This is my coffee machine. It's Bunn VIII. The other VII died after valiant service.
Posted on 09/02/2007 10:19:45 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Ping! Thought you might be interested in a coffee thread. My buddy emailed me a few times today. He got me the Turkish coffee grinder at a “bazaar”. He’s been drinking “Turkish Lemonade” at the pier and his girlfriend is letting him see a few belly dancers. He hasn’t sounded this enthusiastic in a while. He’s a coffee freak like me, so he knew how important it was. Can’t wait to see it but have another week.
What I have found is that while freshly roasted beans are wonderful, it takes about 24 to 48 hours for the aroma to REALLY peak. Call it fresh for another
few days, then it goes downhill fast. This is probably why most grocery store bins are full of stale coffee - not enough turnover. I can roast my own in a cast iron fry pan, or a popcorn popper and beat out just about anybody, with nary a fern in sight.
Good point, I'll take that into consideration.
I mentioned this once before at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1870421/posts and we had a number of posts back and forth about it. One guy mentioned the "Filtron Cold Brew System," which you can find with Google. Personally, I didn't see the need for this setup.
Since you roast and grind, you are already good-to-go. I think the point of the 11-11-11 recipe is that you can dump in a whole bag of coffee, which you have just broken the seal on so it should be fresh.
But if you are roasting and grinding, no reason not to downsize the recipe. You do, of course, have to separate the mountain of grounds from the coffee extract by some method. It seems to me that a French press would be ideal. But with 11-11-11, you have a very large messy batch to deal with.
What, pray tell, is Turkish Lemonade? Never heard of it.
I don't really know. It was a BB email. Not a lot of details. It read: "Having a Turkish lemonade down at the pier. Surrounded by bellydancers." Of course the later was a joke, they had been to some show or bar or something. Later I got the email about the coffee grinder. Can't wait to see how it works, I here some are hit or miss.
The "Sweet Maria's" site I posted above sells on of the best. At least I'll be able to say mine's authentic.
I'll be PO'd if it says "Made in China" - LOL!
LOL. Sorry, odds are it does. At least half the things sold in bazaars are, I kid you not. They're taking over the world!
I get nostalgic for percolated coffee every so often, precisely for the reasons mentioned. My parents always had a percolator or two of coffee going through the day. Like many Americans of my generation, that coffee *was* our introduction to coffee.
True confession: I have a pyrex stovetop percolator in my kitchen cabinet that I picked up for a buck or two at a thrift store. Every so often, I will buy a small can of Folger’s or Maxwell House to percolate, just to feed my youthful nostalgia craving.
You see, my regular coffee is too finely ground to percolate. So it goes.
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