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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month ago) link
xp: I suggest using either the keel, troy pond, pood, corgee, or cullingey.
― Nabozo, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 11:16 (one month ago) link
https://www.seriouseats.com/the-case-for-bad-coffee
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 1 June 2024 16:54 (two weeks ago) link
ha, I really enjoyed that, thank you
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Saturday, 1 June 2024 16:57 (two weeks ago) link
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.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 1 June 2024 17:25 (two weeks ago) link
i grew up on instant though i am not really nostalgic for it tbh but i do enjoy diner coffee
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 1 June 2024 17:30 (two weeks ago) link
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), Saturday, 1 June 2024 17:35 (two weeks ago) link
If you add chickory to bad coffee it becomes a little better. If I ran a diner I would do this
― calstars, Saturday, 1 June 2024 18:30 (two weeks ago) link
Sorry I meant cinnamon
― calstars, Saturday, 1 June 2024 18:31 (two weeks ago) link
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).
― Josefa, Saturday, 1 June 2024 21:24 (two weeks ago) link
Baristas who think“Room for milk” is like a centimeter of space at the top just kill me
― calstars, Saturday, 1 June 2024 21:28 (two weeks ago) link
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. . .
― gneiss, gneiss, very gneiss (outdoor_miner), Saturday, 1 June 2024 21:49 (two weeks ago) link
Chock full of deez nutz
― calstars, Saturday, 1 June 2024 21:50 (two weeks ago) link
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.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Saturday, 1 June 2024 23:15 (two weeks ago) link
instant coffee tastes best out of a styrofoam cup walking on a dilapidated pier on a cloudy day
― brimstead, Saturday, 1 June 2024 23:26 (two weeks ago) link
Great piece.
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 1 June 2024 23:41 (two weeks ago) link
The best coffee is any that’s accompanied by a smoke
― calstars, Saturday, 1 June 2024 23:58 (two weeks ago) link
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.
― birdistheword, Saturday, 1 June 2024 23:59 (two weeks ago) link
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
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 4 June 2024 21:02 (two weeks ago) link
I don't love that specific color combination but I have nothing against a brightly colored kettle in theory.
― default damager (lukas), Tuesday, 4 June 2024 23:58 (two weeks ago) link
I like it! definitely know some people who could fit it into their kitchen style
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 5 June 2024 00:23 (two weeks ago) link
isn't that more for the electric kettle thread?
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 00:24 (two weeks ago) link
just got around to checking out the piece upthread, great read, thanks
― sknybrg, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 01:20 (two weeks ago) link
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
― felicity, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 07:30 (two weeks ago) link
I’d welcome the return of the automat! Not sure anyone under the age of 50 knows what it is tho
― calstars, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 11:51 (two weeks ago) link
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.
― beard papa, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 19:44 (two weeks ago) link