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.

http://www.discostyle.com/discochart/191-200/192b.jpg

http://www.discostyle.com/discochart/191-200/192.jpg

^^^^^^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*

I stocked up to save money. Now that I've saved money I want to maximize the quality of what I've bought. I haven't started overthinking yet.

lol i enjoy the implication that its coming tho

i freeze it in the bag, even after opening

i have a vacuum sealed container it goes into after freezer so it doesn't go into machine straight

never noticed any impact on flavour or machine etc

we use a sealed glass quart jar for the regular countertop kitchen pourover setup, regular canning lid. when it runs out we replenish it, sometimes we end up with a partial bag in the freezer but never for very long and we wrap it up well.

I have a friend who runs a coffee roasting and selling business, and he says freezing beans until you use them is the best thing to do. But by "use them," that doesn't necessarily mean that day. We have a grinder that holds about a week's worth of beans, so we fill that and put the rest in the freezer until we fill it again. I suppose there's some loss of freshness in the flavor, but to me that feels like one of those things that only people with really nuanced palates would even notice or care about.

omg you disgusting savage ;)

we have a burr grinder so it makes more sense to do it cup by cup

straight from the freezer its a brr grinder amirite lads

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i don’t freeze or refrigerate them, seems to work okay ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

personally i feel like my freezer would freezerburn them super fast, but i think i have a funky freezer

we use a sealed glass quart jar for the regular countertop kitchen pourover setup, regular canning lid. when it runs out we replenish it, sometimes we end up with a partial bag in the freezer but never for very long and we wrap it up well.

this is exactly what we do.

when I was a teenager I worked at Burger King for a couple years. believe it or not you don't get a whole lot of training after they show you the ropes on day one. anyway I started working the drive-thru and the first few times the manager on duty had made the coffee, which people ordered pretty often (we had a senior discount where you could get a cup for 30 cents). once it ran out so I asked the manager "hey uh how do I make coffee?" and her response was basically "figure it out dumbass". So I opened the top and was like...okay, here's where the water goes, here's where the grounds go, here's the switch to turn it on....10 minutes later....viola....coffee

it wasn't until months later when a co-worker was watching me make a pot and he goes "uhhh aren't you gonna use a coffee filter??"...those were in a drawer somewhere, I hadn't even seen them...and then I realized that the coffee I was making was chock full of grounds, and that I'd probably passed out hundreds of horrible cups of coffee to unsuspecting seniors. I still feel pretty bad about that especially since my current coffee maker sucks, sometimes I'll get a mouth full of grounds and it's so unpleasant, but it's probably only 10% of the grounds I was regularly giving out at Burger King

anyway, just wanted to get that off my chest

hahaha bless you my son

My own personal Coffee Saga involves a time when I was in college, and back home on a break. I had gone out the previous night to meet up with some friends, whereupon I smoked a LOT of suspect weed, which sent me reeling. I was still in a weird space the next morning, going from euphoria to dark depression in seconds, and back again. I thought that a cuppa would soothe my nerves, so I set up a full pot in the coffee maker and did something else while it brewed. When I returned I realized that I hadn't placed the glass carafe back in the coffee maker, so all 12 cups had just spewed out onto the counter. It went behind the counter itself and filled the junk drawer below, then into the base cabinets. The stuff kept seeping downward, thru the floorboards and into the basement. The laundry room was directly below the kitchen, and all this coffee was dripping onto my dad's white dress shirts, which were freshly laundered and hanging on a rack. It was crazy, like the acid in Alien that kept eating through the floors and ceilings of the Nostromo.

yikes @ these coffee stories

lmao those are great

My coffee story is about when my parents finally divorced and separated. I was in my early twenties, fresh out of uni and just starting work.
I went to visit my mum at her new house and (with some trepidation) her new partner. When I arrived, I'd barely got in the door, I mentioned to mum that I'd been listening to an album that we used to listen when I was young.
As we were speaking, my mum's partner piped up, interrupting me: "Do you think you could make your mum a coffee?"
A bit put-out, and slightly confused by this man's request (was he ordering me about already, like some sort of mean step-father?), but not wanting to rock any boats on this occasion, I went to the kitchen, started getting the Nescafe out, found and boiled the kettle. Popped my head back in the living room: "I can't remember if you take milk?"
Mum looks at me confused... "Sorry?"
"Mike said you would like a coffee?"
"A coffee?"
"Yes, he said can I make you a coffee"

Turns out he'd kindly been asked if I could make my mum a "copy" - as in a copy of the album I had been listening to - NOT ordering me about like some sort of teaboy... So. Awkward misunderstanding averted.

"he'd kindly been asking me"

lololol

jesus christ these stories are all time

great job everyone

hahahah Henry that's sitcom level shit

yeah full Mr Bean hours there, incredible

watching me make a pot and he goes "uhhh aren't you gonna use a coffee filter??"

I think a lot of traditional Turkish/Middle Eastern coffee was made this way... just pour the grounds in boiling water and hope that most of the grounds sink to the bottom
I have this copper Turkish little pitcher thing and it's angled so that you can avoid most of the grounds going in your cup

They also used to use egg whites to help congeal the grounds at the bottom

So you were making 'traditional' coffee though you didn't know it

this recipe looks kinda interesting

https://www.thespruceeats.com/egg-coffee-2952648

one of my friends had a Turkish roommate for a while and goddamn he made THE best turkish coffee, we were all kinda sad when he moved out like “…but…the coffee…”

Wow, these stories. I don't have any disaster stories on that scale. I often do the inverted Aeropress method, and once I knocked it over and sent the hot water mixed with coffee grounds all over the counter.

I have had a few Aeropress stories like that, but bar has been raised too high for those

Amazing how many of the funniest stories must have been nightmares to live through (henry's)

I was very popular in my college co-op because I had a drip coffee maker in my room, so people would come by and have a cup and smoke cigs and chill. Once I was making a big pot while a bunch of my stoner music composition pals were all hanging out, listening to Bach (seriously lol), and I set the half full pot back down on the plate a little too hard and it shattered in my hands! Coffee splooshed everywhere, but luckily the horrible cheap wall to wall carpeting in the room soaked it all up. I had to order a new pot.

yikes!!

xp I was able to scramble into Winston Wolf mode and acquit myself of most of the damage, except for a few shirts and the family phone book, which lived in the junk drawer and was swimming in hot coffee. Anything written in pencil was essentially lost to history.

cold brew concentrate and sparkling lemonade over ice :)

fancy!

thats right

I forgot to post an update - we recently had to say goodbye to our beloved 20-year old Saeco Aroma espresso machine, which on its last legs was leaking like a colander ;_;

We replaced it with a Delonghi Stilosa machine which is def on the cheaper end but fit our needs (and fits under the kitchen cabinets, the curse of the tiny kitchen)

It pulls a decent shot & doesn’t seem to require much adjustment at all so we’re pretty happy with it now that we’re a few months in.

But goddamn I loved that Saeco machine <3

I’ve changed my morning coffee routine by … stepping outside. After seeing some posts about the benefits of early morning direct sunlight – and doing my own research (googling) — I have been sold on the idea. It helps that I’ve also been getting up earlier so I have time to just sit out on the front stoop or in our nice shaded backyard and drink coffee and listen to the birds. I can’t swear to any health benefits, although I have been getting sleepier a little earlier in the evening, which is probably good. Coffee and morning light, a good way to start the day. (I will struggle with this more in the winter of course. Especially if we get permanent daylight savings time and I will not have morning light until 730 or 8 AM.)

I love our pavoni europiccola so much. Especially since I just added some shims to the grinder and now we have some adjustment range again. Such a great little machine, plentiful spare parts but all it’s needed over the last 6 years has been one set of new seals and a regressing.

After seeing some posts about the benefits of early morning direct sunlight – and doing my own research (googling) — I have been sold on the idea.

watching the sun appear in the morning for a few minutes is one of life's greatest pleasures imho.

those cursed coffee stories from march are all-time ilx greats. the coffee dripping onto the dress shirts in the basement lmao.

our routine has changed as well, we have two of those Bialetti stovetop steamers and we make two pots, one for each of us. add a smidge of hot water to cut it and some milk. then we sit outside on the back porch and watch the morning, usually early like 6:30-7

I'm in my cold brew era (which is all summer) but I don't like how it's been turning out lately. I need to fine-tune my grind (I've been lax with it) and my ratios (oh god does this mean I need a scale?).

I also started making my own oat milk bc I was tired of throwing away plastic-lined cartons. I bought a fine mesh bag but it's TOO fine and the liquid doesn't make it out? Currently using an old tea strainer with much better results. It's...okay. Honestly it's not as good as store bought. But it's cheap and simple to do at home, and I started experimenting with using the resulting (frozen) oat pulp in breakfast muffins.

if you're making your own oat milk you can totally swing a scale.

My only change to my morning routine is I started walking the dog before I have coffee or food, and I find my mornings to be fuller , more relaxed, and I enjoy my coffee more!

Walking the dog first thing in the morning and last thing in the evening is a mental health cheat code for sure.

Upping my coffee game by buying beans instead of ground and I got a fancy hand-cranked grinder with conical-burr whatsits.

I hope this doesn't lead to me buying scales and a gajillion dollar espresso machine.

I have had the same Krups coffee grinder for nearly 24 years, which is more than half my life!

Okay fine, I ordered a kitchen scale.

never got the point of the hand crank. takes sooo long. i’m impatient, want my coffee now

Because it’s a lot cheaper than a fancy grinder but the quality of the grind is better than a cheap-o electric one.

I kinda like the act of grinding and if I don’t have time for it I put a kid to work.

Okay fine, I ordered a kitchen scale.

yay! Now start using it for baking too