How to Make Bad Coffee Taste Better

Food and Wine ^ | March 13, 2023 | Merlyn Miller

[aMorePerfectUnion]

OR you could start with good coffee so you don’t have to alter or cover up the taste.

Life is too short for bad coffee.

[airborne]

Coffee is important to me.

I do not scrimp on coffee. I pay for good coffee because I’m with it.

For me, it’s Green Mountain’s Dark Magic blend.

[plain talk]

Thanks. As we face higher and higher inflation due to our democrat overlords it may be worth it to try some tricks like this.

[Georgia Girl 2]

You can do it anyway you want but if you run it through a Mr. Coffee machine forget it. I had one and it ruined the best fresh grind. I moved up to a Gevalia machine and problem solved. But he’s right about putting the cinnamon in the coffee and not the pot.

[who knows what evil?]

Roast your own.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

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[jacknhoo]

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[Irish Eyes]

Thanks, sounds interesting.

[Track9]

Add grappa

[Dr. Sivana]

you want to add your spices to the coffee grounds before you brew. This is an easy way to make your coffee more aromatic, flavorful, and cozy-feeling; it’s one of my favorite tricks in the wintertime. Any warm baking spices will work, such as nutmeg, star anise, cloves, or cardamom

This person doesn't like coffee. This advice just turns bad coffee into non-coffee. I prefer the taste of bad coffee (e.g. vending machine coffee) to cinnamon.

[frank ballenger]

Drink coffee, get stupid things done faster all day.

[gitmo]

That sounds like it would ruin a cup of coffee. Yech.

[Bookshelf]

You don’t overuse the cinnamon, for two cups two dashes from store bought plastic container will do. I have used cheap 12 oz bag of coffee bought at 99 cent store, mixed it equally with Maxwell House 2+pounder from Walmart, add either a dash of cinnamon or cardamom per serving before running it through the Mr. Coffee. Voila, not bad. By the way, I have lived in coffee country for decades and I’ve tried Coban, Armenia, Sidamo, Yemen, Tanzan, Yergacheffe, Mocha, etc., etc., etc. I would probably chose a Yemeni for taste, but damned if I’ll pay the price. So my cheap-o effort will do for now.

[peggybac]

I’m not working anymore so I buy cheap coffee or whatever is on sale. I still have my Mr. Coffee I purchased in 2007 from Big Lots. I love French Roast strong but ONLY use whole whipping cream in my coffee. Heating the cream and frothing it, then adding some real or fake sugar, tastes great when I want a sweet cup of coffee.

[Charles Martel]

The salt addition actually does work. At work we usually have whatever somebody bought at Costco or Sam's, or uninspiring stuff like Folger's. Sprinkle a teaspoon of salt on top of the grounds basket before starting the brew and people actually ask "Hey, did you bring better coffee from home?"

Something else that works: blending. Adding one measure of, say, Community coffee with chicory can add a lot of flavor to a filter of weak medium roast without going excessively bitter.

[equaviator]

At link: Black Coffee, by Humble Pie- 1973

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tNoSmlnxwQ

[LeoTDB69]

Easiest way is to dilute it in 50 gallons of good coffee.

...or just toss it and make more. lol

[buwaya]

I don’t know. Personally I’m in it for the drugs. I don’t care how it tastes as long as its got caffeine and I don’t have to go through a rigamarole to get it. Cheap instant, black, available immediately.

[Larry Lucido]

[Jules, Vincent and Jimmie are drinking coffee in Jimmie’s kitchen]

Jules : Mmmm! Goddamn, Jimmie! This is some serious gourmet [bleep]! Usually, me and Vince would be happy with some freeze-dried Taster’s Choice right, but he springs this serious GOURMET [bleep] on us! What flavor is this?

Jimmie : Knock it off, Julie.

Jules : [pause] What?

Jimmie : I don’t need you to tell me how [bleep] good my coffee is, okay? I’m the one who buys it. I know how good it is. When Bonnie goes shopping she buys [bleep]. I buy the gourmet expensive stuff because when I drink it I want to taste it. But you know what’s on my mind right now? It AIN’T the coffee in my kitchen, it’s the dead [bleep] in my garage.

Jules : Oh, Jimmie, don’t even worry about that...

Jimmie : [interupting] No, No, No, No, let me ask you a question. When you came pulling in here, did you notice a sign out in front of my house that said “Dead [bleep] Storage”?

Jules : Jimmie, you know I ain’t seen no...

Jimmie : [cutting him off again; getting angry] Did you notice a sign out in front of my house that said “Dead [bleep] Storage”?

Jules : [pause] No. I didn’t.