Coffee

[badhabits]

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Is that a giant chocolate donut sitting on a bag of beans?

 

[Patty]

Is that a giant chocolate donut sitting on a bag of beans?

I think it’s supposed to be a nearly overflowing bag o’ beans.

 

[merlin666]

Here in Canada our favourite are Melitta beans (they get the roasting just right) that I hand grind for old style coffee maker. Used to be available for about $10 per kg but unfortunately price has gone up quite a bit.

 

[pondweed]

Been trying some Barako Phiilippines coffee bean mix - quite dark roast with 50% liberica beans (the third type, least used...). It is characterful - smells pretty rank on grinding but the resulting coffee is different. Liberica beans are worth experiencing once.

 

[ksiegel]

Have been seeing all these recipes for Bulletproof Coffee, which supposedly has many health benefits. Usually made with Coffee, coconut oil, cinnamon, butter, and almond milk, in a blender. Personally, I don't want butter in my Coffee, and don't want the PIA of using a blender, or even a small handheld mini blender. I just take a heavy Pyrex 2 cup measuring cup, put in a teaspoon of coconut oil (which is a waxy semi-solid consistency), pour in just a bit of coffee to cover it (I like strong dark roast), mash the coconut oil with a fork until it all melts, then add the rest of the hot coffee (usually up to 12 oz), a couple sprinkles of cinnamon, light cream, and a bit of Stevia sweetener. Then, I just take a simple handheld wire cooking mixer/whip, put it in the measuring cup, with handle between hands, and spin it between hands a bit, until you get a nice frothy foam on top. Very easy and tasty, reminds me of a cappuccino.

Yeah, no....

I like the flavor of coffee.

Back when I started drinking coffee in College, i started with either 1/2 cup cream & sugar (neither half & half nor 2% seemed to exist back then - it was cream, whole milk, boxed non-fat dry milk - soon followed by bottled skim - evaporated milk, or sweetened condensed milk, and/or chocolate milk) topped with coffee, or a package of Swiss Miss Hot Chocolate Mix with coffee poured over the top. As the years progressed, It was light and sweet coffee, then no sugar/skim milk, then a Mocha/no whipped cream, Mocha/half the pumps, and finally either a latte, a cappuccino, or a black coffee, which really is my favorite.

I like a dark roast, but NOT French Roast; when we used to grind French Roast Beans, it smelled like fish. And tears the hell out of my wife's stomach, mixed with milk or not. I also like most Guatemalan coffees, 100% Kona, and Kapa Vinca from the Philippines (I think that's what it was called? Haven't had it for many years.)

But if I have to add something to it to make it drinkable, it isn't worth my time. I feel the same way about adding citrus to beer.