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Indian streets are a treasure trove of ingenious cooking methods. From lava idli to gulab jamun paratha and rasgulla cha, you’ll discover a host of amazing cooking hacks from desi roadside food sellers. And now, a clever coffee technique devised by a tea seller has gone viral online.
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There are so many ways to perfect your cuppa joe, but using a pressure cooker may not even be a part of your list! But a recent viral video shows a roadside seller in Gwalior using a pressure cooker to heat his coffee. A video posted by the Instagram handle @thegreatindianfoodie has garnered more than 120,000 likes within a week.
The video shows a coffee seller using an ingenious method to heat his coffee. The seller makes coffee in a steel tumbler, like many tea sellers do, by mixing coffee, milk and sugar. But instead of stovetop heating, he uses a pressure cooker! A cooker with water is heated over on his makeshift stove. A steel nozzle attached to the cooker releases the steam which is formed inside the cooker as the seller directs the nozzle into the coffee in the tumbler so the steam warms the coffee and makes it frothy.
There’s no telling if this method actually delivers a frothier coffee or if the taste is more consistent but the science behind the technique is quite sound. This is not too different from commercial coffee machines which have a steaming valve attached to them. The steam wand is used to heat and froth milk in hot drinks and is connected to the heating vessel, much like the tea seller’s nozzle is connected to the cooker.
This 'jugaad' method has impressed people on the Internet; however, some followers have pointed out that this method used to be a common one in Indian households in the fifties and sixties. Some users also reminisced about the time when Indian weddings would serve coffee in this method, a few decades ago. Turns out, the old-time coffee cooker would have a copper nozzle attached to it, which would be a pressure-releasing valve actuated by a lever which can be accessed from outside the cooker.a
