Coffee ...Wow !

[dmccarty]

Gevalia- almost all of their coffees are great. I grind a pot every day and drink 4-5 cups per day. I find I can't buy a cup that tastes as good as what I make, Starbuck included.

I liked Gevalia. At first. The coffee was very good. I was buying Kona and it was NOT cheap. After a few years the quality declined and when I found out that Folgers was tasking better than Gevalia's Kona that was the end of Gevalia for me.

Nobody makes coffee as good as mine either. I put a pinch of salt in the grounds along with sugar. GOOD. :thumbsup:

Later,
Dan

 

[brin]

I liked Gevalia. At first. The coffee was very good. I was buying Kona and it was NOT cheap. After a few years the quality declined and when I found out that Folgers was tasking better than Gevalia's Kona that was the end of Gevalia for me.

Nobody makes coffee as good as mine either. I put a pinch of salt in the grounds along with sugar. GOOD. :thumbsup:

Later,
Dan

My Sainted Mother in Law always put egg shells in her coffee grounds...I asked her why one time and she told me but I forgot...She always made great coffee though...

 

[Cat_Driver]

If you guys ever see Farmers Brothers Coffee truck delivering to restaurants just ask the driver and he will sell you 5 pounds.

When I worked in restaurants they served Farmers Brothers and we got hundreds of compliments a day on the coffee.

 

[JimWalch]

I personally am not much of a coffee person. My older brother, is a heavy coffee drinker - and swears by his Bunn maker.

Velocity Brew BX | Bunn

I don't know if this is his exact model, but he spent quite a bit on it several years ago - and swears the Bunn can make cheap grounds taste great.

We have a Mr Coffee for those times we serve coffee...and my brother says it makes a terrible cup compared to his maker.

The Bunn is made in Springfield, Illinois about two miles from i set now at work.

 

[dmccarty]

My Sainted Mother in Law always put egg shells in her coffee grounds...I asked her why one time and she told me but I forgot...She always made great coffee though...

:laughing: I forgot about the egg shell in the coffee. One of my grandmothers did this and totally forgot about it until you mentioned it.

I just googled WHY you would do this. It is supposed to take away the bitterness of the coffee and if using the old stove top perculator's it helped keep the grounds "settled." I might try this over the weekend.

Later,
Dan

 

[wdchyd]

:laughing: I forgot about the egg shell in the coffee. One of my grandmothers did this and totally forgot about it until you mentioned it.

I just googled WHY you would do this. It is supposed to take away the bitterness of the coffee and if using the old stove top perculator's it helped keep the grounds "settled." I might try this over the weekend.

Later,
Dan

I had two people in my life that swear adding salt to the coffe makes it less bitter.....they get mad when I say "Why don't you just spinkle it in your coffee cup and not the rest of the pot"

To me it just tasted salty.....:laughing:

 

[dmccarty]

I had two people in my life that swear adding salt to the coffe makes it less bitter.....they get mad when I say "Why don't you just spinkle it in your coffee cup and not the rest of the pot"

To me it just tasted salty.....:laughing:

I do put a little, itty, bitty pinch of salt in the coffee grounds and it does mellow out the coffee. It is Kosher salt so it is just salt not table salt which has chemicals added.

If I add egg shells and salt to the coffee, I wonder if it will be S M O O T H?

Later,
dan

 

[Western]

Egg shells I might could deal with, but the thought of salt, just doesn't do it for me:laughing: I prefer mine Black and in the 10w-40+ variety

 

[dmccarty]

Egg shells I might could deal with, but the thought of salt, just doesn't do it for me:laughing: I prefer mine Black and in the 10w-40+ variety

If you taste the salt, you put too much in the coffee.

Later,
Dan

 

[Fixemall]

I'm glad I found this thread, years ago my older sister used to travel abroad every summer, as a single teacher she had the time and friends, long story short, she brought my ageing parents gifts from all over the world and one summer she brought back a huge bag of coffee from Peru, my dad loved the stuff despite its bitter taste and never had so much energy, about two weeks into his consumption my mom became concerned he wasn't sleeping and had mowed the lawn like 5 times in a week...at age 70, my younger sister who is an RN ended up testing his urine on a hunch and it came back positive for trace amounts of cocaine, needless to say my other sister never brought back any food products after that, I suggested artwork or clothing.