What makes the BEST cup of coffee?

[FUNKED1]

Originally posted by Frogm4n
but he just blows me off as being an elitest because im from the northwest.

Yes it's because you're from the northwest, honest.  

[ygsmilo]

Originally posted by Dinger
Burr mills come cheaper than that.  I have one that set me back less than $50.  The design is rather poor, though.  The grounds go into a rectangular hopper.  When you remove the hopper (like to fill up a cuppa joe), you get grounds everywhere.  And the rectangular ends make it hard to clean. And I wouldn't make espresso with it. But I do french press.

I had originally purchased a inexpensive one but found one of the good ones on sale and bot it.   It was worth the extra cost.

[Spooky]

Originally posted by banana

Anyone out there have a French Press?  

it's FREEDOM press thank you, please follow the official party line or be deemed a surrendering monkey cheese eating lover traitor...

[FUNKED1]

Damn Surrender Press!!!  Give me Mr Coffee!!!  Joe DiMaggio, apple pie, hot dogs!!!

[straffo]

The bitterness of a coffee show either a bad preparation or a very bad coffee.

Usually you don't need to put sugar in your coffee to hide bitterness.

I think the dinger prefectly explained how to do a good coffee.

[Chairboy]

Straffo, see my post above on the subject of bitterness, it's usually because there aren't enough grounds so the water is stripping off the bitter parts of the grounds too.

[Gunthr]

I know its appalling, but this is my caffeine delivery system every morning within 5 minutes of waking:

32 oz plastic tumbler

Cold tap water

2 tablespoons anybrand caffinated coffee, stirred briskly.


I do enjoy the expresso on the streets in Miami, and I do enjoy a good cup o' joe when someone makes it for me, but in-between marriages I deteriorated into this "lowest work load per caffeine hit" method. (Wife drinks tea with milk.)

[Rude]

Originally posted by ygsmilo
Sucks ----- There is a reason that MOST folks who know their coffee call them CHARBUCKS.

banana with a french press you get a good cup mainly because the oils from the coffee are not stripped by a filter.  I have one and use it on the weekends.  The best thing I ever got for coffee was a bur grinder.  It is gravity fed thus the beans never overheat when you grind them.

and now you all understand why Milo is our marale officer:)

[Rude]

Of course, you all know I'm unsophisticated, so this will not come as a suprise.

My favorite coffee is Cowboy Coffee....Iron skillet filled with water...pour the grounds in and boil it.

It's good:)

[slimm50]

Cajun Darkroast, from a 50-cup urn in the Gulf of Mexico on an oil rig.

[MrCoffee]

Good quality French roast beans, usually the good stuff cost more. Prefably in a real expresso machine else use a regular drip machine but use a good amount of coffee and not too much water.

However I prefer to get my coffee from a cafe when I can. The place I get mine from makes the strongest coffee in town. Starbucks is good but I have to have two shots in my order when I go there.

[VAQ]

Any QuickTrip that is on the way to the job at 0600.

[Pongo]

xtra large one and one.

starbucks sucks.

[MrBill]

well there's coffee and then there's

Coffee:
Fill a 5 quart pot with 4 quarts of water throw in the shells of the four eggs that you will have for breakfast and bring it to a rolling boil. Poor in two cups hand ground medium roast beans and a half cup of chicory. Bring back to a simmer and and enjoy the smells that fill the kitchen while you finish breakfast. When nothing is floating, 30 minutes is about right, smirk at the cream and sugar, dip your cup and enjoy. If your a wuss strain it. If it takes more than one pot to get you through the day simmer it longer.

[212]

Originally posted by MrBill
well there's coffee and then there's

Coffee:
Fill a 5 quart pot with 4 quarts of water throw in the shells of the four eggs that you will have for breakfast and bring it to a rolling boil. Poor in two cups hand ground medium roast beans and a half cup of chicory. Bring back to a simmer and and enjoy the smells that fill the kitchen while you finish breakfast. When nothing is floating, 30 minutes is about right, smirk at the cream and sugar, dip your cup and enjoy. If your a wuss strain it. If it takes more than one pot to get you through the day simmer it longer.

Sounds good, whats chicory?