Making coffee

[8978]

Figured out I would pass on my knowledge of making coffee. Got sick of it tasting different every time I made some so I set out to experiment.

I will not drink old coffee that's been sitting for pretty much any length of time. I don't drink that much coffee but I do love it. I will only drink one cup at a time so I tried to find a formula for making just one cup in my Mr. Coffee. You can't do it. The water flows through the filter at a certain rate and there is no way to slow it down for a lesser amount of coffee.

I use the plastic 9oz cups that I buy at Wal-Mart and always have a bunch on hand. They are the red ones with ribs on the side. I fill the cup twice then once up to the top of the ribs. I use a 1/4 measuring cup and mound it. Doing this and varying the amount of water or coffee can result in your own perfect cup of coffee every time.

Also. I bounce between Dunkin Donuts and Starbucks and both the breakfast blend. I also buy it at Wal-Mart in the big ground bags. I also make it a point to look at the batch serial number and try to get them all to match. If not, you have to adjust your formula for each different batch run.

 

[Sinister]

I have a little Mr. Coffee that I bought 5 years ago at ATS and still use it. I'm waiting for it to explode any time now. I should probably clean it. It looks like a science experiment.

I use 1.5 bottles of bottled water, then 5 teaspoons of grounds. It's fairly industrial strength that way. I also don't use sweeteners or sugar anymore much at all. Coffee Mate is all so chemically (word??) it makes my guts churn, so I just do without. I used to use Sugar in The Raw, but just haven't bought any and don't think of it anymore.

 

[8978]

See, you have your formula also! So many people wing it every time. Wish I could do without the sugar and Coffee Mate

 

[Duck]

I pop a K-cup in the Keurig machine & push a button. That's my recipe.

Oh, and I put some Chemical Mate in it. Not that flavored crap, just original.

I'd use half & half but I don't like those cardboard containers.

 

[Sinister]

I was in a hurry and got Pilot coffee recently and mistakenly put some flavored creamer in it. Don't know what flavor it was.

I think I blacked out for about 3 hours. Terrible stuff.

 

[Tazz]

If the spoon is upright the coffee is done. Anything less is brown water

My wife has her recipe. Three scoops to 6 cups or some nonsense.

My method is filter, shake coffee in until I smell it, put some water in the decanter,somewhere near half, turn on the damn pot

She will spend 3-4 minutes making a pot, I have coffee in 41 seconds Time is money.




Did I mention she has started racing me to the kitchen on the weekends

I'll tell ya how I do the dishes later, it involves a shotgun and a broom. Housework can be fun

 

[midwestbound]

I have been drinking instant coffee ever since I forgot to put water in my stove top percolator. The enamel ware welded itself to the burner and ruined it.....yes screw my forgetfulness......old age sucks.

I use the coffee mate sugar free vanilla, and the regular hazelnut creamer. I used to drink it black....due to once years ago I had milk in my coffee and started to drink it and damn near swallowed a spider. It took years for me to put anything in my coffee again.

Yes I know that instant coffee goes thru a chemical process. Yes I know that coffee mate is crap. But let me tell you something......my parents have been drinking instant coffee for years and they are old as crap and still kicking. Actually they are in damn good shape for the age that they are. Thank God they passed that shit on to the kids. I see people in the hospital that are my age hooked up to all kinds of crap pretty much dying or damn near dead. I am lucky I have good genes.

 

[midwestbound]

Oh and this ice coffee crap that is all the rage right now......My mother used to make that for us in the summer time when we were kids. So what is the big deal?

 

[krelithous]

pop a cup in my kreurig machine and go perfect cup every time in a minute

 

[krelithous]

I pop a K-cup in the Keurig machine & push a button. That's my recipe.

Oh, and I put some Chemical Mate in it. Not that flavored crap, just original.

I'd use half & half but I don't like those cardboard containers.

you ever figure out what was going on with your keurig machine

 

[Sinister]

Starbucks blows. If you have a Biggby coffee near you, I recommend that instead if you're feeling all yuppie-like.

But don't be one of the douchebags that sits there and drinks coffee and talks about hip things with your friends. Or even to yourself. Get your stuff and leave like you have a life. Having a life is pretty hip.

Like people who go to bookstores to read. Same tools. Or people who go to the China Buffett and insist on being seen using chopsticks. Chinese Buffett places are about as authentic as Taco Bell.

Zombie food. All of them.

Saw a guy in my local mom and pop coffee shop once (awesome sammiches) balancing his checkbook. This guy actually grabbed all his accounting materials, bills, etc, went to the coffee shop, and bought something (probably the cheapest thing on the menu) and sat there noisily doing his bills while I ate my sammich and sipped my super-mocha-120000 calorie-caffinated-sugar-bomb while I waited for my sons karate class to end.

That guys a tool. I was there killing time. He went out of his way...

 

[krelithous]

Starbucks blows. If you have a Biggby coffee near you, I recommend that instead if you're feeling all yuppie-like.

But don't be one of the douchebags that sits there and drinks coffee and talks about hip things with your friends. Ro even to yourself. Get your stuff and leave like you have a life. Having a life is pretty hip.

Like people who go to bookstores to read. Same tools.

Saw a guy in my local mom and pop coffee shop once (awesome sammiches) balancing his checkbook. This guy actually grabbed all his accounting materials, bills, etc, went to the coffee shop, and bought something (probably the cheapest thing on the menu) and sat there noisily doing his bills while I ate my sammich and sipped my super-mocha-120000 calorie-caffinated-sugar-bomb while I waited for my sons karate class to end.

That guys a tool. I was there killing time. He went out of his way...

it's amazing to me that people will go in to an establishment and buy the cheapest thing they can and sit there and plug in there lap tops tablets bs on the phone while doing paper work or they will just sit there and bs on the phone with all there crap out in front of them and take even longer. I assume that people like that are poor and they can't afford to pay for the interwebs at home since most take advantage of the free wifi in most places. the one that really cracks me up is the ones that sit there on there facebook account. it's funny that you should mention about having a life cause some of these people don't have a life othere than there brain has been programmed by there electronic toys. I sure in the hell would not be bringing out my financial business in a public place, I guess these clowns have never heard of identity theft. besides it's more comfy to do your business at home than in a business.

 

[krelithous]

this ones for tim same idea as the keurig except it pours out beer

 

[midwestbound]

So thanks to this thread, I took my happy ass down to the Dunkin donut shop and got a coffee mocha coolatta and 2 blueberry doughnuts. YUM!

 

[Duck]

First,

But don't be one of the douchebags that sits there and drinks coffee and talks about hip things with your friends. Or even to yourself. Get your stuff and leave like you have a life. Having a life is pretty hip.

Then,

Saw a guy in my local mom and pop coffee shop once (awesome sammiches) balancing his checkbook. This guy actually grabbed all his accounting materials, bills, etc, went to the coffee shop, and bought something (probably the cheapest thing on the menu) and sat there noisily doing his bills while I ate my sammich and sipped my super-mocha-120000 calorie-caffeinated-sugar-bomb while I waited for my sons karate class to end.

That guys a tool. I was there killing time. He went out of his way...

Either I read that wrong, or you just accidentally called yourself a douchebag.

 

[midwestbound]

He was on here talking about hip things wasn't he @Duck

 

[Tazz]

Did you know if you make coffee with Monster Energy instead of water you can taste sound and hear colors?

 

[midwestbound]

Did you know if you make coffee with Monster Energy instead of water you can taste sound and hear colors?

You did that didn't you?

 

[krelithous]

So thanks to this thread, I took my happy *** down to the Dunkin donut shop and got a coffee mocha coolatta and 2 blueberry doughnuts. YUM!

we have dunkin doughnuts out here to but it's not the same as it is back east especialy when it's 40 below out and you can smell the shop 3 blocks away. but that dunkin doughnuts baged coffee i'll never buy it again it was horrible. i am wondering if it's from a different from what they use for the store coffee cause that's so much better. @SkateBoard i'm sure he can tell you he's from the north east

 

[Duck]

Did you know if you make coffee with Monster Energy instead of water you can taste sound and hear colors?

The desk jockies in Sheldon sit there & drink coffee non-stop all day, every day. And they still act like they just woke up.
So one day I made a pot of coffee & poured it back in the reservoir & ran it through again, twice, using lots of grounds each time.
It was like so strong that by the 3rd run the skinny little stream filling the decanter was jet black.

The boss drank it black & 2 of the women put their french vanilla stuff in it.
All 3 of them complained that it sent their heart rate into hummingbird mode & one of the women was whining about wanting to go to the hospital. I got bitched at for it, of course.