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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Nilsen on May 19, 2005, 05:03:31 AM
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Do you buy the cleaning stuff, or do you simply add 1/2dl of vinager to the water?
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I don't. I throw it out.
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cost effective solution :D
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Originally posted by Nilsen
Do you buy the cleaning stuff, or do you simply add 1/2dl of vinager to the water?
Neither.
I'ts self cleaning... she showers regular.
Excel
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hahaha
Word
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Vinegar. Don`t dilute it. Run a pot full of vinegar, then run it a couple of times with just clear water. All done.
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why would you clean your coffeemaker?
lazs
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lol.. a pot full of vinager :D
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nevermind. I was thinking of a coffee POT. never clean a coffee pot. now coffee makers are a different story. vinegar.
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Originally posted by Nilsen
lol.. a pot full of vinager :D
Yep. It`s cheap and works like a charm.
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(http://www.communitycoffee.com/ccc/images/products/bodum-chambord-french-press-87149-l.gif)
much easier to clean and a much better cup of coffee
and you don't have to worry if you left in on or not half way to work :)
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Originally posted by lazs2
why would you clean your coffeemaker?
lazs
Some places have high calcium, iron content in the water. In these places if ya don`t clean it, your coffee tastes like dog wiz.
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Originally posted by Jackal1
Yep. It`s cheap and works like a charm.
I have found that 1/2 dl a pot is plenty.. then i run clear water through it a few times. It is the consentrated stuff tho.
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Originally posted by Nilsen
I have found that 1/2 dl a pot is plenty.. then i run clear water through it a few times. It is the consentrated stuff tho.
If it works , that`s all that matters.
Now I have the urge to visit Juan Valdez. :)
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Originally posted by Jackal1
Some places have high calcium, iron content in the water. In these places if ya don`t clean it, your coffee tastes like dog wiz.
Oh, really?;) Any particular breed?
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Originally posted by Jackal1
If it works , that`s all that matters.
Now I have the urge to visit Juan Valdez. :)
It works, but that stuff really stinks up the kitchen until you are done clearing it from the system.
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ROFL
Yep. Pickles Gone Wild. :)
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jakal... we have really hard water here (well water) and if the sprinklers come on and hit your car it will leave em spotted white for life.
Cleaning the pot doesn't make the water any less hard.. all it does is take the buildup off that will eventuallyu ruin the maker. I simply rinse out the pot every time and when the coffeemaker fails (bout yearly or so) I simply buy a new one and a new stainless steel filter for it.
lazs
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Yep, the buildup is what gives it the bad taste.
The best coffee I ever tasted was made by my Grandmother. She used a Waterware pot on the stove. Great stuff.
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My machine is about 15y old but then again it's a Moccamaster and made for coffee addicts :)
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Originally posted by Monk
I don't. I throw it out.
I used to clean mine regularly. then I noticed that doing so didnt make the coffee taste any better nor the maker last any longer.
So now like Monk. I use it till it dies then I throw it out
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I actually think that the coffee from a new coffeemaker or one that has been cleaned tastes worse. I can't cook microvave popcorn but most people say that my coffee is good.
lazs
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Originally posted by Staga
My machine is about 15y old but then again it's a Moccamaster and made for coffee addicts :)
I have a moccamaster too.. about 10 years old or something. The missus wants to replace it for something that looks better, but no way. I have explained to her that the day the machine goes (unless its broken), she goes.
She has taken me serious thus far.. but I keep an eye open whenever she threatens to make the coffee.
Coffee is holy.. nobody messes with mine.
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Originally posted by Nilsen
Coffee is holy.. nobody messes with mine.
Since I gave up alcohol and cigs, coffee is my only vice, and I cling to it dearly. Love Seaport dark roast.....MMMmmmmm...
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Wife!
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Originally posted by Nilsen
lol.. a pot full of vinager :D
better then a pot full of piss
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Originally posted by Eagler
(http://www.communitycoffee.com/ccc/images/products/bodum-chambord-french-press-87149-l.gif)
much easier to clean and a much better cup of coffee
and you don't have to worry if you left in on or not half way to work :)
Eagler speaks truth. Coffee presses make excellent coffee.
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Originally posted by Meatwad
better then a pot full of piss
Your piss is as sterile (if not more so) than the vinegar. ;)
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Originally posted by slimm50
Since I gave up alcohol and cigs, coffee is my only vice, and I cling to it dearly. Love Seaport dark roast.....MMMmmmmm...
I don't really have any favs, or none that you have over there anyway. I just know who to stay well away from and how much to use. I don't really know why the missus can't make a decent pot either. She follows my instructions to the letter but still makes a mess of it.
I'm not into coffee that is very strong or too weak... it has to be just right and ..doh!
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Get one of these....Bialetti Moka Express Espresso
http://www.decuisine.co.uk/cookshop/tea_coffee_chocolate/bialetti-moka-express.html?id=1eef489f48b3356e33e4f285564a286b.1116514634&referal=/cookshop/coffee_espresso_tea/espresso_accessories.html
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old trick from working in a resatruants............put in ice(enought to cover bottem) add 1 tbsp salt and if you got it lil lemon juice. swirl arpound the bottem till clean.
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Originally posted by boxboy28
old trick from working in a resatruants............put in ice(enought to cover bottem) add 1 tbsp salt and if you got it lil lemon juice. swirl arpound the bottem till clean.
to clean the watercompartment thingy?
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How many here clean their coffee cups?
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Originally posted by Monk
How many here clean their coffee cups?
Once a year, whether it needs it or not. :)
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No choise in the matter.. they get cleaned and im not using my veto on that.
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You buy 2 coffee makers at Best Buy and get a 2 year warranty on each. Around the 1 year 10th Month time you break the one you were using and get a mailing thing from Best Buy and box it up and ship it out.
About 2 weeks after you get a Voucher for the price you paid and tax. Now you're using the 2nd coffee maker...
You take the Voucher to best buy and get another coffee maker with the Voucher, be sure to get a 2 year warranty on it. $9.00.
Not that I would EVAR do such a thing like this for coffee makers or Joy Sticks or even Puter Headset with Mic.
;)
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There's coffee machines and Coffee Machines and usually you can taste the difference.
With the price of one good Moccamaster I could buy 10 cheap Rowentas or Brauns but so far 1 has been enough :)
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Originally posted by Eagler
(http://www.communitycoffee.com/ccc/images/products/bodum-chambord-french-press-87149-l.gif)
much easier to clean and a much better cup of coffee
and you don't have to worry if you left in on or not half way to work :)
Damn, Eagler.. that thing looks....
Gay.
Totally.
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I just discovered coffee a few weeks ago. Sure, I'd had various 'candy bar in a cup' style drinks occasionally, like when I had an early flight lesson, but I had never really gotten into coffee. A few weeks ago, I had a particularilly brutal night of kids keeping me awake, so I tried some straight coffee and figured out that while the taste wasn't great, it sure was nice to be conscious before 10AM.
At my office, there are three airpots available. One is labelled simply 'Decaf'. The second one is named 'Normal people's coffee', and the third one is labelled 'Tar - 1+ pulls' (referring to the ground coffee dispenser).
I now drink the tar straight up, and am loving it. The only time I regretted it was a few days ago when, as luck has it on a statistically aberrant regular basis, the coffee was again empty when I got there, so I started the brew process. I put in the 1+ pulls of grinds into a new filter, etc etc, and told it to start. Not having time to wait for it to finish, I diverted a cup full from the initial few seconds of the run.
The stuff that filled my little cardboard mug wasn't so much a liquid as it was a viscous black semi-solid. It became clear after brief inspection that the only thing keeping it fully mobile was the tremendous heat of the boiling water that had made the first careful drips through the fresh grounds. Any colder, I suspected, and the mass would congeal into a cementlike mass.
Unfortunately for me, I wasn't quite aware of it at the time. My mind recorded the visuals, sure, and my body went through the motions, but the night before had been tricky ("It's 3AM. Do you know where your kids are?" "Well, I know that ONE of them just threw up on me. Does that count?") so all of this wasn't clear until my later dissection of my memories. If there were a food equivalent of the NTSB, the incident report might have included phrases like "THE VICTIM, HERAFTER IDENTIFIED AS 'POOR BASTARD', THEN DRANK SOME OF THE PROTO-COFFEE.'
My first sign that something was wrong while I was sipping at it was when I felt my throat protectively squeeze shut, preventing any more of the 'coffee' (and, as a side effect, air) from passing through my neck region.
Still not quite cognizant of the specifics for WHY my body was rejecting the 'coffee', I overrode that part of my brain (using the same neurons, I suspect, that someone who purposely inhales water) and continued to drink.
It was only after a few more seconds of this that my taste buds resolved whatever argument they were having about who would break the news and delivered a message to my forebrain. The message was simple, it was: "STOP".
I slowly began to realize that was I was drinking was not so much coffee as it was a... well, a PARODY of coffee. All the basic taste ingredients were there, but in quantities that exceeded my taste thresholds. It was like a Koala bear crapped a rainbow in my brain. The bitterness of the bean, the heat of the liquid, the amount of caffeine, it all overran the banks of my mind and flooded the surrounding neighborhoods of my soul.
With the last of my control, I carefully stopped drinking and sat back for a moment to examine the magnitude of my mistake. A number of things became immediately clear in flashes of lucidity.
FACT: I was a novice coffee drinker.
FACT: I assumed better familiarity with the properties of coffee then is proper.
FACT: I was out of my league.
FACT: The stuff that comes out of the filter in the beginning is very strong, and it isn't until the sub-strength dregs of water pass through at the end that the 'tar' reaches drinkable levels for someone with my tolerances.
FACT: I had defeated that last mechanism and ingested the equivalent of a critical mass coffee torpedo.
As these became clear, I began to notice twinges of rejection from my stomach, who was just now getting invited into the game as the first turgid drips penetrated. It objected.
My mouth, which usually adopts the typical American half frown (the result of an upbringing that instills the standard issue US Protestent work ethic and leaves every citizen thinking at the back of their head 'isn't there something productive I should be doing?' at all times) had collapsed in itself in response to the bitter brew. My lips curled inward as my skin attempted to grab onto and pull out whatever it was that was causing such taste trauma inside my mouth. My breathing quickened, and my stomach rumbled again.
I set down the 'coffee', spun about, and walked casually to the cafeteria. I managed to force my mouth to uncurl somewhat, but the bitterness of the tar kept creeping back. I thought that I was beginning to experience a form of synesthesia when I thought for a moment that I could actually HEAR the bitterness as I walked, but it turned out to just be a co-worker with an annoying voice.
I walked into the cafeteria, grabbed a plate, ladled some gravy ("Sir, your bicuits!" "No thanks, I take mine straight.") and checked out at the register. $.80 later, I was sitting at a table sucking down the soothing gelatinous flour/fat/sausage mix. In my mind, I could actually see a situational display of the gravy interacting with and defusing the chemical assault on my alimentary canal as it crept downwards. I was briefly impressed with my imagination before realizing that my mind was just taking a Pepto Bismol commercial and coloring the pink parts to look like gravy.
Within a few minutes, I felt immeasurably better.
I wandered back to the machine (which had finished brewing) and considered it carefully. I put the airpot back on its stand and pumped some into a cup. I looked at it carefully, contemplating. What had happened? I asked myself. Will this be the same as the stuff I had before? No, of course not. Intellectually I knew this was true, but a part of my brain continued to whimper at the memory of the bitterness I had tasted. Not being one to pay too close heed to that organ, I decided to try it again.
Of course, it tasted normal. It was true, the dillution that takes place at the end of the brewing process had turned it into something that tasted fine.
Happily, I took my cup and headed back to my desk. I now reflect on the parallels between this and the 'Killing Zone' that new pilots get into. There's a point after you get your certificate where pilots are at high statistical risk of crashing because they get overconfident and before they get the skills/experience to be cautious again. I had entered a sort of miniature version of that, except it was coffee instead of flying. Oh, and instead of dying, I got a tummy ache.
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Cliff Notes version:
I drank some strong coffee once, and didn't really like it.
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:lol :lol :lol eloquently put, CB.:aok When you get back on an even keel, try some dark roast. but wait til it stops brewing. It isn't stronger, it's richer, and, I think, delicious.
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btw hot coffee with little brandy or cognac in it is pretty nice in cold evenings and I like it more than "Irish Coffee" :)
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Great post CB !!!
:aok
Mac
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Originally posted by Sandman
Eagler speaks truth.
sig material :)
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Originally posted by Hangtime
Damn, Eagler.. that thing looks....
Gay.
Totally.
Bodum makes more than one kind of press. :)
(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000U7ENG.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg)
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Originally posted by Nilsen
to clean the watercompartment thingy?
No for cleaning out the pot! specially if some one leave that last few drips to burn in the bottem (while on the burner) its works great!
No if your water compartment is dirty you best be looking at the water your using! LOL just use a sponge and soap or vinager.
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coffee, never had a cup, it stinks like bad mangina.
there should be a by-law requiring breath mints afterwards, nothing worse than having a conversation with someone after their morning coffee and cigarette.
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Originally posted by AWMac
You buy 2 coffee makers at Best Buy and get a 2 year warranty on each. Around the 1 year 10th Month time you break the one you were using and get a mailing thing from Best Buy and box it up and ship it out.
About 2 weeks after you get a Voucher for the price you paid and tax. Now you're using the 2nd coffee maker...
You take the Voucher to best buy and get another coffee maker with the Voucher, be sure to get a 2 year warranty on it. $9.00.
Not that I would EVAR do such a thing like this for coffee makers or Joy Sticks or even Puter Headset with Mic.
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Fool. just get it at Wallmart and you cn bring it right back to the store and get a new one.
LMAO thats what my wife does with vacume cleaners.
We must have had 7 new Vacume cleaners in as many years. She's only paid for 1.
I dont condone such practices, but I dont exactly try to tackle her to stop her as she's headed out the door either
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Here's the machine I use
(http://a1995.g.akamai.net/f/1995/10026/1d/images.hsn.com/images/product/324385_img.jpg)
Not bad. wish it made coffee just a tad hotter though.
Wife got it for me figuring I'd make less of a mess with it.
Yea, right.
Anyway. I find no matter what coffe maker you use the best cup is made by using 3 scoops of coffee.
I always used 3 scoops no matter if Im making 6 cups or the full 12 cups. seems to come out the same either way.
Typically I like a dark roast. My bother in law, who only drinks decaf calls it "Rocket fuel"
I need at least 2 cups inthe morning or Im totally useless untill noon.
! cup to get my motor going. the other to get my Arse in gear
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Originally posted by Torque
coffee, never had a cup, it stinks like bad mangina.
there should be a by-law requiring breath mints afterwards, nothing worse than having a conversation with someone after their morning coffee and cigarette.
Me too, I think I'm the only person in the IT industry who doesn't drink coffee.
I do however drink about 2-3 bottles of this stuff a day:
(http://www.v.co.nz/assets/img/contentImages/v_singlebottle.gif)
KEY INGREDIENTS IN V
Sucrose
Guarana
Caffeine
B Vitamins
Taurine
So I guess it works out the same...
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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
Here's the machine I use
(http://a1995.g.akamai.net/f/1995/10026/1d/images.hsn.com/images/product/324385_img.jpg)
Not bad. wish it made coffee just a tad hotter though.
Wife got it for me figuring I'd make less of a mess with it.
Yea, right.
Anyway. I find no matter what coffe maker you use the best cup is made by using 3 scoops of coffee.
I always used 3 scoops no matter if Im making 6 cups or the full 12 cups. seems to come out the same either way.
Typically I like a dark roast. My bother in law, who only drinks decaf calls it "Rocket fuel"
I need at least 2 cups inthe morning or Im totally useless untill noon.
! cup to get my motor going. the other to get my Arse in gear
My Wife just got one of those exact makers for us. I agree on the Hot part as well.
You get a nice cheater cup though when it gets to between 2 and 4. Perfect.
And I NEVER wash my cup. And , I try to keep it away from the Mother and Wife. They have looked at my cup and just shook thier heads.
My Mom has washed it a couple times , by mistake she says :lol
I find the mess with using this pot much less though.
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Originally posted by Hangtime
Damn, Eagler.. that thing looks....
Gay.
Totally.
then don't ever drink a cup of java made from it
or else you will own one too
it blows away a drip machine
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It was like a Koala bear crapped a rainbow in my brain.
Now, THATS[/i] sig material.
Great piece; Chairboy!