Coffee

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thanks y'all. for now, I went with a replacement french press that won't break as, on further reflection, my main problem is our extremely limited counter space. if we ever get a bigger kitchen I'll get myself a gooseneck kettle and finally become a fancy pour-over man

I did pour-over for years (still do occasionally) but now I have this little Bialetti moka pot thing to make Americanos in the morning. No need need for filters, but make sure to put water in there! Otherwise it gets really hot and melts the handle lol

I do pour-overs for 2 on the mornings when I’m home, but it only makes two 8-9 oz cups. Then about an hour or two later I make another 2 cups. It works fine for me, but my wife sometimes gets impatient for the 2nd cup.

do you use a Chemex? I did think about the biggest one of those, though ultimately I need something that will keep the coffee hot for an unpredictable number of hours

in retrospect, lockdown would have been an ideal time to have perfected the pour-over life, ah well

if you need coffee for multiple hours, wouldn't it taste better to just warm up a cup in the microwave rather than continually heating for a long time?

so far, pouring french press brewed coffee into a thermos has worked, but you have a point

This might be coffee snobbery but I don't think you're supposed to ever zap in the microwave. Using a thermos rules imho

I don’t have a Chemex, I use a Hario V60 but either one would work. A thermos is great for keeping coffee hot.

use a thermos or just get a huge ass insulated "coffee cup"

Isn't a Mr. Coffee essentially a pour-over that can keep it warm?

in my experience, not even close

give in to TECHNIVORM MOKA

i fucking love brewed coffee. 12 cup pot or gtfo.

I remember at my pre-covid office, so many people would auto-pause to get an 'early'cup... that the pot would be empty before it was even finished brewing

My main concern with the Mr. Coffee is the burner under the carafe that keeps the coffee warm. If you immediately take the brewed coffee and dump it in a thermos, it can be fine. Also in my experience for best results you should brew less than the maximum capacity of the machine, because there’s not enough room for the right amount of grounds.

map otm

although I guess mine is 9 cup, but it does have an insulated carafe
https://www.oxo.com/barista-brain-9-cup-coffee-maker.html

I remember at my pre-covid office, so many people would auto-pause to get an 'early'cup... that the pot would be empty before it was even finished brewing

― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, October 5, 2023 2:30 PM (fifty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

jail

we have a 10-cup Capresso drip w thermal carafe that I love SO much
it will be buried with me

thermal carafe for drip is u&k

coffee has just been extra comforting this week for some reason

breaking coffee news

McDonald's said it is opening a new chain called CosMc's that will focus on coffee and other drinks, a step that is viewed as a challenge to Starbucks and Dunkin' as the fast-food giant seeks to boost afternoon sales.

CosMc's concept is "what would happen if a McDonald's character from the 1980s that was part alien, part surfer, part robot" opened a restaurant in 2023.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mcdonalds-cosmcs-locations-near-me-bolingbrook-illinois-starbucks/

hahaha oh my god

how long before cosMc has to go back to his home planet i wonder

Had the worst coffee ever at Dunkin's the other day - surprised because I remember their coffee being pretty solid (though I only make like two trips at best per year). They put in sugar and cream but didn't bother to stir it (and initially neither did I, I was in a hurry), so I thought that might've been it, but even if it was black, it shouldn't taste so medicine-y. Maybe it was too late in the day at 2pm and the coffee was going bad?

i kind of love the consumer products of our twisted era

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diabetes in a can

the fun thing about dunkin is having absolutely no idea how your coffee will taste each time you go.

lol, the roulette of coffee

Alcoholic coffee drinks make me feel really really shitty.

I'll have an Irish coffee once every several years, that's about all I can do

i use my lovely aeropress every day, so i end up with a lot of grounds: if i bin them immediately the bin bag leaks coffeejuice so i dump them in a little tupperware box to dry by the sink before binning them (which is a bit unsightly)

today as an experiment i recycled a whole boxful of grounds, to try and get a second cups-worth from them

result = hmmm, the coffee is weaker (but i can always use three spoons of grounds instead of two), and they're looser packed, so the press pushes the hot water through them much faster, with liquid spillage more likely

spillage of small amounts of used grounds all over my counters is apparently unavoidable, the actual most annoying consequence

x-posts - they opened a DD here but the sizes are UK sizes and it's pour over and not the same at all. They also made roast dinner stuffed donuts which just no please stop this.

I'm sure the dunkins booze is disgusting but I'd try it in a heartbeat.

mark you could leave the little puck of grounds in the aeropress for a couple of hours and then eject it with extreme prejudice once it's dried out some

and here's a pro-tip, if you tire of sourcing the paper filter discs you could spring for this reasonably priced re-usable metal one

https://www.creamsupplies.co.uk/aeropress-filter-punched-stainless-steel

just don't throw it away by accident. no of course i have never done that*

*reader i have done that

leave the puck in to reuse immediately for a second cup, you mean? yes i could -- i will try that once i use up (or tire of) this box-full of used grounds

my second-cup conclusion re the experiment this morning is that reused grounds be very much tastin like reused grounds: it's coffee but it's not especially delicious

i mean after you’ve pressed your coffee you could leave the puck in there to dry instead of in another container

i like saying “puck” we need to create more reasons to use this word

Not sure about a drink that markets itself as 'spiked'

They also made roast dinner stuffed donuts which just no please stop this.

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, December 14, 2023 5:49 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

wtf no

lol i know. Also, no breakfast sandwiches.

fast food places have to cater to local tastes which usually means better food than the US version, but not in the UK lol

i like saying “puck” we need to create more reasons to use this word

We need more revivals of A Midsummer Night's Dream dammit.

Or maybe just more hockey.

x-post Ha yes that's usually the way it works. There's a McDonald's I was reading about recently somewhere in the US now that serves weird items from other Macdonald's around the world. That's kind of neat.

I was just hopeful I'd be able to get a giant iced coffee but no. There is an Egg Slut around my office and I think that's an American breakfast sandwich place so will try that eventually.

i had a paneer quarter pounder in the deli airport it was, not good

My burr grinder just broke (like, right before I'm traveling for a month) and I blame opening this thread for that.

I would 100% try a paneer quarter pounder. I'm sorry it was bad tho.