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I have a perfect oversized mug for that, that my daughter gifted me and helped me customize on one of those personalize-your-mug websites, with COVFEFE block letters on a pretty daisy background. When I don't use my YETI mug, that's my next go-to mug. US US
Trump used the term Covfefe May 31, 2017. When covid came along I remembered that tweet of his ... and wondered . I don't think anything is a coincidence with this world regime. "Plandemic" made sense to me.
Someone needs to patent Covfefe Coffee. They all thought Trump was off his rocker when he referred to Covfefe in May 2017.
Per Wikipedia - COVFEFE - In law. U.S. Representative Mike Quigley started H.R. 2884, "The Communications Over Various Feeds Electronically for Engagement Act (COVFEFE Act)" on June 12, 2017. The act suggested that national archives should need to store social media posts by the President of the United States.
Publix puts New England brand coffee on two for one, often enough that I can buy ten at half price, butter pecan. Yeah, no coffee snob here. And they come out with a mocha mint creamer that’s killer. Sorry Phil, but coffee is like wine. You can drink it or talk about it. Can’t do both.
You might like Bearded Man coffee's Smooth Operator coffee then.
I've purchased the $80 size, I think it was for 5 lbs. (I had a promo code though from Conservative Daily Podcast which I do not recall at the moment). No shipping fee for that size order and the best price per volume. I sometimes purchase flavored coffee and mix a scoop or two in with my basic coffee, rationing it out to make it fit my budget, but enough to enjoy the special smell and flavor.
After Beryl blew through, I bought a French press from H‑E‑B . Because it will be a while before the Generator Supercenter gets back to me, I will at least be able to make coffee the next time our power is out.
We’ve had a French press for years for the same reason! Upgraded to a double walled stainless one a couple of years ago and like that one even better than the glass one.
Depends on how you brew it, the grind, the draw and the water temp. Personally, I prefer the light to medium roast which generally has a more complex combination of flavors. Typically American brewed coffee is just a dark burnt flavor overloaded with sugar and creamer. IE, Starbucks. They put so much sugar in their coffee, they have to use a very dark burnt roast to be able to taste the coffee through the sugar. (I think burnt is a more accurate descriptor than bitter.)
Spot on, Phil. And I used to laugh at the "conspiracy theorists" who said their logo was somehow demonic - I don't know about that, but more like the whole company is. A couple years ago I was in NYC and my sister said let's check out the new multilevel Starbucks Reserve that had recently opened up. Has a bar/lounge vibe, serves alcohol and has a much more extended food menu. It was woke heaven. Aggressive Barristas who eye you up and down with disdain and just a bizarre way of ordering food and having to pick it up from another area of the restaurant from clueless employees who don't speak English and are just rude rude rude. But the piece de resistance were the restrooms. Holy crap. First, they're in the basement of the place. Second, they pipe in loud clubby music which is much lounder than up in the main floor. Weird. Third, the lighting was very low and RED - think Robert L Peter's speech in philly in 2022 with the hellish red background lighting. Fourth: you guessed it - Completely co-ed bathroom with individual stalls that seemed very country club like - like you could have a hook-up in there. do drugs, whatever and absolutely nobody would care. I can't tell you how horrible it is for a woman to go into a bathroom like that after a guy has just peed everywhere and the seat is up, it's just absolutely an assault on my humanity. I think I threw my shoes out later that evening.
In the coffee business, some people call Starbuck "Charbucks" for their roasting regimen. I drink dark roast coffee--just my preference. I like it black (like my heart). As you said, temperature is key. Coffee, no matter the roast, won't taste good unless it is brewed between 205 and 210 F. Consumer coffee makers are seldom higher than 190F. Many of them considerably lower.
emperature s only oneof the five variables involved in coffee brewing. I haveover the years played with all five.. and will, deoending on which coffee and its roast profile, brewed as low as 195F . In fact I have developed a three stage brew method that starts with a first soak at 130F. So ttem is just one more "handle" to play with. French press is my typical daily method, though AeroPress is a good alternative. IF you have the "flow control" option. (I had some early disasters following the introduction of the inverted brew protocol.. so went back to the venerable Frog Pot. Hard to spill that.
I like it black, like my heart. LOVE THAT. I'm using it. Not asking permission, I'm black-hearted. Being black-hearted, you'd never give it. Just gonna use it, thanks!
When you start with cheap beans, burn them to death, and overextrat them, the only way it would no be instatnly rejeted by anyone with more than four functioning taste receptors is to load it with "white and sweet".
Once you have tried quality coffee, carefully and correctly roasted, and brewed accurately, you will never again even think of "white and sweet" in your cup.
My longstanding favorite is a single origin Costa Rican coffee from Hunter Bay roaster in Montana. It is a light roast they sell. It's amazingly smooth. Another favorite of mine is their "Big Sky Organic" which is a combination of different origins and is a medium roast. Great flavor and also smooth. Again, it's important to get the right grind for each bean especially with the light roasts. If the grind and the brew is not adjusted for the bean, a light roast can be bitter as RJ pointed out. I have also been a heavy user of Puerto Rican coffee from puertoricancoffeeshop.com which sells a whole line-up of PR roasters.
A friend of a friend adds a lump of butter … I thought it was so crazy that I had to try it, because I’m a big butter lover! 😂 And yes, it’s crazy! But not bad … not bad at all.
I take my coffee as I do all my food, clean, organic, well prepared and sourced from people I want to do business with. I drink my coffee black or with raw cream, no sugar ever.
I grew up with a mom (mum) from England (naturalized citizen) who always put cream/milk and sugar in black tea, and tea just seems less-than without it, and putting it in green tea would be gross?
I can drink black tea, iced and without sugar (lemon juice optional), but green tea leaves me wanting.
Anita, I didn't care for green tea either, until the late unpleasantness around all things medical. Fall of 2021, I caught some flu-like bug (not covid) and spent the next day and a half drinking green tea every hour and taking massive quantities of Vitamin C every 2 hours, along with some other virus protocols. Within 48 hours the fever, chills, and body aches were gone, with just the drippy nose to finish up.
Now, I have 2-3 different green teas on hand and have a cuppa every other day or so, more often if I feel as though I might be fighting off a bug. I still prefer black tea, but it seems as though the experience in 2021 changed my taste buds a wee bit so that I don't find green tea awful anymore. Just my personal experience and observations. 😊
Ah ha! My grandmother used a percolator and use to give me coffee that was half cream when I was a child (I'm 73 now). Loved it. But you have to use a coarser grind. If you try an espresso machine or even a French press, you'll never go back to a percolator. An excellent alternative that doesn't require electricity, unless you grind your own coffee, is the Aeropress.com . This inexpensive device makes coffee as good as a thousand dollar espresso machine one cup at a time.
The AeroPress does wotk well, but is ot as versatile as the venerable French Press. Get the Bodum brand, in the unbreakable bowl version. The largest size, 1.5 litres is great for larger crowds. Even the AeroPress new double size is far too small. The optional Flow Control device and sainless disc filter do bring the AeroPress up to pretty close to the functionality and versatility of the French Press.
There are a number of smallish hand grinders for travel and power eoutage situations. Years go I found a dutch made (DeVe) wooden bpx grinder on eBay Germany, landed cost about $35. Made about 1960. That thing has ground hundreds of pounds of coffee for me, I've carried it sailing, cycle touring, car camping, etc. The "rule" in the industry is to brew the coffee withing fifteen minutes of grinding it. If you buy it preground in the bag, you have already shot yourself in the foot. Turn to fresh ground and you will never go back. YUUUUUGE difference. When travelling cross country I always have a five gallon propane bottle and a two burner propane camp stove, and my five galln jug of drinking water. I have pulled into a rest stop, hauled out my kit, and made coffee right there that is every bit the equal of a properly done hand pourover in a high end shop. . Of course I NEVER travel without an assortment of high quality beans recently roasted to perfection..... Only takes about fifteen minutes to drag out all the kit and make that coffee. But hey, I am "resting" at the "rest stop", right? So whats fifteen minutes invested in some VERY rewarding play-time?
LOL, totally agree. "...Turn to fresh ground and you will never go back..." Absolutely. That is the one thing that makes the BIGGEST difference. The next biggest difference is using beans that have just been roasted. Sadly, I don't roast my own beans but I did experience fresh roasted coffee in Puerto Rice and it is to die for. The Puerto Ricans love their coffee. In the grocery stores they keep it under lock and key because for some reason coffee seems to develop legs and walks off.
The Aeropress manually makes only one cup at a time but what I like about it is that you can use finely ground coffee just like you would in an espresso machine...thus you end up with a true cup of espresso like coffee. You have to use course ground coffee in a French Press so you don't get lots of grounds in your cup and it's good but not as good.
Depends on the actual reality of "fresh roasted". Coffee right out of the roater s nasty. Takes three to five days, sometimes even longer, for it to "settle" and fall into its "window" of perfction.
Good friend of mine, (grower importer, supplier,shop owner, teacher) did an xtended study on about twenty different coffees, carefully cupping every few days against a sandard, over a period of over three weeks. Most coffees, three to five days off roast were "in the window". Some needed as much as ten days to settle. One of them, the one that prompted his "over the top" study, was barely drinkable the first twenty days off roast, then came alive and was mind-blowingly good for only five days, then done. e
Yes, the AeroPress does provide the liberty to play.. but so does the French Press. Most folks with the French press grind way too coarse, and follow the bogus instructions (frim 1926 when it was invented) to brew for 4.5 minutes. Overextraced and harsh/bitter every time. I tend to grind a lot finer than they say, but not anywhere near espresso grind, and end the main brew time after 2.5 minutes.
There are five "variables" to play with, each can be changed in its iown but then one or more of the other four will need to change to adjust things back tto he "sweet spot". This is very easy to do with either the AeroPress or the French Press. Pourover, too, but that's a different kettle of fish. (once mastereed, it is astoundingly good)
Phil is can see you are quite the coffee aficionado! I work in the industry and agree Aeropress is amazing and versatile. It’s also great for camping. ⛺️
What ever happened to the guy on the TV series "Dangerous Grounds"? Always enjoyed his shows. But he was always going to sketchy areas to find the coffee growers and I'm wondered if he fell to an ill-fate.
Never drank coffee from a thousand dollar espresso machine...
but thanks for the tip on the french press! I'll look into it and put one on my wish list for when-I-get-the-money, or maybe someone will gift me one, who knows.
I would like having a back-up for when the electricity goes out, and who knows, maybe I'll switch to it when the percolator reaches end of life, if it does, or sooner if it's as great as you say.
The percolator was a gift from dear relatives who may or may not have known my coffee maker died and I was looking to get away from plastic machinery, or maybe it was serendipitous, but I am fond of the percolator for not just utilitarian reasons.
The missus gave me a camp percolator for our outing last year. Works pretty good on the old Coleman stove. Coarse grind only, obviously. I prefer medium roast as it seems less bitter to me and I want maximum caffeine.
I like the looks of the aero press (French press is such a pain to clean), but I'm really trying to eliminate plastic. I'm about to ditch my drip for glass pour-over. have you done pour over? How does it compare?
I have not but Tio has. Maybe he could tell us how he does it.
Good point about plastic. I actually use a DeLonghi espresso machine (Italian) my son gifted me. I use Aeropress on travel or during hurricane outages. After what Tio said, I'm going to have to get a French Press.
Agree. I personally am not a huge fan of french press. After getting used to cleaner coffee brewing methods (meaning less sediment but also easier clean up) it’s hard to go back. My go to is pour over and it’s all we brew in our shop using Hario V60s. There’s a bit of a learning curve. You need a gooseneck kettle for a controlled pour. Start with a 1:16 or 1:17 ratio of coffee to water and adjust to your taste. Med fine grind and 195-205f water. No waste like you have with a whole pot, so you can buy better beans from your local roaster.
Not in Florida, you can buy two different farms raw milk from the local grocery chain every day of the week but Sunday. It’s amazing!! And yes, raw milk in cold brew coffee is our daily treat.
We can get raw milk in Arizona, but you have to know where to go. They kind of hide it. It’s an absolute requirement for spring and fall allergies. Only problem is the cows stop producing in the summer heat, and the price of a half-gallon is $9.
Funny, my granddaughter named one of her dogs Coffee the other one Brew. I thought at first she meant brew like coffee. She said no brew like beer bc hubby likes his beer. So apropos for the little ones now.
😂🤣😂 Janice, I actually did laugh-out-loud!! When I read "yucky" I could hear our nephew's pronunciation of the word when he was three years old: yuuuucky! I so miss those days when the little ones were learning to talk! 🥲
On a personal note, while I love the smell of coffee, I have never been able to get past the taste, which has engendered a lot of teasing from the rest of the family: "Come over to the dark side", "How do you know you don't like it if you won't try it?"* - No, thank you! I have seen you people without your morning coffee and it is not a pretty sight! I don't need an addiction, thank you very much!
Mr. "the Knife" tried to slip come coffee by me by surreptitiously putting some in a mug of hot chocolate. When I asked him why he put coffee in my cocoa, he said, "How can you even taste that? It is barely a teaspoon!" I replied, "Because I haven't destroyed my tastebuds with hot sauce!" Over 37 years together, he is still offering me coffee and I am still politely declining! 😂 I am with you: coffee is yuuucky!
Mrs. "the Knife"
*I did try coffee many years ago, accidentally, when I ordered a grande hot chocolate from the Snack Shack at work. When I got back to my desk and took a big swig of it, I realized, to my horror, that it was in fact a grande mocha! I couldn't offer it to someone else since I had already drunk from it, and at $3.50 for the drink I wasn't going to waste it - so I drank it. Two hours later I had a terrible stomach ache. So there, Family! I tried it, I still don't like it, and apparently, it doesn't like me!! 😂
Glad everyone doesn't like it cause it keeps the price down. I can afford to drink my minimum of a half gallon a day. At 77 years old I still have to work everyday to afford to eat dead cow meat and drink coffee.
Good to try different coffees! I hope everyone here is supporting small, local roasters... say no to Folgers and all the mass produced low quality coffee. Just a tip from your resident coffee roaster & small biz owner.
I’m feeling sorry for myself now I I can’t taste coffee anymore thanks to Fauci. It used to be such a pleasurable morning ritual. But the Lord is always good and has provided other little earthly delights. And then there’s that great Marriage Supper I have a reservation to, when all things will be restored.
I’m so sorry 😞 Maybe there is a therapy that will help you get it back?? I’ve heard of different protocols with essential oils and other things that have helped people get their sense of smell back.
COVID. I remember waking up on the 4th day and it was gone, totally gone. I have tried everything. I just live with it now and enjoy the occasional times when I have an inkling of taste. God is good.
There’s is a low acid coffee from Florida called Manatee Coffee! It’s really good 😋 I also like to get local Indiana roasted coffees. Grinding then right before brewing makes such a difference!
My cousin Ernie Carman and wife have been farming coffee organically ~45 years: Cafe Cristina, the product, Finca Cristina the farm, (named for their daughter), in Costa Rica.
I have to admit Costa Rican coffee is my favorite. Best tasting coffee on the whole planet as far as I'm concerned although Puerto Rican coffee is a close second.
Headed to CR in ‘25, God willing. Thanks for the tip. I understand Haitian coffee is as good as Jamaican, which is the best I’ve had, so far. However, the only source I have found for coffee from Haiti is Amazonk (k imtended).
Buying organic is a great idea (and what my company specializes in) but TBH it's mostly to protect the farmers who would be exposed to the chemicals. After processing coffee cherries to seed, drying, and roasting at 400 degrees, there is no discernible pesticide residue for the coffee drinker.
Pesticides, as well as a heavy black mold/mycotoxin load which is extremely toxic to humans. I drink an organic mycotoxin-free coffee, which is 3rd party tested for toxins & purity: https://a.co/d/0A2O3Rc (amazon link).
Sorry to say, but a lot of the pesticide/ black mold hype about coffee is just untrue. The brands that sell based on those claims are just using marketing to scare people into buying their product. You don't need to worry about mycotoxins in most specialty grade coffee that you get from local roasters, and pesticides are more a worry for coffee farmers; not for roasted coffee in your cup.
I came in late, while having my coffee with some milk, sugar and whisky. This was an unexpected and interesting thread. I didn't like coffee when I was young, but began drinking it in my 40's. I do use Folgers. I have Folgers Columbian for brewing a pot, and Folgers Instant Classic Roast for a quick cup when I'm not awake enough to fiddle with a coffee maker.
But what is the point of drinking decaf? Just have a good herbal tea.
I disagree that the government paying for vaccine injuries will change anything. That’s our money. I agree with the vaccine companies paying for injuries, but the government’s money is our money and we shouldn’t be punished for vaccine injuries. Let the pharmaceutical companies use some of that massive profit to pay for injuries.
I read some years ago that the UNC Lab prototyped the "covid" mutant but exported final development and release to Wuhan so as to escape Congressional oversight.
Remdesivir: Interesting how this evil has fallen by the corporate media wayside. We should bring this horrible thing to the middle of the road and make them at least step over it.
Drain those guys' accounts first, then move down the list of CDC fear propagandists, then to the censors on public media, then to the worst offenders on TV... All of these people should be financially ruined before they ever touch taxpayer money for lawsuits.
In other words, all the Covid wealth transfers need to be transferred back to us.
Never touch taxpayers money for Pfizer lawsuits. We gained 0.0 off it and we should pay 0.0. Plus those of us who really didn’t want the shots, didn’t get them. And if everyone had stood up, they couldn’t have come after all of us
The best part of waking up, is coffee and covid in your cup!
Did anyone else read that with the jingle in their mind's ear?!
#Folgers
Folgers is the Resident Potato of coffee.
Or perhaps, the resisdent chickory?
Don't be insulting chicory in front of anyone from N'Awlins.
Chickory is fine- resident potato is a toad.
Totally!
OH, YES, Andrew!
I'm not a coffee snob so Folgers is in my cup all the time and I have loved their jingle for decades!
The best part of waking up is surviving Pfizer in my arm!
So far so good eua r forever
I read that wrong! No covid in my cup, please and thank you, lol.
Time for MyCoffee and C&C!
I prefer Cov FeFe coffee personally ❤️🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸
I have a perfect oversized mug for that, that my daughter gifted me and helped me customize on one of those personalize-your-mug websites, with COVFEFE block letters on a pretty daisy background. When I don't use my YETI mug, that's my next go-to mug. US US
Trump used the term Covfefe May 31, 2017. When covid came along I remembered that tweet of his ... and wondered . I don't think anything is a coincidence with this world regime. "Plandemic" made sense to me.
🎯
I loved watching him “blink” the lights in his White House kitchen while the old Fox&Friends was on☕️📺
Someone needs to patent Covfefe Coffee. They all thought Trump was off his rocker when he referred to Covfefe in May 2017.
Per Wikipedia - COVFEFE - In law. U.S. Representative Mike Quigley started H.R. 2884, "The Communications Over Various Feeds Electronically for Engagement Act (COVFEFE Act)" on June 12, 2017. The act suggested that national archives should need to store social media posts by the President of the United States.
Goes well with Hamberders, I understand.
Publix puts New England brand coffee on two for one, often enough that I can buy ten at half price, butter pecan. Yeah, no coffee snob here. And they come out with a mocha mint creamer that’s killer. Sorry Phil, but coffee is like wine. You can drink it or talk about it. Can’t do both.
You might like Bearded Man coffee's Smooth Operator coffee then.
I've purchased the $80 size, I think it was for 5 lbs. (I had a promo code though from Conservative Daily Podcast which I do not recall at the moment). No shipping fee for that size order and the best price per volume. I sometimes purchase flavored coffee and mix a scoop or two in with my basic coffee, rationing it out to make it fit my budget, but enough to enjoy the special smell and flavor.
https://beardedmancoffee.com/shop/smooth-operator/
I also have a fondness for butter pecan...
I think I like the aroma in the morning as much as I like drinking it.
I love their chocolate coffee and blueberry … love the bogos… 💖
Hahahahha me too
Stop selling that old book here please
Again☹️
This isn’t directly from the Bible, but coffee is yucky. 😂🤷🏻♀️
I used to think so too, but then I discovered cream. Life changing, lol.
After Beryl blew through, I bought a French press from H‑E‑B . Because it will be a while before the Generator Supercenter gets back to me, I will at least be able to make coffee the next time our power is out.
We’ve had a French press for years for the same reason! Upgraded to a double walled stainless one a couple of years ago and like that one even better than the glass one.
I like that they are easy to clean.
I use an aero press to make a single cup of coffee. Otherwise, they have a bun coffee maker because it does not leach any aluminum.
The darker the coffee the less bitter it is. Seriously!
Depends on how you brew it, the grind, the draw and the water temp. Personally, I prefer the light to medium roast which generally has a more complex combination of flavors. Typically American brewed coffee is just a dark burnt flavor overloaded with sugar and creamer. IE, Starbucks. They put so much sugar in their coffee, they have to use a very dark burnt roast to be able to taste the coffee through the sugar. (I think burnt is a more accurate descriptor than bitter.)
Spot on, Phil. And I used to laugh at the "conspiracy theorists" who said their logo was somehow demonic - I don't know about that, but more like the whole company is. A couple years ago I was in NYC and my sister said let's check out the new multilevel Starbucks Reserve that had recently opened up. Has a bar/lounge vibe, serves alcohol and has a much more extended food menu. It was woke heaven. Aggressive Barristas who eye you up and down with disdain and just a bizarre way of ordering food and having to pick it up from another area of the restaurant from clueless employees who don't speak English and are just rude rude rude. But the piece de resistance were the restrooms. Holy crap. First, they're in the basement of the place. Second, they pipe in loud clubby music which is much lounder than up in the main floor. Weird. Third, the lighting was very low and RED - think Robert L Peter's speech in philly in 2022 with the hellish red background lighting. Fourth: you guessed it - Completely co-ed bathroom with individual stalls that seemed very country club like - like you could have a hook-up in there. do drugs, whatever and absolutely nobody would care. I can't tell you how horrible it is for a woman to go into a bathroom like that after a guy has just peed everywhere and the seat is up, it's just absolutely an assault on my humanity. I think I threw my shoes out later that evening.
Starbucks just opened their 100,000th location, in the Men's room of an existing Starbucks
My husband and I hate the taste
Of Starbucks. Burned beans… ick.
LOL...
That logo is NOT a mermaid... it is a split-tailed siren of some sort.
In the coffee business, some people call Starbuck "Charbucks" for their roasting regimen. I drink dark roast coffee--just my preference. I like it black (like my heart). As you said, temperature is key. Coffee, no matter the roast, won't taste good unless it is brewed between 205 and 210 F. Consumer coffee makers are seldom higher than 190F. Many of them considerably lower.
emperature s only oneof the five variables involved in coffee brewing. I haveover the years played with all five.. and will, deoending on which coffee and its roast profile, brewed as low as 195F . In fact I have developed a three stage brew method that starts with a first soak at 130F. So ttem is just one more "handle" to play with. French press is my typical daily method, though AeroPress is a good alternative. IF you have the "flow control" option. (I had some early disasters following the introduction of the inverted brew protocol.. so went back to the venerable Frog Pot. Hard to spill that.
I like it black, like my heart. LOVE THAT. I'm using it. Not asking permission, I'm black-hearted. Being black-hearted, you'd never give it. Just gonna use it, thanks!
Phil, you are close, bu exactly backward.
When you start with cheap beans, burn them to death, and overextrat them, the only way it would no be instatnly rejeted by anyone with more than four functioning taste receptors is to load it with "white and sweet".
Once you have tried quality coffee, carefully and correctly roasted, and brewed accurately, you will never again even think of "white and sweet" in your cup.
Sooooo true!
What light roast do you recommend?
My longstanding favorite is a single origin Costa Rican coffee from Hunter Bay roaster in Montana. It is a light roast they sell. It's amazingly smooth. Another favorite of mine is their "Big Sky Organic" which is a combination of different origins and is a medium roast. Great flavor and also smooth. Again, it's important to get the right grind for each bean especially with the light roasts. If the grind and the brew is not adjusted for the bean, a light roast can be bitter as RJ pointed out. I have also been a heavy user of Puerto Rican coffee from puertoricancoffeeshop.com which sells a whole line-up of PR roasters.
Silencer smooth from Black Rifle is an excellent light roast, but I’m not a connoisseur like some of the people posting.
But the darker the less caffeine, if I remember right. What a choice! 😂
It’s negligible though.
A friend of a friend adds a lump of butter … I thought it was so crazy that I had to try it, because I’m a big butter lover! 😂 And yes, it’s crazy! But not bad … not bad at all.
Look up "Bulletproof Coffee." A Keto diet staple.
I take my coffee as I do all my food, clean, organic, well prepared and sourced from people I want to do business with. I drink my coffee black or with raw cream, no sugar ever.
That lady one is why I never buy Starbucks, OR Black Rifle Coffee Company.
Everyone knows Starbucks is Left, but few realize that Black Rifle is hard left too. They just masquerade as conservative but their owners are Leftys
😀
You know it!!
Along with the Burr grinder. Good coffee is all about the grind. Plus I use an aero press to make my coffee. Totally awesome.
Your hips will thank you. ;)
Why is that?
Cream will you fatten you up.
Absolutely, heavy whipping cream is divine!
I discovered that for me it's pretty good with these parameters:
100% Arabica beans
Organic
Medium roast
(over roasting does not agree with me)
Supporting Mike Lindell and his MyStore entrepreneurs by subscribing to coffee I like (be sure to use a PROMO CODE)
Adding organic cane sugar and milk in limited amounts
Using my little stainless steel percolator that was gifted to me by my thoughtful brother and his wife
Using the YETI mug gifted to me by the same
AND reading C&C including the comments section
Blessings,
Anita
Seems like a lot of trouble when there is green tea in the world. 😂😂
To each their own. Green tea always tastes like someone put grass in hot water to me.
😂😂
I just can't get into green tea...
although I take ECGC green tea supplements...
I grew up with a mom (mum) from England (naturalized citizen) who always put cream/milk and sugar in black tea, and tea just seems less-than without it, and putting it in green tea would be gross?
I can drink black tea, iced and without sugar (lemon juice optional), but green tea leaves me wanting.
Anita, I didn't care for green tea either, until the late unpleasantness around all things medical. Fall of 2021, I caught some flu-like bug (not covid) and spent the next day and a half drinking green tea every hour and taking massive quantities of Vitamin C every 2 hours, along with some other virus protocols. Within 48 hours the fever, chills, and body aches were gone, with just the drippy nose to finish up.
Now, I have 2-3 different green teas on hand and have a cuppa every other day or so, more often if I feel as though I might be fighting off a bug. I still prefer black tea, but it seems as though the experience in 2021 changed my taste buds a wee bit so that I don't find green tea awful anymore. Just my personal experience and observations. 😊
Mrs. "the Knife"
*EGCG
Its true, green tea is so much easier to prepare! I rotate green tea for awhile, black tea for awhile, a very occasional cup of coffee.
I brew green tea and we drink it iced.
Right?? 😂The only thing I like about coffee is the smell. Just give me iced, unsweet green tea or black tea, thanks 🤓
that's because you have never had coffee properly roasted, freshly ground, then brewed properly.
I hated coffee for most of my life.. until I had "THAT CUP". I was SO amzingly "other" I have spent the past twenty years "figuring it out".
And I still love good tea, as well. GOOD tea, that is. Which one cannot find pre- bagged..... Only high quality loose leaf.
Ah ha! My grandmother used a percolator and use to give me coffee that was half cream when I was a child (I'm 73 now). Loved it. But you have to use a coarser grind. If you try an espresso machine or even a French press, you'll never go back to a percolator. An excellent alternative that doesn't require electricity, unless you grind your own coffee, is the Aeropress.com . This inexpensive device makes coffee as good as a thousand dollar espresso machine one cup at a time.
The AeroPress does wotk well, but is ot as versatile as the venerable French Press. Get the Bodum brand, in the unbreakable bowl version. The largest size, 1.5 litres is great for larger crowds. Even the AeroPress new double size is far too small. The optional Flow Control device and sainless disc filter do bring the AeroPress up to pretty close to the functionality and versatility of the French Press.
There are a number of smallish hand grinders for travel and power eoutage situations. Years go I found a dutch made (DeVe) wooden bpx grinder on eBay Germany, landed cost about $35. Made about 1960. That thing has ground hundreds of pounds of coffee for me, I've carried it sailing, cycle touring, car camping, etc. The "rule" in the industry is to brew the coffee withing fifteen minutes of grinding it. If you buy it preground in the bag, you have already shot yourself in the foot. Turn to fresh ground and you will never go back. YUUUUUGE difference. When travelling cross country I always have a five gallon propane bottle and a two burner propane camp stove, and my five galln jug of drinking water. I have pulled into a rest stop, hauled out my kit, and made coffee right there that is every bit the equal of a properly done hand pourover in a high end shop. . Of course I NEVER travel without an assortment of high quality beans recently roasted to perfection..... Only takes about fifteen minutes to drag out all the kit and make that coffee. But hey, I am "resting" at the "rest stop", right? So whats fifteen minutes invested in some VERY rewarding play-time?
LOL, totally agree. "...Turn to fresh ground and you will never go back..." Absolutely. That is the one thing that makes the BIGGEST difference. The next biggest difference is using beans that have just been roasted. Sadly, I don't roast my own beans but I did experience fresh roasted coffee in Puerto Rice and it is to die for. The Puerto Ricans love their coffee. In the grocery stores they keep it under lock and key because for some reason coffee seems to develop legs and walks off.
The Aeropress manually makes only one cup at a time but what I like about it is that you can use finely ground coffee just like you would in an espresso machine...thus you end up with a true cup of espresso like coffee. You have to use course ground coffee in a French Press so you don't get lots of grounds in your cup and it's good but not as good.
Depends on the actual reality of "fresh roasted". Coffee right out of the roater s nasty. Takes three to five days, sometimes even longer, for it to "settle" and fall into its "window" of perfction.
Good friend of mine, (grower importer, supplier,shop owner, teacher) did an xtended study on about twenty different coffees, carefully cupping every few days against a sandard, over a period of over three weeks. Most coffees, three to five days off roast were "in the window". Some needed as much as ten days to settle. One of them, the one that prompted his "over the top" study, was barely drinkable the first twenty days off roast, then came alive and was mind-blowingly good for only five days, then done. e
Yes, the AeroPress does provide the liberty to play.. but so does the French Press. Most folks with the French press grind way too coarse, and follow the bogus instructions (frim 1926 when it was invented) to brew for 4.5 minutes. Overextraced and harsh/bitter every time. I tend to grind a lot finer than they say, but not anywhere near espresso grind, and end the main brew time after 2.5 minutes.
There are five "variables" to play with, each can be changed in its iown but then one or more of the other four will need to change to adjust things back tto he "sweet spot". This is very easy to do with either the AeroPress or the French Press. Pourover, too, but that's a different kettle of fish. (once mastereed, it is astoundingly good)
Legit 👌
Phil is can see you are quite the coffee aficionado! I work in the industry and agree Aeropress is amazing and versatile. It’s also great for camping. ⛺️
What ever happened to the guy on the TV series "Dangerous Grounds"? Always enjoyed his shows. But he was always going to sketchy areas to find the coffee growers and I'm wondered if he fell to an ill-fate.
Lol, he’s probably on an island somewhere living his best life. He was the founder of La Colombe and sold it last year for many millions to Chobani.
Never drank coffee from a thousand dollar espresso machine...
but thanks for the tip on the french press! I'll look into it and put one on my wish list for when-I-get-the-money, or maybe someone will gift me one, who knows.
I would like having a back-up for when the electricity goes out, and who knows, maybe I'll switch to it when the percolator reaches end of life, if it does, or sooner if it's as great as you say.
The percolator was a gift from dear relatives who may or may not have known my coffee maker died and I was looking to get away from plastic machinery, or maybe it was serendipitous, but I am fond of the percolator for not just utilitarian reasons.
Thanks again!
Blessings,
Anita
My favorite coffee is an Americano made by my espresso machine. A shot of espresso or two and then topped off to coffee cup size with hot water.
The missus gave me a camp percolator for our outing last year. Works pretty good on the old Coleman stove. Coarse grind only, obviously. I prefer medium roast as it seems less bitter to me and I want maximum caffeine.
Try it...just not at Star Bucks.
I like the looks of the aero press (French press is such a pain to clean), but I'm really trying to eliminate plastic. I'm about to ditch my drip for glass pour-over. have you done pour over? How does it compare?
I have not but Tio has. Maybe he could tell us how he does it.
Good point about plastic. I actually use a DeLonghi espresso machine (Italian) my son gifted me. I use Aeropress on travel or during hurricane outages. After what Tio said, I'm going to have to get a French Press.
Agree. I personally am not a huge fan of french press. After getting used to cleaner coffee brewing methods (meaning less sediment but also easier clean up) it’s hard to go back. My go to is pour over and it’s all we brew in our shop using Hario V60s. There’s a bit of a learning curve. You need a gooseneck kettle for a controlled pour. Start with a 1:16 or 1:17 ratio of coffee to water and adjust to your taste. Med fine grind and 195-205f water. No waste like you have with a whole pot, so you can buy better beans from your local roaster.
Thanks! I'll give that a try, even if it does mean buying a new kettle.
I've found a reliable source of raw milk. so a little milked yesterday cream in my coffee is la de da in the morning
Mmmm perked coffee! We have a stainless steel pot we use when camping. ☕️😊
I recently purchased one from My Patriot Supply!
Heresy! Although the best way to take coffee is with fresh milk, which is sadly difficult to get in this country.
Not in Florida, you can buy two different farms raw milk from the local grocery chain every day of the week but Sunday. It’s amazing!! And yes, raw milk in cold brew coffee is our daily treat.
We are almost free here.
Wait, what?!? What chain?
Detwilers!
Never heard of them. Guess they don't exist in SWFL. But thank you!
Possible, but overpriced at least.
Black, strong, and scalding hot, for me!
We can get raw milk in Arizona, but you have to know where to go. They kind of hide it. It’s an absolute requirement for spring and fall allergies. Only problem is the cows stop producing in the summer heat, and the price of a half-gallon is $9.
It will be so great the day we can drive to our local farm and get fresh Milk!!! It's coming.
https://www.realmilk.com/raw-milk-finder/
Can't stomach it w/o 50% of mug being raw whole milk.
Or Bailey's...
😆🌟💚🏆
So yummy!!
I still like you Janice 😂😎The old joke comes to mind: how do we know God loves coffee? He brews (Hebrews)☕️✝️
Funny, my granddaughter named one of her dogs Coffee the other one Brew. I thought at first she meant brew like coffee. She said no brew like beer bc hubby likes his beer. So apropos for the little ones now.
To each, their own…so coffee isn’t your cuppa tea…we still love you anyway!
😂🤣😂 Janice, I actually did laugh-out-loud!! When I read "yucky" I could hear our nephew's pronunciation of the word when he was three years old: yuuuucky! I so miss those days when the little ones were learning to talk! 🥲
On a personal note, while I love the smell of coffee, I have never been able to get past the taste, which has engendered a lot of teasing from the rest of the family: "Come over to the dark side", "How do you know you don't like it if you won't try it?"* - No, thank you! I have seen you people without your morning coffee and it is not a pretty sight! I don't need an addiction, thank you very much!
Mr. "the Knife" tried to slip come coffee by me by surreptitiously putting some in a mug of hot chocolate. When I asked him why he put coffee in my cocoa, he said, "How can you even taste that? It is barely a teaspoon!" I replied, "Because I haven't destroyed my tastebuds with hot sauce!" Over 37 years together, he is still offering me coffee and I am still politely declining! 😂 I am with you: coffee is yuuucky!
Mrs. "the Knife"
*I did try coffee many years ago, accidentally, when I ordered a grande hot chocolate from the Snack Shack at work. When I got back to my desk and took a big swig of it, I realized, to my horror, that it was in fact a grande mocha! I couldn't offer it to someone else since I had already drunk from it, and at $3.50 for the drink I wasn't going to waste it - so I drank it. Two hours later I had a terrible stomach ache. So there, Family! I tried it, I still don't like it, and apparently, it doesn't like me!! 😂
Want to ruin chocolate? Put coffee in it!!
Never developed a taste for coffee either, Janice, unless there’s a LOT of chocolate in it 😊
Hahaha! Janice, you sure opened up a can of worms. I love my morning coffee
Boy howdy. 🤪😂😱
Glad everyone doesn't like it cause it keeps the price down. I can afford to drink my minimum of a half gallon a day. At 77 years old I still have to work everyday to afford to eat dead cow meat and drink coffee.
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Boo, boo
Please, please don't jingle in my head all day! Too late!! 😂
And kudos to you, Jimmie, for that well-placed and essential comma!
Thanks for that. The one department in my high school that actually did a good job was the language arts department.
I love drinking my Cup Full o’ Snark every morning!! Jeff Childers is my new crack-dealer!! 😆
I spit some coffee out today I laughed so hard.
I sang that....LOL
Gevalia Colombian
Blackout Coffee... Delicious... And support veterans and conservative values!!!!
I like that one, I’ve been getting mine from Dr mercola, tested for mold. Huge difference. ( sensitive to everything unnatural these daze)
Good one, got me singing that tune now.
Hahahhaha
You get me, thanks
Not Folgers?
No, my coffee is sassy and sarcastic! Not Folgers. I ground some Stumptown Colombian this morning. I am trying different coffees.
Good to try different coffees! I hope everyone here is supporting small, local roasters... say no to Folgers and all the mass produced low quality coffee. Just a tip from your resident coffee roaster & small biz owner.
I’m feeling sorry for myself now I I can’t taste coffee anymore thanks to Fauci. It used to be such a pleasurable morning ritual. But the Lord is always good and has provided other little earthly delights. And then there’s that great Marriage Supper I have a reservation to, when all things will be restored.
I’m so sorry 😞 Maybe there is a therapy that will help you get it back?? I’ve heard of different protocols with essential oils and other things that have helped people get their sense of smell back.
Oh dear. The jab or covid?
COVID. I remember waking up on the 4th day and it was gone, totally gone. I have tried everything. I just live with it now and enjoy the occasional times when I have an inkling of taste. God is good.
FLCCC.com Front Line Covid Critical Care Dr's. website. Check it out. What really helps get the vax out of your body is fasting.
Hope your day is off to a great start and blessed.
There’s is a low acid coffee from Florida called Manatee Coffee! It’s really good 😋 I also like to get local Indiana roasted coffees. Grinding then right before brewing makes such a difference!
I've completely given up on dinner coffee. It's always so watered down as to be undrinkable (or the other extreme, having sat on a warmer for hours.)
If light passes thru your coffee, it's not coffee it's tea.
Nope, nope, nope.
Sorry, your comment reminded me of the old Folgers commercial. I didn’t mean to start an avalanche of comments.
I do drink locally roasted coffee. Hopefully responsibility sourced, however who know and who can you trust?
My cousin Ernie Carman and wife have been farming coffee organically ~45 years: Cafe Cristina, the product, Finca Cristina the farm, (named for their daughter), in Costa Rica.
I have to admit Costa Rican coffee is my favorite. Best tasting coffee on the whole planet as far as I'm concerned although Puerto Rican coffee is a close second.
Headed to CR in ‘25, God willing. Thanks for the tip. I understand Haitian coffee is as good as Jamaican, which is the best I’ve had, so far. However, the only source I have found for coffee from Haiti is Amazonk (k imtended).
Thanks!! I am familiar with Finca Cristina. I have enjoyed it.
Wow!
Ooh!! Will have to look for that!
Have you ever tried a single estate Sumatra? Sublime.
I've tried drinking other coffees but always go back.
Shake a few grains of salt in the fresh grounds, pour hot water. Then hit it with a few drops of vinegar to cut bitterness.
"Smooth"! Drinking a cup now.
Good morning!
I don't love the taste of my coffee, but atleast it is organic.
Apparently coffee is the most pesticide laden crop there is..
Buying organic is a great idea (and what my company specializes in) but TBH it's mostly to protect the farmers who would be exposed to the chemicals. After processing coffee cherries to seed, drying, and roasting at 400 degrees, there is no discernible pesticide residue for the coffee drinker.
Island, what do you think about the health risk of drinking conventionally-decaffeinated coffee?
Pesticides, as well as a heavy black mold/mycotoxin load which is extremely toxic to humans. I drink an organic mycotoxin-free coffee, which is 3rd party tested for toxins & purity: https://a.co/d/0A2O3Rc (amazon link).
Sorry to say, but a lot of the pesticide/ black mold hype about coffee is just untrue. The brands that sell based on those claims are just using marketing to scare people into buying their product. You don't need to worry about mycotoxins in most specialty grade coffee that you get from local roasters, and pesticides are more a worry for coffee farmers; not for roasted coffee in your cup.
That’s too expensive for my taste. I have a friend that buys organic green beans and roast them in small batches at home. She charges me $12/pound
Thanks very much. I was hoping I might get a few suggestions. I appreciate it.
Try New Mexican Pinion Coffee. I add some almond milk. Sooo goood, hot or cold.
What are you trying different coffees for?
I came in late, while having my coffee with some milk, sugar and whisky. This was an unexpected and interesting thread. I didn't like coffee when I was young, but began drinking it in my 40's. I do use Folgers. I have Folgers Columbian for brewing a pot, and Folgers Instant Classic Roast for a quick cup when I'm not awake enough to fiddle with a coffee maker.
But what is the point of drinking decaf? Just have a good herbal tea.
Decaf because the ghost of my gallbladder does not like caffeine, but I miss the taste of coffee. I can do half-caf sometimes.
Well I was drinking McDonald’s decaf….that is probably the best answer.
Do you know how they caffeinate coffee?
Lol!
ugh
I hate my spell checker.
Do you know how they decaffeinate coffee?
do you??? 😳
I didn't care.
I do not. Uh Oh…
Try Black Rifle Coffee! Veteran owned and seriously good stuff!
https://www.blackriflecoffee.com/coffee-club
Nope. Not after the way they waded into the Kyle Rittenhouse controversy.
He done Effed up, Son! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Who, the Black Rifle guy, Kyle, or Kyle's attackers?
Black Rifle Guy.. And Kyle's attackers LOL
We love black rifle coffee! Have had it on auto ship for several years now.
I have
Lake City Coffee is much much better than Black Rifle! https://www.lakecitycoffee.com
Infinitely better than Folgers!
Chillin’ with Childers and Coffee!
I'm pretty sure, every day, the best thing I'm going to read is C&C
I disagree that the government paying for vaccine injuries will change anything. That’s our money. I agree with the vaccine companies paying for injuries, but the government’s money is our money and we shouldn’t be punished for vaccine injuries. Let the pharmaceutical companies use some of that massive profit to pay for injuries.
Fauci and Biden and Hotez and Dazak and those folks IN the government should be held financially responsible.
Baric's lab at UNC Chapel Hill developed the kill drug Remdesivir.
I read some years ago that the UNC Lab prototyped the "covid" mutant but exported final development and release to Wuhan so as to escape Congressional oversight.
Yep, Baric worked with the Bat Lady in Wuhan.
NIH funding documents prove it.
I read somewhere that it was transferred to Wuhan during Obama’s tenure.
Yes.
Hang 'em high.
Remdesivir + Ventilator = about a 95% kill rate.
I would bet 100%.
I only know of two people that survived it.
I hope they thank God every day.
Did he develop it or just run it through a "trial" for covid. I thought it was a Gilead product which failed Ebola trials.
Here is the link pushing it for treatment of covid...and yes, it had a 53% death rate in Ebola trials.
https://sph.unc.edu/sph-news/remdesivir-developed-at-unc-chapel-hill-proves-effective-against-covid-19-in-niaid-human-clinical-trials/
Boy, oh boy…getting THAT jab sure was a crap shoot! Or a coin-toss…😢
Yes.
Remdesivir: Interesting how this evil has fallen by the corporate media wayside. We should bring this horrible thing to the middle of the road and make them at least step over it.
FDA approved it for babies.
Drain those guys' accounts first, then move down the list of CDC fear propagandists, then to the censors on public media, then to the worst offenders on TV... All of these people should be financially ruined before they ever touch taxpayer money for lawsuits.
In other words, all the Covid wealth transfers need to be transferred back to us.
Reparations.
& get them all UP TO DATE on their jabs.
Bingo! 🎯
Never touch taxpayers money for Pfizer lawsuits. We gained 0.0 off it and we should pay 0.0. Plus those of us who really didn’t want the shots, didn’t get them. And if everyone had stood up, they couldn’t have come after all of us
you said ir Doug!
Ultimately… the DOD is responsible through the Pentagon that is responsible ! JS.
Sue them all back to Food Stamps then let them eat cake!
And after they get fat from eating cake, hang them!
I like the way you think!
Can convicted criminals get food stamps?
Probably... but it was a weird way of saying they're left with no money.
Agreed. It would be the seizing of assets of the other drug cartels.
Personally responsible.
And then hanged after they go broke!
Let them experience true poverty.