coffee addicts unite

““out of filters for a week...been living off cowboy coffee ;) i'm thinkin bout ditchin the coffe maker all together”

Helllloooo? Ever hear of a hillbilly filter? It's called a paper towel. Just shove the thing in the basket and pour the grounds in the middle of the towel. LOL!”

“My most prized appliance (oh and there are plenty! I’m like Bill Cosby) is my grinder. It holds the beans in top, ya set the coarseness and number of cups and hit the button. It grinds just the right amount every time.”

“hahahaha Nigal. I have used that twice in my life, but that's it. I had a friend who used toilet paper...sorry I draw a line somewhere. I don't know how it worked anyway...toilet paper...doesn't it disolve?

I need a grinder that grinds really, really small. most grinders that say "fine" still don't grind fine enough.
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“...Ever hear of a hillbilly filter? It's called a paper towel LOL

nah, i've got a small fine mesh strainer that works perfectly...in fact i think i'm gonna give it a try next time i go bpacking

at work i have a one cup black and decker "brew and go"...coffee from a company that makes power tools...how manly is that
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“I bet ya sit there and grunt while you drink! I have one of those gold mesh filters but it always lets the mud in no matter how big I grind the beans.

Voodoo, no way could I use TP. That'd make a mess.”

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"I NEED TP FOR MY....COFFEE?"”

“Didn't Bill Bryson write about tp filters in his at book? I remember something about little bits of pink tp floating in his cup. Bleah.”

“i usually need tp about 10 or 15 minutes after my first cup of coffee”

“Forget coffee right now. I'm having a nice chai made with the Republic of Tea's "Tea of Good Tidings" and a big splash of milk. Yum. It's good hot or cold.”

“hahahahahahaha...I knew that would be next!”

“take your fu fu tea to some other thread...we don't need no stinking english pansies here LOL”

“My coffee grinder:


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“nice, leofric.

I've been thinkign about going back to an old fashioned percolater at home.”

“Been using it for 25 years now. I've decided over time it doesn't matter so much how I brew coffee, it's how I grind the beans. I've made some engineering modifications to get an especially course grind.”

“Wow, that almost looks like a grain mill. Is that what it really is?”

“It's a Spong & Co Ltd Coffee Mill. They stopped manufacturing them about 10 years ago, so I guess it's officially antique now. They were made in England.
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“pretty neet. I like it.

For now my little $10 coffe grinder must do. Unless I find something that grinds really fine.”

“For a percolator, would coarse or fine grind be better?”

“I prefer an extremely coarse grind no matter what sort of brewing apparatus I use.”

“mmm coffee.”

“I went to but a buncha groceries for the camping trip (endurance road racing aka The Petit Lemas at Road Atlanta so not really hiking just a car camping trip). Anyhoo... I went to the WalMart supercenter... they didn't have any coffee on the shelves. They had a sign that said they donated it all to the hurricane relief. SoB's... now I gotta since some cheap folders coffee singles somewhere else. I hope publix has em.”

“they donated coffee?? that's what walmart wants you to believe. I don't believe them! if they did...watch coffee prices go up by 50%.”

“If one thing is clear, it is that there is a coffee conspiracy. To find out just how dark and earthy this toasty conspiracy is, we need not look any further than our own back yards. Coffee is the only addictive substance that is universally served. And Americans, big surprise, are the planet's largest coffee consumers. And another big surprise, we are working more jobs, for more hours, and for less pay than we did since 1970- the same year that Starbucks was founded in Seattle. Coincidence? I think not. Also, there are no coffee estates in the continental United States - don't tell me you can grow coffee in Yemen, but we can't grow coffee in Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, or Southern California. Why has the strongest economic superpower in the history of the world chosen not to produce the one commodity that we import more of than any other agricultural product?”

“And why is it that the Moslems refuse to drink the other addictive class of common beverages, but drink, sell and serve coffee?”

“Go to Colombia, Argentina, and other coffee producing countries and you'll find whole warehouses full of green beans because of a coffee "glut" in the global market. Hell, just send me the green beans and I'll roast the dern things in the oven for my custom light roast!”

“A coworker told me that if you use a french press that it releases oils from the beans that are bad for you. He said it's ok to use one every now and then but you shouldn't use it all the time. Has anybody heard anything like that?”

“Just about anything in excess is not good for you, with a few exceptions.”

“I don't see how it would. The press doesn't actually mash the grounds, just presses them down to the bottom of the carafe and traps them there. At least that's how it works in my two backpacking versions.”

“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..........
First cup going down now.........”

“I did a google search on "coffee press health" and "coffee press danger" and the only hits I saw that had anything to do with making coffee in a French press being harmful were related to:

1) The glass breaking when you pour boiling water into it

or

2) Dangerous chemicals leaching into your coffee from the plastic in plastic ones.


Nothing about dangerous oils being released into your coffee from the beans.

I think your co-worker is full of it, thrifty.”

“BS.”

“That's what I thought too. They hire idiots around here...hey wait a minute...”

“I have a fantastic recipe for a beef roast that is cooked slowly all day in coffee. I put it in the crock pot about an hour ago, and my house already smells heavenly.


I love coffee!!!!!”

“my coffee maker:

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“thirty, you paint your nails??”

“and what!!??...wannafightaboutit?”

“I wanna know how you get your skin such a lovely pink color? Sunburn?”

“it's red from the heat of the coffee”

“yeah, I can't see how a French press is any different than making coffee with a drip machine or any other way.

My friend's mom once told me that Tang crystalized in your stomach forever. People have some weird ideas.

Enjoy your French press.”

“Don't forget that Mikey died of pop rocks...
LOL

I can't see why the french press would be any more dangerous--unless you have it in your lap and miss while opening or pouring the hot water in...”