True enough. That said, I remember when a one-pound can had 16 oz of coffee in it.

Personally, I buy the 2 lb bag of Kirkland beans from Costco [which they get from a Seattle firm called "Starbucks."] For my morning java, it is just fine.

BTW, when I was in law school I would make cold extraction coffee by dumping a pound of Chock Full O Nuts into a 5 quart pot, fill it up with cold water and then let it sit for 24 hours. I would then drain it through cheesecloth. Kept the result in the refrigerator. For morning coffee, fill up a 1/3 of a cup and then top off with boiling water. It was smooth and acid free. Once I graduated, I went over to drip.

I used to roast my own beans years ago, I used to deal with Sweet Marias and they are very good. I think (if I remember correctly) I got my "starter" roaster from them. Cost about $100.. After a few months I realised that I needed a proper drum roaster ... now your looking at $600 - $1,000 or more. At that point I retired the coffee roaster and went back to ready-roasted beans, that's when I discovered Zabars and I've bought from them ever since..

You'd hate MA then, where there's a Dunkin D on every street corner, perhaps even more

At my last real place of employment you could get free Green Mountain coffee all day long in multiple falvors - and yet still the locals would insist on going out to Dunkin Donuts several times a day for the mixture of earwax and rotted raccoon semen they call coffee.

I'm sure it really wasn't just for the coffee. They just had to have a reason to have some time out of there.

sorry to tell you that it isnt rotted raccoon semen. the raccoons have free range of the dumpsters for their efforts.

I only read the first page of responses and some of the initial suggestions given are quite frankly ridiculous. The best beans in the world are from the fog shrouded Blue Mountains in Jamaica and from the volcanic hillside near Kona Hawaii. I go back and fourth over which is the best but i'm drinking Blue Mountain this morning. In 2004 and 5 Kona was the best, but since then the Blue Mountain crop has been superior. Warning, don't buy the Kona Blends, it has to be 100% Kona coffee. I buy them both online and yes it's very expensive (around $40/10Lbs) but if you drink it every morning, it's worth it.

But would you agree that there is some interesting and drinkable coffee between Jamaican Blue Mountain (priced between $40 and $50 a pound) and Folgers from the supermarket? That is what some posters were getting at..

I've been called a coffee snob, but in my opinion putting flavors in coffee is like putting flavors in beer or on tobacco. Its an abomination.

I agree with you there, but I think most posters were talking about coffee choices, and choices of methods to make the coffee .. very little mention (if any) of flavoured coffee..

Oh

Maybe I should have read the entire thread

40 dollars for ten pounds not a pound. then again, online it's $150 for a 3lb bag. What a load fo shit.

I really doubt it's 'the best', how do you rate, 'the best', it can be really really really good but not, 'the best', that's only opinion. I think the french press makes 'the best' cup of regular coffee but it's only because I've not tried every other way of making it.

Well I assumed that the "10 lbs" was a typo so I didn't comment on it.

Thats was a typo

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