Retro coffee mills, antique coffee mills

there are few demands which have to be respected for having a good coffee:
1.Use good quality coffee, proper blend,freshly roasted and freshly ground
2.Use fresh, clean, cold water. Filtered or bottled water works well, but avoid distilled or softened water.
3.The grind chosen must be of the correct fineness for the chosen brewing method.
4.The pot must be cleaned and warm.
5.Make only enough coffee for your immediate needs. The coffee will deteriorate if you keep it too long. Avoid reheating coffee, it just doesn't taste the same.
6.Avoid boiling brewed coffee .
7.Use approximately 70 grams of coffee per litre of water.
So a good coffee needs a lot of care, work, and tools. Let's take it step by step.

As i said, my granny used to roast the green coffee beans on her cooker, in a pan, using a wood spoon to stir in quite often. She used to roast the beans until they got a deep brown colour, and finally she always did throw a splash of cogniac on the beans.
I did the same, it was difficult only to get the green beens, sorts of Costa Rica and Colombian arabica coffees, and in the end i had the dark brown oily coffee.
The more difficult task was to grind it very well, as the turkish coffee recipe is asking for it.
And here the retro coffee mills are the one to help me to get there, with the setting for the most fine grinding. Probably a real antique grinder would do even better but this retro type got me quite satisfied.

.The importance of the grind can be but should not be underestimated. There are several things to think about here. First of all, there's the method used to grind the beans into bits small enough to make flavorful coffee in an efficient manner. Second, there's the size of the grind, from coarse to fine, and what coffee brewing method each size lends it to.
Most people are probably familiar with those blender-like grinders with the whirling blades. You know, the ones that makes the loud buzzing and crunching sounds. Then there are the more sophisticated machines that use a burr grinder. These consists of a mechanism that pushes the whole beans between two moving grinding surfaces at a given (and usually adjustable) distance apart. The beans are crushed all at once to the same size particles, instead of being chopped repeatedly into smaller and smaller bits, like in the mini-blender style grinder. These devices range from expensive electric models that have sophisticated controls for grind size to the traditional (and far less noisy) hand grinders you see in antique stores for around $120 or far less expensive, good hand grinder manufactured nowadays, like Zassenhaus or Peugeot.
I did find more stylish the retro grinder, and i bought this Peugeut Nostalgie Teinte Coffee Mill and i am very happy with it. Find it clicking on the photo.

As i told, grinding at home the coffee beans is an important step for brewing a good cofee. The aromathique oils of the coffee beans are what we need to keep in our coffee and the home grinding will keep them at least 50% of it. If we use medium roasted coffee beans, the oil is still in the texture of the beans and grinding at home we have them for our gourmet coffee.
The method is important too, the eletrical grinders will chop the beans from big pieces to small, loosing oil every time. But the retro manual coffee mills will grind the beans at once and they will loose less oil. If you will brew at the whole ground, you did your best.
Retro cofee mills will let you to have different finess of the particles, and you need this according to the different brewing method used.

First you add the water and sugar in the pot(ibrik) without any coffee. Then you put the coffee pot on fire and you wait until the first small bubbles appear at the bottom of the pot. This is a sign that the water is hot and just before the boil point. At this point you must add the coffee and start stirring until the coffee rises. You can lift the pot, to let the coffee settle down and then repeat the process but putting the pot back on fire. Once it foams and rises again remove it from the fire and serve.
Serve the coffee with water, to be stylish.
obviously, there are strong opinions about other 2 ways (at least|) making turkish coffee, not to mention the several other ways of making coffee in Middle East.They are delicious and real coffee lover will discover them online. But to start this is a good one.

Antique coffee mills are collection pieces, looking very well in our kitchen. Not always are used, not always are good for a proper grinding. But if you want a real coffee mill, you will find them in specialized shops, and you can find a good working one. Look at them, they are the original ones, making you proud of being a coffee lover(don't be bothered by few antique clocks).