Coffee
#61
Re: Coffee
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.
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Re: Coffee
I bought a Black and Decker filter machine from Target earlier - the one with a Thermos style carafe. It seems to work, and make a decent cup of coffee, and keeps it warm for a couple of hours without making it taste foul from heating it.
At least it'll do until my Gaggia Classic espresso machine arrives with my stuff (£30 from Ebay 3 years ago...) and I can rewire it for 110V. Then I just need to find a grinder and the right kind of popcorn maker for roasting beans (or spend some money on a proper roaster).
Sweet Maria's is my main source for information on roasting and beans, and I guess they might be my main source for beans now I'm in the US.
At least it'll do until my Gaggia Classic espresso machine arrives with my stuff (£30 from Ebay 3 years ago...) and I can rewire it for 110V. Then I just need to find a grinder and the right kind of popcorn maker for roasting beans (or spend some money on a proper roaster).
Sweet Maria's is my main source for information on roasting and beans, and I guess they might be my main source for beans now I'm in the US.
#63
Re: Coffee
Um, how long have you been away?
I tried a Cafe Nero in Winchester. Bad plan. It tasted like burnt ditchwater.
For good coffee in the U.S., go to Portland, Oregon. I don't think it's possible to get a bad cup there, they take it VERY seriously.
http://www.stumptowncoffee.com/
Of course this is less than practical for those not living there.
I tried a Cafe Nero in Winchester. Bad plan. It tasted like burnt ditchwater.
For good coffee in the U.S., go to Portland, Oregon. I don't think it's possible to get a bad cup there, they take it VERY seriously.
http://www.stumptowncoffee.com/
Of course this is less than practical for those not living there.
#64
Re: Coffee
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.
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Re: Coffee
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.
#66
Re: Coffee
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.
#67
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Re: Coffee
Can anyone recommend some really tasty ground coffee? I've tried a bunch and quite a lot of them are sour and nasty. And considering people round here think that Dunkin Donuts makes nice coffee leads me to seek outside advice.
And nothing stupidly expensive, or something that has been crapped through an animal first please.
And nothing stupidly expensive, or something that has been crapped through an animal first please.
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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.
#69
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Re: Coffee
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.
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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..
#73
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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.
Last edited by MrEmjoy; Jun 16th 2011 at 7:14 pm.
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Re: Coffee
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.
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.
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Re: Coffee
Thats was a typo
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I just told my daughter I want this for Fathers Day.
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