 Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here. Today we are going to be making Turkish coffee using an automatic Turkish coffee machine. The one I own is the Arzum Okamini. These are pretty rare devices. They're made mostly by Turkish companies. I bought mine in Turkey a couple of years ago. But you can also find them on Amazon and they're made for European voltages 220. But you can also find 110 volt versions if you are in the United States. And I love Turkish coffee, oldest form of coffee making in existence. Now what you're going to need for Turkish coffee is typically light roasts are preferred. Although you can use a mixture of light roast and dark roast beans if that works better for you. I'm using a light roast here and I'm going to show you the various ways you can do this. The first is the manual method. This is going to be hand grinding the beans using a Turkish coffee grinder. Now the weird thing about Turkish is that because it's such a fine grind it's actually easier to do it by hand than with machine. You need to have a specific commercial burr grinder capable of doing Turkish coffee otherwise you just won't get it fine enough. So if I grind them myself I use this little hand grinder. It's also from a Turkish company called Sozin. You can find these on ebay and they are considered really really good. It's a family owned business. So just load up your coffee beans using your hand almost to the top or close close to the top then you want to pop the lid on and it's just a little crank mechanism. The cool thing is that the fineness can be adjusted directly in this machine if you like so you can make it slightly finer or slightly more coarse. Now it's a good workout as you can see depending on the quantity of beans you're grinding it's going to take you between two or three minutes and the good thing of course is that nothing really beats the taste of freshly ground beans. Now you don't have to buy a you know this metal one you can also there are manual grinders on amazon that will do Turkish but again an espresso grinder is not good enough Turkish is finer than espresso so make sure that you're buying gear specifically for Turkish coffee. So here is the fruits of my cranking. This is a it collects in that little basin at the bottom and then I'm just going to pour it in so you guys can see what the coffee that comes out of it looks like it's super super fine as I said it's supposed to be finer than espresso it's kind of a flour like consistency if you dip if you put one of your fingers in you know you're going to get a little few powder spludges but you shouldn't be seeing any grains. Now here's an interesting chart I pulled up from the internet from modern process equipment showing exactly how fine authentic Turkish coffee is it's considerably more fine than espresso so again you need to buy so if you want to go as pre-ground coffee this is coffee from Izzyman in Jerusalem which is my favorite coffee store here I always write down the date I bought it so I can consume it reasonably quickly. Now if you don't have a Arab store in your area you can order from eBay this is Mehmet Defendi which is I think the oldest form of pre-ground coffee in the world it's a Turkish company again or you can also find in your if you have an Arabic supermarket Middle Eastern supermarket they're very fond of putting cardamom in their coffee so you might find products like this and again so if you can either grind it yourself or buy pre-ground. Now the traditional method for brewing Turkish coffee is on a fire or on a stove using a finjan or a sesve or an ibrich those are just words in Arabic and Turkish for this device but I personally much prefer the the automated modern method using the arizm oca minio you can find more simple versions of this the more elaborate versions and ones that don't even have the automatic cutoff the way this works is that when the foam rises it tips off the sensor and then it stops so I'm just going to go ahead now and plug in my arizm device and it works really really quickly so what I do is I measure out water in my coffee cup and then I measure out one tablespoon of ground coffee whether I'm using pre-ground or freshly ground this wasn't quite one tablespoon so I just added a little bit more and I like my coffee this strong I don't like sugar in my coffee but you can put sugar directly into this contraption if that's the type of coffee you prefer so I've just added I'm just going to give it a quick stir and then all you literally need to do is fist the the the electric finjan into the thing and then press the button at the top and the process it's a very small quantity of water of course so the process happens really quickly you're going to start smelling coffee you're going to see some steam rising and then it beeps a few times and that's the automatic cutoff now traditionally when you're making Turkish coffee and the stove it's common to have it come to the boil two times if you like that you can just hit the button twice and this is how it comes freshly off the off the cooking process I'm just going to pour some into my cup and as I said you can fit about four demi-task cups into this contraption so you can use it if you're having a little coffee party and this is what it is this is exactly how I like my Turkish coffee very strong very short very bitter but this is my preference for coffee and if you want to be a bit more fancy you can of course put it on a little coaster and I also collect these cups I have quite a variety of them now when you're brewing Turkish coffee just remember the grounds are going to collect in the bottom you don't drink all the way through and you can just dispose of what remains into your trash can or whatever hope this little video was was worth your five minutes if you're thinking about buying the Arzham Oka Minio I've had mine I've actually bought a couple I've had them for two three years and they've been absolutely fantastic use them pretty much every single day thank you guys for watching more videos coming soon to this youtube channel