...it's time to make a fresh pot.


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(And yes, this is my sad attempt to get a coffee thread going, if for no other reason than just to spite Muse. )

yuck

i just made a fresh pot

morning Anx

I've had American made coffee, I'm surprised you know what good coffee is

GaryTheNoTrashCougar said:

it's not all grody. were you around coffee snobs when you were here?

Mach said:

i'm at work, where we're at the mercy of the kitchen attendant people. i tried changing it myself once and i got yelled at.

and g'morning to you too!

Anx said:

those peeps can be very mean

Mach said:

well, i don't think they're coffee drinkers, i can tell you that much.

Start my day off with a French Vanilla Cappuchino from Tim Horton's

Anx said:

I guess they thought they were coffee snobs, they couldn't tell the difference between Nescafe and Kopi Luwak.

i always want to make the "ultimate coffee" ... and i never can ...

i am convinced its like alot of restaurant food --- they have alil trick or something ... that makes it taste better than anything u can make at home ...

i heard that coffee is only "fresh " for like 15 minutes???

i also heard that you should NOT store coffee in the refrig or freezer ???

any other secrets of good coffee???

Any one ever had Kopi Luwak? It's coffee that's passed throught the digestive tract of a weasel like animal. It's ass-coffee

GaryTheNoTrashCougar said:

either way, i guess crap is crap.

IrresistibleB1tch said:

at home, i swear by my bodum, yup. i don't even own an electric coffeemaker anymore.

a bodum? never heard of it ....

I'm gonna be honest with all of you. My whole family and I love coffee, and we failed to find a decent coffee in Miami and New York - even the coffee in the Four Seasons hotel SUCKED.

America doesn't make good coffee. Italy does.

SnidelyWhiplash said:

same as a french press...i just think it's a popular brand name.

Anx said:

i have been known to dump out fresh pots of crap-tasting coffee so's i can make it right

Spookymuffin said:

well, i like my crummy coffee fresh, whether it got shit through a duck or not.
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Anx said:

I'm back to crummy uni coffee now It's pretty awful Cheap, but awful.

They just opened a Starbucks right next to my uni, and tempted as I am, there's a difference between £2.90 and 70p

susannah said:

we get free starbucks at work. it's not my favorite coffee ever, but at least it's fairly jacked up with caffeine so it does the job.

Anx said:

our uni is as tight as a ducks arse, we get nothing free!

We get free instant coffee at work But thats not the same...

I've never had coffee that tasted like meat...other stuff maybe, but
not meat....I'm just trying to imagine that...

obsessed said:

brew some coffee and let it stay on the burner all day. it'll start smelling like stale hamburgers soon.

my coffee at work tastes like ass pretty much.

I'm close to 2 really good independent coffee houses. But I just can't justify dropping change on coffee every day when I can drink asscoffee for free...


speaking of...I'd best go get a cup.

Anx said:

I don't think I'll do it on purpose just to see what it smells like,
but thanks for the tip... I'll take your word for it...

<-- coffee geek

Stumptown has a great brewing guide.

In short, the keys to good coffee are:
- buy good whole beans weekly
- don't grind them until you're ready to use them
- use a proper amount of coffee for the brewing method (most people don't use enough)
- consume it right after brewing; the good flavors in coffee come from very volatile oils that start evaporating as soon as the coffee is brewed. After 10 or 15 minutes, you have a completely different, and way less yummy, cup. If it has been sitting around for 30 minutes or more, for gawd's sake, throw it away.


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Anx said:

worse is having to live with the shame of meat scented urine after drinking meat flavoured coffee

ThirdandFinal said:

speak for yourself.