Make Your Own Coffee Bag

I’ve been having a little fun this week with 'Make your own tea bags'. Two Japanese girls came into my store and started asking questions about the flavoured ground coffee we sell. One question they asked me was ‘Could they make the coffee in the Make Your Own Tea Bags?’

Sometime ago I received a shipment of MYOTB from Japan. They have not been a great seller in my store as I mainly have a coffee trade. I’ve tried the MYOTB with loose tea and they work well, but I never thought to try it with fresh ground coffee. My answer to the two girls was no; but to be honest I just didn’t know if it would work or not. So off I went up stairs and fired up the kettle and proceeded to make a coffee using the MYOTB.

The bags are made from cotton and have a very fine mesh. In to the bag I put in a scoop of course ground coffee and folded the bag to seal it. I then placed it into a large mug and poured in hot (off the boil) water and waited 4 minutes. The end result of that experiment was that it made a very weak coffee when the coffee is course ground. So the correct answer was no, you cannot use the MYOTB using our flavoured ground coffee. The good news is that you can use it to make a coffee when the coffee is fine ground. I have repeated this experiment again using fine ground unflavoured coffee and it does make an excellent Americano. So if any one is looking for a quick and clean way to make fresh ground coffee for one person, I can now recommend the MYO Coffee Bag; Ideal for the home or office. I have put together a small slide show giving a demonstration of how the Tea bags work. If you like the music that comes with the slide show, you can find more about the artist at http://www.emijarvi.com/.