What's your usual coffee-making method?
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My favorite method? (Score:5, Funny)
Spouse/significant other.
Re:My favorite method? (Score:5, Funny)
Spouse/significant other.
Same here
And may they never meet.
Re:My favorite method? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:My favorite method? (Score:5, Funny)
The trick is to figure out which flavor of poison each of them uses.
Re:My favorite method? (Score:5, Funny)
That's just from his head falling on his keyboard.. then his hand fell on the mouse and clicked preview. Then... the submit button somehow.
Instant! (Score:5, Interesting)
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I just got introduced to these on a recent overnight backpacking excursion. I found the Folgers to be more practical because they are larger granules. The Starbucks Via is too finely granulated and hard to get out of the package. Besides, I'm a hard-core New England Dunkin Donuts drinker, so I had to hold my nose drinking that west coast crap.
I also considered drinking instant coffee more regularly. Since I work from home, I often waste a lot of coffee when I brew a pot.
Re:Instant! Yuck! (Score:3)
I spent a week or two in the Middle East back in the mid-80s, and one of my main frustrations was that as a westerner, it was hard to get local-style coffee instead of the powdered Nescafe that they knew tourists drank. Every time a bus would stop anywhere, the drivers would be drinking little cups of the local thick muddy stuff. My preference in coffee is that if the spoon falls over, it's not strong enough.
Re:Instant! (Score:5, Funny)
My favorite method is boiling some water and using some Folgers Crystals or something like that.My favorite method is boiling some water and using some Folgers Crystals or something like that.
I used to lurch into the office at 1PM in the morning, eat two tablespoons of coffee crystals, and wash it down with hot tap water straight from the faucet.
Yes, a sysadmin. Why do you ask?
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I prefer my whole beans covered in chocolate and baked into cookies as if they were chocolate chips, espresso machine not required.
Re:Instant! (Score:4, Insightful)
Man is sad because someone has different taste. Thank he is superior, news at 11.
"It is like looking at a DaVinci and saying, I prefer a Thomas Kinkade."
no. It's like looking at a coffee and saying I prefer this coffee. Nothing more.
You know the worse thing about coffee? you fucking snobs.
Re:Instant! (Score:5, Insightful)
You know the worse thing about coffee? you fucking snobs.
You''re not a snob if you think Kate Upton looks tastier than Roseanne Barr. As long as you don't scoff at your wife.
Likewise, you're not a snob for preferring Kenya AA to Puerto Rican Acid++. As long as you don't scoff at the coffee people serve you.
Having a taste and preference does not make one a snob.
Not accepting anything else does.
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You are right, my father-in-law's taste in beer is about the same as his taste in coffee! I have a good variety of stouts, porters, IPAs, etc., but all he wants is a light lager equivalent to a bud.
I can understand not knowing better since for much of the time his generation did not have easy access to anything better, but to actually prefer it when given a choice is just sad.
Re:Instant! (Score:4, Interesting)
I can understand not knowing better since for much of the time his generation did not have easy access to anything better, but to actually prefer it when given a choice is just sad.
My dad is 85 now. In the 60s and 70s I remeber his diet included Fosters lager beer and Kraft cheddar cheese, Nescafe instant coffee.
Visiting him now, he has nice red and white wines and knows which are good and when to drink them. He enjoys some local blue cheese, grinds coffee beans and makes espresso coffee. He still has a beer, but in moderation.
Maybe it was giving up smoking that helped, but you can learn new tastes.
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Try a Czech style Pilsner. The prototype is Pilsner-urquel, but you can get better fresh copies from many local craft brewers.
Czeck style Pilsner is what they _failed_ to make a good copy of when they made buttwieser.
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And yet Anheuser-Busch still argues for the global rights to the name, despite "Budweiser" meaning "something from Budweis", which is the German name for a city in the Czech Republic (I can't remember what it's called in Czech) which has two resident breweries of its own (one of them has been around since the C18th).
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George Clooney is my home boy... (Score:2)
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We bought a Keurig machine some months back, and use it daily. The per-cup cost is around $0.40, which is expensive compared to traditional drip, yet very cheap compared to buying it retail. Since we're both one-cup-morning drinkers, making a pot of coffee doesn't make sense to us. And the cleanup for K-cups is easy, if not exactly environmental.
Re:George Clooney is my home boy... (Score:5, Interesting)
It will get cheaper when the patent runs out on the K-cup design later this year. This is why some of Keurig's new models are sporting a new, incompatible design called the Vue cup with new patents on it.
Still Boycotting Nestle' (Score:5, Interesting)
Wikipedia article on Nestle' boycott. [wikipedia.org] Nestle have been bad actors since the 1970s, marketing inadequate baby formulas to people in the third world who don't have adequately clean water and can't afford it, and using sales people dressed as doctors and nurses to promote it as healthy and modern. Haven't cleaned up their act yet, and unfortunately they keep buying up more and more companies in the food business, especially drinking water.
So no Nespresso for me, and also (on the other end of the coffee-quality scale) no Nescafe instant.
Re:Still Boycotting Nestle' (Score:5, Interesting)
They haven't stopped - a few years ago I saw them in Costa Rica doing the scammy medical promotion thing (Costa Rica's not third world, but they're still promoting formula as if it's medically better than breastfeeding.)
And "not taking water quality into account" isn't a one-time event - they're still selling their products in places where water quality isn't safe to feed to babies.
Re:Still Boycotting Nestle' (Score:5, Informative)
PS. Didn't stop in '75. "In November 2000 the European Parliament invited IBFAN, UNICEF, and Nestlé
I consume it, but don't "make" it (Score:4, Interesting)
I eat the beans for a much more powerful hit of caffeine.
Starbucks (Score:5, Funny)
French press forever (Score:3)
Why were French press and Aeropress together? (Score:4, Insightful)
I've got both, and like them both, but they're really different both in how they work and what style of coffee they're trying to make. Aero's a bit more espresso-like, and the "press" is about making air pressure as a substitute for high-powered steam. French press is just pushing the filter through the coffee to keep the grounds at the bottom, and the coffee has more of the solids and oils in it. It turns out that a large French press is also great for making tea in.
I do use the drip filter if I'm making more than two cups of coffee - I can set it up and let it run by itself, and if you use enough ground coffee and don't let it burn, it does ok.
Coffee is not for me (Score:3, Funny)
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I'll stick to my carcinogenic / hole-in-brain-inducing Diet Coke, thanks.
Of course, I've seen commercials for make-up that has caffeine in it......bizarre.
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coke zero uses the classic coke flavor profile, just with nutrasweet (aspartame) instead of sugar. originally, it was also made with splenda (sucralose), but splenda shortages and overall expense led to that being nixed after a few months.
on the other hand, diet coke has always had a different flavor profile. in fact, the infamous disaster "new coke" from 1985 was based on diet coke.
this has been an educational program brought to you by nbc and the coca-cola company. the more you know!
Never liked coffee (Score:5, Informative)
Ever since I was a teenager people around me have kept telling me "You'll grow to like it". Well, I'm 30 now and I still don't like coffee. I've come to enjoy a lot of foods and beverages that are considered acquired tastes but never coffee.
Re:Never liked coffee (Score:4, Interesting)
Obviously it can't be too hot, but I think that coffee doesn't taste great to the tastebuds on the tip of your tongue (which are the ones you would use if you are sampling just a bit of something you don't know if you will like). Lots of coffee, flowing over the middle/back of your tongue...at some point you notice whats there and you want to experience more of it.
Or maybe you just don't like coffee.
Re:Never liked coffee (Score:5, Funny)
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Have you tried it with cream and sugar (lots of both)? If that doesn't do it for you, it's safe to say that you don't like coffee.
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Re:Never liked coffee (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Never liked coffee (Score:4, Informative)
Get better coffee, also get a french press and pour it at less then two minutes. The best thing about french presses is the ability to time the level of bitter you like.
Also note: 'American' can coffee went through 50 years of race to the bottom. In 1950 it had mostly Arabica beans, by 1970 it was 99% Robusta (awful). The people that lived this race got acclimated, boiling frog style. They can't even taste how awful it is.
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Oh, I've tried cream, milk and sugar in various quantities. I've had people offer me a lot of different kinds of coffee prepared in different ways and honestly I wasn't really a fan of any of them (except maybe the handful of coffee drinks that were more alcohol, cream and sugar than coffee). Sure, in a pinch if I'm really really tired, it's four in the morning and all that's available is coffee with lots of cream and sugar I'll take it but I can't say I enjoy it.
The upside is that I'm a lot more sensitive
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Most American coffee is total trash. American tea too.
Use fresh beans.
Grind them immediately before use.
Don't over extract.
I've always been appalled by the stuff that Americans are willing to label as coffee.
You don't grow out of good taste.
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I like my caffeine the way I like my women: Cold and Yellow. [melloyello.com]
You've omitted my favorite method! (Score:3)
Re:You've omitted my favorite method! (Score:5, Informative)
Re:You've omitted my favorite method! (Score:4, Funny)
Except today, when someone accidentally filled the reservoir from a bottle of berry flavored water.
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You're obviously not a real coffee snob!
A real aficionado would heat the water to boiling, then grind the beans during the 10 seconds that you let the water cool down to a nice 198F or so, then IMMEDIATELY pour the water on the fresh grounds, without letting the coffee lose any of its flavour particles (and they would spell flavour with a u, too)
You, sir, are a poseur.
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Luxury.
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And you post was the height of manners~
Re:Electric Hot Water Kettles (Score:4, Interesting)
Apparently the Europeans (or maybe it's more a Brit thing?) really like standalone hot water kettles, which let you set a temperature and it'll keep a pot warm and insulated.
I'm old and old-fashioned enough to think that the best coffee is made with copper kettles. Bring the water to a boil, turn the heat to the lowest, and pour in one scoop of coarse ground coffee per cup, plus one for the kettle.
Add a (reusable) piece of fish skin to "clear" the coffee - it causes a catalyst effect where the suds fall to the bottom.
Wait 2 minutes, serve scalding hot, with sugar cubes.
The second best coffee, IMHO, is from percolators. This could be a personal thing where I in my youth used to kill my hangovers by going to a diner, and they'd start the percolator for me. The fist cup was the most divine thing except for the following platter of eggs and bacon.
Third best? Espresso machine. Drop a long espresso into a half full cup of boiling water. Quick and pretty good.
In all cases, small coffee cups and boiling hot coffee, so you get the aroma, can slurp, and refill before it goes cold and the taste changes.
The worst? Crystals, of course, although drip coffee can be pretty nasty too, if the brew time is more than 2-3 minutes and the bitter alkaloids really come out.
Oh, and Starbucks coffee. Extremely thin and extremely bitter, made from cheap south- and middle-American beans high in organic acids, and prepared and served the worst possible way.
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Keurigs make subpar coffee
any coffee that you didn't grow, pick, and grind yourself just before you make it is "subpar." if you mean that it's processed grounds, there are adapter cups for you to put in your own grinds, and some models come with a grinder built in. the quality of the bean is up to you.
the coffee things are expensive
i'm paying for the convenience and i realize it. french presses are messy in comparison, and i still have to buy beans and grind them. i don't care to spend the time when i'm getting ready for work. similarly, i know how to change my o
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A k-cup generates an amount of waste proportional to the amount of coffee you drink. If you don't drink a lot, then you don't generate a lot of waste.
A French press is not as fast. It's slow and fussy in comparison.
Caffeine is a helluva drug! (Score:5, Interesting)
Unfortunately, I had to give up caffeine about 16 months ago. I was getting really bad heart palpitations when I worked out (mostly likely PVST). Getting rid of caffeine eliminated 99% of my episodes. I get them once in a while, but now it's due to adrenaline.
The side-benefits of not drinking caffeine have been pretty amazing: I don't wake up tired anymore, I don't get sleepy in the afternoon, I generally feel better all the time. Plus, when I do need to stay up late (i.e. driving late at night), a little bit of caffeine has a huge effect on me now.
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As someone who drinks far too much coffee and wants to tone it down a bit, I found this comment informative/inspirational. On most days, I feel like a stressed-out version of Woody Allen probably in large part from too much coffee.
Also, I want to add that I've found the cheap, single cup plastic cones to be among the best methods of brewing (and they don't take up counter-space in my small kitchen). I get my beans through fair trade import (I prefer north african beans, locally-roasted) and the single-cup c
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Actually it's PSVT: paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia. Paroxysmal: sudden. Supraventricular: originates in some part of the heart above the ventricles. Tachycardia: rapid heart rate.
One cause can be small lesions that disrupt the normal organization and smooth evolution of electrical flow through the heart cycle. The effect can be like a not-quite-stable oscillator suddenly beginning to run at a harmonic rather than the intended fundamental frequency.
It's not usually especially dangerous but i
Production method doesn't matter to me. (Score:2)
"boiling" (Score:3, Interesting)
Heat water to 96-100 C, add coffee grounds and wait for the ground to settle to the bottom.
Re:"boiling" (Score:5, Funny)
West Texas Coffee:
Boil some coffee. Drop in an iron wedge. If the wedge sinks, add more coffee.
Swiss style (Score:2)
Swiss style coffee maker that grinds the beans fresh for each cup of coffee. Yum!
Manual Drip (Score:2)
My missing option: (Score:2)
Columbian freeze dried instant. It's like an orgy in your mouth and it's a sixteen way simultaneous orgasm.
French press or espresso (Score:3)
I am a big fan of the french press for quality, but I bought a jua-capresso super-automatic espresso machine for convenience.
The Jura thing is an all in one machine. It has a hopper for beans, a tank for milk, and a tap for water. It has an internal instant hot water heater (no tank of warm water -it works just like the tankless water heaters for your home). The grind is adjustable. There is a dial to turn to adjust from a short-shot to a full cup. Push once for single, twice for double. Another dial controls the milk from warm milk to foam only, as well as the amount added. I push a button and get a decent double cappuccino in seconds. Good for work mornings.
For days off, I still prefer to make a pot with the french press. Strong, smooth, and plenty of it.
Cold brewed (cold water + grounds let sit in the fridge for 1-2 days), pressed, and filtered for an iced coffee with almost no acid bite to it.
Coffee is not for me. (Score:3)
I wake up in the mornings with a large RC Cola and a Moon Pie.
Yeah, I'm a snob, so what? (Score:3)
Each morning I drink an americano, which is one or two shots of espresso with hot water. I could drink brewed coffee, but I would just rather an americano.
This makes me a coffee snob, as I'm constantly reminded. However I also take public transit, shop at thrift stores, and don't own an iPhone - so to each their own!
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If that's true, then that's embarrassing and completely unintended.
I'm just a regular guy who happens to like a certain type of coffee, and I get tired of people making fun of me for it, calling me a coffee snob. I suppose the public transit and thrift store comments made it sound like I was trying to be "hip" but I was really just trying to show how you don't have to be rich to enjoy certain luxuries. I take the bus because I can't afford a car (car ownership in Vancouver is a ticket to poverty) not becaus
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Coffee is not for me (Score:5, Insightful)
Sadly, social life rather stunted due to not liking coffee, beer, or cigarettes.
Re:Coffee is not for me (Score:5, Funny)
Sadly, social life rather stunted due to not liking coffee, beer, or cigarettes.
That's ok. There's still tea, liquor and weed! ;)
Re:Coffee is not for me (Score:4, Interesting)
It has always pissed me off that people who drink coffee got to have free drinks at the office, even sometime free gourmet drinks, as several of the places where I worked have had machines to brew individual portions of gourmet coffee. However, soda drinkers like me are usually left to fend for ourselves. Where I work now, and where I was two jobs ago had soda fountains, but every other place I have worked has had free coffee and full price soda machines.
Then there is the whole smoking thing where smokers get 15 minute breaks every hour while I just have to work all day. And then there is the whole beer drinker thing where on Friday afternoons, the guys and gals who like beer get together AT THE OFFICE and drink beer for a couple of hours. While those of us who don't drink are expected to keep working.
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Pump Espresso Machine (Score:3)
De'Longhi EC155 15 BAR Pump Espresso and Cappuccino Maker [amzn.com]
Cheaper than most K cup machines.
Makes better espresso than $tarburnt.
For best results use Illy or Lavazza pods.
Missing Moka pot / italian coffee maker (Score:5, Informative)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moka_pot
Cannot break .... no idea (was using my parent one, lost one, was given an old one, had to change the filter 4 years later)
You d buy maybe 2-3 in your life cause you lost it, gave it to somone, or it felt from the 4th stair.
Almost no consumable to use, need to change the rubber filter every
Can be used on campfire
Make excelent coffee
Very cheap (10-30€)
Using a mini coffee grinder (the size of a glass, cost 30€) to grind illy coffee bought at the supermaket.
For me, the only viable alternative is a second hand expresso machine from a bar.
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If you sandpaper the rim of the water pot (bottom part) smooth (300 -> 400 -> 600 paper), and cut your own gasket from a superior-grade gasket material (I use a black rubber/cork composite) you will have completely leak-free operation and never have to change the gasket again probably for the life of the pot.
I did this six years ago and haven't changed that gasket yet.
I believe that a big part of the business model behind these pots is to sell the replacement gaskets. To accelerate the replacement sch
Re:Missing Moka pot / italian coffee maker (Score:5, Funny)
If you're in the UK, more particularly Kent, more particularly Cranbrook, the kitchen shop at the top of the high street can get you all the sizes of gasket. If I don't get modded up Informative for this widely-applicable message there's no justice.
And a big +5 to Moka. There really are no down-sides, unless you want monster crema.
A 'smartcafe' combined insulated mug and press (Score:2)
Very very convenient at work. Just google smartcafe and you'll see what I mean.
There are issues with these puppies and I wear them out after 6 months or so but they are still the best I've found for the workplace where taking your own electrical devices in is frowned upon and instant coffee just won't do.
Oh, and grinding the beans every morning makes a big difference.
French Press Convenience (Score:2)
I only make coffee for myself two or three times a year, so the French press is pretty convenient to store out of the way and to use when I feel the urge for a cup of coffee...
If there's other, better ways, I'm not such a connoisseur that I can really tell the difference... Especially given how much milk and sugar I like in it.
Bonavita BV1800TH (Score:2)
Available as the Melitta Aroma Excellent in in Europe. Sort of like a Technivorm, but half the price.
Percolator, lol (Score:2)
Actually I have an electric timer-operated percolator. It kicks the ass of all your coffee makers, and it cost me $5 too! ;)
Missed the ultra convenient option... (Score:2)
You missed the ultra convenient option: K-cups and similar products.
This is Slashdot. The overwrought gadgetry should at least get passing mention.
You are so american! (Score:5, Interesting)
Conventional drip coffee maker are only conventional in the US.
In other parts of the world these are very rare.
Arround here (Israel) most people think espresso is "high quality" and
would buy when eating out, or at the local coffee stand.
At home people will either drink instant coffee, preferably from freeze-dried grains,
or "Turkish" cofee made by simply adding boiling water to ground roasted beans and letting the "mud" sink down.
purists will make the cofee in a finjan and bring the water to a boil several times, this is particularly popular among Israeli arabs.
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Freeze-dried grains are popular in the US too. It just isn't for Coffee addicts who think their self worth is based on the quality of coffee.
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Drip coffee used to be popular in Australia too, at least in homes.
But back in the late 80s, 1990s cappucino became popular, and eventually led to espresso machines driving drip-coffee to near extiction.
Is drip coffee still popular in any other places?
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What?
Conventional drip coffee makers are the norm in Scandinavia.
And in most of Europe as far as I'm aware.
I've been to a few European countries, and all of them were using drip coffee makers everywhere I was.
Usual vs Favorite (Score:2)
My usual is conventional drip for breakfast and lunch, but my favorite is espresso from Silvia with home-roasted beans ground by Rocky.
Chemex (Score:2)
Chemex - manual-drip coffee. *Fantastic* - as good as those really expensive, proper automatic drip coffee makers (Tehcnivorm?) because you are using boiling water, and can control the rate.
Cold Press rules! (Score:3)
Since so few voted for it, I'll throw in a rave here for Cold Press - steeping ground coffee for 12-24 hours, then drawing off and refrigerating the resulting liquid concentrate. It's great for taste, low acidity, and rapidity of reaching coffee Nirvana. It's also ideal for making iced coffee.
Tea. (Score:5, Interesting)
I prefer tea. Earl Grey. Hot.
Although most days before work I go for a blend of gingko, ginseng, skullcap, lemon balm, and green tea. No amount of caffeine will wake you up like that blend.
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I make it myself. My recipe is:
1) Buy ingredients from your favorite tea/herb shop -- I usually order off prestogeorge.com
2) Sprinkle approximately equal amounts of each into hot water (probably wanna stay below boiling since there's green tea there)
3) Let it brew for approximately 2-60 minutes
4) Filter and drink
None (Score:4, Insightful)
Coffee is a yucky grownup drink.
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http://www.tassimodirect.com/ [tassimodirect.com]
Best mix of fast/cheap/quality. Aeropress and other espresso machines will make better espresso/cappuccinos/lattes, but with Tassimo there is a lot less hassle. Also Keurig can't do cappuccinos, so it was out of the running from the beginning.
With an instant hot water maker (what kitchen is complete without one of those) you can press coffee VERY fast and easy. Just toss a few scoops into the press (this is the best part; controlling exactly how hard you want to be socked in the face by the superior flavor) and then top it off with hot water... Come back in 2 minutes, press it, and enjoy. Single serving brewers are nice (if expensive) but once you have a few rounds of well pressed coffee, you will have a hard time living with the pathetic fl
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I prefer French press and voted for it, but I find the Tassimo to be perfect when mixing alcohol with coffee. No one has the dexterity needed to make coffee any other way after the third or fourth drink...
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Coffee done wrong is unpalatable to many people. That's why you have joints like Starbucks turning coffee into a milkshake. You have to drown the taste of the coffee to hide the fact that it is total crap.
So all of the fussy nonsense actually matters.
Like anything else, food industrialization sucks all of the life out of something and what you are left with only barely resembles the original.
Do that with coffee and what you have is bitterness.
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No Caffeine?!?!? In Mountain Dew?!?! I thought Canada was a civilized country.
Re:Mountain Dew... (Score:5, Funny)
No Caffeine?!?!? In Mountain Dew?!?! I thought Canada was a civilized country.
Nah, if they were civilized, they wouldn't carry MD at all.
Re:Mountain Dew... (Score:4, Funny)
In Canada, Mountain Dew has no caffeine. Every year, millions of Canadians stand in grocery stores wondering why anyone would ever drink goat piss.
Let me introduce you to my friend.
Canada, this is Bear Grylls
Re:Mountain Dew... (Score:4, Informative)
Not true any longer. Mountain Dew now does have caffeine in Canada, though they still have the non-caffeinated version available too.
It used to be that they could only put caffeine in a cola (any dark drink like Barqs, Dr. Perrer, Pepsi/Coke, etc), and not in any other soft drink. However, I think the rules ended up being relaxed because of all of the energy drinks and such.
Re:Mountain Dew... (Score:4, Insightful)
WTF?!? MD without caffeine is like non-alcoholic beer.
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WTF?!? MD without caffeine is like non-alcoholic beer.
That's not true. Non-alcoholic beer usually has around 0.5% alcohol (look at a an O'Douls, next time a beer drinker that you know gets pregnant).
Caffeine-free MD is WORSE!
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Canada has some strange laws that "only Cola soft drinks" can contain added caffeine. There are exceptions it seems, for example Barq's Root Beer has caffeine and of course those foolish energy drinks.
It has prevented us from getting a lot of imported soft drinks on the market. For example, Scotland's "Irn Bru" (nectar of the GODS no less)
I heard some talk of getting that law repealed, to allow importation of beverages but I haven't heard anything more since.
As for making coffee, I'm fairly savage about it.
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This is the proper old school way to make espresso as far as I know, and what we use most of the time - just don't water it down into a weedy 'Americano'.
Also, are electric kettles really not common stateside? Sure I've seen them in motel rooms etc?
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no, it's not cool, it's hot.
sorry, lame joke, but seriously, the temperature makes a big difference. most drip coffee machines don't run hot enough, especially at first. now, you can get a good drip machine, but most people don't have one, and at $100-200 rather than $30, a french press or pourover device just starts looking more reasonable. plus, i just enjoy the process.
a lesser factor may be that with a pourover, you pour a little bit of water in first and wait to expand the grounds, then pour the rest t
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I cut my own replacement gasket for mine about six years ago. Has not leaked a drop since, nor required a gasket change. The gasket I made is from a composite of cork particles and black rubber: darn abrasion-resistant and also withstands heat!
Oh, and also, I sand-papered the rim of the water pot smooth with fine papers, stopping short of polishing it. They make the rims rough so that they tear up the soft rubber gasket, forcing you to buy a new one sooner. If you smoothen that rim, it also creates a bette