Is it a burr grinder or a blade grinder? Burr grinders pound your coffee into grinds while blades spin a blade to grind and tend to heat up the beans too much in the process.
I love my burr grinder and am glad that I have it whenever I make coffee.
Starbucks carries a special drink that I like during the holiday season: the Gingerbread Latte. It's got a spritz or two of flavored syrup, mixed with coffee and steamed milk, and topped with whipped cream and cinnamon. They start serving them just before Thanksgiving and usually can make you one until at least mid-January.
I love those too. We get them around about Xmas time in the UK and even though Inhate Xmas (bah humbug!) I always ensure I get to Starbucks for a few of these during the silly season.
I love my coffee (absolutely cannot stand tea - even the smell of it makes me feel sick) and usually have it black and strong enough to dissolve a spoon.
At home the best gadget in my kitchen is a Dolce Gusto machine which makes awesome coffee and hot choc (and chilled drinks like iced coffee). My favorite is Caffe Lungo.
The machine is a bit costly and the capsules are not particulalrly cheap but if you are a coffee lover I'd really recommend this device.
CHOCK FULL OF NUTS is that heavenly coffee, heavenly coffee, more then a millionaire's money can buy, of course today that would be billionaire, i guess, i really mean it everything they made there juices, datenut cream chesse sandwiches, their pies, their soup, everything out of this world.
What? A thread about coffee and I haven´t seen it yet? Shame on me - I drink coffee all the time. I rarely drink anything else, I just adore it. Nothing beats a cup of coffee with a cigarette.
This has been my favourite machine for almost eight years:
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This is a Philips Senseo. It needs to be filled with coffeepads, we order them from the Netherlands ('Mocca', it´s actually a mild blend) and they are produced by Douwe Egberts.
I tend to just brew some strong coffee using a drip machine after grinding the beans in a burr grinder. I have a constant supply of beans at the moment because my brother works at Starbucks. If I didn't have a drip machine I'd make coffee using a french press. The only downside to that is you need a good caraffe to put the coffee in if you are brewing more than you individually can drink. If you leave the coffee on the grounds too long it over-steeps.
Alternatively, during the summer months (coming up!) I make iced coffee via a cold brew method. You put coffee grounds in with water overnight (8 hours) and steep in the fridge or on the kitchen counter. This results in a delicious brew that is not as bitter as most coffee and can last you through the week and save you brew time in the morning. If you have a nice large filter you can pour it through that once it is done to get rid of the grounds. Man, now I want to make some for tomorrow!
With the way in which this old thread had fallen off, I was starting to think that most FSMers these days are well below the coffee-drinking age limit.
I get the feeling that many around this forum are strictly cola drinkers. I've seen enough adults drinking colas for breakfast at restaurants for this "rush to judgment."
These machines you guys use to make your coffee is like something out of the Cybermen or Lloyd's of London. It's easy to see how stereo/DVD equipment fanatics could go apeshit for a space age coffee maker.
These machines you guys use to make your coffee is like something out of the Cybermen or Lloyd's of London. It's easy to see how stereo/DVD equipment fanatics could go apeshit for a space age coffee maker.
One of our best local friends is a technophile. 'Twas he who had flat screen TVs before anyone else I knew, several laptops and desktops, iPads, something to control his iTunes from room to room, all that. Perhaps unsurprisingly he's also a coffee machine addict. In the 12 years or so that we've known him, he's traded ever upwards via ebay, liquidated coffeehouses and other mysterious sources, and now has a machine in his kitchen that, as new, would cost over £10,000. It does a very nice cup of coffee, I have to admit. It doesn't give you an erotic massage, connect to the internet, vacuum the house or any of the other things we (rather tiresomely) suggest that it should for that kind of money.
I can't afford, professionally, to be a beverage snob. I go out to see clients and prospective clients, insurance companies, loss adjusters, risk managers and all kinds of other people. Some of them are kind enough to offer a hot drink, and most of them are quite drinkable. I've had some rubbish, though, down the years. I think the worst was machine tea from the Royal & Sun Alliance. You have to thank them and neck it. Anything else would be somewhere along the line between churlishness and professional suicide.
On a typical day in the office, tea would be my first hot drink of the day, coffee late morning or early afternoon, tea again mid-afternoon if I get a bit bored. At home we drink Yorkshire Tea by Taylor's of Harrogate out of habit - and whatever coffee's on offer at Morrisons.
It´s true, I love my space age coffee maker machine. It´s the fourth machine - no wonder, it´s in use ever single day. But when we have guests I make the coffee by hand only. I boil water and use a coffee filter holder made out of (white) ceramic with coffee roasted by a local shop. I think it´s called drip brewing but I´m not sure.
I´ve never seen anyone making coffee this way, I completely grew up with coffee maker machines. But my method (which seems to be quite old) simply makes better coffee that isn´t bitter.
There's a brand of coffee called "Peet's", which is a chain but I don't think they're in Miami, or at least I don't notice them because I never buy coffee from a coffee shop unless it's a dire emergency. However, this Peet's has a nice selection of whole bean coffees available in the supermarkets and the one I like is called "Major Dickason's Blend." I drink it black, sans sugar.
Shame on us for not talking about coffee in 2013! Of course the film score kids nowadays probably subsist on "energy drinks", not coffee. Can you imagine someone like, say, Francis or Mr. Jack drinking coffee?!? Ha!
Anyone that says they love coffee, that drinks lattes and all those doo dad drinks heavy laden with milks and creams and sugars and spices us just kidding themselves because those kind of drinks do not even have a coffee flavor anymore. The irony of Starbucks is that they made a great sucess off people that do not really like coffee, they like milk drinks and frappucinnos. A few years ago, because people said that their regular drip coffee was 'too strong' they came out with a lighter blend drip coffee called Blonde, and it tastes like dirty water instead of coffee. Also, about 5 years ago they ripped out all of their manual expresso machines and replaced them with machines that do almost all of the work for them, and the espresso tastes like strong dirty water.
Seattles Best has a good drip coffee, make it strong - little sugar, no milk and drink it down.
On a (foolish) whim, I bought a tankard of Starbucks unsweetened iced coffee at the local Target (a chain of discount-type stores here in the US of A). Mistake. It has a strange consistency that made my Midi-chlorians suspicious and the stuff--the coffee product--smells of bacon. I found myself dumping some "all-natural" cream over it to kill the bacon taste. Then I just threw the stuff out.
After having sampled various pricey, "superior" brands of coffee, in recent months I've gone back to the much cheaper and remarkably unpretentious but completely satisfying coffee brand of Folgers. It tastes just as good as anything deemed better by the "coffeecenti" but at an eight dollars or more savings.
Or maybe Folgers does in fact taste like crap and my switching back to it symbolizes my long march to the grave (which is hopefully filled with my favorite film score cds).
Has anyone had espresso cake? You might say "real" coffee cake? It's unexpectedly delicious, but never save it for later. Just like day-old coffee, day-old coffee cake will taste terrible.
