Coffee, how do you take it?

Wolfman · Post by **Wolfman** » Tue Aug 25, 2015 9:51 pm

Rack the ChemEx. Holy crap Goobs, I have one of those. It was my Dad's and somehow we still have it here. AND--(and this is kind of creepy)--we just used it a couple weeks ago when our coffee maker was acting up. Made coffee as good as any. Just doesn't have any bells and whistles like the electric gadgets.

....and---now we know why Moving Sale feels "loggy" ??

smackaholic · Post by **smackaholic** » Wed Aug 26, 2015 12:07 am

I will stick with my Bunn My Cafe that I picked up a few years ago. Makes a great cup and I believe it functions much like a pour over, when using the refillable filter. It sort of works like a kurig that is actually servicable. The only service you can do on the kurig machine is to haul it out to the trashcan when it breaks. And yes, it will.

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Wed Aug 26, 2015 12:57 pm

smackaholic wrote:I will stick with my Bunn My Cafe that I picked up a few years ago. Makes a great cup and I believe it functions much like a pour over, when using the refillable filter.

Jesse Raub, author of the java-enthusiast website Bitter Press, tells us that “regular drip coffee makers don't evenly wet the coffee grounds, which leaves your coffee unevenly extracted. Hand-pouring the water offers you an easy, controlled method for ensuring even distribution.”

Peasant.

mvscal · Post by **mvscal** » Thu Aug 27, 2015 8:48 pm

Goober McTuber wrote:
Papa Willie wrote:I don't drink much coffee, but when I do - I like it to be about the same color and taste as basic diarrhea.
Recently bought one of these:

Invented 74 years ago, and designers at the Illinois Institute of Technology said that the Chemex Coffeemaker is "one of the best-designed products of modern times", and so is included to the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

Key to making really good coffee is to get the grind uniform and slightly coarse, so I bought a burr grinder.

This is why pour over coffee is the best.

Better than a French press? I like the simplicity of the design.

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Thu Aug 27, 2015 8:51 pm

I like my coffee like I like my women: balck as fukk.

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Thu Aug 27, 2015 8:52 pm

Moving Sale wrote:How do it take my coffee? In the ass of course.

Sin,
KCpurseswinningtranny

I laughed.

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Thu Aug 27, 2015 9:11 pm

mvscal wrote:
Goober McTuber wrote:
Papa Willie wrote:I don't drink much coffee, but when I do - I like it to be about the same color and taste as basic diarrhea.
Recently bought one of these:

Invented 74 years ago, and designers at the Illinois Institute of Technology said that the Chemex Coffeemaker is "one of the best-designed products of modern times", and so is included to the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

Key to making really good coffee is to get the grind uniform and slightly coarse, so I bought a burr grinder.

This is why pour over coffee is the best.

Better than a French press? I like the simplicity of the design.

Yes. I shelved my press as soon as I bought this.

Diego in Seattle · Post by **Diego in Seattle** » Thu Aug 27, 2015 9:21 pm

Goober McTuber wrote:
Papa Willie wrote:I don't drink much coffee, but when I do - I like it to be about the same color and taste as basic diarrhea.
Recently bought one of these:

Invented 74 years ago, and designers at the Illinois Institute of Technology said that the Chemex Coffeemaker is "one of the best-designed products of modern times", and so is included to the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

Key to making really good coffee is to get the grind uniform and slightly coarse, so I bought a burr grinder.

This is why pour over coffee is the best.

Damn that's a blast from the past. My parents used one of those when I was little.

mvscal · Post by **mvscal** » Thu Sep 03, 2015 3:16 am

Goober McTuber wrote:Yes. I shelved my press as soon as I bought this.

Sounded good to me. I ordered the 8 cup glass handled job...err design. Seriously, it was a revelation. I did my full [

] internet due diligence [/

] and, with a shit grind (too coarse) on shit beans...still....

Good fucking coffee. Very good fucking coffee.

Go Coogs' · Post by **Go Coogs'** » Thu Sep 03, 2015 3:47 am

A pinch of cream.

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Thu Sep 03, 2015 4:57 am

Funny, I was watching this old (1966 or so) movie last night with Paul Newman called Harper. He got up in the morning and had to fold a round filter into a cone to use in this pre-historic drip coffee maker, which I thought was kind of strange.

So he gets the kettle on, folds the filter and then realizes there's no coffee left in the can. Then he shows another amazing thing about the Chemex - pulled the previous day's used filter, with the coffee grounds still in it, from the trash and re-used it. So I guess you can save money with the Chemex by using the same coffee grounds over and over.

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Thu Sep 03, 2015 1:44 pm

mvscal wrote:
Goober McTuber wrote:Yes. I shelved my press as soon as I bought this.
Sounded good to me. I ordered the 8 cup glass handled job...err design. Seriously, it was a revelation. I did my full [ ] internet due diligence [/ ] and, with a shit grind (too coarse) on shit beans...still....

Good fucking coffee. Very good fucking coffee.

I bought this burr grinder for under $20.

http://www.amazon.com/Consistent-Hand-C ... rr+grinder

Took two quick adjustments to get the grind I wanted. Set it and forget it. I almost fill the top chamber with beans and that's the perfect amount for a half-fill on the 8-cup Chemex. Glad you like it.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial · Thu Sep 03, 2015 3:56 pm

Go Coogs' wrote:A pinch of cream.

Every once in a while I like a splash of skim milk in my iced coffee. But...what's the fuckin' deal with some of these joints that won't put it in for you? They just point over to a counter with that little carafe sitting there suggesting it's my job to do it. Why is this considered acceptable customer service? If I'm paying you 100% of the cost of the drink, you should prepare 100% of the drink. I tell ya, the struggle is real...

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Thu Sep 03, 2015 4:15 pm

Goober McTuber wrote:

I bought this burr grinder for under $20.

http://www.amazon.com/Consistent-Hand-C ... rr+grinder

Took two quick adjustments to get the grind I wanted. Set it and forget it. I almost fill the top chamber with beans and that's the perfect amount for a half-fill on the 8-cup Chemex. Glad you like it.

Got one of these burr grinders last year. Maybe not as cool as the hand crank but quick, and you can go and do other things (like fill up the water) while the beans are grinding.

Plus, it produces the db equivalent of a small jet engine so it wakes up everybody else in the house when I grind my coffee at 5:00 a.m., which is a good thing.

http://www.amazon.com/Cuisinart-DBM-8-S ... ee+grinder

smackaholic · Post by **smackaholic** » Fri Sep 04, 2015 1:43 am

Walked up to the starbucks counter at the airport yesterday and ordered a large coffee. I refuse to call it a grande or whateverthefukk. The server chick asks me if I had time for a "pour over". I said sure. I suspect that 90% of her customers respond with WTF is a pour over? Being an enlightened T1Ber, I did not.

It was fine. Any different from their usual coffee? I doubt it. But, then again, wtf would a coffee peasant know?

smackaholic · Post by **smackaholic** » Fri Sep 04, 2015 1:48 am

Goober McTuber wrote:
smackaholic wrote:I will stick with my Bunn My Cafe that I picked up a few years ago. Makes a great cup and I believe it functions much like a pour over, when using the refillable filter.

Jesse Raub, author of the java-enthusiast website Bitter Press, tells us that “regular drip coffee makers don't evenly wet the coffee grounds, which leaves your coffee unevenly extracted. Hand-pouring the water offers you an easy, controlled method for ensuring even distribution.”
Peasant.

The Bunn isn't a regular drip maker, gramps. It runs the water through fairly quickly. A regular drip maker trickles water through enough coffee to make a pot, so I can see what ^^^ coffee fag dude says.

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Tue Sep 08, 2015 12:29 pm

I know what a Bunn is, Corky. I own one. The wife uses it. It runs the water through fairly quickly because it holds water heated in a reservoir. It doesn't have to heat the water as it makes the coffee. It also doesn't allow the coffee to "bloom" as it just dumps a continuous little shower of water start to finish. Water that's generally not quite as hot as is used in a pour over. It's still a drip coffee maker.

mvscal · Post by **mvscal** » Tue Sep 08, 2015 1:30 pm

Goober McTuber wrote:I know what a Bunn is, Corky. I own one. The wife uses it.

Python · Post by **Python** » Tue Sep 08, 2015 11:56 pm

Rack mv.

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Wed Sep 09, 2015 1:15 am

Goober McTuber wrote:I know what a Bunn is... I own one.

Stop me if you've heard this one before.... never mind, too late.

When I visited my sister and brother in Wisky TG before last, they were both using Joe Dimaggio type coffee makers. Takes like 15-20 minutes to brew one fucking pot of coffee. I'm like, wtf is with this? Never heard of a Bunn? I need my fucking coffee in the morning. Give me my coffee and no one gets hurt.

You think I'm an asshole when I'm drunk? Wait until you see me in the morning, waiting on an ancient (and loud) coffee maker to percolate.

They were offended. I'm good at doing that to my siblings.

But despite their protestations that they were just fine with waiting for their coffee, I insisted that they must needs have a Bunn.

One of these days, I may send them one for Christmas. Certainly, before I drive 600-700 miles to their liberal hell holes again and have to look at them the next morning.

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Wed Sep 09, 2015 2:37 am

I guess it is age creaping up on me, but I now have one cup a day at 10:15 AM. I have 1st generation Kurig that takes two minutes to warm up. My wife bought it because she likes a cup of tea. I like it because I can go from start to drinking the coffee in under 4 minutes. I still put a lot of cream and sweetener in my cups.

lovebuzz · Post by **lovebuzz** » Wed Sep 09, 2015 6:16 am

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:
Mikey wrote:I mail order a "Kona Blend" in 2 lb bags. Not sure what the actual blend is but it tastes really good - a medium roast that's great with bfast. I grind it one pot at a time to a medium grind and brew it in a Cuisinart drip machine that I got at Costco. Always black and not sweetened, unless I'm drinking it at night with booze mixed in.
^^Gets is.

Similar thoughts. Similar habits but different beans, local and recent roast matter as much as the source. I grind my own.
Also minus booze add a French Press here and there.
i've been slanging coffee for a few years and am admittedly spoiled and persnickety.
While it baffles the mind that so many around here drink shitty swill coffee, it does not surprise.

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Wed Sep 09, 2015 1:17 pm

lovebuzz wrote:
MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:
Mikey wrote:I mail order a "Kona Blend" in 2 lb bags. Not sure what the actual blend is but it tastes really good - a medium roast that's great with bfast. I grind it one pot at a time to a medium grind and brew it in a Cuisinart drip machine that I got at Costco. Always black and not sweetened, unless I'm drinking it at night with booze mixed in.
^^Gets is.
Similar thoughts. Similar habits but different beans, local and recent roast matter as much as the source. I grind my own.
Also minus booze add a French Press here and there.
i've been slanging coffee for a few years and am admittedly spoiled and persnickety.
While it baffles the mind that so many around here drink shitty swill coffee, it does not surprise.

They drink shitty swill beer, too.

Hi, Buzzer!

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Mon Oct 19, 2015 3:51 pm

Ever heard of Todd Carmichael? Renowned coffee nerd who's had a couple of TV shows on the Travel Channel ("Dangerous Grounds", "Uncommon Grounds"). He has a relatively new manual coffee maker:

Only $395.

http://www.lacolombe.com/products/dragon

http://www.thecoffeecompass.com/coffee- ... on-brewer/

Sidenote for poptart from Carmichael's bio:

On December 21, 2008, Carmichael became the first American to cross from the shores of Antarctica to the South Pole, on foot and unassisted. In doing so, he broke the World Speed Record with a total travel time of 39 days, 7 hours and 49 minutes.

smackaholic · Post by **smackaholic** » Mon Oct 19, 2015 5:01 pm

So, he hiked to the icewall, pissed on it and turned around?

Left Seater · Post by **Left Seater** » Mon Oct 19, 2015 5:57 pm

smackaholic wrote:So, he hiked to the icewall, pissed on it and turned around?

Yeah yeah, big deal. Where is the live shot, publicly available, of this alleged trip. Of course he didn't cross to the other side since...uhhh crap which line do I use here?

Sincerely,

Pop

atmdad · Post by **atmdad** » Mon Oct 19, 2015 11:35 pm

Goober McTuber wrote:

WTF. Does this guy drink coffee or smoke it?

Atomic Punk · Post by **Atomic Punk** » Mon Oct 19, 2015 11:51 pm

I've watched a few of his shows on cable. He goes to many 3rd world countries looking for coffee beans. I remember one of him being in Columbia and you see all of these areas of stripped soil on hillsides. He said the farmers let it be used for cocoa plants that sucked up the nutrients in the soil to where nothing can grow there. Then he would find banana trees and looked under them for coffee plants. He would pick a few ripe beans and use a grinder and brew them on site to see if they were any good. If they were good, he would offer the land owner good money for X amount of bags to be shipped to him. He talked about how companies would buy random coffee beans from the farmers to combine the beans to make "blends." So the crap people buy here that are blends are getting whatever shit that isn't any good.

Interesting series of shows. I don't drink coffee and couldn't care less what people buy.

Of course here's this: "When I buy coffee, I want to taste it. Bonnie buys shit."

The Seer · Post by **The Seer** » Tue Oct 20, 2015 9:31 pm

Lots of cream, lots of sugar....

Safeway Kitchens Columbian with Int'l Delight Hazelnut.

All you coffee snobs can go fuck yourselves right next to the beer snobs.

mvscal · Post by **mvscal** » Tue Oct 20, 2015 11:09 pm

Goober McTuber wrote:Ever heard of Todd Carmichael? Renowned coffee nerd who's had a couple of TV shows on the Travel Channel ("Dangerous Grounds", "Uncommon Grounds"). He has a relatively new manual coffee maker:

Only $395.

http://www.lacolombe.com/products/dragon

http://www.thecoffeecompass.com/coffee- ... on-brewer/

"The Dragon"? Seriously? And for only $395?

More like "The Douchenozzle"

smackaholic · Post by **smackaholic** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 12:21 am

War Wagon wrote:You think I'm an asshole when I'm drunk? Wait until you see me in the morning, waiting on an ancient (and loud) coffee maker to percolate.

An automatic drip coffee maker does not percolate, dumbfukk.

Shlomart Ben Yisrael · Wed Oct 21, 2015 12:29 am

smackaholic wrote:
War Wagon wrote:You think I'm an asshole when I'm drunk? Wait until you see me in the morning, waiting on an ancient (and loud) coffee maker to percolate.
An automatic drip coffee maker does not percolate, dumbfukk.

He meant to type percocet.

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 12:48 am

smackaholic wrote:
An automatic drip coffee maker does not percolate, dumbfukk.

It only took you 6 weeks to come with... that?

Take a shit lap around your foundation, backwards.

smackaholic · Post by **smackaholic** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 3:20 am

Sorry dude, but the statute of limitations for vocabulary smack is 6 months in this shithole, so go EAD.

mvscal · Post by **mvscal** » Fri Oct 23, 2015 1:53 pm

Shlomart Ben Yisrael wrote:percocet.

Oh, Jesus Shitballs!! Save some for me, fellas. I'm on my way!!

MgoBlue-LightSpecial · Fri Oct 23, 2015 4:42 pm

mvscal wrote:Oh, Jesus Shitballs!! Save some for me, fellas. I'm on my way!!

Shlomart Ben Yisrael · Fri Oct 23, 2015 10:08 pm

Diego in Seattle · Post by **Diego in Seattle** » Sat Oct 24, 2015 5:31 am

Felix · Post by **Felix** » Sun Oct 25, 2015 5:04 pm

poptart wrote:Didn't take long for us to find out who the Starbucks faggot is.

there's absolutely nothing wrong with drinking Starbucks, it's good coffee.....every morning I have a triple venti mocha, that's three shots of espresso flavored with some chocolate.....that'll get you rolling in a hurry....if you would have told me five years ago I'd be paying $5 for a cup of coffee I would have said you were out of your mind.....now I do it almost every day....at home I drink Yuban columbian

mvscal wrote:
Shlomart Ben Yisrael wrote:percocet.
Oh, Jesus Shitballs!! Save some for me, fellas. I'm on my way!!

shouldn't that be signed
/s/
Roger The Shrubber

ironically enough, I blew some of the aforementioned Yuban through my nose when I saw that GIF....

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Mon Oct 26, 2015 1:12 pm

Yuban? WTF? Was Walmart out of Folgers?