Posted on 04/14/2015 10:23:50 AM PDT by ken5050
So this morning, while rinsing out the carafe of my Black & Decker coffee maker, I accidentally banged it against the side of the sink, cracking it. Frustrating, but no big deal. Go to WalMart.com..find out I can buy a replacement for $9.87. But then I noticed that I can buy a whole new machine..INCLUDING carafe..for $17.88. Yup..digital, programmable, auto-brew..with a two hour automatic shut-off. Which got me thinking....
I’d love to have that chicken recipe! I’m a food writer for our daily newspaper and would like to share it with readers. As for the cinnamon in the coffee, you really don’t get a full taste of cinnamon, but it does add flavor. Send me the recipe in a private message please.
I’ll get it to you.
nice looking machine ... granted the cuisinart tough to clean (but my wife takes care of that), but only a 10-cup, non-stainless, non-insulated caraffe rules out the capresso.
Johnny,
I’ve used the Captain’s for about 10 years.
http://www.thecaptainscoffee.com/
Most green beans look the same so you have to rely on the honesty of the vendor. I’ll check yours out too.
If you roast your own you NEVER have stale coffee. If you drink your coffee black, you can tell when you’re drinking stale coffee. People here don’t realize that coffee goes bad after you grind it in a couple days, and once the beans are opened about two weeks. So what you’re getting at Kroger’s and Walmart etc is stale coffee.
Also, if you buy beans green, you’re paying less and they stay fresh. I have some Costa Rican which I agree, are great.
Thank you for the tip!
I don’t think that retains the freshness and dries them out, but that’s my opinion.
When I was buying regular store coffee, I’d get a $1.00 off coupon and ALWAYS buy the smallest size and you’d drink it before it would go bad.
Melitta, very reliable and makes good coffee.
vintage Pyrex clear glass stovetop percolator.
it says lub lub lub and snorts a lot.
I suggest coffeemaker with a thermal carafe, I think ours is MrCoffee, it keeps the coffee warm but shuts off so it doesn't continue to "cook".
Also, because I have tasted Starbucks new "cold brew" and it's dramatically smoother than their regular iced coffee, I bought this little gizmo
on Amazon. Makes perfect, smooth iced coffee overnight. Same concept as "sun tea."
(spits up all over keyboard)....Ok....you win :-)
Roasted a pound, in four portions, last night of Costa Rica Dota from Rain Forest Alliance. Have no idea if I’m getting what it says, so I trust the Captain.
The beans are small and cracked uniformly each time.
How do you roast yours? I went about ten seconds into the start of the second crack. Took about six minutes to roast each four ounce portion.
How do the beans taste if you roast just after the first crack? I know you get a French roast if you go to long into the second crack and these beans seem very light.
I ground the beans this am with a burr grinder, (people don’t realize the chopper grinders give you like five different size of coffee) and drip brewed it on my Wilfa. I think it would be good to in a K Cup, but made a full pot and put what I didn’t drink in a thermos for the neighbor.
Drinking black, it’s rather sweet and light. Very tasty. Do you like Costa Rica beans the best? I imagine what I’m getting is pretty much the same as yours.
Lot a questions.... :-)
I checked out Sweet Marie’s sight. Thank you. She has a stopper for my Chemix. Price of beans seem below what I see for most.
I think it has to do with trust. I’ve used The Captain’s Coffee for about eight years now, and trust him. But how do you know what you’re getting? I think if someone has been selling green beans for more than ten years they must be reputable, plus has some leverage in the coffee bean market whereby they can get the best.
I notice a lot of people making fun of those posting who have a little money spent on a brewer that brews uniformly to 195 degrees, and take the time to roast the beans. I have a small air roaster that works great, I just haven’t experimented enough to know what works best for each bean so I end up roasting all of them about ten seconds into the second crack.
Green beans are like unfermented wine grapes. ONce you roast them each one is different esp if you drink your coffee black. I havn’t purchased starbucks etc for years now, so I think I’ve more than paid for my little set up, which is pretty simple actually.
Same here - I've had mine a couple of years and it works very well. Stainless carafe, insulated.
The only downside, and it's significant to me, is that it requires that I clean it every use. That is, the grinder, lid, and basket lid get a little gunked up with coffee ground dust as the steam rises during the brewing process.
Still a great coffee maker, but if I had it to do over, I'd get the non-grinding version and use a separate grinder. Just a little less work.
My fancy roaster. I buy a new one about every 10 years or so when it quits roasting.
I do go pretty far into the second crack. If I quit roasting after the first crack, it's too mild for me.
I'm using a regular grinder and
Melitta single cup brewer and a large mug.
Hope this answers you questions. If you have more, ask. I love talking about my coffee. At the commercial culinary school I got a bigger thermos because the chef instructors would help themselves to my coffee. Better than most of what came out of the school multi-cup brewer.
/johnny
Those kind are good, but some can require be pretty high maintenance; seems like once every month or so.
But once you get used to them, they kinda grow on you.
This is the first brand I found that worked in a K-cup machine, but was not packaged and distributed by Keurig. Since, Keurig has come up with K-cup 2.0. It incorporates a sensor that detects a specific type of coating on the top of the K-cup which was intended to make non-Keurig K-cups fail in the new machines. I ordered a box of 120 cups from San Francisco Bay Coffee Company just this week and it arrived with a clip to attach to a K-cup 2.0 machine to defeat the sensor! The battle rages on. Gotta love capitalism.
I might extend a bit longer into the second crack then. I like the french roast whereby the beans get alittle oily.
I think you need good water that is heated to 195 degrees or so and a good means to drip it through a filter.
I love the combo of the Wilfa and the Chemix large carafe. They make a cotton filter cloth that filters beautifully and is usable. No more paper filters.
I also bought a 16 ounce Zojirushi thermos that keeps the coffee hot forever. I’m done by 8 am on weekdays.
Will have to try that.
I’m using Chemix cotton cloths for the filtering. No more paper filters. They’re resusable and filter beautifully. You can get on Amazon or from Chemix.
Wait a minute!!!!! I want that recipe too!!! :-)
Melitta here too. I like it. It looks nice too, a bonus.
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