Good morning: what to do for people who can't live without coffee

People are divided into two categories: some drink tea, others prefer coffee. And the second life is twice as hard. Tea (packaged or brewed) is easy to find almost anywhere — it is carefully stored in the "most cardboard" offices, it is in abundance in the stashes of the conductors. Tea can be brewed literally on the run and in places that are completely unsuited for this — it's enough just to have a tea bag with you and find boiling water.

With good coffee, this will not work. To get a fragrant drink, you need either a coffee machine and a good barista, or ground coffee beans and at least a French press, which is not everywhere. In the company of the latter, even avid amateurs do not ride trains and do not go, for example, hiking. So, it turns out that coffee lovers have lost and the only way out is to suffer?

Not at all. We recall situations in which it is difficult to get a cup of good coffee, and tell you how to solve the problem.

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Large companies try to provide their employees with everything they need — they have kitchens, good coffee machines and some kind of table tennis or kicker at their disposal to knock down arrogance and slow down activity if they have too much caffeine. Not everyone is so lucky, and many hard workers spend half of their monthly salary on morning coffee in the nearest eateries. But they are also lucky, because there are offices in industrial zones, for example. And there is only a kettle at hand, and around — smog and movers of all stripes. And I want coffee no less.

Resourceful Japanese have found a solution to the problem of coffee drinkers. In the 90s, the eastern continent realized that the process of brewing a drink in coffee makers can be repeated right in the cup. Fresh ground coffee was packaged in small cotton bags and called them drip bags (from the English drip - drop). Thanks to the simple cardboard design, the bags were put on the rim of the cup, and the coffee was brewed by drip method — just like it happens in coffee makers. The distance between Japan and Russia is almost 7.5 thousand kilometers, so the Eastern people caught a buzz in the 90s, and the innovation reached us only a couple of years ago.

So for "bare" offices, where only the legendary "chair-table-boiling water" conditions, coffee in drip bags is perfect. All you need is a kettle and your own mug.

During working days in Russia, take the invigorating variety "Brazil Santos".

Business trips are different. Good employees are sent to Europe, bad ones are sent to the republics that are lost on the Asian side of Russia. We recently sent one such editor to Kyzyl. Kyzyl, according to the general impression, was stuck in the 90s, the hotel is somewhere in the Soviet Union. The large room had strange-looking sofas, a huge bed and one socket, exactly in the middle of the wall. It was as if it was specially arranged so that the wire of a fashionable electric kettle did not reach out and the guest showed wonders of ingenuity, wanting boiling water. A colleague showed — dragged the coffee table over the laminate, shiny with age and cleanliness — the kettle was turned on from the table.

Our editor likes to scribble texts at night and gushes coffee like he's out of his mind. In the hotel, of course, the restaurant closed at 8 p.m., and there were not even "liptons" in the room. It's good that I took coffee with me in drip bags - I suppressed it at night and even managed to drink a cup of fragrant in the morning before the front door for breakfast.

For night vigils and morning awakenings, the Columbia variety is suitable.

Train romance is almost a legend, shrouded in a network of unspoken traditions. Large companies and small families plan an evening on the train with enviable responsibility: they buy alcohol or cook eggs for a reserved dinner. And in the morning they count on the help of the guides — the sleepy ones trudge behind glasses in tin stands and ask for tea. And what about coffee lovers?

Coffee drinkers — a drip bag. A cardboard "ladle", to which a cotton bag with ground coffee is attached, is equally convenient to hang on home mugs and on Mukhinsky faceted glasses. In addition, the coffee itself takes up very little space in a travel bag. If you want to cheer up in the morning, just find a gap between things and plug it with packed ground coffee.

For a road morning, a variety with an amazing creamy smell "Irish cream" is suitable.

Imagine: you open your eyes in a spicy pine forest. There is only a tent raincoat over your head, and the air around you is so sweet and fresh that you want to tear your chest on an inspiration. You get out of the tent, inhale again and think: "Oh, I would like a cup of coffee now." Is the situation familiar? Yes, camping is a unique phenomenon when the cheapest buckwheat from the store seems delicious, simply because it is cooked over a campfire. With instant coffee, this will not work — its taste was plastic, and it will remain, and it does not matter what kind of boiling water you dilute it with. Only real ground coffee gets into cotton drip bags, which keeps freshness for a long time due to properly designed packaging. Plus, drip coffee, like all "hiking", costs almost ridiculous money: the cost of one cup is only 30 rubles.

And now the morning in the forest becomes much more wonderful, because the smell of real freshly brewed coffee is mixed with everything else. Grace.

To wake up in nature, choose the Espresso Florencia variety — this ground Arabica has a light creamy taste and a barely noticeable sweetness.

The cases that we remembered are not all situations where drip bags will save coffee lovers from having to settle for tea. They will solve the problem of morning coffee after moving or during repairs, when it is not possible to explore all the boxes with packed things to find a coffee maker or a turk. They will also definitely help out avid bachelors who have a kettle at home just because it was bought by inertia.

In fact, at some point it turns out that brewing drip coffee is much more convenient than getting caffeine in a cup in other known ways. And, oddly enough, more interesting: like everything oriental, the process of coffee drinking in this way turns into a whole ritual. The package must be opened, pull the paper "ears" of the drip bag, install a fancy design on the cup and strain boiling water through ground grains. The whole action takes less than a minute, but it brings as much pleasure as a successful alchemical experience would bring.

Try it and you.