Coffee

you ever smell like a plastic travel coffee mug? it is a gross stale coffee smell. drip machines smell the same way

I wouldn't drink coffee out of a plastic travel mug, but it seems like the few minutes it comes in contact with the cone while it's brewing is not enough to impart a noticeable off flavor or aroma to the finished product. I think the problem with the mug is that you smell it while you're drinking, not that off flavors actually seep back out of the plastic into the coffee.

flavors cld def get into the cof imo better go ceramic to be safe

iirc the rancidity index of a plastic travel mug drastically decreases when used by someone who is not a disgusting savage & knows to rinse his shit out on the daily

i just ambushed you with plastic cup cancer

lol

hahaha

You know who has made great reasonably-priced coffee beans forever? Zabar's. My mom brews their coffee chemex and I always look forward to drinking it at my parents' house.

Love this thread and the different levs of cof appresh itt

i feel less weird itt

i bought some creamer for the cof at work bcz it's too bad to drink str8

here it is

http://naturalbliss.coffee-mate.com/Assets/images/thum_facebook_vanilla.png

it's natural so u know it's good

natty bliss

it's actually milk, cream, and flavor, which I am kind of stoked abt bcz I have long lamented the lack of availability of like just flavored dairy creamer, get this bullshit emulsified vegetable oil tf outta my cof

UPDATE:

It's good!

i need to try that

The salt in bad coffee trick seems to work pretty well.

the salt in just about everything trick is p good in general

I've tried sprinkling salt on some ILX threads. Ineffective.

mr veg was doing the salt thing for a while but he was like, "the thing is, it's still bad coffee"

poll everyone: should i clean my hario drip pot? i haven't cleaned it in about 2 years i think

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/D6DBC79F-AB3A-4196-9D7C-062289EA331F_zpswkvneyfi.jpg

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um yes

let's not be hasty

question: is coffee a self-cleansing liquid?

no; the seasoned patina optimizes and enhances the coffee flavor.

cf dirtbag style

Califa Farms cold brew concentrate is smooth and tasty if you're the kind of weirdo who doesn't water it down or add milk (like me). I've finally accepted that grocery store cold brew isn't that much more expensive than DIY.

stevie otm, that's like a well-seasoned cast iron skillet of coffeemaking

I was in a training course today yerman sez at about eleven dyis want to go get a coffee and I'll see ye back here in five mins I sideeyed and sdmdh fool you can't plunge a good cof in less than six

xp to stevie I've had that creamer before & it *is* good; like, better than it should be? idk, v much into it thoug

ya I want to try the others! The only thing I don't like is that the ratio of flavor and creaminess are locked in, like i can't make it creamier w/o making it sweeter and vice versa

I AM A MILLENNIAL AND I WANT OPTIONS

haha the lack of options is exactly why I like it! tho my preference on any given day fluctuates between black/cream/cream+sugar/sugar (in descending order of frequency), the fixed ratio of that particular creamer generally hits the spot for my "cream+sugar" preference while giving me one less thing to potentially screw up! (I prefer to pour cream and/or sugar first & then add the coffee -- saves the need for a spoon or stirrer, makes it easier to see how much I'm using, & raises the stakes a bit since I'm stuck with whatever comes out)

bernard snowy that is a #cof #lifehack for the ages!!!!!!!!

#cofhof

Coffee has oils in it that go rancid, hence I favor frequent cleaning.

always clean dirty things

not exactly related to cleaning but i've heard it said that bialettis get better with age

every once in a while i attack mine with steel wool for like 20 minutes to see how shiny i can get it

guys what's your preferred roast, y'all go for the lights or the mediums or the darks? or light-medium/medium-dark?

i buy from a third wave place thats def on the light-medium spectrum, like they dont even label them as such

its good nice fresh beans, need to buy some more had to drink a canned cof this morn

canned cof not the best cof

its not... terrible tho? i think i mentioned i bought it just to have some quick caffeine around before workouts but i dont hate it tbf, i started drinking the canned cof on long drives and i kinda grew to like it in its own way, i just love sugar too, which i dont allow myself in my cof generally

it can be good

the japanese have some good canned cof

my exp has been with bad canned cof in mainland china though

where the cof is not readily available

and the canned cof is all like

sugary frappucino knockoffs

cant get any caff

guys what's your preferred roast, y'all go for the lights or the mediums or the darks? or light-medium/medium-dark?

― nomar, Wednesday, March 2, 2016 1:08 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark

i like medium-dark (a 'vienna' roast i think?) for blends and low priced beans

i like the whole foods big bags they're cheap and p good

back when i used to do single origin or plantation or w/e i went with city or full city roasts for maximum flavor

i think light roast coffee can be bright/sour and fatiguing after a while i have come to appreciate the darker roasts

if a light roast is sour that generally means its under extracted (of course sour is subjective so it cld mean anything)

i like medium tho cause im extremely reasonable

for me it varies by region like the central/south american coffees tend to be sour but not the african ones, same extraction meth

huh interesting