Up way too many times all night seeing and drinking coffee at 0430 that resembled burnt transmission fluid. So my standards are low. I do insist on liquid coffee whitener, preferably originating from a bovine teat.
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Coffee?
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375hh1973
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Was always kinda envious of people who liked coffee.
I have tried it a number of times, all different kinds, sugar, milk, flavorings, etc.
Can not stand the taste.
Smells good though.
Always got made fun of at family gatherings, everyone drinking coffee, my dad and I with our Coke or Mtn Dew.
I have tried it a number of times, all different kinds, sugar, milk, flavorings, etc.
Can not stand the taste.
Smells good though.
Always got made fun of at family gatherings, everyone drinking coffee, my dad and I with our Coke or Mtn Dew.
For me I enjoy most coffees ..... just as I like most beers. I'm not a connoisseur of either.
A coffee or beer really has to be bad (to my taste buds) for me not to enjoy drinking it. I guess I'm just not that choosey. I don't care for decaf or flavored coffee and don't care for flavored beer; otherwise I'm good to go.
Don
A coffee or beer really has to be bad (to my taste buds) for me not to enjoy drinking it. I guess I'm just not that choosey. I don't care for decaf or flavored coffee and don't care for flavored beer; otherwise I'm good to go.
Don
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venomballistics
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I have a remarkably capable single pod machine in a Ninja CFP 301.
Most often its a cup of standard hardball bean juice with some cream and sugar to better pretend to be cognizant of the day ahead. But ... I have options ... iced coffee and frappe's are a hit with the missus when we are both able to drop out of orbit.
I may be inclined to do espresso with the thing someday, because I can, and the all nighter of my younger self is such a distant memory that would demand a much higher octane fuel, Standard ball simply will not do where one needs some resurrection juice
Give me my Keurig and a box of K cups and I am content...
Never understood the sometimes almost psychotic obsession of some for Starbucks coffee.....
Never understood the sometimes almost psychotic obsession of some for Starbucks coffee.....
Here's my morning ritual. Sometimes a second pot is needed to carry through into the night. Eight-o-Clock is the norm these days.
taz666
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Starbucks French Roast whole bean = nectar of the gods.
robvious
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favorite coffee, well let's see... when it's 2 degrees outside our home with a stiff northern breeze making the windchill about 20 below.. I love a good cup of café au laits and a plate of beignets at the Cafe Du Monde in the French Quarter hundreds of miles away from home...
I drink whatever the wife makes, as long as she uses water from the Brita pitcher.
Anything originating from a plant in Columbia usually tastes pretty good. Coffee grown in, say, Idaho, just doesn't have the "Reason to wake up."
Anything originating from a plant in Columbia usually tastes pretty good. Coffee grown in, say, Idaho, just doesn't have the "Reason to wake up."
I drank perc'd coffee for many years. Then My heart started to stop for a couple of beats. Dr. said "No more coffee." Been drinking tea ever since. Always used a Pyrex percolator, and still have it. Almost 60 years old now.
Mainsail
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I have both of those.
My coffee experiences start when I got stationed at Travis AFB in 1983. With no stripes on my sleeves yet, I worked in the jet engine test cell, had never had coffee before and the Sergent told me to make coffee. I had never done it and told him so. It was a drip machine and he got all frustrated and told me to fill the thing with water, put a filter in the basket, and fill it with coffee from the coffee can.
So I filled it with water, put a filter in the filter basket, and filled the filter with coffee from the coffee can. Then I packed it down with the heel of my hand, refilled, repacked it, refilled it, repacked it... and turned it on...
They never asked me to make coffee again. It wasn't on purpose either, I simply had no idea how it was done.
Years later when I was flying, we went through Sigonella pretty regularly, always stopped at the Wendys on base for a real Italian cappuccino and dipped their soft chocolate chip cookies in - it was a rare delicacy.
It was the highlight of an otherwise dull mission, and long before starbux became a "thing". I still get irritated when I walk in one of their stores, ask for a dry cappuccino and get a big cup of disgusting hot milk with a slight coffee flavor.
We also flew through Incirlik Turkey often, and many times sat in the market watching with fascination as they prepared us all a Turkish coffee.
I have both items in your photo- the exact same brew pot and a similar Turkish cezve pot. Like you I still can't get the Turkish coffee down- just cannot get a good foam going and keep it into the cup. If you ever figure that out please let me know.
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Before the prices skyrocketed, bought Dunkin doughnuts. Now it's folgers standard or Columbian. My only real preference with coffee is that it has home made plus p irish creme in it during the holidays. The main goal is to just to get going in the morning.
Coffee… fascinating topic and drink.
A morning withOUT my coffee would be a bad morning.
I started drinking coffee very young, my dad was a big coffee drinker. I remember waking up to the smell of coffee perking on the stove in the old aluminum coffee pot. MJB was the coffee of choice.
I have studied coffee a lot as part of my quest for health education. During a vacation I visited Kona Coffee on the big Island. I bought and read a book by Timothy James Castle -The Perfect Cup… fascinating information and exposes lots of myths about coffee.
Now at my age I drink 2 cups in the morning. No caffein after 12 noon. Caffein has a mean half-life about 5 hours, so I limit the amount of caffein in my blood before bedtime.
The pharmacology of caffein in coffee has been an historical subject since the 15th century, and studied extensively, especially during the past several decades.
After trying many different beans, I ended up with Costco’s Kirland 100% Columbian Supremo Bean Dark Roast – Fine Grind. A 3 lbs. can lasts my wife and I about 20 to 25 days. We’ve been drinking that for over 20 years now. We tried the fancy bean grinders but always end up with a simple Black & Decker drip coffee maker.
I don’t like it black, just with sugar, or just with cream. I ruin my coffee with the non-dairy flavored creamers.
There appears to be some debate on the health benefits or health drawbacks to dark roasted coffee. The latest studies say a couple cups of coffee a day has more health benefits than health drawbacks.
A morning withOUT my coffee would be a bad morning.
I started drinking coffee very young, my dad was a big coffee drinker. I remember waking up to the smell of coffee perking on the stove in the old aluminum coffee pot. MJB was the coffee of choice.
I have studied coffee a lot as part of my quest for health education. During a vacation I visited Kona Coffee on the big Island. I bought and read a book by Timothy James Castle -The Perfect Cup… fascinating information and exposes lots of myths about coffee.
Now at my age I drink 2 cups in the morning. No caffein after 12 noon. Caffein has a mean half-life about 5 hours, so I limit the amount of caffein in my blood before bedtime.
The pharmacology of caffein in coffee has been an historical subject since the 15th century, and studied extensively, especially during the past several decades.
After trying many different beans, I ended up with Costco’s Kirland 100% Columbian Supremo Bean Dark Roast – Fine Grind. A 3 lbs. can lasts my wife and I about 20 to 25 days. We’ve been drinking that for over 20 years now. We tried the fancy bean grinders but always end up with a simple Black & Decker drip coffee maker.
I don’t like it black, just with sugar, or just with cream. I ruin my coffee with the non-dairy flavored creamers.
There appears to be some debate on the health benefits or health drawbacks to dark roasted coffee. The latest studies say a couple cups of coffee a day has more health benefits than health drawbacks.
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We use a Keurig K-cup brewer so me & mrs can brew what we like without making a whole pot. I like Starbucks bold brews black, French & Italian roasts, Black Rifle JB & BB. She likes various flavored coffees. Yum!
...I'm also a devotee of the bean. My personal experience includes a brief romance with home roasting, which turned out to be more trouble than it was worth for me.
In my opinion, the over-roasted char-bucks flavor is repugnant and I have settled on Eight O'Clock Columbian medium roast whole bean ground each night as part of my bed time ritual.
The next morning, one push of the start button on the Moccamaster drip brewer yields one of the good Lord's better gifts to mankind.
As the famous saying goes, "de gustibus non est disputandum"
In my opinion, the over-roasted char-bucks flavor is repugnant and I have settled on Eight O'Clock Columbian medium roast whole bean ground each night as part of my bed time ritual.
The next morning, one push of the start button on the Moccamaster drip brewer yields one of the good Lord's better gifts to mankind.
As the famous saying goes, "de gustibus non est disputandum"
Before I retired 18 years ago I never drank coffee. Once I had time not having to go to work I started drinking coffee in the morning. In the past 18 years I have tried many kinds of coffee and ways of brewing trying to find the perfect one. Drank dark roast for awhile but got to the point where I preferred medium roast. When prices started to rise I starting looking for a good one at a good price. At last I have found one that I will stick to from now on. Kirkland Summit Roast K Cup. Has a great aroma when brewing making for a very smooth drink. Also at a great price point.
I lived in Costa Rica for ten years. There, the coffee making system isn't so costly, because many people use a colador de cafe, a flannel cloth bag stitched to wire. You put freshly ground coffee beans in the colador (sock) and pour hot water over the grounds while holding the "sock" over a cup or pot. The Thai use a similar method for tea and coffee.
Some people use a chorreador (stand) to support the colador while pouring water in the sock. Not really needed, but looks nice.
It really is all about the freshness of the beans, quality of water, and brewing method.
I’ve traveled to Costa Rica 3 times between 1994-2000 to go fishing. We were based in Tamarindo before it became so commercialized, and absolutely LOVED it! It was basically a fishing village. My fellow fishermen loved the coffee. At the time, I wasn’t a coffee drinker at all. Some of my friends still say that I’m not a COFFEE drinker.
I now drink coffee, or my version
of it. I have and use only a Keurig machine. I prefer Green Mountain Dark Magic Dark Roast pods. After “brewing” it, I add a heaping teaspoon of raw sugar and a good amount of half and half. Because the cream cools down the coffee more than I prefer, I then pop it in the microwave for about 45 seconds.
That’s why my friends question whether or not what I’m drinking is coffee.
It is to me and it tastes great.Larry
I understand that crushed egg shells will eliminate the bitterness of coffee. That presumes your coffee is bitter.
I have no personal favorites, I stick to dark roasts for the most part. I dislike flavored coffee. But I dislike flavored vodkas, too, and they sell like crazy.
I have no personal favorites, I stick to dark roasts for the most part. I dislike flavored coffee. But I dislike flavored vodkas, too, and they sell like crazy.
I'm not really a coffee drinker. I will have the occasional sip or two, but not really "into" it. My wife loves her caramel macchiato (not sure if spelled right), and it tastes pretty good from some places. Starbucks isn't one.
MIL makes her Cuban style espresso with so much brown sugar that it's like drinking syrup. Very strong coffee, but it's too sickly sweet for me. My son grew up drinking it, and he loves it. She prefers Pilon Supreme or Cafe la Llave brands. They are somewhat difficult to find locally, though.
MIL makes her Cuban style espresso with so much brown sugar that it's like drinking syrup. Very strong coffee, but it's too sickly sweet for me. My son grew up drinking it, and he loves it. She prefers Pilon Supreme or Cafe la Llave brands. They are somewhat difficult to find locally, though.
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