Coffee Shirts (Shallow Thoughts)

Coffee Shirts

I'm not a major coffee drinker, but Dave is, and he's varied over the years in how he prefers to make his coffee. For a long time he used an espresso maker, then a French press, then cold press, but lately, he's been making a variety of cold press he calls "sun coffee". It's similar to "sun tea", where you mix tea leaves with water in a pitcher in a sunny window for a few days.

That means that eventually, it has to be filtered. We don't want want to use disposable paper filters. There are lots of options, but I like the solution Dave came up with: he uses an old white t-shirt. Two layers of t-shirt material does a pretty decent job of filtering (you might need to shift to another place on the shirt halfway through, depending on how much coffee you brewed and how finely it's ground).

After filtering, you wring out the filter and dump the grounds in a bucket where eventually it can be transferred somewhere like a path out in the yard. (We used to use it in the garden or in the compost bin on the theory that plants like more acidic soil, but the plants didn't do well so we've stopped that.) The coffee gets stored in the fridge.

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