How to Make Iced Coffee

When the weather is too hot and you don’t want to use hot coffee, make a cup of iced coffee to enjoy. This wikiHow will show you a few different ways to make a delicious cup of iced coffee.

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Hot brewed coffee

Make hot coffee. Make it darker than usual because you’ll be adding ice to it. The intensity depends on how many stones you plan to use.

If you want to add sugar to your coffee, omit the sugar from this step as the sugar granules will dissolve more easily in the hot heat.

Pour freshly brewed coffee into the pot. Let the coffee cool to room temperature (for about an hour), then place it in the fridge for another two hours to cool completely.

Enjoy! Pour cold coffee into a glass, add some ice cubes with milk or cream if you like. Stir well and enjoy.

Cold brew coffee

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Make coffee with cold water. This method results in a sweet and delicious iced coffee with up to 67% less acidity than hot brew. The cold phase also helps to reduce the unpleasant bitterness that the normal hot brewing method brings.

Add water to the coffee. Measure out the right amount of coarse ground coffee into the pot. Roasted whole bean coffee will bring a stronger flavor.

Add water. Pour nine cups of cold or cold water into the pitcher.

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Soak coffee. Cover the jar and let the coffee steep for at least 12 hours in a cool place.

After the soaking process, you must separate the coffee grounds from the water.

Percolator. Strain the coffee grounds by pouring the mixture through a sieve into another container.

Place a coffee filter (or two paper towels are fine) into the sieve, slowly pouring the mixture through it to filter out the rest of the grounds.
You will get the finished coffee product is dense, pure and sweet.

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Enjoy! Put as much ice as you like in a cup, brew coffee in a ratio of one part strong coffee to three parts cold water or milk. Add sugar as you like. To make it simpler, use sugar syrup instead of granulated sugar.

Coffee smoothie

Pour about a cup of freshly brewed coffee into the blender.

Add crushed ice.
Add 1/4 cup milk.

Blend for about 10 seconds. The ice will be ground into a fine snow form.

Add a few tablespoons of sugar to increase sweetness. If you like other flavors like French vanilla, ice cream… Feel free to add more.
Blend again until the mixture becomes smooth.

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Pour into a cup and enjoy your freshly made coffee smoothie.

Jamaican-style instant coffee

Put instant coffee with sugar in water

Combine with 200ml of cold milk and crushed ice.

If you have a shaker, shake well before drinking. If only cups are available, stir well.

Additional flavor

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Add flavoring. Put some orange peel, orange juice and orange cream in cold coffee for a delicious orange cream coffee.

Buy raspberry ice cream and fresh raspberries. Add to cold coffee to enjoy a different coffee taste.

For adults only: Combine two parts cold coffee with two parts Irish Cream liqueur, two parts vodka, and a dash of vanilla.

Advice

You can make coffee and pour it into an ice tray and put it in the freezer overnight, the next morning, you already have coffee-flavored ice cubes. You can also have them with coffee as needed.
If you like to make iced coffee with sugar, add the sugar while the coffee is still hot, so the sugar will dissolve faster; Or add sugar to milk before adding it to coffee.
Pour excess coffee into the ice tray, so you will have a cool cup of iced coffee without being diluted.
Another idea for a coffee smoothie is to add caramel, milk chocolate, and vanilla. Put all of the above ingredients in a blender, including ice and coffee.
You can still make coffee as usual and then put it in the freezer until it freezes. When the coffee has turned to ice, take it out and enjoy.
Add all the sugar and other seasonings while the coffee is still hot. They will dissolve faster.

Warning

Do not put a hot coffee pot in the refrigerator, the glass pot may break, causing the coffee to flow in the refrigerator. That phenomenon is called heat shock, although you can use other words to describe it.

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