Brew a Cup of Cold Coffee from Concentrate in Your Blender

Whether you like it hot or cold, coffee is a main staple of daily sanity.

Today, we’re going to look into getting your caffeine fix with a cup of cold brew. The best part is? No fancy equipment is required. This easy method uses what you already have in your kitchen cabinets—coffee beans and a high-speed blender.

Elliot Waring from CHOW.com shares a tip in his video below of how to create such brilliance. It’s a matter of grabbing up about 1 ¾ cups of whole coffee beans, tossing them in your blender, and mixing the beans up until coarse. Then, pour 3 ½ cups of cold water into the blender. Cover it up, and allow the mixture to sit for at least 12 hours—up to 24 hours if you can stand to wait that long.

Feel free to place this concoction in the refrigerator while it steeps—it is cold coffee we’re making after all. Finally, strain your coffee juice through a coffee filter placed inside of a fine mesh strainer into a container. You definitely don’t want a mouth full of grit and coffee sludge. Once strained, you are left with a cold coffee concentrate you can flavor and dilute to your preferred taste.

Go ahead and ice it—you can even pour your diluted brew into ice cube trays; so when you ice your coffee next time, it won’t get watered down even more. Add in a splash of coconut milk, some sugary syrup, some chocolate drizzle, and you have your very own cold-brewed coffee…especially on the cheap side of things.

Psst. Don't throw away the coffee grounds. Those are perfect to make garbage disposal cleaning disks.



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Brew a Cup of Cold Coffee from Concentrate in Your Blender