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Public Health Minister Victor Attallah encourages Dominicans to drink coffee without sugar
That's the way I've always done it, but without the sugar. BTW, boiling the coffee is an art in itself as well.
I prefer to boil the water, throw in the coffee and lower the heat a bit (so it doesn't boil over) and let it continue to boil for a 2-3 minutes before running it through the sock. My ex MIL would heat milk up, then the coffee would go into that from the sock.
I gotta count mine- I bet I have a half dozen of new and used ones.
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Coffee is not meant to be boiled. That said, maybe there is a population that find it delicious and enjoyable that method, but chemically speaking, coffee is a mildly acidic beverage if traditional brew (pH 4.8 to 5.1). Boiling coffee decreases the pH, making it more acidic, nearly doubling the acidity. Mixed with sugar and/or cream most will not be able to tell, but the holes they discover in your esophagus about about 5-7 years of drinking coffee this way "may" be enough for one to care to brew coffee more traditionally. Or you can take a Nexium daily😒
And my experience in the sierra campo of old, was each home had their cast aluminum pot hanging on the wall of their detached kitchen, that was ONLY used for roasting coffee. That was because during the roasting process yet more sugar (not much, but a little) was added. That pot became quite charred from the beans and sugar and wasn't worth the elbow grease to clean. Probably added depth to the next batch I don't know.
I’ve never seen anyone roast coffee beans in DR, I’ll bet it smells heavenly. My suegra did use an aluminum pot to boil the coffee and sugar. Kind of a giant mug.
A few years ago, my brother-in-law tried growing coffee beans on his finca in Ocoa mountains. They roasted bunch of it right up there and brought us about 5 pounds of the beans on their way back to SD. I think it was the best coffee we ever had.
An acquaintance of mine would visit an elderly woman in the loma, where she roasted the coffee beans on the leña and put sugar on them. They ate them like candies.
As an aside, I would be amiss if I didn't mention how the old aluminum cookware would have aluminum particulate matter that imbeds itself in the brain tissue, paving the way for various neurodegenerative diseases
