 Hey guys welcome back to my youtube channel this is Daniel Rosal here today answering one of the Turkish coffee drinking world's most vexing questions how long does it take to grind a cup of Turkish coffee manually by hand now one of the idiosyncrasies of Turkish coffee as a former coffee consumption is that it uses the most fine coffee grinds of any former coffee even espresso it's actually considerably finer now this peculiarity actually means that for the newbie Turkish coffee fan it's actually more affordable to get going using a hand grinder because because the grind is so fine when you're looking to get a machine ground you're typically looking at a high-end conical burr grinder the type you might find in a coffee shop or even in a coffee roastery so those tend to be pretty pricey but you can pick up a fairly inexpensive hand grinder from amazon i'm using one from at sozengrinders.com i'm pronouncing that wrong it's a turkish family owned business my one did did come as a little sticker of authenticity i just removed it because i'm finicky like that um now i'm going to be using one tablespoon of coffee here and let's see how long it takes to grind now if you like your coffee on the stronger side some folks will recommend two tablespoons of turkish ground coffee you can prepare it on the stove top method you can prepare it using a machine like my arzum okamino we can see in the background there or if you like you can do what's called the lazy method and just pour boiling water on top of turkish coffee in a glass and the turkish coffee is going to sink to the bottom that's called an israel coffee bot which means literally mud coffee and turks tend to call it just lazy coffee because it's a lazy preparation method but you know if you're working on a work site and you don't have the liberty to use fancy gear it's probably fine so we're about 36 36 seconds into the ground let me show you guys how much i have at this point we're not there yet it's kind of probably at the halfway point half of a tablespoon um i'm going to grind a bit more now the answer is how do you know how long it takes to grind you just kind of develop muscle memory the conclusion of this video spoiler alert is that it's going to take about a minute to get a tablespoon or thereabouts of coffee so we're at 45 seconds now and i'm just going to continue until uh we wrap up here and 50 stopwatch has stopped at 50 seconds i'm going to pour a bit more grounds into the tablespoon measure and you can see how much we have and i'm going to call this a tablespoon because i dampened it down and that's not something you typically do with turkish coffee so you can see it's almost at the top there it's like 90 full and if i didn't dampen it it probably was i think i was actually all the way there at the tablespoon so the answer how long does it take to hand grind turkish coffee well it's going to depend on what manual grinder you have and how fast it grinds it's going to depend upon how fast you crank the handle as well as probably other factors but the simple answer to the question is that it's going to take between 60 seconds and about two minutes depending on the quantity of coffee you want if you're going for one tablespoon and you're using a sozen grinder it's going to take 60 seconds if you want two tablespoons double that for two minutes hope that was helpful it's not too much effort i think and it makes the whole processor preparing your morning coffee more satisfying and more mindful thank you guys for watching more video by turkish coffee and other subjects we'll be coming soon