Mr. Peel and I got the Keuring Coffee Machine and we brew each cup of Coffee ("K" Cups) individually. Means he can have his dark java, and I can have my flavored coffee without any wastage. Good coffee, too!
Posted on 12/15/2005 8:33:20 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
"I'm surprised nobody has mentioned anything about "cold brewed" coffee. "
That may be because you are the only person in the world who does that:)
There's no need. They're already being beseiged by your counter arguments.
That's when I started looking elsewhere for my coffee. You can mask the flavor with raspberry syrup all you want, but why? I like the flavor of fresh, properly prepared black coffee.
I heard that is GREAT for people that are sensitive to the acid in normally brewed coffee. I have yet to try it.
Lol, maybe they were sleeeepy eyes?
>>Some of us roast our own in small batches before brewing.
Heresy! (j/k) I usually give the beans a day or two to peak in flavor after I roast 'em. Though fresh roasted straight to the grinder fills the kitchen with such a nice aroma, it is sometimes hard to resist.
Last place I worked had this setup. Coffee was excellent. They decided it was smart to start charging engineers $0.25 a cup, even though we were wroking 60-80 hours a week, often thousands of miles from home.
When I quit, I told them charging me for a cup of coffee was stupid. The offered me another $10,000 a year to stay, but the corporate philosophy of "screw the cash cow" just didn't play with me any more.
And no, I'm not bitter.
My coffee roaster is a stir crazy / convection oven variac controlled roaster.
P*ssies drink the dreck in quick stops and think it doesn't taste like goat pee.
You have to understand. Starbuck's is another American business success story. They're big. They're ubiquitous. Therefore, they suck. Just like Wal-Mart, GM and Microsoft they're keeping the little guy down. Just the other day I saw a press gang of baristas, greeters, programmers and assembly-line workers beating a little old lady and stealing her pension check.
Mr. Peel and I got the Keuring Coffee Machine and we brew each cup of Coffee ("K" Cups) individually. Means he can have his dark java, and I can have my flavored coffee without any wastage. Good coffee, too!
I also go through Sweet Maria's. I have a Fresh Roast 8 and it does a great job for my smallish roastings.
My favorite origin coffee so far has been an Ethiopian Harrar they had for a while (not their usual "Horse"). Still have 5lbs of it, which is the great thing about green coffee beans. Once you find one that you really like, you can buy a decent amount and store it without too much concern about loss of flavor.
My husband was looking at one of those instant hot water things. How well does it work? Is it as fast as advertised? Do you have an expensive one? Is the water at a boiling temperature? : )
(I am sick of my electric kettle, and we are boiling water constantly for tea and oatmeal.)
Thanks!!
Here's what I use, from Franke. It cost me about $400, I think, but it's the only really high-quality one I could find. My sister's tried $200 units from Home Depot and is already on the second one - mine's been fine for almost 6 years.
It works very well; I calibrated it to 195 degrees with an accurate thermometer (it's adjustable up to 205 or so) and it's held perfectly ever since. 195 is perfect for coffee drip extraction.
It's fast, because it holds 2 quarts of water (I have a carbon-filtered water loop in my house for icemaking and this thing) always ready to go. Pull the handle, it's hot.
For drip coffee, tea water, hot chocolate, oatmeal these things are absolutely great; you'll love it if you get one. Just don't get a really cheap one - they won't last.
Google "hot water dispenser" and you'll find lots of tips and info.
"Just the other day I saw a press gang of baristas, greeters, programmers and assembly-line workers beating a little old lady and stealing her pension check."
LOL..That'll teach her not to buy coffee she likes.
Chock Full of Nuts...Now there's something everyone can agree upon. I'm not referring to the coffee, I'm referring to this thread. Whenever the word "Starbucks appears in a post, the nuts come out of the coffee can. In fact, if you look closely at the photo of the can, you can see poster Hank, the FR Coffee Guru, poking his head out.
Does that mean that you're buried in the can?
I'm sitting in a coffee shop, listening to the CoffeeGeek Podcast, and enjoying a cup and a cinammon roll. Oh, and they are roasting coffee RIGHT NOW...
Perhaps I should check to see if they will sell me a pound of the stuff they are roasting. =)
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