Coffee

A friend of mine got a job in Starbucks in the US once, and she said that iced coffee over there was just coffee poured over ice. Is that true? Here it involves ice cream and other stuff

Iced coffee everywhere else is a frappe: cream, crushed ice, sugar, coffee.

Ice cream in coffee is a milkshake, only if you BLEND it.

I drink at least one cup of coffee a day. But I'm not addicted to it, like I can go for like 3 months without coffee, and then take it up again like that. I do that all the time. I apparently have some sort of caffiene immunity in my blood from my mom drinking like 5 pots a day while she was pregnant with me.

(At this point, Sarah remembers she does not even have a kettle)...

That explains alot.

I like coffee because it's the water of flavored beverages. A judicious amount of cream & sugar, and it's like drinking sweet warmth (which, right now, is fantastic).

Caffeine & me had a nasty break-up about 2 or 3 years ago. We still hook up every so often, but it's always a quickie, and nothing too serious. We have an understanding. Back in college, though, I was all about COKE - I constructed a tower wall of cans from the cases (cases!) of soda I downed on a daily basis. Now, my stomach winces every time I think of eating ... well, anything. But the drug used to LOVE me, oh yeah.

Naturally, I got hooked on the sauce (my form: white chocolate mocha) for a while, but I quit right around the WTC tragedy. There was no need to make myself more tense, when I was already too tense.

I do think the smell of coffee is far, far better than the taste, though.

Lived ontop of a coffee shop for awhile and the smell in the morning of four pots brewing at once was amazing.

I feel like a douche ordering breves and even more of a couche since no one here knows what they are or how to make them. But they are so yum that I don't mind my true doucheness shining through.

hoochie coochie

fat

oh wow this is the 3rd thread this week where i've written what i wrote 6 years ago and been shocked! now i LOVE turkish coffee and real coffee without lots of syrups and crap in it!

i like this essay. bring on the 1,3,7-trimethylxanthine.

that is good. she never quite says it, but i like the idea of coffee as being partially responsible for the enlightenment.

It is difficult, at best, to get a good cup of coffee in San Francisco. Why this is, I have no idea.

Hypercoffee

So far, the Clover is still something of a cult object, with just over 200 machines scattered around the world. But it might soon become a common sight: Starbucks has just bought two.

Designed by three Stanford graduates, it lets the user program every feature of the brewing process, including temperature, water dose and extraction time. (It even has an Ethernet connection that can feed a complete record of its configurations to a Web database.) Not only is each cup brewed to order, but the way each cup is brewed can be tailored to a particular bean — light or dark roast, acidic or sweet, and so on.

The Clover works something like an inverted French press: coffee grounds go into a brew chamber, hot water shoots in and a powerful piston slowly lifts and plunges a filter, forcing the coffee out through a nozzle in the front. The final step, when a cake of spent grounds rises majestically to the top, is so titillating to coffee fanatics that one of them posted a clip of it on YouTube.

“There is some gee-whizness to it,” said Doug Zell, a founder of Intelligentsia. “But hopefully the focus goes back to the cup of coffee.”

In the grand tradition of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_room_coffee_pot";>Trojan Room coffee pot</a>.

In the meantime, coffee? Yes please!

this shit is not good for you

but it's the future! of shit that's not good for you

(It even has an Ethernet connection that can feed a complete record of its configurations to a Web database.)

Oh ffs.

this shit is not good for you

They can take my coffee away...when they pry my cold dead fingers off the cup.

Hahaha the last sentence on the first para made me think somehow the last automatic step the machine did was upload a video of itself to Youtube.

http://www.discostyle.com/discochart/191-200/192b.jpg

http://www.discostyle.com/discochart/191-200/192.jpg

^^^^^^great album

Oh, man, I would pay nearly anything for a coffeemaker that was constantly uploading pictures of itself to its MySpace page and stuff

"got wasteed with the toaster last nite, LOL, i was still makin irish coffee in the morning . man im so bord now, why is the water hear so HARD"

BREWMACHINE'S BLOG

MADE COFFEE

Category: Dining
Current mood: Silly

I made the coffee. I made it. I shot the water into it. Now it is coffee. This was 121º F. It is coffee now. I made the coffee. See my Flicker account.

<link to video>

How do I shot water

Okay, I'm DESPERATE. I want a proper cappuccino/caffe latte maker. So I need a cappuccino machine, right? Anyone have any ideas on which one to get? I don't want one which uses Nespresso (fuck that). Pads are alright but a bonus, not the main thing.

*sigh*

I started reading Travis Baldree’s _Legends & Lattes_ this week, an urban fantasy about a half-orc who has had her fill of adverturin’ and sets up a coffee shop in a town that has never encountered coffee before.

It’s not as Discworld-y as I’d like, but it’s a good start.

that’s a top-notch premise

At work I do a double espresso inside a flat white. I have three of those in the morning and usually 2 in the afternoon. No official cutoff but rarely later than 4. And i wonder why I have trouble sleeping. :/

Recently considered buying decaf for after dinner coffee but haven't. If I'm eating out I almost always get coffee afterwards.

Whoa.. So you have.. 10 espresso shots per day?

Sometimes? That sounds bad when you put it that way and considering my ADHD meds are a stimulant I should prob be more careful. I've on coffee 2 so expresso shot 4. Will stop here today.

I'm on coffee no 2, I meant.

Not judging! Whatever works

I didn't think you were; I'd just never actually considered just how much I was ingesting! That much can't be good no matter how you slice it.

If it feels good do it imo though if you have trouble sleeping sometimes yeah maybe dial it back idk.

That’s probably in the range of caffeine that’s considered unhealthy, esp if you’re also taking a stimulant. Certainly could be interfering with sleep, increasing anxiety and even worsening your adhd symptoms.

._.

Never thought about it making ADHD worse as it usually helps with that for me but I also have GAD so yes. All good points. I will think about this some more this weekend. Maybe the decaf isn't a bad idea.

I've quit again.

I think I've narrowed down the heartburn that seemed to come out of nowhere to the high acid light roast french press coffee I started drinking during the pandemic. I miss it a little, the ritual and the flavor, but green tea is working for me right now and heartburn sucks.

coffee is challenging for me

it's basically the only drug i take except for my prescriptions. i got high as fuck last night off some acetaminophen they prescribed me the last time i had my bits cut up. not, just, for the lulz... the pain from my accidentally giving myself a lip piercing monday has made it pretty hard for me to get through this week. i tend to avoid even OTC meds... in this case i got high and went on the sort of depressive spiral that leads my friends to start telling me they're worried about me

(if you're worried about me, sorry for worrying you, i'm going to be ok, i promise)

anyway the challenge with coffee is that i'm in kind of a state of monty burns homeostasis... the 20 pills a day are enough to let me almost function. caffeine... sometimes it gives me the energy to full-on function. sometimes downing my adderall with a cold brew sends me into a full-on panic attack. panic attacks aren't fun, but if i don't run the risk, i never get anything done at all. i kinda have gotten used to it. anyway. most days it's a large cold brew in the am and a mountain dew at lunch. i should probably change the mountain dew, those things are fucking disgusting. i only drank them because i was addicted to diet major melon, which they fucking stopped making.

i don't always sleep great but mostly that's the nightmares, which have nothing to do with my caffeine intake. (seriously, i'm going to be ok, i just gotta deal with some bullshit sometimes)

fwiw enbb i find your situation re: caffeine kind of relatable :)

you got high af off acetaminophen (tylenol)?

x-post - I should prob cop to also drinking between .5l and 2l of diet coke every day on top of the coffee.

But I'm just normal like this! I'm not running around all speedy all the time. If I cut down am I just not going to be able to function? I don't know who I am if I'm not overly caffeinated at all times.

cool it turbo tax

lol

I just made an americano. I will stop there and at least it's not espresso?

Also depends on what you call a double. If it's just pressing the button twice, it's going to be more like a lungo and you're actually having five coffees per day, not ten.

You can calculate your true caffeine daily intake by weighing the amount of ground coffee you use per cup, divide by a hundred, and multiply by number of cups.

xpost yes it is! an Americano is an espresso with water added! but there's nothing particularly special about espresso vs pourover or whatever i don't think, in terms of caffeine intake

I like Nabozo's totally unit-less freeform maths

lol duh of course it is. This machine is some crappy thing where you push buttons so I don't actually see what's happening. I see what you mean about the double and wondered but, again, it's behind the scenes. There's an option for single espresso and one for double but I have no idea what that actually means. WFH and have had 2 coffees. Just normal ones. Because I know you're all wondering.

I've also been drinking caffeine free diet coke. I'm not happy about it but I'm doing it.

xp: I suggest using either the keel, troy pond, pood, corgee, or cullingey.

https://www.seriouseats.com/the-case-for-bad-coffee

ha, I really enjoyed that, thank you

Fresh diner coffee will always have a place in my heart. I also have always liked Chock Full o’ Nuts, and I have nice memories of the first jet lagged, frothy cup of Nescafé with sugar.

I like the simplicity of my one cup pour over system though.

i grew up on instant though i am not really nostalgic for it tbh but i do enjoy diner coffee

I believe it was in orbit who said that bad coffee is really its own beverage category: “hot brown liquid,” and sometimes that is all you need ( or want)

If you add chickory to bad coffee it becomes a little better. If I ran a diner I would do this

Sorry I meant cinnamon

I also grew up on instant, plus the same supermarket brands the writer mentions, but it's difficult to imagine regressing back to that stuff as one's daily intake. Like, really difficult. Diner coffee is fine if fresh (though I'm seldom in diners anymore).

Baristas who think“Room for milk” is like a centimeter of space at the top just kill me

Chock full has vanished here as of the pandemic. Was my go-to for cold brew partly bcuz i remember my parents, when it became available in Cali in the late 1970s, acting as it was holy grail for coffee. They otherwise brewed Yuban. I just got a 3# tin of Kirkland ground for my next cold brews. . .

Chock full of deez nutz

I believe it was in orbit who said that bad coffee is really its own beverage category: “hot brown liquid,” and sometimes that is all you need ( or want)
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie)

Did ***I*** say that?? How odd. Maybe! There's definitely good bad coffee and bad good coffee.

instant coffee tastes best out of a styrofoam cup walking on a dilapidated pier on a cloudy day

Great piece.

The best coffee is any that’s accompanied by a smoke

xps I usually come across Chock Full at places like Costco and BJ's rather than the grocery store, and yes, I cannot see the name without thinking of Dre or this NewsRadio moment for that matter.

What is the type of person who would want this Willy Wonka-esque Stag kettle I just got an ad for

https://scontent-lga3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/440965724_944182827713582_7332153558600439641_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5f2048&_nc_ohc=LsgqPSZuFjYQ7kNvgE3E57C&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-2.xx&oh=00_AYBoO5mg4iDxjfxBWTsoWeo0hThD-0LvrXmuykJp3uIMGA&oe=66654C13

I don't love that specific color combination but I have nothing against a brightly colored kettle in theory.

I like it! definitely know some people who could fit it into their kitchen style

isn't that more for the electric kettle thread?

just got around to checking out the piece upthread, great read, thanks

Yes, great piece, quincie.

Reminds me of the big Chock Full O Nuts painted sign that was in New York, not sure if it's still there or when

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Chock_fullof_nuts.jpg?20120831120154

Horn & Hardart, the venerable automat brand that featured in so many 1930s-1960s movies about life in New York City is testing the market for bringing back the automat and starting with branded coffee.

https://hornandhardart.com/blogs/blog/reviving-horn-hardart-why-automat-coffee

Joan Crawford drinking coffee at an automat in Sadie McKee (1943)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FMv2Oqko5Q

I’d welcome the return of the automat! Not sure anyone under the age of 50 knows what it is tho

I really liked that article, but though I don't see eye-to-eye with the author about coffee. When I talk to people about coffee, the first thing I usually ask is if they drink it black. If they put sweetener and/or whatever type of milk, then I know we're looking for a slightly different experience.

I will say that I've always repped for diner coffee and I agree with the author that I have far more memorable positive experiences drinking improvised whatever-is-around coffee than high-priced hipster stuff, which when I travel almost always tends to be afternoon coffee and therefore a bad idea (for me). I always enjoy the first morning cup more than the lunchtime cup if I'm honest. I don't know why I still insist on having that second cup. Maybe it's addiction.