Cup or envelope type Coffee makers - BLECHHHH!

[sjmjax]

This thread is almost as amusing as a “beans in chili” thread! ��

 

[Rustyt1953]

This thread is almost as amusing as a “beans in chili” thread! ��

I swing both ways.

 

[ladder13]

Love these threads.

I have a Keurig, works for me.

Now pizza Never will my lips touch that Dominoes type ****.

 

[JohnRippert]

Next door neighbor uses a Keurig, but she also loads it down with sugar substitute and creamer. I use either my Mr Coffee Jr or my Pyrex percolator. Even the Mr Coffee Jr makes too much for my one small cup a day habit. I have a 16oz thermos that will hold the second two cups left after I fill my first. The next two days I nuke the coffee to heat it up. Tastes just fine to me after a couple days in the thermos. Especially if I add a dollop of Mexican brandy to it.

 

[Onomea]

Wow, CrazyPhil, that's an, ah, impressive coffee brew technique ya got there! (Lordy!)

We use electric drip coffee makers. One of 'em is a Mr. Coffee and the other is similar in style.

As to how much coffee one drinks and its health effects, surely it depends on how strong the coffee is. Most of us Americans drink very weak coffee compared to the rest of the world, so a buncha cups is probably fine.

I typically make between 8 and 12 for the two of us, with my wife having maybe two cups and me the rest throughout the morning, I don't drink coffee from the afternoon onwards.

 

[Skeet 028]

Have Atrial Fib...seriously if I drink 3 or 4 mugs in the morning I get wired...and have quite a few skipped beats and a faster than normal heart rate...the pacemaker keeps it up to 60(rather than 30)..4 mugs puts me at a 100...so I quit drinking all that coffee...1 mug from a Keurig in the morning...sometimes from that cup you use yer own in. Very ocassionally I may have another in the evening. Decaf is not worth having however

 

[Kenna]

Use a Mr Coffee. Used to make 8-10 cups one in travel mug then rest in thermos then off to work. Those days are pretty much over, the work thing!
Now its how the morning feels, make a cup or two, or stop at Spunky Dunkers for a cup of joe. Starbucks when wife is with she will get her tea.
Drink on!

 

[shovelmike]

Luddite Here

I have used the plastic drip coffee makers (Mr. Coffee), no complaints...but after a year or so they dripped all over my counter top and were thrown out.
I presently use an electric percolator that is 20 years old.
At church we have a commercial Bunn O Matic, operation of which remains a mystery except to me and a couple of others.

 

[jeffrefrig]

So, let me get this straight: you add WATER to the coffee, not BEER? Wow! Wonders never cease.

 

[SMSgt]

I wonder whether she had ever really researched the subject. The U. S. Navy, for obvious reasons, has done this a few times. Last time I checked, many decades ago, they had again concluded that any reasonable number ('teens) of cups had no negative effect.

I use a French press, because it makes the right amount of coffee (about a quart) and is easiest to clean. Also, all glass and stainless. I don't mind the mud in the bottom of the cup. If I did, I would be more careful pouring it.

I still don't know what the heck I am doing, and expert advice is always appreciated.

It was more of an issue with my acid reflux than anything else. The screen in a French press needs to be pressed down slowly or you will get grounds slipping through. There will be sediment regardless, but I feel it makes a richer flavor. Course ground coffee only. Use something like "drip" is asking for trouble. I'm sure there are dozens of YT videos on how to use a press, but like everything else on YT, dozens of different opinions also.

 

[IAM Rand]

I make coffee the way my parents did, I use a Mellita 6 cup coffee plastic pour over and filter. Grind the coffee and heat the water in a separate kettle. Whistles when it is ready.

 

[LVSteve]

Instant with the right amount of 2% milk and Stevia sweetener. I also drink decaf instant. There, now y'all can go get your tar boiler and bag of feathers and leave Crazyphil alone.

 

[JH1951]

Seems there is one thing that the vast majority of us can find as common ground..... we like coffee. This thread certainly underscores the YMMV statement.
Having been around the block several times, I can say that prior to retirement 'convenience' was a huge factor. The original Mr. Coffee was great, but that was a long, long time ago. It was certainly an improvement over instant coffee. For me, the Keurig was somewhat of an expensive fad. I wore several of them out, and the next one always cost me a lot more than the last with new bells and whistles to wear out.
Retirement set in, and I gave my state-of-the-art Keurig to my auto mechanic before it broke.
I now am a dedicated user of the French press. Once you figure out the formula that works for you, they are hard to beat.

 

[dmn57]

Presto percolator all the way. To all the naysayers, you do you and I'll cheerfully do me with whatever beans I've selected for the day.

 

[StrawHat]

It was more of an issue with my acid reflux than anything else. The screen in a French press needs to be pressed down slowly or you will get grounds slipping through. There will be sediment regardless, but I feel it makes a richer flavor. Course ground coffee only. Use something like "drip" is asking for trouble. I'm sure there are dozens of YT videos on how to use a press, but like everything else on YT, dozens of different opinions also.

I use a French press to filter my coffee. I drink pressed cold brew coffee. I brew 4-5 pots at a time and pour them into the French press to remove the grounds. I installed a second screen to help filter the fines. It gets most of them. From the 5 pots, I get about 4 pots of coffee. It will keep in the fridge for as long as it takes me to drink it, three or four days if I am working. Much less if I am home.

Kevin

 

[pawngal]

Keurig here, just me. Dark roast, smallest cup size. Don't like my coffee really hot so I add a little cold Coke to it. If its afternoon maybe a bit of JD too!

 

[Krogen]

Are you a coffee snob too or do you accept and drink the cups and envelopes?

I am a coffee snob. No two ways about it! It has to be my own home roast. Like supremely accurate rifles ruin you for lesser rifles, homeroast ruins you for other coffee. Cups? Envelopes? YECCH! Folgers? YECHH! Starbucks? YECCH!!!!

I am a coffee snob, a proud coffee snob. My friends correct that and say I’m an arrogant coffee snob. (Oh well….). They could be right.

 

[pittpa]

Keurig here, just me. Dark roast, smallest cup size. Don't like my coffee really hot so I add a little cold Coke to it. If its afternoon maybe a bit of JD too!

What an interesting way to smooth out your coffee. I mean the Coke. I was never much for liquor in my coffee. I prefer it with dessert like pie. don’t get me wrong. I like bourbon as much as the next guy.


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[sophie]

Well the wife and I make 8 cups every morning in a Mr. Coffee machine. We use 4 tablespoons of Yuban, Medium Roast and 2 tablespoons of Starbucks Breakfast Blend and we like the taste. I use a little creamer.
I also drink my coffee in an Ember Cordless coffee cup, a black one and it keeps my coffee at 147 degrees and I’ve had it 3 1/2 years now. When my son gave me the Ember cup for my birthday, I thought 147 degrees was not hot enough. It is though, really just right for me.

My oldest son has one of those Nespresso machines that makes about 8 oz of liquid coffee with about 2 inches of foam on top. Like they say, that’s not my cup of tea.

 

[pittpa]

I make 8 o’clock coffee, 1 pound at a time cold brewed in a Toddy Cafe device. 1 pound of coarse, ground coffee, and 9 cups of water Gives me about 48 ounces of concentrated cold brew good for 192 ounces of coffee. I keep the concentrate in the fridge. Add three parts water to one part coffee and heat it in the microwave. It’s better than any thing in a restaurant and I take my own coffee to breakfast when I go out.
I take the cold concentrate with me in a thermos when I go on vacation. If it’s a long vacation, I take the Toddy café device with me.


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