I hate coffee

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.

i think you have a negative attitude towards coffee and you need to get a stiff upper lip and get your act together. God wants you to have delicious coffee--why do you keep foiling his plan

why

maybe you are tasting it wrong.

xp - estela: i drink coffee black as well ... a while back i brought this party-sized coffee maker (that I rarely use) to use for a reception for work, and people complained that the coffee was too weak after they put milk in it. I questioned (not directly, mind you) why they put milk in it.

i am going to try to have a positive attitude toward coffee

awes

i sometimes add milk to my coffee but only a splash of rice milk. btw soy milk + coffee is the most disgusting act of coffee savagery known to man.

soy milk is weird

i've never fallen for soy milk.

i've dropped some before.

french press is good for me because when i had a drip coffee maker i never cleaned it and it got all gross but you basically have to wash the french press every day if you want coffee the next day so there's MOTIVATION

soy milk starts to separate from the coffee and then your coffee begins to look like a congealing irish car bomb

ridiculous but true.

i clean the french press sometimes. i don't take it apart every day though.

guys let me answer some of your questions (coming from someone who has spent way too much time researching how to make coffee)

i get some coffee ground to dust and other coffee like the size of 1/4 bean. in the same batch. and i'm not putting too much in. it wouldn't be so bad if it was drip but it comes through the mesh of the french press thing when it's fine like that.

― harbl, Tuesday, September 22, 2009 7:01 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

that's cause you're using a blade grinder, which has no control over the consistency of the grind. burr grinders, which are $$$, let you control the size/consistency of the grind

the reason why buying whole bean coffee and grinding it yourself is better is cause of the whole freshness thing. coffee gets stale due to oxidization. when coffee is in bean form, the total surface area of the coffee is significantly less than when you grind it up. grinding right before brewing ensures the freshness of the bean.

you don't necessarily need a coarse grind to use with a french press; you want a grind that's just slightly bigger than openings in the metal sieve. this is difficult to achieve with a blade grinder.

but i knew both of those things