Old School Coffee
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labworm
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A little story about burnt coffee some may enjoy reading.
I grew up in the city, and back around 1960 I was one of those teens that hung around the corner with all my friends. Typical punks, smoking cigarettes and we all looked and dressed like the Fonz, yo.
We had several locations designated as our hangouts. One was in front of Legal's Delicatessen. Izzy Legal opened at 5 AM every day and had coffee made in I believe a 20 gal vessel, which sat all day burning more and more. So if I went in around 11 AM it was finally ripe for my tasting.
The cost for a cup was .10
Well after drinking this burnt coffee for many years, I actually developed a taste for it, and really don't care for the expensive finer coffees made today.
Therefore I replicate the great burnt coffee taste
by using my Pyrex stove top percolator.
I grew up in the city, and back around 1960 I was one of those teens that hung around the corner with all my friends. Typical punks, smoking cigarettes and we all looked and dressed like the Fonz, yo.
We had several locations designated as our hangouts. One was in front of Legal's Delicatessen. Izzy Legal opened at 5 AM every day and had coffee made in I believe a 20 gal vessel, which sat all day burning more and more. So if I went in around 11 AM it was finally ripe for my tasting.
The cost for a cup was .10
Well after drinking this burnt coffee for many years, I actually developed a taste for it, and really don't care for the expensive finer coffees made today.
Therefore I replicate the great burnt coffee taste
by using my Pyrex stove top percolator.
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BigBill
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I'll I want in this world is a good cup of coffee in the morning and during the day if i want more. To me the cost means nothing its all about the quality. The keurig K cup coffee maker is to coffee as mcdonalds is to fast food its always the same no matter where you go.
captorquewrench
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I don't care how it's made-drip, perc, presspot, K-cup...I want it strong and hot. No cream or sugar.
I flooded the faculty room by not replacing the pause 'n' serve carafe correctly and now...I'm verboten from brewing for staff. But they didn't always make it.
So I put a pot in my classroom and we are all safer. I have reminded them time and again that I don't drink coffee for me, but for the protection of those around me.
I flooded the faculty room by not replacing the pause 'n' serve carafe correctly and now...I'm verboten from brewing for staff. But they didn't always make it.
So I put a pot in my classroom and we are all safer. I have reminded them time and again that I don't drink coffee for me, but for the protection of those around me.
labworm, have your read today what you started with the old school coffee?
Florida couple enjoys coffee 4 times a day....He enjoys a "saturated blend". which is "on the cold side".
She enjoys a expresso grind, because "it's warm and thicker". It gives her a, "sense of euphoria".
I didn't read if they put any cream or sugar in it. Nor did the article say what kind of coffee maker they used.
WuzzFuzz
Florida couple enjoys coffee 4 times a day....He enjoys a "saturated blend". which is "on the cold side".
She enjoys a expresso grind, because "it's warm and thicker". It gives her a, "sense of euphoria".
I didn't read if they put any cream or sugar in it. Nor did the article say what kind of coffee maker they used.
WuzzFuzz
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When I was in Spain, they made a sort of Swiss Mocha I guess you would call it.
Strong Expresso, with a chunk of chocolate put it, till the chocolate melts. Not bad on cold winter mornings, sitting here at the computer looking out at the snow coming down.
WuzzFuzz
Strong Expresso, with a chunk of chocolate put it, till the chocolate melts. Not bad on cold winter mornings, sitting here at the computer looking out at the snow coming down.
WuzzFuzz
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You know you have arrived when you have a cup of this joe...
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BlueOvalBandit
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I just discovered chicory coffee on an experimentation whim 6 months ago, I like.
Been on the expresso/vietnamese (we have a fairly large vietnamese community near) coffee binge lately though. If you've never had vietnamese coffee and you like it strong you're missing out.
As far as the OP percolator.... just say no to percolators.
mkk41
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I suppose it's all too easy to 'burn' your coffee with a stove top percolater. The good electric ones have a thermocouple set for proper temp (whatever that may be) and don't get that hot.
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Chicory for those who may not be aware, is found primarily in el cheapo coffee grinds; it is about 1/10th the cost of coffee, and is used as a filler...kinda' like a dilutant. I thinky Nancy R. coined the phrase, "Just say no to chicory", or something like that.
bootsdeal
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Plain ole original Folgers and a percolator. It don't get any better. Oh, do you remember when you could get a 1-lb. can of Folgers for 49 cents? My dad was a small-town drug store owner back in the 40's and 50's. Naturally he had a soda fountain. All the ranchers came in about 10:00AM and didn't leave till about noon. Got all the coffee they could handle for a nickel. I remember when Dad raised the price to a dime. Nearly had an old fashioned lynching! Sure wish I could go back to those days.
Steely Dan
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Dunkin Donuts is my favroite blend. Little too much $$ for me though.
Community Coffee is good. We also grind Eight O'Clock Coffee.
Half and half, two tablespoons of sugar per 22 oz in a Thermos mug...........good to go.
One time I was on a conference call at work with some guys discussing IT issues.
The meeting went way longer than I had anticipated.
Finally I said, "Boys, I'm 43 years old and just finished drinking 22 Ounces of Coffee............you do the math".
Meeting adjourned.
Community Coffee is good. We also grind Eight O'Clock Coffee.
Half and half, two tablespoons of sugar per 22 oz in a Thermos mug...........good to go.
One time I was on a conference call at work with some guys discussing IT issues.
The meeting went way longer than I had anticipated.
Finally I said, "Boys, I'm 43 years old and just finished drinking 22 Ounces of Coffee............you do the math".
Meeting adjourned.
While chicory is used sometimes essentially as an adulterant, many folks, particularly in Louisiana, LIKE some chicory in coffee. When our family moved no further south than North Carolina, my father got into the habit of drinking coffee with chicory. When we moved back north, he had to take to buying it separately and adding his own. He or someone else once accidentally made a pot with straight chicory. That did not go over so well.
De gustibus non disputandum est.
De gustibus non disputandum est.
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Well, there is no accounting for bad taste; and that is not in dispute. 
mwtdvm
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DOD Coffee
NSN 8955-01-495-4127 or something similar.
I went through the Army Food Inspection course at Ft Sheridan IL and we went to DPSC on Pershing Road in Chicago in '73 and that was where the sole "coffee taster" for DOD was employed. His job was to ensure uniformity of the issued coffee. The cans were rectangles and weighed more than 5#.. IIRC 7.5 or more.
After I was stationed at NOB Norfolk and had to dispose of an "injured" can, I found out it was the underground currency for the Navy. The senior chiefs bartered it for favors and equipment. I think if I had enough coffee, I could have had my own aircraft carrier.
I was not much of a coffee drinker but found out that it was also "expected" as a matter of "civility" to drink a cup when one went to another's office. If declined, the host assumed that I was there on a matter of great import as no one would turn down a chance to drink a cup. I just didn't particularly like the stuff.
In retrospect, I enjoyed my duty there more than I thought at the time
NSN 8955-01-495-4127 or something similar.
I went through the Army Food Inspection course at Ft Sheridan IL and we went to DPSC on Pershing Road in Chicago in '73 and that was where the sole "coffee taster" for DOD was employed. His job was to ensure uniformity of the issued coffee. The cans were rectangles and weighed more than 5#.. IIRC 7.5 or more.
After I was stationed at NOB Norfolk and had to dispose of an "injured" can, I found out it was the underground currency for the Navy. The senior chiefs bartered it for favors and equipment. I think if I had enough coffee, I could have had my own aircraft carrier.
I was not much of a coffee drinker but found out that it was also "expected" as a matter of "civility" to drink a cup when one went to another's office. If declined, the host assumed that I was there on a matter of great import as no one would turn down a chance to drink a cup. I just didn't particularly like the stuff.
In retrospect, I enjoyed my duty there more than I thought at the time
mwtdvm
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Chicory is a southern weed
During the War of Northern Oppression, many things were in short supply on the South, Coffee being one. As a "replacement", roasted chicory roots were used. After the War was concluded, in some places and among some ethnic groups, it was added for some of that ole time flavor.
As another poster pointed out .. "No accounting for bad taste"
During the War of Northern Oppression, many things were in short supply on the South, Coffee being one. As a "replacement", roasted chicory roots were used. After the War was concluded, in some places and among some ethnic groups, it was added for some of that ole time flavor.
As another poster pointed out .. "No accounting for bad taste"
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labworm
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labworm, have your read today what you started with the old school coffee?
Florida couple enjoys coffee 4 times a day....He enjoys a "saturated blend". which is "on the cold side".
She enjoys a expresso grind, because "it's warm and thicker". It gives her a, "sense of euphoria".
I didn't read if they put any cream or sugar in it. Nor did the article say what kind of coffee maker they used.
WuzzFuzz
I have concluded after reading all the posts in this thread, that I am:
Not politically correct when it comes to drinking coffee, and I can share a cup of mud with all the members of the United States Navy
Where is my Pyrex Percolator, love that little sound it makes
Texas Star
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This continuing thread inspires me to note that if coffee is left brewed for more than an hour, the acids separate and you get a nasty flavor. I learned this while researching the coffee article that I wrote for, "The Dallas Morning News."
I did my taste research and some of the other background info at a place called The Coffee Co. in The Quadrangle shopping center. The fine gun and other outdoors gear shop called Hunter-Bradlee was located there then, too. They later moved to Preston Center before eventually closing, a serious loss to lovers of upper class items from Danner boots to Orvis glassware with Ned Smith's art on them.
I also bought a couple of books on coffee. Think I still have them with my wine books.
Anyway, drink quality coffee within an hour or so of brewing.
Currently, I think the best selection of coffee here is at Central Market stores. They have several locations in the D-FW "metroplex."
I did my taste research and some of the other background info at a place called The Coffee Co. in The Quadrangle shopping center. The fine gun and other outdoors gear shop called Hunter-Bradlee was located there then, too. They later moved to Preston Center before eventually closing, a serious loss to lovers of upper class items from Danner boots to Orvis glassware with Ned Smith's art on them.
I also bought a couple of books on coffee. Think I still have them with my wine books.
Anyway, drink quality coffee within an hour or so of brewing.
Currently, I think the best selection of coffee here is at Central Market stores. They have several locations in the D-FW "metroplex."
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labworm
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No need to tell any of us that were in the military
, especially if you poured your coffee with a huge ladle, don't go too deep into the pot, those grounds can get stuck in between your teeth.Lot's of burned lips back in the day.
