― Sarah, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
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
― Menelaus Darcy, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Samantha, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Iced coffee everywhere else is a frappe: cream, crushed ice, sugar, coffee.
Ice cream in coffee is a milkshake, only if you BLEND it.
― suzy, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Geoff, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ronan, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
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.
― Ally, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
(At this point, Sarah remembers she does not even have a kettle)...
That explains alot.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
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.
― David Raposa, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― katie, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― james, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tom, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Helen Fordsdale, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
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.
― Brian MacDonald, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Maria, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Lived ontop of a coffee shop for awhile and the smell in the morning of four pots brewing at once was amazing.
― Mr Noodles, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 23 May 2003 01:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 23 May 2003 02:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
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.
― Abbott, Friday, 28 September 2007 20:07 (sixteen years ago) link
hoochie coochie
― carne asada, Friday, 28 September 2007 20:09 (sixteen years ago) link
fat
― Abbott, Friday, 28 September 2007 20:09 (sixteen years ago) link
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!
― Maria, Friday, 28 September 2007 20:57 (sixteen years ago) link
i like this essay. bring on the 1,3,7-trimethylxanthine.
― tipsy mothra, Friday, 23 November 2007 18:17 (sixteen years ago) link
that is good. she never quite says it, but i like the idea of coffee as being partially responsible for the enlightenment.
― negotiable, Friday, 23 November 2007 19:20 (sixteen years ago) link
It is difficult, at best, to get a good cup of coffee in San Francisco. Why this is, I have no idea.
― libcrypt, Sunday, 25 November 2007 21:06 (sixteen years ago) link
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.”
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.”
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 24 January 2008 19:12 (sixteen years ago) link
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!
― j.lu, Thursday, 24 January 2008 19:55 (sixteen years ago) link
this shit is not good for you
― and what, Thursday, 24 January 2008 19:57 (sixteen years ago) link
but it's the future! of shit that's not good for you
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 24 January 2008 20:26 (sixteen years ago) link
(It even has an Ethernet connection that can feed a complete record of its configurations to a Web database.)
Oh ffs.
― stevienixed, Thursday, 24 January 2008 20:38 (sixteen years ago) link
They can take my coffee away...when they pry my cold dead fingers off the cup.
― j.lu, Thursday, 24 January 2008 20:43 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Abbott, Friday, 25 January 2008 00:55 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.discostyle.com/discochart/191-200/192b.jpg
― deej, Friday, 25 January 2008 01:00 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― nabisco, Friday, 25 January 2008 02:01 (sixteen years ago) link
"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"
― nabisco, Friday, 25 January 2008 02:03 (sixteen years ago) link
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>
― Abbott, Friday, 25 January 2008 02:05 (sixteen years ago) link
How do I shot water
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 25 January 2008 02:20 (sixteen years ago) link
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*
― stevienixed, Thursday, 13 March 2008 18:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes, I crossposted this shit. And YES I know I said that it's bad for my migraine. but fuck it, I'm craving for lattes. BIG TIME.
It really depends how high your standards are. Do you want really good quality espresso or is it more just that you want your caffiene with some frothy milk.
If the former is really important to you, you're going to have to lay out hundreds of dollars. The cheapest non-pod machines that meet espresso snob standards are the La Pavoni Europiccola and the Rancilio Silvia, and they both run in the $500-700 range. And the Pavoni is STILL not easy to froth milk with, although you can learn to do it (don't know how the Silvia is).
The Nespresso machines are actually considered very good and much cheaper so you might want to re-think it - although otoh the coffee pods are much more expensive than buying your own coffee so it's kind of like the printer/ink thing in the long run. You'll get a more consistent result (and less work and mess) without having to grind and tamp yourself. I'd re-consider it unless you have some kind of ethical problem with the Nestle corporation.
Espresso drinks are not easy to do right, but they are a wonderful thing. This site is a pretty good comprehensive guide:
http://coffeegeek.com/
― Hurting 2, Thursday, 13 March 2008 18:58 (sixteen years ago) link
I have an 8-cup Pavoni. I can't quite get a pro-style cappuccino out of it, let alone three or four, and I've been told that it's because the little thing just doesn't produce the amount of steam you need. The drinks I make are just as tasty and satisfying though, just not as impressive-looking.
Those machines you see in Grumpy or Joe or wherever often cost anywhere from $8000-$15000.
― Hurting 2, Thursday, 13 March 2008 19:04 (sixteen years ago) link
A waaaaaay cheaper option: I really love my bialetti stovetop espresso maker. it is not up to fancy espresso machine standards, but it makes lovely lattes for me. and they now have a model (Brikka) that supposedly forms a real crema. http://www.bialettishop.com/index.html
― mizzell, Thursday, 13 March 2008 20:43 (sixteen years ago) link
I really love my bialetti stovetop espresso maker that's all ya need
― carne asada, Thursday, 13 March 2008 20:45 (sixteen years ago) link
also cooking orzo. champion of the fuckin world
― imago, Thursday, 28 March 2024 20:40 (one month ago) link
coffee + beers is a low key speedball
― calstars, Thursday, 28 March 2024 20:43 (one month ago) link
Found a can of cafe du Monde in my cabinet, made some strong brew, that is some good sh1t
― calstars, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 21:30 (two weeks ago) link
has some chicory or something, yeah?
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 22:11 (two weeks ago) link
I guessThe ground was pretty coarse so I put 1 1/3 servings in and yup dark af
― calstars, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 22:30 (two weeks ago) link
I drank a coffee at 5pm and now it is 4am and I'm lying awake buzzing. I need to be up at 7. That is all.
― fly fishing by j.r. ewing (Matt #2), Thursday, 9 May 2024 02:47 (two weeks ago) link
My golden rule is as much coffee in the morning as I want, but the after-lunch espresso is always the last of the day
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 9 May 2024 03:00 (two weeks ago) link
I do last sip has to be before 3pm and no more than 3 cups
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 9 May 2024 03:34 (two weeks ago) link
Same here, except I'm back in London for a couple of weeks and hadn't had a coffee since May 1st as I refuse to buy anything from St@rbucks et al. I let my standards slip! Thus I got 2 hours sleep. A lesson learned the hard way.
― fly fishing by j.r. ewing (Matt #2), Thursday, 9 May 2024 06:59 (two weeks ago) link
I got an espresso machine for free after a couple of friends replaced theirs. It makes very good coffee but has two problems: 1. most of the water does not make it to the cup 2. the coffee is not piping hot. According to the couple, the water leaks through the ventilator and I would need to dismantle and clean all the tubes inside. I tried descaling, and I think the machine wants tabs, so I'll try tabs. If I run water before making the coffee, the temperature is fine. Since I'm likely to do more harm than good by opening it and since I had it for free, I could show it to a professional, but I also welcome free advice from a community for whom coffee is pretty important :)
― Nabozo, Thursday, 9 May 2024 15:15 (two weeks ago) link
Same rules as Zelda and Man Alive btw
― Nabozo, Thursday, 9 May 2024 15:17 (two weeks ago) link
my cutoff is 2pm and no more than 2 cups. Unless... I have coffee really late, like almost right before bed. Then, I can get away with it.
― beard papa, Thursday, 9 May 2024 15:22 (two weeks ago) link
I have a second cup at 3. Sometimes makes me sleepy fsr
― calstars, Thursday, 9 May 2024 16:40 (two weeks ago) link
Coffee in the morning. Kinda fucks me up when I drink it in the afternoon.
― default damager (lukas), Thursday, 9 May 2024 16:54 (two weeks ago) link
A cup after dinner is nice, at a restaurant or Thanksgiving dinner
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 9 May 2024 17:31 (two weeks ago) link
I'll also have a half-caff sometimes if I'm out and about
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 9 May 2024 17:32 (two weeks ago) link
I slam an instant one before going out to party at 8pm
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 9 May 2024 17:33 (two weeks ago) link
― calstars, Thursday, 9 May 2024 18:01 (two weeks ago) link
I watch a lot of 40's movies and they were drinking ocoffee all ohours o the night and day - I see it as a good path
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 9 May 2024 20:20 (two weeks ago) link
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.
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Friday, 10 May 2024 07:11 (two weeks ago) link
that’s a top-notch premise
― call all destroyer, Friday, 10 May 2024 10:04 (two weeks ago) link
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. :/
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 10 May 2024 10:24 (two weeks ago) link
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?
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 10 May 2024 10:48 (two weeks ago) link
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.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 10 May 2024 10:57 (two weeks ago) link
I'm on coffee no 2, I meant.
Not judging! Whatever works
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 10 May 2024 11:01 (two weeks ago) link
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.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 10 May 2024 11:09 (two weeks ago) link
If it feels good do it imo though if you have trouble sleeping sometimes yeah maybe dial it back idk.
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 10 May 2024 11:31 (two weeks ago) link
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.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 10 May 2024 13:07 (two weeks ago) link
._.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 10 May 2024 13:09 (two weeks ago) link
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.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 10 May 2024 13:12 (two weeks ago) link
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.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Friday, 10 May 2024 13:18 (two weeks ago) link
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)
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 10 May 2024 13:19 (two weeks ago) link
fwiw enbb i find your situation re: caffeine kind of relatable :)
you got high af off acetaminophen (tylenol)?
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 10 May 2024 13:22 (two weeks ago) link
x-post - I should prob cop to also drinking between .5l and 2l of diet coke every day on top of the coffee.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 10 May 2024 13:35 (two weeks ago) link
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.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 10 May 2024 13:36 (two weeks ago) link
cool it turbo tax
― calstars, Friday, 10 May 2024 13:50 (two weeks ago) link
lol
I just made an americano. I will stop there and at least it's not espresso?
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 10 May 2024 14:17 (two weeks ago) link
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.
― Nabozo, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 10:03 (one week ago) link
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
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 10:09 (one week ago) link
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.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 10:38 (one week ago) link
I've also been drinking caffeine free diet coke. I'm not happy about it but I'm doing it.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 10:39 (one week ago) link
xp: I suggest using either the keel, troy pond, pood, corgee, or cullingey.
― Nabozo, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 11:16 (one week ago) link