Coffee

A friend of mine got a job in Starbucks in the US once, and she said that iced coffee over there was just coffee poured over ice. Is that true? Here it involves ice cream and other stuff

Iced coffee everywhere else is a frappe: cream, crushed ice, sugar, coffee.

Ice cream in coffee is a milkshake, only if you BLEND it.

I drink at least one cup of coffee a day. But I'm not addicted to it, like I can go for like 3 months without coffee, and then take it up again like that. I do that all the time. I apparently have some sort of caffiene immunity in my blood from my mom drinking like 5 pots a day while she was pregnant with me.

(At this point, Sarah remembers she does not even have a kettle)...

That explains alot.

I like coffee because it's the water of flavored beverages. A judicious amount of cream & sugar, and it's like drinking sweet warmth (which, right now, is fantastic).

Caffeine & me had a nasty break-up about 2 or 3 years ago. We still hook up every so often, but it's always a quickie, and nothing too serious. We have an understanding. Back in college, though, I was all about COKE - I constructed a tower wall of cans from the cases (cases!) of soda I downed on a daily basis. Now, my stomach winces every time I think of eating ... well, anything. But the drug used to LOVE me, oh yeah.

Naturally, I got hooked on the sauce (my form: white chocolate mocha) for a while, but I quit right around the WTC tragedy. There was no need to make myself more tense, when I was already too tense.

I do think the smell of coffee is far, far better than the taste, though.

Lived ontop of a coffee shop for awhile and the smell in the morning of four pots brewing at once was amazing.

I feel like a douche ordering breves and even more of a couche since no one here knows what they are or how to make them. But they are so yum that I don't mind my true doucheness shining through.

hoochie coochie

fat

oh wow this is the 3rd thread this week where i've written what i wrote 6 years ago and been shocked! now i LOVE turkish coffee and real coffee without lots of syrups and crap in it!

i like this essay. bring on the 1,3,7-trimethylxanthine.

that is good. she never quite says it, but i like the idea of coffee as being partially responsible for the enlightenment.

It is difficult, at best, to get a good cup of coffee in San Francisco. Why this is, I have no idea.

Hypercoffee

So far, the Clover is still something of a cult object, with just over 200 machines scattered around the world. But it might soon become a common sight: Starbucks has just bought two.

Designed by three Stanford graduates, it lets the user program every feature of the brewing process, including temperature, water dose and extraction time. (It even has an Ethernet connection that can feed a complete record of its configurations to a Web database.) Not only is each cup brewed to order, but the way each cup is brewed can be tailored to a particular bean — light or dark roast, acidic or sweet, and so on.

The Clover works something like an inverted French press: coffee grounds go into a brew chamber, hot water shoots in and a powerful piston slowly lifts and plunges a filter, forcing the coffee out through a nozzle in the front. The final step, when a cake of spent grounds rises majestically to the top, is so titillating to coffee fanatics that one of them posted a clip of it on YouTube.

“There is some gee-whizness to it,” said Doug Zell, a founder of Intelligentsia. “But hopefully the focus goes back to the cup of coffee.”

In the grand tradition of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_room_coffee_pot";>Trojan Room coffee pot</a>.

In the meantime, coffee? Yes please!

this shit is not good for you

but it's the future! of shit that's not good for you

(It even has an Ethernet connection that can feed a complete record of its configurations to a Web database.)

Oh ffs.

this shit is not good for you

They can take my coffee away...when they pry my cold dead fingers off the cup.

Hahaha the last sentence on the first para made me think somehow the last automatic step the machine did was upload a video of itself to Youtube.

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^^^^^^great album

Oh, man, I would pay nearly anything for a coffeemaker that was constantly uploading pictures of itself to its MySpace page and stuff

"got wasteed with the toaster last nite, LOL, i was still makin irish coffee in the morning . man im so bord now, why is the water hear so HARD"

BREWMACHINE'S BLOG

MADE COFFEE

Category: Dining
Current mood: Silly

I made the coffee. I made it. I shot the water into it. Now it is coffee. This was 121º F. It is coffee now. I made the coffee. See my Flicker account.

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How do I shot water

Okay, I'm DESPERATE. I want a proper cappuccino/caffe latte maker. So I need a cappuccino machine, right? Anyone have any ideas on which one to get? I don't want one which uses Nespresso (fuck that). Pads are alright but a bonus, not the main thing.

*sigh*

xp French Press every day here, love it. Been kind of ruining me for filtered. But i should probably mix it up more to cut down on the more harmful things in there. Thanks for the reminder..

too much coffee

When it doubt, too much is better than not enough! I remember reading some time ago that it's actually *too few* grounds that can lead to a bitter cup. I'm sure I've told the story somewhere on here, but I had a friend whose mom thought she hated coffee, because it was too bitter, so she kept putting in less and less and the coffee got worse and worse. My friend therefore didn't drink much coffee himself, because he was raised in a house that did it wrong. One day (this is like 20 years ago or so) I told him what I learned, and he in turn showed his mom, and it was a total eureka moment for both of them.

There is no good coffee in Sydney and don’t even get me started about Brisbane.

― Ed, Wednesday, 26 February 2025 16:21 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

never been to brisbane but i had some pretty good cof in haymarket/chinatown at haven and a tiny hole in the wall place called shortstop, which were just the two places closest to where i was staying

one other problem with australia coffee is it’s so god damn expensive

can any cof heads itt recommend good cheap light roast beans that can be bought online in bulk (or at least a good bad that’ll last a month)? trying to cut down on my cof budget after spoiling myself with a weekly small bag of single origin ethiopian from local micro roaster for a year but so far all the cheap stuff i’ve tried is dank medium roast

You can usually find Counter Culture light-roast blends like Apollo or FastForward for about $11-12 per bag online.

thanks. looks like apollo is 20$ for a 12 oz bag, that’s a bit more expensive than what i was getting at my local coffee shop. looking for something on the order or 15-20$ for 2.5lbs

Depends where you look, target.com to give one example has it for $11 for 12oz, but sounds like you’re looking to spend less than that even.

Costco often falls within that range but not sure how much light roast they carry (if any)? Whole bean is usually medium/dark

Grocery Outlet sometimes has weird surprises in that price range but theyre not online i dont think

Strangely, eBay has a bunch of stuff like that, often with free shipping.. just type in 'light roast coffee beans' and see what comes up

I buy bulk tea from there sometimes

Grocery Outlet sometimes has weird surprises in that price range

this was my first thought

guys my little experiment with not drinking coffee, it's over

i fukkin' love coffee

coffee ftw

welcome back, tracer

I tried cutting back for a while, it didn't go well

Oh no I'm out of coffee

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I'm no coffee snob but have recently fallen completely for Deadstock's Mikey's Blend, with chicory and cinnamon and so on. Pricey but really worth it for drip coffee or making cold brew.

I can't get my usual Papua New Guinea beans from my local shop anymore, it's some kind of distribution problem.

Have found a replacement in beans from Chiapas, Mexico which are wonderful. Also Costa Rican beans, so smooth and good, I've totally slept on them till now.

I avoid shopping online when I can, but it turns out that getting a subscription from my favorite roaster (Flower Child) is cheaper than buying from a local shop even with shipping. So I'm getting two bags a month now, I toss one bag in the freezer and pull it out when I finish the first one.

for like the last year Grocery Outlet has had cheap organic medium roast beans, but now they are out and we have been reduced to buying Costco. shit is expensive!

it really is

I remember being surprised to find the local Tesco selling toothpaste for £12 - Colgate Max White Ultra Freshness Pearls, apparently - and then it dawned on me that the new default price for coffee was £6.50, which was a powerful psychological leap from £5. Kenco is now around £8.50, which is just wrong. That's almost £10. It mounts up.

There's a curious psychological thing where I feel uneasy buying a jar of coffee for £8.50, even though it will make many cups of coffee, but an individual cup of coffee in the local cafe at £2.95 feels like good value. I'm no good at maths, but I basically have to drink just three cups of instant coffee before it's more economical than buying individual cups, and yet that involves thinking ahead and planning, also which I am not good at.

I remember buying some magical beans one time. I traded in the family cow! The man said that the beans would grow into a huge towering beanstalk. Instead the only thing I got was seventy-five acres' worth of coffee, which was a huge disappointment because I prefer tea.

My dentist told me whitening toothpastes are bad for your teeth fwiw

they say that about lots of stuff tho
probably best just to drink water after your coffee and do a little rinse

teeth are complete wimps, tbh

I have switched from a regular drip coffee maker to an all-stainless steel french press. Will I thus reduce microplastics while enjoying a fuller cup of brew??

Yes imo

you gotta use a different grind yeah?

You'll want a coarse grind for french press (and other immersion methods), also a longer brew time.

you may also want to invest in 3-ply toilet paper too just quietly

french press always rips up my guts (though i do love it)

maybe blasphemy but have french pressed for decades with both freshly ground coarser and standard ground (a wee bit finer?) @ 4-5 minutes steep, sometimes with water at 190 F sometimes at 210 F and am convinced a tiny difference in grind size makes no discrnible dif.

Hmm, you could be right. I don’t actually use a French press. I use a Hario switch which is a hybrid immersion/dripper method. I get better results using a coarser grind than I would with just a regular dripper.

I think another factor is how consistent the grinder is. If the grinder doesn’t produce a consistent grind size it probably doesn’t matter as much.

Has anybody here has tried the coffee that substitutes paraxanthine for caffeine? Is it bullshit?

i'm really happy in that i'm better managing my panic attacks. coffee tends to make me more susceptible to panic attacks, so being able to drink coffee without worrying about having one is a huge relief to me.

i have not yet achievd an efficient method of cleaning out the grounds though and I miss that about my drip machine

damn! this french press makes a strong kup!

You can take a rubber spatula and scrape most of the grounds into the compost bin. Or, top up the carafe with water and pour it into the garden.

I have some frustrating times with pourover but my cup today was very good.

still in love with my Bialetti Moka pot

i tried putting a coffee filter in the drain but it fell over like a penguin

i knew i was supposed to be steeping my coffee below boiling and i finally got around to getting my kettle set around 190-200 and it's completely changed my coffee game. complete idiot for not doing this years earlier.

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lol

looks like tarriffs have kicked in. my usual 18oz bag of beans that was $11.99 is now $19.99.

Ugh. Which country are they from?

Colombia