Just wanted to share this. Something I picked up last week. It's more entertaining than waiting for the drip coffee to drip, drip, drip...the taste is something very different though, so don't expect your average cup o' joe.
1. Buy a copper or brass ibrik (pot) that looks something like the above. You'll also need the special Turkish coffee grounds (excuse the political incorrectness) which is a ground finer than espresso. It's like brown baby powder except not toxic and very tasty.
2. Fill it with however many cups of water you want (maximum is the neck or thinnest area of the pot) and however much sugar you want (1/2 tbsp per 2 cups for me). Keep in mind the cup size is the espresso/demitasse cup. Stir the sugar in.
3. Warm the pot on the stove at medium/low heat. Once the water gets slightly warm, pour 1 heaping tsp of the Turkish coffee ground per cup of water. DO NOT STIR. Let the grounds sit and you will see them melt to form a thick seal. DO NOT LET IT BOIL lest the fine grounds be damaged. Hence the medium/low heat.
4. After waiting a while, you will see foam rise quickly. That's the key to all of this. Just before the foam overflows, take the pot off the burner and with a metal spoon, push the foam down into the water. Don't stir it in. This is remove the grounds still in the foam.
5. Let it cool for half a minute or so. Then put it back over the burner with slightly lower heat.
6. Once it foams again, take it out and pour out the foam equally into however many espresso cups you wanted. Then equally pour out the rest.
Tip: Don't drink the very bottom of the cup or pour out the very bottom of the pot. You'll see sludge that is mostly grounds. Not too tasty. But if you're really tired, I suppose its taste alone is good as any energy drink.
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