it was just a funny reference to a movie line that seems to have sailed over some heads
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it was just a funny reference to a movie line that seems to have sailed over some heads
I don't add any of that to mine. I just drink it black.it is sugar that is bad for you … drink your coffee with tons of typical extra sweet creamer and it is going to be as bad as Mountain Dew.
A friend made me a cup with an aero press. It wasn’t bad and seemed to extract about as good as a french press does. Seemed like too much effort to use first thing in the morning though.Since I last posted in this thread, I upgraded from whatever combo I was running (aeropress, ninja, chemex, etc plus grinder) to a Philips SuperAutomatic. They can bury me with that machine; it is that good.
As much as I love coffee, that is why I have to settle for second best. I just can't do all that stuff in the morning.Seemed like too much effort to use first thing in the morning though.![]()
So you like hot and angry brown sludge, when not at home? Got it. Don’t disagree except the gas station coffee machine that was last cleaned when Nixon was in office. I can make my own sludge in that instance tyvm. You also missed that diner coffee at 2 AM when you are out with friends and don’t want to go home yet. When at home though…it’s quite nice when coffee has flavors as imparted by the beans of things like chocolate, cherry, cinnamon, etc.You folks are worse than wine snobs. Do you stick little umbrellas in your cups? This thread shows a fundamental misunderstanding of what coffee should be.
Here’s a typical example of how coffee is supposed to be made:
According to the book Western Words: A Dictionary of the Range, Cow Camp and Trail, published in 1945, an old-time wagon cook had this as a standard recipe: “Take two pounds of Arbuckle’s coffee, put in enough water to wet it down, boil it for two hours, then throw in a hoss shoe. If the hoss shoe sinks, she ain’t ready.”
Personally, my favorite method is as follows: pick up a pound of ground coffee (whatever they have) from a backwoods country store in the Appalachians and toss it into your backpack. You then hike several miles into the mountains and make camp for the night. In the morning, you measure out coffee into the palm of your hand (one full palm per cup, plus one extra for the pot) and toss it into a steel pot, preferably one that’s beat up from the time you kicked it and has a few years worth of soot on it. Use water drawn from the mountain stream you camped next to. Boil it over your morning fire, settle the grounds and fish out the twigs, then sip it while watching the sun come up over the mountains.
Also good is gas station coffee, black as the devil’s heart and hot as hell, poured from an old Stanley thermos as you sit in a small boat at dawn casting bass lures. Mist rises off the lake to match the steam rising from the cup, and it’s amazing how such a hellish drink can taste so heavenly.
Or maybe you’d like the coffee on a dive boat as you head back to port in a rolling sea after a couple of morning wreck dives. You’re chilled to the bone and so desperate for warmth that you don’t mind scalding your tongue on the near-boiling brew. Taste? What’s it matter when your tongue is numb anyway?
You folks just don’t understand coffee.
So you like hot and angry brown sludge, when not at home? Got it. Don’t disagree except the gas station coffee machine that was last cleaned when Nixon was in office. I can make my own sludge in that instance tyvm. You also missed that diner coffee at 2 AM when you are out with friends and don’t want to go home yet. When at home though…it’s quite nice when coffee has flavors as imparted by the beans of things like chocolate, cherry, cinnamon, etc.
Probably. But my favorite methods lately are generally simpler (French press, Moka pot). You can’t go wrong with a pour-over or an Aeropress either, as long as your water temps are right.Yessir ....IMHO, brewing in a TechniVorm Moccamaster steps up any coffee a notch or two.
Hand grind with a burr grinder immediately before using my Technivorm Moccamaster.
Gotta me straight from the pot!What's your favorite coffee for home?
I'm looking for suggestions as I'm switching coffee at home. Not doing Starbucks. I've tried Black Rifle, which is good, but they sell 12 ounce and 5 lb. Looking for a 2-2.5 pound bag, if possible.
So what do you drink?
Folgers Black Silk is actually drinkable, better than the regular at least.Folger’s says it is good to the last drop. Have you tried Folgers? Or maybe that is Maxwell House
Folgers Black Silk is actually drinkable, better than the regular at least.