Coffee

[Anonymous Poster]

Decaf is for the same croud that drinks Lite Beer, they can't handle reality, but love to hang out at the urinal.
Worked a job next to a coffy roasting plant for 6 months, unfortunately, downwind from the roaster. The fumes from that place would peel the paint off your car on a calm day. They use formeldahide to take the caffine out of the beans.

 

[woodmills1]

I think eight o clock was a brand name from the A and P grocery store chain. we had those back in NJ when i grew up, heck we even had ACME supermarkets.

 

[AndyR]

Now I remember both of those supermarket chains. In my case they were in Middletown, NY where my grandmother lived. The A&P always had really great coffee grinders. Haven't heard of Acme in years.

 

[Boondox]

There's a market for every niche. We market to people with taste. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Pete

 

[DrDan]

Speaking of taste...

I just read an article somewhere (wish I could remember where) but humanoids have all different varieties of the sense of taste. They test with certain chemicals which can taste un-godly bitter to one person and have no taste at all to another. Hence the reason some of us can get by just fine on machine coffee yet others have to go for the arabica.

Different strokes for different folks...

DrDan

 

[TresCrows]

I got coffee in the bottle as a baby! I have drank it all my life. It has always been there at the center.
I cannot imagine life without coffee, nor would I want to.
John Miller III, if you like 8 o'clock, which is a fine coffee, then you will really think you have gone to heaven with Community Coffee from Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
It's the best, comes in many brews and even French roasts of course and other stuff too. I like dark roast and the inbetween roast best. If a fellow was to be a Yankee accusotmed to that tan water they drink up north this stuff is like the muddy brown of the Bayou Country, a touch of half and half or creme gives it the proper color.
J

 

[TresCrows]

The back cover of the bag.
J

 

[MChalkley]

DrDan - I don't have an expresso machine, but the best coffee I've ever had comes from this combination: Yemeni/Kenyan/similar beans, Hearthware Precision roaster, and Hario Nouveau vacuum pot with old-style Cory glass rod. FWIW, there's also a Bodum Santos vacuum pot available at Sweet Maria's for a lot less expense. It's not nearly as good, or as "cool", but it works well, especially with the Cory glass rod.

Dang it, I've worked myself into the urge for a cup of coffee, but it's 10 PM, so it's too late. /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif

 

[smilingreen]

Rob,
I used to be a heavy coffee drinker.....10 to 15 cups a day for about the past 20 years. Come to think of it...now I am just heavy...../w3tcompact/icons/sad.gif . I quit cold turkey February 15th, 2001. Had a extreemly bad flare-up of supra-ventricular-tackycardia. EMT's had to stop my heart and then restart it. It was going 256 BPM. Felt like I had a johnny popper in my chest!! /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif After that episode, I quit. One of my good friends gives me some Maxwell house half decaf. on occasion, but other than that...NO Caffine. Period. Felt like crap the first 2 months afterwards. Don't know if it was from the lack of caffine or the heart meds.../w3tcompact/icons/hmm.gif . But I still love the taste of coffee. Better yet, I love the smell of coffee in a perculator over a camp fire, first thing on a cool, crisp, Autumn morning!! If they could only capture that smell and put it in a cologne!!!

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Hi Mike,

Here’s my $20. cheapo coffee brewer and the kid’s espresso {the non-digital model}… we use ice cold God’s water coming right out of the tap… with a washable mesh filter…

But I’ve got my eye open for an auction Bunn commercial restaurant brewer…

After the comments I made about coffee… I think Pete (Boondox) would love to send the LAPD or NYPD SWAT TEAM over to visit me… /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif
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[MikePA]

WOW! Now that's a coffee maker!!! With the expresso portion, fantastic! I wish I could reach into the screen and grab that cup of expresso. Yummy. At $130, that's not a bad price for all it does.

I'm waiting for my trusty old Mr Coffee coffee maker to die. /w3tcompact/icons/sad.gif I'm gonna have as much fun shopping for a coffee maker as I did for a tractor! /w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif

 

[Thomas]

To high tech for me..I'll stick w/boiling water and instant Maxwell House.
Better half bought one of those Gevalia coffee makers..$$$..and one has to program the dang thing,and if the information enter wrong it say error /w3tcompact/icons/mad.gifwill thats the last thing I want to see first thing in the morning w/one eye shut and the other eye 1/3 of the way open as I stumble to the kitchen..I want my *&^%^ coffee..now,maybe our cat could help me out. /w3tcompact/icons/clever.gif
Got to scoot coffee ready. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Good Morning Thomas…

Thanks for the reminder… this is our coffee brewer for the shop… also one of the “exotic brands” coffee our shop purchased a few years back…

One correction is we have the DeLonghi Brewer with cappuccino on the side not espresso… {see how high tech I ain't...?}/w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Thomas… didn’t you post a picture of your John Deere and Kubota coffee cups… or was that someone else…?

 

[Thomas]

They Kubota cup indeed gets a work out each day. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[Boondox]

No problem, John. Like I said, we had to choose our market and we decided to go for people with taste. /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif Seriously, there are a couple of things that make for a good cup of joe. One is good water, the other is freshness. There's plenty of fresh coffee around, so choose your poison. Plenty of folks like instant because it's made of robusta beans (less coffee taste but a heck of a lot more caffeine). Canned or vacuum packed coffee is possible only if the coffee is allowed to stale completely (we call it "rotting" the bean), otherwise the packaging ruptures from the gases given off. People who can't tell the difference between canned and fresh generally have that taste deficit syndrome...forgot the name of it but if you put something sour in your mouth you should taste in on one part of your tongue, sweet on another, etc. /w3tcompact/icons/tongue.gifIf that's the case, save your money.

In my house we don't bother with the fancy coffee brewers; we use a $15 French Press so even if the power goes out we can have java!

I'll bring you a bag of the good stuff when we meet in August. In fact, I could call them marketing samples and just fill the back of the car! /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif See you then!

Pete

 

[glennmac]

What an outpouring of of dilletantish irrelevance. Coffee is coffee. As long as it has caffeine and can scorch your lap, it all tastes the same after 4.65 sips. I hope you guys don't really go off the deep end and start arguing that there are differences in motor oils. Kampai!

 

[TresCrows]

Does Mobil 1 make coffee. Is it synthetic?
Really, that Gevallia is good stuff, we used to get it as a diversion from Community. It is always good to let the tastebuds know what they be mssing. I am not sure if it is synthetic or not. /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif
We prefer Krups or Braun (sp) coffee makers with the cone shaped gold plated filters. I used to laugh at MrCoffee but actually some of their units are alsmot decent if they would abandon that flat bottom filter basket that would be a big improvement. This could be worse than green vs orange and soon we will have guys trading coffee makers they never owned in for opposing brands they had all along. /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif (I love this bug eye face)
J

 

[MikePA]

<font color=blue>if they would abandon that flat bottom filter basket that would be a big improvement.</font color=blue>

Why? Inquiring minds want to know. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[Anonymous Poster]

<font color=blue>...(I love this bug eye face)...</font color=blue>

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J... I like that little critter myself.... /w3tcompact/icons/eyes.gif/w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif

When Gevalia sent their coffee brewer, it is made by Krupps... I think those mesh filters are of a nylon/plastic composite type material like John Deere/New Holland uses in their fenders and hoods... unlike the metal mesh gold color filters like as in Kubota fenders, etc.

How come everyone is going to high-tech plastic but Kubota...? /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[TresCrows]

Mike, drinking some coffee right now--your question--why are the cone shaped (paper or reusable types) better than the flat bottom basket types? Because the cone shaped type force the water to take a path through the coffee that is longer than the basket type, the water tends to stay in the cone type longer so it absorbs more flavor, they are more efficient because all the coffee grains are wetted unlike the basket types that often leave dry "coffee grain islands".
Think of it this way--consider those cone shaped fertilizer spreaders--why are they cone shaped---why is a funnel cone shaped. Anyway, the cone shaped type like Krups and Braun and others generally brew a more flavorfull coffee than the flat bottom basket type--the downside they usually cost more. The reusealbe filter baskets can pay for themselves quicky in filter cost. Nope, coffee by Black and Decker is not the same as what comes out of a good Braun brewer.
J