Why it works: Coffee and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 29% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,239 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓
Coffee for One Hundred
for 100Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Wet the coffee with cold water and divide it into four parts, filling the bags not more than half full.
Brew
Place two bags into 30 quarts of boiling water.
Keep at boiling heat for over 30 minutes, shaking the bags frequently.
Bring the mixture to a boil.
Let it boil for 10 to 15 minutes.
Remove the first two bags.
Add the other two bags.
Boil for an additional 15 minutes.
Add 1 quart of cold water.
Keep the mixture from boiling.
Serve
Serve.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
Explore the science
The flavor team
The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.
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Coffee + eggtop 29% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together3,239 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
What each ingredient does
- Ground coffee
- Supplies the flavour compounds that are extracted into the hot water during brewing.
The step that matters
Keep the mixture from boiling. Once brewing is finished, continued boiling pulls more bitter compounds from the grounds and can make the coffee harsh, so the mixture is kept just below boiling.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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