Red eye coffee is an espresso drink made by combining drip coffee with one shot of espresso. While red eye is famous for its caffeine content, many coffee lovers choose it for the unique flavor obtained by combining drip coffee and espresso.
200millilitersFiltered water, or spring waterfor the drip coffee
35millilitersFiltered water, or spring waterfor the espresso shot
Instructions
Turn the kettle on. If you have a variable temperature kettle, set it to 200°F
Fill a coffee mug with hot water to warm it up.
Place the Melitta paper filter on the drip cone.
Weigh on the kitchen scale 10 grams of medium-light roasted coffee. If you don't have a kitchen scale, that's about 2 TBSP.
Grind the coffee beans to a medium-fine grind.
Pour the ground coffee in the drip cone.
Dump the hot water from the warmed mug, and place the drip cone on top of the mug.
Place the mug and the cone on the scale, and set the scale to 0.
Using your kettle pour hot water over the coffee grounds into the cone, with circular concentric movements until. The aim is to wet all of the coffee grounds.
Let the coffee grounds bloom for about 30 seconds. Doing this we are saturating the coffee grounds with water.
After 30 seconds, continue to pour water, in a circular motion, until the cone is full.
Pour around 200 ml of water or so in total. The goal is to end up with 180 ml of coffee in your cup.
Remove the cone from the mug, discard the spent grounds.
Grind espresso size 7-9 grams of medium-dark espresso beans.
Place the portafilter on the scale and set the scale to 0.
Pour the coffee grounds in the portafilter, measuring 7 to 9 grams of ground coffee. The dose depends on your filter-basket.
Lightly tap the portafilter on the tamping mat to pack the grounds and then tamp. Press the tamper firmly until the coffee is compressed into a puck.
Lock the portafilter in the espresso machine and start brewing. Stop the extraction after 20 to 25 seconds, or until the stream "blondes".
Pour the espresso over the drip coffee, making sure you transfer the crema from the demitasse into the drip coffee mug.
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Nutrition
Calories: 2kcal
Keyword coffee, espresso, espresso-based drinks, red eye