect
 AH> he wanted.

 AH> Charles M. Schulz used a similar strategy in a 1989 PEANUTS
 AH> cartoon:

 AH>  Linus:    I hear your grandfather has taken up golf.
 AH>  Charlie:  He's been playing for about a year..
 AH>  Lucy:     That's a long time to be out on the course..

;-)


 AS>> 140 grams is my daily portion.
 AH> In wet or dry measurements? If you mean the former, that's about
 AH> the same amount I usually drink in a day... but (as with my
 AH> briefcase) I don't lift it & put it down just once. The preparation
 AH> alone involves a bit of lifting... I take my time over anything
 AH> containing alcohol or caffeine... and on occasions when I have a
 AH> second cup within 24 hours I'll drink a smaller amount.

 AH> As a teacher I worked with someone from the Netherlands who
 AH> obviously preferred stronger coffee. When it was her turn to make
 AH> coffee, I would dilute it 50/50 with boiling water before drinking
 AH> it. I've heard the same applies in other European countries but
 AH> don't know what the average Russian would do. :-)

The size of a coffee cap in Russia depends on what you are going to eat with your coffee. ;)

 AS>> I buy freshly roasted coffee beens, grind them myself immediately
 AS>> before brewing, and make my coffee in an electronically-contolled
 AS>> jezwe.

 AH> My mother used a coffee percolator, which works with a campfire or
 AH> an oil/wood/electric/gas stove or whatever other source of heat is
 AH> available. I'm not sure what a "jezwe" is. But nowadays I generally
 AH> prefer the Melitta filter system, which requires little of me
 AH> except to add a cup of boiling water to the pre-ground beans & wait
 AH> 60 seconds when I'm making coffee just for myself. :-)

I tried several times to  make coffee from ground roasted coffee beans, but could not make anything worth with my cezve. Have you seen a video in the Internet how to prepare a really good coffee?

Bye, Ardith!
Alexander Koryagin
english_tutor 2022

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