Posted on 08/21/2012 9:51:41 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Try Arabica or Cuban Coffee. Just don't drink the Chock Full O' Peas.
The first national meeting of the KKK was held at the Maxwell House Hotel. No word how much coffee was had.
I like my French Press. Or is that "Freedom Press?"
Or the Blue Mountain... but that will cost you a chunk a change. I got about 1/3 pound left.
I was the same way. Then I put up with it with lots of cream and sugar to stay awake. Now I take it with no sugar, lots of milk, and a little cream. An acquired taste, like caviar and cilantro.
Much of the coffee sold, whether you buy it as beans, ground, or brewed, is over-roasted and will never taste anything but bitter. Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts are coffee-burners.
Try a medium roast coffee, arabica rather than robusta beans if you can. Wegmans medium roast is good. My husband buys me Tanzanian Peaberry from a local shop sometimes that roasts its own beans - I’m turning into one of THEM.
Really though...you should check out cold brewed coffee...it's quite nicely different.
I just finished mine and won’t have another cup until after work. The stuff here stinks. If there’s a coffee ping list, I want on it! Please!
I, too, was sneaking my mom’s coffee when I was little. Once, I tried sneaking some of my grandpap’s coffee, only to find he dropped a whiskey-glass - the entire glass plus whiskey! - into his coffee cup! It was awful but didn’t put me off the coffee! Mr sneakers and I have no less than five coffee makers in our house - including a Coleman camp coffee maker to assure access to good brew should the power go out and our latest addition to our collection - a French Press.
If I no get coffee in the morning, you no wanna be around me...........lol!
Welcome aboard, PINGEE #25.
It's lunchtime. The home roasted Tres Rios Costa Rican Magnolia coffee is long gone.
But I am drinking a beloved brew with my pinto beans for lunch. It just ain't coffee. ;)
/johnny
I have one like that, if it’s insulated....
Welcome aboard, PINGEE #26.
Unless it's deep winter, I roast my coffee outside to keep the smoke out of the house. My neighbors love the smell. ;)
/johnny
Actually, the coffee in Cuba - for the Cubans - is not coffee at all but chickory mixed with other ingredients, the noxious flavor disguised by large amounts of sugar.
BTW, the "10 Things You Don't Know" blog is about ALL topics.
Beethoven adored coffee. He insisted on always making it himself. Each cup had to have 60 beans. He liked it strong.
Check #5 on my list. They now mix roast peas with Robusta coffee in Cuba. Pretty pathetic since Cuba was once a MAJOR quality coffee producer and exporter.
Beethoven adored coffee. He insisted on always making it himself. Each cup had to have 60 beans. He liked it strong.
Take a normal coffee cup and add 2 fingers of the brew to it..and top it with water. Microwave it...and enjoy.
Way less bitter, acids, etc. Addictive though!! Ha!!
Bing.. Toddy Coffee...or Cold Brewed Coffee.
My father in law once made, what he called, “ fireplace or hobo coffee’
He’d take a large tomato juice can and fill it with water.
Then he would put it on a outdoor grill full of hot charcoal.
When the water began steaming he then would put a couple of table spoons of coffee right in the water.
As the water heated he then crushed a whole egg, shell and all and put it in.
When the coffee came to a boil whereupon he’d take it off.
He would do this 3 times.
Each time he would stir the pot.
After the third boil up he take it off the grill and add a half cup of cold water to settle the grounds.
I can honestly tell you it was the best cup of coffee I ever had, bar none!
You may want to experiment with the right amount of coffee to suit your taste. it was never bitter and the secret was to never boil the coffee for long....as soon as it starts to boil, remove.
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