COFFEE

[Luke Hatley]

HELLO ALL AND ESPECIALLY JOHANNA

DO YA"LL LIKE COFFEY MADE IN A FRENCH COFFEY PRESS ?

[leatheroo]

coffee mmmmmm.....i have been a tea drinker all my life until the ripe old age of 45 and then i discovered coffee.... that is good coffee....i must admit my favorite coffee is the one i make myself at home in my saeco expresso machine..latte yum....unfortunately the french press doesnt do it for me...yet!!

[Johanna]

I don't like coffee plungers because the coffee always tastes strong and bitter and I don't like grounds in my cup. My old recalled Corelle electric perculator had a thermostat failure after 30 years of use, and Wade and I bought a Bunn. It puts always hot water through the grounds rapidly, like many convenience store coffee makers. I like the Bunn as much as the old perculator. I want my coffee burn-my-tongue hot, and regular drip makers never manage that. My favorite coffee is Chock Full o'Nuts or Eight o'clock, nothing too fancy. I used to manage a bookstore with a coffeeshop that had dozens of expensive gourmet coffees, and I tried them all. I wouldn't want to wake up to any of them, though. LOL (get your minds out of the gutter, people- I'm talking about coffee!) I don't use sugar in my coffee, so maybe that's why I don't care for the espresso and stronger brews? If you get a plunger press, make sure you don't grind the coffee too fine.

Johanna

[Luke Hatley]

I don't like coffee plungers because the coffee always tastes strong and bitter and I don't like grounds in my cup. My old recalled Corelle electric perculator had a thermostat failure after 30 years of use, and Wade and I bought a Bunn. It puts always hot water through the grounds rapidly, like many convenience store coffee makers. I like the Bunn as much as the old perculator. I want my coffee burn-my-tongue hot, and regular drip makers never manage that. My favorite coffee is Chock Full o'Nuts or Eight o'clock, nothing too fancy. I used to manage a bookstore with a coffeeshop that had dozens of expensive gourmet coffees, and I tried them all. I wouldn't want to wake up to any of them, though. LOL (get your minds out of the gutter, people- I'm talking about coffee!) I don't use sugar in my coffee, so maybe that's why I don't care for the espresso and stronger brews? If you get a plunger press, make sure you don't grind the coffee too fine.

Johanna

thanks for the info... yes i will grind it coarse

P S. when i worked for the" Great A & P" I bet i did grind a ton of that eight ' o'clock coffee

[SCOUTER]

Coffee, My only vice. Luke I tried the presses but just didn't work for me... Roo- 45? I thought you were 21! I have to go with Johanna on the "Like it hot" quote. For a few years my ritual was to stop in to Dunkin Donuts on my way to work and sometimes on my way home! I soon started to realize that my day would reflect my first cup of coffee! Bitter-Bad day, Great-Great day! The problem was that DD was not consistant! I ordered EXACTLY the same way everyday yet my brew was different half the time! I looked on-line for a good coffee maker and believe it or not the original Mr. Coffee always rated high. The one day at Target it was on sale for $18- Well, I gave it a try and it is one of the best investments I have ever made! Now my Coffee is exactly the way I want every day and I saved a boatload of money! The way I get over the "not hot enough" problem is after adding the cream and sugar it goes into the Microwave for 45 seconds and I am in Coffee Heaven!

[Jordan]

Coffee makers... we go thru at least 2 machines a year even with regular cleaning they just darn wear out, the liquid gold is hot round here amost 24/7, usually just folgers splenda and milk very rarely splurge on starbucks as I can not justify a 5 buck cup'o'joe most days, so we just make our own. Ahh yes a biscotti adds to the bliss on occassion.

[rdb]

Grind beans in my 30 year old Waring, four scoops of Eight o'clock into my Bunn, and 30 secs later Black Coffee...all day. I set my Bunn with one of them timers, so it shuts off after 8pm, and starts up at 4am. I've tried every machine under the sun...from $20 Mr. Coffee...to $300 Espressos...none finer than the Bunn.

[Regis]

COFFEE.............. I started roasting coffee beans about 4 years ago. Natural coffee tastes different from every mountain and every country arround the world. They(Max, Folg, etc) get consistant taste by adding flavoring, fillers (sawdust), preservatives, etc. Green coffee beans from the producer will stay fresh about 2 years. Once beans are roasted, they will loose about 1/2 their flavor within a week. Once ground, they loose 1/2 their flavor within 24 hours. I have a little roaster that does 5 days worth (in 11 minutes) for the wife & I. We grind enough for each pot full (about 10 seconds). My favorite is a Costarician Dota. There are hundreds to choose from and are not any more expensive than a can of "whatever" brand at the store.

......so, that's probably more than you ever wanted to know about coffee.

Luke, I'll bring you a batch the end of April (grand daughter graduating from Memphis State).

regis

[TomSwede]

BLACK FLAG i!i! Drinkin' black coffee, drinkin black coffee!

Maybe not so many old punks here but that song just echoes around in my head now.

Living in a town that is well known in Sweden for it's coffee a do drink lot's of coffee and allways black but sometimes with a hint of scotch whisky in it, yum. Gevalia is the brand we have here and that's what I drink.

Percolator is my favourite machine since I think it holds the taste better over a period.

Umm, free coffee at work keeps my addiction high.

Tom

[barra]

ahhhh Coffee or for my NJ friends CAWFEE. I do like my coffee. My work colleagues know not to bother me till at least the first coffee and not to ask for stuff til the third.

Never been a real fan of the home Perculators but funny enough the cheap Mr coffee has been one of the best. They never deliver a hot brew and ALL dribble. At home I must admit I am a fan of the plunger. I grind my own in qantities for the one plunger at a time. In the workshop I do have an old Perc that goes 24/7 unless I'm using the hotplate to melt beeswax or warm oils (not in the coffee jug). I stayed in Cambria Ca a few years ago and on the way back to Newhall, stopped in boot barn Paso Robles. I was going thru the rack of Carhaart coats when I turned and there she was, the love of my life. Sitting there was THE biggest coffee mug I had ever seen. I bought it on the spot and used it at work until alas we had a slight accident. It has now gone where all good coffee mugs go to retire. My desk as a pen holder. Oh yeah it had meetings suck on it and I would take it to meetings too.

Now coffee drinking in serious quantities in Australia is a relatively new thing. Being of predominately British stock we were mainly tea drinkers. I still chop and change from coffee to tea. I love my Dilmah. Coffee like we have today was not seen in great volume til the mass migration after the war. In the workshop I just grind up whatever I get on sale at the supermarket but my all time favourite comes from a micro roasting house in Cali.

http://www.newhallcoffee.com/

I'm not a fan of the large chain coffee stores. 1 the price and two, call me old fashioned but I like my coffee to taste like coffee and not a mochafrappalatteechino'd hazelnut hot fudge sunday. Also beat me silly but give me my coffee in a china mug and not a cardboard cup with a sleeve.

Barra

Edited March 10, 2008 by barra