Posted on 09/26/2021 10:26:30 AM PDT by MAGA2017
Had an OS piss in the pot on mid watch one night. Was offended the Chief told him to make coffee. I came in at 3:45 to turn over and gagged. Those in CDC didn’t smell it because it crept up on them. Skipper would always refuse to drink our coffees after that. And yes, the OS3 became a Seaman.
In the USAF I has to clean the coffee maker. Didn’t want to as I knew what it meant to do that. The squadron commander told me to clean it. It almost made the chiefs my enemies for life but others backed me up that I was told to do it. They still never looked at me the same after that.
“What is inside is ground up brownish black stuff which when brewed in an engineroom coffee maker turns produces stuff the color of bilge water.”
ROFL
On the boats I served on the bolted down coffee urn sat under a hydraulic line so that the bilge-water coffee had the extra benefit of tasting like kerosene! Ah, the good ol’ days! ;-)
You may want to try coffee and chicory from Southeast Louisiana, C.D.M. or Community Coffee or Bustelo which is an Caribbean Hispanic coffee and has a punch like an unseen right lead.
lmao
Yup, and the puumpkin pecan is great for that extra cup!
I was tasked to create an operations manual once. My first week on the job, I noticed the coffee maker was empty, so I set it up and made a pot, thinking I could become a part of the team.
Pretty soon the old guy in the room came over and laid in to me for using 5 scoups of coffee instead of 6. No frickin’ lie.
A week later I gave him a draft copy of the operations manual to review. A few hours later, he brought his edits over for me to consider. He had this big grin, and said,”whatever you do, don’t take that appendix out.” I had included an appendix on how to make coffee.
To this day a highly classified document has an appendix on how to make coffee in that lab, and I had a friend for life.
At first I was thinking “Navy Style” coffee, the Gubmint buys in bulk along with Bubmint cheese. ‘Navy Coffee’ is like my grandma Mables coffee. First you start a fresh pot on Sunday, gotta serve your best on Sunday, Then every day of the week you just add a scoop of coffee grounds to the last batch. (You can’t toss the coffee grounds from any of the prior days) So anytime you make a new pot you just add another scoop of fresh coffee grounds. By Saturday evening, that coffee is ready to serve itself its so strong, you’ll be up for hours.
When I took the job I have now, one of my managers indicated it was MY responsibility to have on a pot of coffee at all times... So I made grandma’s special. I was told to NEVER make coffee again.
Costco has good coffee. I used to buy it for my church. I had no complaints at all. Then someone else took over.
My bride likes Hawaiian Isles Kona Chocolate Macadamia Nut Coffee. 10% Kona. Been buying it for 25 or so years. Been a generational change in management, and I find their product availability is so-so. Their Vanilla Macadamia Nut is also excellent. https://hawaiianisles.com/ Coffee is great, if you can get it. Now in some grocery stores in the continental USA.
We also buy Bourbon Pecan coffee from Big Kick Coffee Company in Charleston, SC. www.bigkickcoffee.com. Excellent coffee, lots of flavor.
I drink Silencer Smooth from Black Rifle Coffee Company. Also excellent. www.blackriflecoffee.com
I also was in the Navy. Drank what the cooks made. Didn’t pay attention to it. My young and more stupid then than I am now days.
We don’t drink Starbucks or similar concoctions.
For reference, the Barista Manifesto episode of Portlandia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jml7NVYm8cs
Almost any coffee can be good if you fresh grind the beans and stir it with a strip of bacon. Which brings me to my top-secret bloody mary recipe.
The day prior to drinking, I cook up a pound of bacon, and drain the bacon grease. Place bacon on paper towels to further de-grease the bacon. Place bacon in 4 qt. or larger soup pot, pour 1qt or 1.75 liter bottle of vodka into the soup pot. Refrigerate overnight.
Separate bacon pick pieces of bacon out with tongs, strain remainder through colander, then add traditiional items (tomato juice, worcestershire/tobasco) Garnish with celery and strip of bacon. Remember the golden rule of cooking, everything tastes better with bacon on it, even bacon!
Cafe du Monde is delicious. French roast from New Orleans. ☕
Cool history, Thank you for sharing this. :)
I was laughing too. It is not really a compliment. We always could tell the difference by how many coffee grounds we had to spit out after drinking a cup.
“one rolled off a table, and killed a pal o’ mine”
I read all the replies to see if anyone would add that.
My friend was a Master Chief. They never washed their mugs either.
Find a coffee roaster near you that roasts various bean types he gets wholesale. Buy the fresh roasted beans (medium roast to start with) and grind them in a burr grinder (see Amazon) which gives uniformity of ground beans — not the plains spice grinder type that gives you everything from coarse perc to dust in the same batch.
Brew it in a good drip brewer and keep for no more than two hours. Try various different sources of beans and blends of same — you will hit something that is your “mellow.”
I like many premium arabica beans from Guatemala, Costa Rica, Sumatra, Kona, Brazil and some Mexican.
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