I hate coffee

starbucks is usually french roast or higher. try a full city roast

I think you should try something that isn't too acidic, like sumatra mandheling. it's a dark but full flavored bean with low acidity, pretty good gateway bean imo. then you can decide whether or not you like brightness and spiciness in your coffee, and you can move on to african and south american beans.

is sumatra mandheling coffee mostly available via online retailers? it doesn't sound like something i'll easily find in my local supermarket.

i do want to try it.

trader joe's carries it I believe

seems this thread has good recs on what else is good at TJ's

http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/357081

about to have another cup of coffee way too late in the day stop me before it's too late111

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Hey you! Stop it!

stop harbl! just stop!

i had no coffee today. woke up late, had to go look at apartments, then it was lunchtime, so i drank beer instead.

today i had coffee>coffee>beer>beer>coffee

how did that feel?

might as well camp out in the can with that kind of intake

it's goin well im firin on all cylinders

i feel surprisingly ok. kind of want a beer now fwiw

picked up this one cup filter, it works rilly well

http://www.coffeecompany.com.au/image-cache/uploads/products/470-swiss-gold-1-cup-filter-276-293.jpg

oops i'm having coffee! pacific rim blend is great btw

hey dyao how many ounces does that one cup filter make? 8?

wait a minute was that a fucking dumb question or what

loool. well it makes slightly less than the amount of water you pour into it as the grounds will soak up some water. I think it's better than a french press, less sediment.

wtf u already have aeropress

lol I have a problem :-|

for drip, I have the swissgold onecup and a sock filter. the sock is better but a more inconvenient to clean.

for espresso style I have the aeropress.

lol sock filter. have u seen/tried the different aeropress methods people have come up with for instance
http://timwendelboe.no/2009/06/top-3-aeropress-methods/
the one in the aeropress instruction booklet just seems off somehow

whoa those look intense. willhave to give them a shot! (no pun intended)

wait the aeropress is made of plastic? does it taste plasticky? i used to sometimes make tea in my plastic nalgene and now i am imagining that's what it tastes/smells like :(

doesn't taste plasticky at all!

ok, good

drinking some tanzanian AA it is A++++

Was recently introduced to siphon coffee. A bridge too far for home prep, but it tasted nice.

i need to figure out what i am going to do for coffee in my new place. do i get a new drip pot? french press?

i am happy french pressing

I don't know but F favors NesCafe which I know is probably considered disgusting by purists but hell, it's close enough to coffee for me when I don't want to leave the apt (and we don't have a coffee-maker). Also, unexpected bonus, the glass jars it comes in are the right size to accept my fancy Dutch jar toppers:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2382/3530672689_72bf3b1f67_o.jpg

my major complaint with french pressing is that the coffee does not stay as warm as in a drip pot when it's on a burner. also, it is more labor intensive if you need to make a lot of coffee (say, if you have a guest and each of you wants to drink more than one cup). also for some reason i feel like i don't get the benefit of the caffeine as much from french press?

i am not going instant. i have had nescafe a lot - v popular in europe, actually. but in the morning i need to grind some beans and have fresh, real coffee.

yeah all those things are true. i can only have one cup and am always waiting for it to cool down enough to drink anyway. i don't know about the caffeine thing though. could be you have had only dark roasts from it or something.

no i have been using the same beans i used in my old drip pot.

oh i didn't know *you* had been using it. my parents use drip pot on stove, it works ok

thinking about getting a drip pot these days. i've been french pressin it but i just drink too much coffee and it feels like i spend a quarter of my day assembling it. would still use the press for a special evening cup or something.

^^^basically how i am feeling

yeah it's good for people like me because i can never get to that stage of coffee drinking, dunno what's wrong with me

that is a good thing imo i go through so many coffee beans!

I still like my swissgold onecup, it's easier to use than a french press and the coffee stays pretty hot.

http://www.cappojim.com/images/D/Swiss_Gold_One_Cup_Black_lg.jpg

not really good for volume though, I think probably nothing beats a percolator for making large volumes of coffee w/o too much labor.

yeah i def need more than 1 cup

I've been thinking about getting a regallar ol drip pot, too. I've actually cut back to about 2-3 cups a day, tops, so it's not so much the volume but that when I get up at 6:00 for work it'd be nice to just sorta hit a button and let coffee brew itself while I hop in the shower, instead of waiting around for water to boil on the stove etc.

always waiting for it to cool down enough to drink anyway

Try an ice cube, my man.

P.S. Nescafe = ass shavings

if you get a nescafe your loser btw

;)

have never put mint leaves in my coffee before. so many wasted years.

http://unfunf.netfirms.com/cool.gif

i have a one cup filter i got in Hanoi for like the equivalent of 29 cents that makes the best damn drip coffee (no paper filter bs either). it's all stainless steel and so easy to use/clean.

we talkeda bout mint syrup in coffee upthread, but not mint leaves. i think i'd be afraid. i have been drinking trader joe's coffee the past few days and it's ok, not great. i'm gonna go back to fancy coffee soon.

shasta if you like that you should consider getting a swissgold imo

i like it