I hate coffee

the coarse grind/french press thing was something i learned from an ex-boyfriend who was indoctrinated with this while working at starbucks.

yeah you don't have to do it the coarsest but i do one tick back from coarse and it's pretty strong. what annoys me about the cheap grinder is so many beans don't get ground up enough. i can deal with a little mud. i think i'm just the only person in the world who can't use a coffee grinder properly.

i think the coarsest is for turkish and the second coarsest is french press ...

no turkish is really fine! powdery

the machines at the supermarket just have pictures

i think the second coarsest is usually meant for percolator

mine doesn't have different settings, you just hold down the button for longer periods of time

yeah i mean the grocery store's grinder settings

or "supermarket" if you prefer lol

i think there are different ones for electric and non-electric percolators ... with non-electric being coarser

i also have one of these but it makes weak coffee
http://coffeegeek.com/images/5823/200x200/melittamanual.jpg

i know a guy that had one of those and he'd brew the coffee then microwave it

you have a lot of coffee problems harbl

i know, i'm not good at coffee. as i said.

i used to grind my coffee at home but i didn't notice a huge difference so i just grind it at the store. also, i have gotten *multiple* compliments on my coffee, so. . .

hmm this guy says he has perfected manual drip. maybe i'll go back to it next time i buy a pound, just to remember what it's like.

this is insanity

I hear that the optimum brew temperature is around 208 degrees Fahrenheit. Since it’s boiling at 212 at my current elevation, I simply turn off the gas and swish it around a bit.

Here I am “blooming” the coffee by saturating it with water for between 15 and 45 seconds. Note the bubbles as the coffee expands like foam. This is carbon dioxide escaping, which helps the grounds stay submerged in the water instead of floating during the brewing. Now, I don’t know if any of this is true or not, but it is kinda fun to watch the coffee foam up.

well i want to grind it at home so i can buy more coffee at a time on the internet (cheaper) but i guess it's not such a big deal

yeah i would not bloom the coffee. tbh i think the manual drip makes coffee to acidic somehow. i also like my coffee oily.

too

Here I am “blooming” the coffee by saturating it with water for between 15 and 45 seconds.

starbucks ex taught me to do this as well.

pfff

lame

i don't like starbux anyway!

i have no idea whether it actually does anything, but i do this with french press coffee out of habit, and it comes out great.

thinking about carbon dioxide=you're thinking too much about chemistry, and not enough about coffee

i'm not really thinking about carbon dioxide ... it was just one of the steps he used, and i'd never used a french press before dating him, so i just followed his steps

mr. que what kind of coffee maker do you use

i just use a drip maker and really good coffee (whole foods morning buzz)

i make mine the trad way but it usually ends up being vv strong and proper. i get beans from these dudes, they've got a lot of good shit.

http://www.coffeecellar.com/

i have a cuisinart coffee maker

is it the cuisinart grindnbrew

oh wait that wouldn't make any sense would it

yeah i think half of it is i make it strong

anyway my parents have that and it makes good coffee but if you use it wrong (like me) it will spill hot water all over the counter. actually i think it's broken.

let's give it up for coffee, the greatest creation in the history of the world

harbl you need a coffee intervention--i'm worried about you

xp mr que - that's the same kind that we use - i think it's the cheapest they sell.

it's this one here

http://www.amazon.com/Cuisinart-DCC-1150BK-Programmable-Thermal-Coffeemaker/dp/B000TQEDE4/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1253577331&sr=1-3

i get http://zekescoffee.net/ it's good

i do need a coffee intervention

i know how to make everything. except coffee.

once i was grinding my coffee at whole foods and some *asshole* came up to me and told me i was "grinding the coffee too much." thanks for the advice, buttmunch.

haha. more like whole *rude*s

i fill the coffeemaker up to the 8

4 regular scoops, 2 heaping scoops

i think the scoop holds a tablespoon? will check.

this makes 4 cups. use this same ratio when i make less coffee

― Mr. Que, Wednesday, May 20, 2009 3:18 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

what? if yours has the same type of machines as ours, it's just an on/off switch that pretty much just starts and stops the coffee going through the grinder.

i make very strong coffee, which i drink black, when i make it for other people who have milk in their coffee i give them a little insincere prepared speech about how i only have skim milk and that is why their coffee looks like pitch.

we use a black and decker smart brew or something. we just grabbed a brewer at the store. months later, we're watching America's test Kitchen on PBS (lol yuppies) and they picked our coffee maker as the best. i would love to investigate alternative forms of coffee making someday (french press, etc0 but for now we're good.

i don't think i really do anything wrong when i make coffee tbh. i think god ruins it bc he hates me

it's been good lately though. the only thing i'm mad at is the grinder.