Coffee

The Keurig is too damn expensive. Back to the french press.

lol fuck a keurig

ugh I have yet to have any decent coffee from a Keurig, wtf.

Stevie are you still aeropressing?

I was confronted with a Keurig at my last job and I could not get a remotely drinkable cup out of it. Seriously WTF

I liked the convenience. But same as heroin addiction and inkjet printers, the consumables are where they get you.

A hotel I stay in a lot "upgraded the coffee experience" in some of the rooms with Keurigs, so not great. The tea pods are also bleh. At home I've been switching it up between cold brew, aeropress, and instant espresso (either Ferraro or Caffe D'vita).

i've been buying the trader joe's cold brew, which isn't bad.

this is my favorite cold brew on the market, but i believe it's only available in new york and via mail order:

http://www.gradyscoldbrew.com/

the chicory cuts the bitterness a little.

supposedly a retailer down in irvine has it, which may be of some interest to mr. telecom.

I have not aeropressed in a minute but I still do from time to time.

(i stand corrected re irvine. the place is in brentwood. for some reason the google map gave the route to irvine when it brought up the address.)

this thread lead me to this item. made a wee investment and it's all-time. sis got one too and she LOVES it. really nicely made i think and makes sucha damn fine cuppa:
http://shop.gamilacompany.com/impress/making-coffee/

i liked keurig tbrr

Is 10 PM too late to make a cup?

Do not go gently or just, you know, go gently

after a cup that late you'll go like dulcolax in the morning ime

Feel the desire to note that I was doing pour-overs way before they were a desirable way to make coffee. It was a way to rapidly get decent coffee in my person with little fuss and little cash.

a hong kong-style restaurant nearby here offers "lemon coffee", which i haven't been brave enough to try yet

lamill in l.a. makes a nice orange-infused cappuccino (i think they run some orange around the cup before pouring, and then top it with cocoa powder and orange zest at the finish).

Keurig is a step backward in office coffee making. Sad really. The best option my office has is the donut shop extra bold, which is palatable with milk and sugar but still pretty bad. It helps a little to only make 4 oz from one pod.

A drop of the meyer lemon/tangerine bitters I made last year floated on a hot coffee was astounding - I tried it because i witnessed a guy I work with twist a lemon peel over his espresso once.

I've been on this.

Keurig is better than burnt percolator coffee, but when I want more than one I've a lovely Chemex 6-cup vessel and a selection of dark roasts.

keurig waste appalls me and i am far from any sort of environmentalist.

our old office percolator made coffee that tasted like steeped batteries

the keurig was like angel tears in comparison

lamill in l.a. makes a nice orange-infused cappuccino (i think they run some orange around the cup before pouring, and then top it with cocoa powder and orange zest at the finish).

― Bill Nighy the Science Gighy (get bent), Monday, December 29, 2014 10:21 PM (1 hour ago)

this sounds amazing

one thing i'd like to do at some point is get a batch of kerrygold butter to infuse with w33d and add an occasional dollop to make thc-infused bulletproof coffee

wow that sounds good. have you tried that in the past?

keurig waste appalls me and i am far from any sort of environmentalist.

The coffee itself is fine. It's certainly better than the Green Mountain Breakfast Blend that's been sitting in a never-washed carafe for an hour or two, which is what we've got in my office.

*Blorp*

Coffee utensils should nn everber be washed imo xp

wow that sounds good. have you tried that in the past?

― calstars, Tuesday, December 30, 2014 5:40 AM (3 hours ago)

no, never. and apparently it's not an original idea!

http://munchies.vice.com/recipes/cannabis-infused-bulletproof-coffee

my big Christmas gift this year was a Chemex carafe and goose-neck teapot to go with it. Been making some very good cups of coffee, but it is an incredibly slow process.

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i aeropress every once in a while too. i use it whenever i just want a single cup, which is not very often (on weekdays i grab coffee near my work, and on weekends i generally make a big press pot because i'm an addict. but i'd highly recommend an aeropress to people who just want a single cup of coffee. the packaging of it suggests that it's a made-for-tv gimmick but it's actually very good!

why aren't you guys environmentalists

ya I only make a single cup of coffee so it is v perfect

I can understand the appeal of pour over coffee, but who has time for that?

My morning routine:
-Start water boiling in kettle before I get into the shower
-After shower, scoop pre-ground coffee into FP, pour in water
-Attempt to empty the dishwasher in the 4 minutes that the coffee is steeping
-Eat cereal and drink coffee
-Everything else that I have to do before work

No time to babysit some coffee. Plus I don't want the illusion of all this masterful control over each little element of my cup of coffee. I just want good coffee, that is no fuss and taste about the same every morning.

The last time I used the Aeropress I managed to slosh extremely hot water/coffee grounds on my hand and had to stop wearing my wedding ring for a couple of weeks while the burn healed so me and the Aeropress are not currently on speaking terms.

XP, forgot to mention feed the cat in those 4 minutes. Sorry Francie, maybe tomorrow.

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! that's awful! how did the sloshing happen?

FWIW we recieved a Keurig for the house and it's way better than the one at work. I'm guessing it's because it's a newer model that pours a little more slowly and hence doesn't taste as watered down. Also if you hate waste just get one of those reusable cups and put your own grounds into it (but don't pay $29 or whatever for one, barf)

aeropress wins on every level. taste, speed, ease of cleaning, i honestly pity people who think they like coffee but have never used one

lol fuck a keurig

― y kant max read (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, December 29, 2014 4:35 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yea i hate these things

i kind of swear by my bialetti moka express, those stovetop espresso things. it makes a good cup - stronger than a regular coffee but not quite espresso. it's good.

! that's awful! how did the sloshing happen?

― ♪♫_\o/_♫♪ (Karl Malone), Tuesday, December 30, 2014 4:12 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Trying to balance the thingy over a cup that was a little too big while I pushed the plunger and the whole thing tipped over somehow, so it was pretty much entirely my fault but I have to live with myself everyday whereas the Aeropress can sit in a cabinet until I'm done being angry with/scared of it, so I'm projecting.

Honestly, I've never quite figured out the right amount of grounds to put in the thing, either, nor have I ever seemed to get the amount of water right. I don't know. I may just be constitutionally incapable of operating the dang thing.

i've never made a satisfactory cup of coffee from a french press. i know a lot of people swear by them but everytime i try it's either watery or muddy

the aeropress would be much more popular if it featured iphone-style packaging instead of a hexagon cardboard box with testimonials like "I used Aeropress last week and I liked it ok!" plastered all over the side

As noted, Jeff successfully uses the French press every day, but whenever I use it, I end up with a mouth full of coffee grounds.

I'm starting to get depressed about this.

one scoop coffee, fill to the "1"

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

i do find that it's pretty important to have the right grind though. not the super-fine genuine espresso grind (at which point the thing is unpressable), but the grind used by illy, lavazza, costa etc for their espresso coffees is fine. if i'm getting it ground in the shop i ask for it ground for aeropress, or if they don't know what that is (rare these days) i ask for "something between espresso and filter" grind.

I didn't like the aeropress because of the danger mentioned by Carl, and also the need for filters. I don't need something else to keep in stock just to make coffee.

i have a wire mesh filter ($3 at korean grocery store) that i use to make pour over. if i want it stronger i let it steep. so easy.

carl did you throw away the Aeropress scopo?