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*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9avjD9ugXc

i want a stovetop percolator now :\

My parents had a glass percolator, and in addition to the problems mentioned in the video, they would sometimes start a pot and forget to watch it, so it perked for 5-10 or even more minutes after it was done.

Such 60s/70s nostalgia on the glass and steel stovetop percs, before my time but would like to try

I think my mom used her steel stovetop perc well into the 90s. My grandparents definitely did; they died knowing no other coffee prep.

it's after noon, time to switch from coffee to fake coffee.

i drank an afternoon coffee today, as a treat

fancy

thats right

There's unfinished coffee in the cafetiere in front of me, it's 8.30pm, do I microwave and consume n.b. am also on the beers

let's fuckin do this

also cooking orzo. champion of the fuckin world

coffee + beers is a low key speedball

Found a can of cafe du Monde in my cabinet, made some strong brew, that is some good sh1t

has some chicory or something, yeah?

I guess
The ground was pretty coarse so I put 1 1/3 servings in and yup dark af

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.

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

I do last sip has to be before 3pm and no more than 3 cups

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.

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 :)

Same rules as Zelda and Man Alive btw

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.

I have a second cup at 3. Sometimes makes me sleepy fsr

Coffee in the morning. Kinda fucks me up when I drink it in the afternoon.

A cup after dinner is nice, at a restaurant or Thanksgiving dinner

I'll also have a half-caff sometimes if I'm out and about

I slam an instant one before going out to party at 8pm

A cup after dinner is nice, at a restaurant or Thanksgiving dinner

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

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?