Posted on 02/15/2016 1:50:51 PM PST by Politicalkiddo
I started by adding half a package of instant hot chocolate and a half cup of milk to half a cup of coffee.
Redbull and some of those energy drinks are not good for cardiac issues in young men.
Get some 100% Kona coffee and drink it black.
Can hardly wait!
If you are under 5 and have a German Oma who puts a couple of tablespoons of coffee and some sugar in your milk, you’ve got it made. Top it off with a Mom who lets you smell the fresh Maxwell House coffee when she twists the key, the can goes “ssssssssss” and all that fresh roasted coffee aroma pours out into the room. Ahhh. I was always mystified how fresh roasted and ground coffee could smell so good and taste so bad.
Find a place that roasts their own beans and makes each cup individually (at least a “pour over”). That should get you most of the way there.
Oh, heck. I buy Stash, Teavana, Twinnings, St. Dalfour, Bigelow...
There are some great coffee shops. I just don’t know what to do in them. Give me a tea store, I could probably just drop all of my stuff down and live there. Coffee shops...well, that’s a horse of a different color.
Off topic. Nice home page.
“coffee has more long term negative effects on the body than beneficial.”
There are numerous clinical studies that conclude the opposite (and not all of them were funded by the coffee industry).
I’ve actually heard of people doing that. I may try that.
Next time you have dessert — especially if it is a rich creamy dessert like cheesecake — order a cup of black coffee to go with the dessert. WAIT until you get your coffee to start eating the dessert. Take a bite of the dessert — I recommend a nice Amaretto Cheesecake for maximum benefit — and follow that bite with a sip of the black coffee. Repeat until both the dessert and the cup of coffee are gone. After this, any decent cup of black coffee should be refreshing and invigorating.
I've been a coffee drinker for many years. Never considered myself a connoisseur. I'd just dump cream and sugar (or Splenda) and slurp it down. I drank it for the caffeine, not the taste, as all I mostly tasted was cream and sugar.
Sometimes I'd get a "rancid" cup of coffee and I'd have to dump it down the sink. Mostly due to the cream being off, not necessarily the coffee. Or perhaps I had the combination of cream and sugar wrong and ruined it.
Well a few months ago, I decided to start drinking it black. This was because I put myself on a weight loss regimen and saw the cream and sugar I put in my coffee as excess calories I didn't need.
At first, the going was a little rough but after a week or so, it became tolerable. Then I began to actually appreciate it and realize how different and unique coffees could taste, once you factor out the sweeteners.
Like acquiring a taste for anything fine, such as classical music, wine, or scotch, you must first get past the "it's crap" phase. The first few cups of black coffee will not taste good at all. But it won't harm you either. The time and effort invested to appreciate coffee black is well worth it.
Now I never dump coffee. And I can appreciate how good coffee is at Starbucks (the Pike Roast or the Veranda). You will find that Starbucks coffee is similarly priced to Dunkin Donuts if you are just getting the coffee black. It's all those other fancy drinks that makes Starbucks so expensive. There's also a little bit of freedom in just getting your quick black cup of coffee and moving out the door while everybody else is jockeying for position at the creamer/sweetener table.
I'm still a long way from being a guru of coffee but I'm definitely on my way and it looks to be a pleasant and mostly calorie-free journey (only about 5 calories in a black cup of coffee).
Excellent advice. Pair it with a rich, sweet dessert item for the ideal experience.
Simple. White bean coffee. Can still be on bland side so add a caramel flavoring.
You get the aroma you enjoy, as well as the taste of chocolate, and coffee-flavoring as if it was in a dessert.
Use Arabica beans and add French Vanilla International Coffee creamer to taste.
I use an old stainless steel stove top percolator and buy a lower acid store brand ground coffee. I don’t like strong or acidic coffee. I add canned evaporated mild and 2 TurboTax solar packets. One perfect cup a day.
No one drinks coffee for the taste (booze either). We drink it for, as my grandma used to say, the lift.
Drink lattes, half strong coffee, half milk with sugar to taste. Yum!
There has been a couple of mentions of Iced Coffee and a couple of mentions of that national bean burning chain, Starbucks. Out here in the desert valley of the sun, I do sometimes go in there for this caffeine blast although I don’t like their politics.
I order a large (Venti) Iced Americano (expresso with hot water) with two added pumps of chia tea. Doesn’t taste like iced coffee or team. Complex taste, lots of caffeine and pretty addicting.
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