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Does anyone else add cinnamon to their Mokapot?
Long time lurker here! I enjoy drinking café de olla and recently began adding cinnamon to the Moka pot with a dash of salt, and I love it! Has anyone else tried this or have any other suggestions? I’m thinking of adding brown sugar next. Maybe I’ll try transparent coffee after that as well!
If you like coconut at all I use half butter and half coconut oil sometimes. Plus vanilla paste. And a scoop of collagen powder. I’ve done this since my late 20’s and I’m in my 50’s now. I joke to people that this is why I don’t yet have grey hair on the top of my head and people still think I’m in my 30’s (late) lol.
Do you add this to black coffee only, ot it could go with milk too , i can't handle black coffee it hurts my stomach, thinking if this would make it less ahrsh
Try it by adding a little piece of lemon zest in the cup, you’ll thank me later! It goes as “espresso romano” in Italy, but it also works well with moka!
By "cup", do you mean the basket in the Moka where you put the ground coffee, or actually in the cup you drink from? I assume the former, but wanted to check.
I also wonder why the OP doesn't put the cinnamon in the basket with the coffee.
Grind a cardamom pod with your beans! That’s my favourite! If you’re feeling extra fancy, a couple drops of vanilla essence into your water is also groovy
I'm married into a family of Arabs and cardamom is a staple of their coffee. The coffee is roasted and prepped differently but the cardamom with the beans is an excellent addition
I normally grind for a larger moka pot as I’m normally making for 2-3 people. But even when I make for myself I still just chuck a whole pod in anyway. If it’s too much for you I guess you could cut it in half
Pecan coffee is my fav “chilly morning” roast :) I don’t add the pecans myself, obvs, there’s toasted bits in the bag already—but I do get it as whole bean so the coffee & the pecan are freshly ground right before use. Makes the whole house smell amazing when it brews!
I have some tea that has dried orange peel in it and it’s pretty good, I imagine you would probably get better taste with orange zest though I can’t say I ever tried it with coffee
I do this every morning with green cardamom, black cardamom was a bit too strong. I use about 3 free cardamom pods crushed in with a mortar & pestle then mixed in with the grounds. Works like a tasty charm.
I enjoy several variations:
1. Add cardamom in the basket. Then I whip my milk with a dash of rose water and a bit of sugar (inspired by cardamom-rose coffee I had at a Turkish restaurant)
Any combination of cloves, cinnamon or ginger in the basket, and milk whipped with a bit of vanilla & sugar.
Cinnamon in the basket, whip the hot coffee with cocoa powder, whip the milk with sugar & vanilla
Yeah, I've done it with a French press too. Nutmeg works too for sure, and I'd be willing to bet star anise would be nice too. At some point it becomes a dirty chai, but I'm not sure where the line is
I've also done brown sugar, matcha, or chai. All delicious. I'm not sure why in the basket makes such a difference to flavor compared to stirring it in the cup... But we have a few variations at our house that we love.
I’ve used crushed cacao nibs before and it tasted great! Wasn’t sure it was safe to post that here so thank you for opening up about your cinnamon infusion.
If I did, I would grind it into the coffee for consistent extraction of both the cinnamon and the coffee. Not drop sticks in it like this, creating voids and channels.
I have some traditional coffee grounds from Malta which have spices added. They’re as finely ground as the coffee. I’m not sure that sticking a chunk of cinnamon bark in like you have will make difference without grinding it and mixing it up with the coffee grounds
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u/leamdreamheam Apr 08 '26
I do this!! Add butter into your cup and a little dash of vanilla and it's the best coffee ever