Coffee granita to combat the heat and still get your coffee fix.

@thea09 (18305)
Greece
July 21, 2009 1:48pm CST
People are saying it is too hot for coffee at the moment. For me it's never to hot to have coffee and I don't like iced coffee or frappe. The only way I can take my coffee cold is in granita form and thought others might not have heard of this refreshing way to enjoy coffee. All you do is pour a pot of coffee, with a little sugar added, into a freezer proof bowl and freeze it, taking it out to stir now and again. The coffee freezes into small crystals which you can eat like a sorbet. It is so refreshing. If you forget to keep stirring it though it will become a solid mass of frozen coffee which is not the same thing at all.
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fwidman
@fwidman (11514)
• United States
21 Jul 09
Actually, drinking a hot beverage when you are hot is better for the body than a cold one. It helps the body temperature get closer to the heat temperature and helps to cool you off. Cold drinks just make you sweat all the more
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katerina
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
21 Jul 09
Hi fwidman, coffee granita isn't a drink though, it is more like a cross between an ice cream (if you put cream on top) and a sorbet.
fwidman
@fwidman (11514)
• United States
21 Jul 09
Yes, I know. I was just thinking along the lines of what to tell your friends when they say it is too hot for coffee. I never drink iced coffee or iced anything. I rarely ever eat anything iced either, ice cream or sorbet or anything like that
Heather Echola
@GardenGerty (169603)
• United States
22 Jul 09
We have a local coffee shop that serves granitas. I will have to try some version of it here. I do like iced coffee, and that is the only time I put "creamer" and sweetener in. I use 1% milk and stevia liquid for those purposes, and enjoy an iced coffee. If it is hot, I drink it black.
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katerina
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
22 Jul 09
Hi Garden Gerty, I'm the same, my hot coffee is always black and sketo, that's plain. I feel like I'm being poisoned if someone puts sugar in by mistake. The only coffee I put sugar in is a granita, don't know why I can tolerate it then. Does your local place do any other flavours, I've only tried orange to make orange ones and lemon ones when I'm given huge piles of fruit but just inspired to try a mint tea one?
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