[2ndDivisionVet]

If you're Lutheran you probably knew this already.

[100American]

Svenska and this strikes a familiar chord of my memory, I know I love dark and strong coffee but I am gonna give this a try

[Zeneta]

So, waking up in the morning, first thing, cracking an egg into your beer is Not Lutheran?

[SpaceBar]

Egg albumin is a flocculant. Home vintners know this.

[FrdmLvr]

My ex mother in law’s parents were from the Ukraine and they owned a diner. She used to tell me her mother always threw egg shells into the coffee grounds and the customers always came in for her delicious coffee. They weren’t Lutheran, though, they were Catholic.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Yep. They serve it at the Minnesota State Fair.

[be-baw]

I might just try that.

[dainbramaged]

I’m familiar with squareheads and their weak coffee.

[DaBeerfreak]

I’ve never made coffee that way, but as a kid I remember my Dad making it that way. And it was done that way to trap the coffee grounds.

[mountainlion]

Cowboys used lots of egg shell to mellow out coffee.

[Sirius Lee]

Coffee: The drink so delicious that you have to throw eggs, butter, cream, milk, sugar, cinnamon, chicory, chocolate, gunpowder, crunchy dead frogs, the souls of orphans...anything really, into it, just to keep from gagging on it when you drink it.

[old-ager]

I’m just a convert and I’m feeling left out again.

[RandallFlagg]

I don’t want to click on the article for the details.
So, you just break a whole egg, shell and all, mix it with the grounds, boil and strain?

[laweeks]

EHHS . . my Swedish aunt always put eggs in the upper coffee strainer.

[aquila48]

“Egg albumin is a flocculant.”

Sounds obscene...

[aquila48]

Is scandinavian coffee as good as scandinavian food?

[Cvengr]

I guess that’s why grandad always called a shot of whiskey, “eggs”, when he made his breakfast coffee.

[amihow]

Oldtime cowboys and other rurals in Arizona threw just their eggshells into the pot.

[Moonman62]

Not everyone knows this, but eggs have a seemingly magical power to “clarify” liquids from broth to wine to...yes, coffee. As the liquid is heated, the egg coagulates, drawing impurities out of the liquid and into itself. In the case of coffee, those impurities include substances that can cause coffee to taste bitter or burnt.

...

Somebody tell Starbucks.

[Dogbert41]

I like Community Coffee when I can get it. Here's some with that chicory mentioned...

[editor-surveyor]

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Egg shells, not eggs.

Egg shells de-acidify the coffee, thus a strong brew can still be palatable to everyone.
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