Coffee

i miss my morning coffee-making rituals so much although ive gotten some very good lattes from places in my nabe

a bunch of hipsters on mefi trying to bring back percolators

http://ask.metafilter.com/290148/Percolate-me

I have a friend who likes his percolator

imo its time for the percolator

This thread needs a spreadsheet

I keep meaning to tell my mom and my partner's mom that their #pourover4life style is all the rage, but I know they'd both just say very practically, "well it is the easiest and best way for me to make coffee."

rn I am drinking a Colombian single-origin I made with my v60 and it's probably been too long since I ate because it's giving me the jibblies

my mum still busts out the percolator when we have company, i kinda love it

This thread inspired me to get my moka pot out and wash it for tomorrow morning. I haven't made a decent cup of coffee in years. I know the biggest part of the problem is the cheap-ass beans I buy.

three hours later still thinking of the percolator and dancing

you know what is good is yerba mate

it is not a substitute for coffee of course but as a late morning drink it is very good and stimulating in a different way than coffee

i am talking about like the real deal yerba mate that south american grocery stores sell in one-pound bags for like $7. not the bottled shit that whole foods sells for $4 a bottle

I stayed with a friend on vacation who was into that, with the little straw and everything

yea exactly, the shit that people drink out of gourds in uruguay, paraguay, argentina, and chile

he apologized for his lack of gourd

haha

i actually fake it w/ the gourd, i bought a ceramic one when i was in chile 12 years ago because i used the real gourds and they get really funky

it is cool though it is like this earthenware "gourd" from this area chile w/ abundant natural clay

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_Z3eQnsY1h8/TzjnK-lN9eI/AAAAAAAAAYA/-UL9iteq3hQ/s1600/IMG_3553.JPG

*takes a long sip from gourd*

aww yeah gettin' funky now

i always thought mate was kind of a silly affectation deployed by students recently returned from studies abroad in SA but i tried it a bit more when i was actually there myself and dang if it isn't good stuff

oh it is certainly a silly affectation deployed by recent study abroads

it is also very good

it is also like ubiquitous in southern cone SA

i would see people riding bicycles with a thermos in one hand and a gourd in the other

Back in the 1990s one of my friends had an Argentinian exchange student who introduced us to mate. After he moved on, I bugged the guys at the local natural foods place about it, but they never got around to figuring out how to order the stuff. All banging my head on the shelf with my eyes crossed trying to find it among the goldenseal and thistle teas.

I've had the Guayaki tea bag stuff, which wasn't all that impressive. Maybe its time to run this stuff down again. Anybody got any recs for a good loose mate source?

mate rules, fuiud

last 2 times I had it were straight from a thermos my Argentinian landlord was drinking from, and out of a gourd over breakfast w/ this Argentinian dude who I couch-surfed with in Miami. The only thing Argentinians seem to love more than mate is sharing mate w/ other ppl, v hospitable and chill imo.

I think of all of the hot caffeinated beverage cultures, mate totally wins. there's something really trusting and intimate abt sharing a straw or a cup w/ someone.

xps to hows life, just go to hispanic/latino grocery store and you will see cheap bags like this that is way better than anything in a tea bag or bottle:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fe/Yerba_Mate_on_Market_Shelf.jpg/1024px-Yerba_Mate_on_Market_Shelf.jpg

ive had the taragui brand, rosamonte, amanda, and the canarias and i think i like the taragui and amanda better but they're all good

The only thing Argentinians seem to love more than mate is sharing mate w/ other ppl, v hospitable and chill imo.

― police patrol felt the smell of smoke and found that goat burns (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, February 18, 2016 12:06 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think of all of the hot caffeinated beverage cultures, mate totally wins. there's something really trusting and intimate abt sharing a straw or a cup w/ someone.

― police patrol felt the smell of smoke and found that goat burns (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, February 18, 2016 12:06 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh totally, there is very much a social & sharing experience about mate drinking that is very chill and friendly

lol i did do a study abroad program in chile and when my host family saw that i liked mate they were super excited and gave me my own little electric kettle to keep in my room so i could make it whenever i wanted

We don't have many hispanic groceries in my area and the one that I know about is very small, but I'll check them out anyway. Thanks.

I think of all of the hot caffeinated beverage cultures, mate totally wins. there's something really trusting and intimate abt sharing a straw or a cup w/ someone.

― police patrol felt the smell of smoke and found that goat burns (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, February 18, 2016 12:06 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

mods plz ban stevie from the coffee thread

will check one of the local groceries for mate varieties

I drank mate often when I stopped drinking coffee and caffeinated tea, which was only twice in my life but for year-long stretches. It was nice but it is no coffee. Coffee produces just the right subtle anxiety I need to get the kind of work I do done (deadline lyfe)

That's what I liked about the mate. Peaceful energy. Cleaner buzz. I understand the need to get a little bit rattled though.

jfc make a matte thread u cowards

srsly I'm gonna go out and get some coffee, and when I get back, no more of this

m8

I def prefer coffee over mate as a bev but c'mon y'all you'd have to be completely bonkers to argue that 3rd wave coffee culture is like lovelier than mate culture

when is being lovely or communal something to aspire for!!

*slurps cof*

i think ill drink my morning drugs out of a dried out pumpkin with a metal straw for no reason this makes sense

http://i.imgur.com/9iMqmJR.png

makes as much sense as anything

actually it makes less sense than most things

don't question other ppls cultures that's like so rude

why don't we start questioning that flippy thing at the top of your shirt called a collar what's the point of THAT thing huh????? just additional fabric to spill coffee on

im not questioning other ppls culture im dismissing it

real talk tho, my new home setup setup (freshly burr-ground beans + pourover w/ a scale) has turned me into SUCH a coff diva that I am like trying to investigate which places grind their own beans. Like even if that shit's brewed in a machine and sits in a carafe for an hour I just want something that tastes ok

xp lmaooo

i think the trick might be ordering americanos everywhere instead of asking for drip coffee