ok, now i might be a bit prejudiced, or got a one-sided view, but i get the distinct impression from several sources that you americans seem to be unable to make a decent cup of coffee.
for one it's because you seem to buy green tea flavoured frappucino's at starbucks to wake up at work, while people over here bring their homebrewn thermos bottles or have access to a proper drip-machine at work (boss knows that the price of 5lbs ground coffee a week is worth it to fuel that team of 5 computerprogrammers).
unless you have a Senseo (http://coffeetea.about.com/od/equipment/gr/senseo_sup.htm) at work, in which people tend to bring their homebrewn thermos again.
the other reason is this, a couple of months ago, my flatmate got a new job in software testing and had to go on a short training course to Ohio. they told him, if you like coffee, bring your own packet (1lbs) of Douwe Egberts coffee (that's the no.1 dutch brand), cause they don't have proper coffee in the States.
so, when he got back i asked him if it worked. "no", he said, "cause they didn't have proper dripping machines on the campus where we stayed".
so, anyway, here is how you prepare excellent koffie without a dripping machine!
(http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/2635/koffie200ee7.jpg)
a few remarks that i couldn't fit in the image:
- the one-cup filter cone costs you less than $2.50
- optimal coffee infusion temperature is somewhere between 90-95 degrees Celsius (185-203F), which pretty much means you pour it straight boiling from the waterboiler onto the coffee, as those first 5 degrees of temperature are lost very quickly. i think in a dripping machine the water doesn't hit the coffee at more than 80 degrees.
- 4 scoops like that is for kickass strong coffee. i think it's the temperature that really makes the difference, because coffee that strong usually turns out a bit "sour"(ish) or bitter when i make it in a regular dripping machine.
- you should rinse the filtercone right after usage or else it'll turn very brown very fast :)
(http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/3228/koffie1tj8.gif)
Dude, the spoon doesn't even stand up in the middle of the cup, how can you drink that water?
Quote from: Diseris on January 26, 2008, 04:41:51 PM
Dude, the spoon doesn't even stand up in the middle of the cup, how can you drink that water?
because turkish coffee is made with a different process and a different type of coffee. it's slightly more chocolate-flavoured, i always get the impression, and it contains a lot less caffeine. but since the slurry remains at the bottom of the cup, it
does allow the spoon to stay upright (in theory).
if you want the above coffee stronger, you can simply add more ground coffee. although it gets you diminishing returns, because there's only so much aroma/caffeine the boiling water can absorb in one go. you might be able to put the filtercone on a new cup, reheat the first cup of coffee to 100 degrees using a microwave and pour it through the filter again.
although personally, i drink coffee mostly because i enjoy its rich flavour and not for the caffeine shot, so that's what the above procedure is optimized for (the only thing that can be improved is to use fresh burned and ground coffee beans, but i'm just a poor student).
if you wanna create something with a huge amount of caffeine, there's other methods (though i think the above filter/microwave option would work fine, i just came up with it, maybe i'll try it some day when i really need it).
and Cain, where did you get that image? it looks like something i made ages ago (also since the filename is "koffie", dutch for coffee).
It is the one you made ages ago. Discordian Drug Wars thread, IIRC.
FUCK YOU.
I'm off all stimulants. :sad:
I like my coffee at about 40 degrees.
Fuck hot.
There are lots of people in the States who make great coffee, and loads of excellent micro-roasters. As far as I can tell, in most regions they are utterly drowned out by the heathen masses who think that shit in a can is "coffee". In the NW you stand a fighting chance of finding decent coffee, and tons of people bring single-cup drip cones or little french presses to work. We have a decent roaster down the street from us (next to the microbrewpub, of course).
FACT: the PNW doesn't have better coffee, just more pretentious coffee drinkers.
ECH,
knows that Dunkin Donuts coffee is every bit as good as Torrefazione or Millstone
It has more people who like good coffee, so good coffee is easier to find. A side effect of that is that it has more pretentious coffee drinkers. I'll have to take your word for Dunkin' Donuts, I haven't even seen one since I was a kid.
Quote from: hunter s.durden on January 26, 2008, 06:10:38 PM
I like my coffee at about 40 degrees.
um the point is that the ground coffee infuses better at a high temperature. then you wait until it cools down enough to drink (which should be no more than a couple of minutes, depending on you mug).
but if you want your coffee to start out at 40 degrees, you're welcome to mix instant coffee with lukewarm tap water. see if i care ;-)
also, i just want to point out, i do drink coffee at bars or cafes once in a while (it's a good place to see people you don't immediately want to invite over), and i agree with ECH, as long as it doesn't taste like instant or Senseo coffee (i hardly ever encounter this and no, i shall never return), the quality differences between your average cappuchino are not that big.
that's in fact the biggest dissapointment with these specific "coffee places" (like Coffee United, or the Douwe Egberts Cafe), that their coffee isn't a whole lot (perhaps marginally) better than what you get at a cafe or pub with a decent coffee machine.
and still, it just doesn't beat what i brew at home ;-)
and, Nigel: as i said, i understand i probably got a one-sided view of things :-) undoubtedly there are people in the US that know how to make proper coffee, and some of them will even use freshly-roasted ground beans, unlike me, who buys the cheapest brand of pre-ground coffee.
Ok snob.
I make it hot, and let it cool.
somehow theres a way to roast your own beans using an old popcorn popper.
i like the cone filter/ mug method.
i also like french presses.
we have a lot of spanish coffees here, which are pretty good.
a friend of mine brought me some coffee from germany when she was stationed there and i loved it so much. siiiiiiiiiigh. i miss germany.
starbucks= garbage (imo)
dunkin donuts=not so great either.
Quote from: hunter s.durden on January 26, 2008, 09:25:39 PMOk snob.
I make it hot, and let it cool.
that's what i said, right? :)
I get other people to buy me expensive flavoured coffee and then make it the normal way. It works out well. Everyone knows what to get me for Christmas, birthdays etc and I get good quality coffee.
good call. when I was in Costa Rica I picked up several pounds of really high quality coffee and have been sitting on that for a while. I didn't even know what I was missing. Unfortunately, now I'm like "Folgers? :vom:"
I like coffee and I live in Ohio. I have a french press, a Mr. Coffee Drip pot, a little Cup Cone thingy and in my opinion coffee is best when...
part of the Erisian Sacrement, Her Holy Trinity of The Java, The Jameson and the Holy Smoke. Whatever form it takes is ok with me, including IV drip of thick New York style sludge and that weak shit they drink in Iowa.
Oh Great Bean, give us this day your Power of the Dark Roast,
Bathe us in the Odur of your Sacred Scent.
Let They who have Eyes, get the sleep out!
Jameson, the Sacred Element of Fire lies in your Golden Hue
Sear our throats and purify our intestines.
Let They who have Chasers drink!
We say this in the influence of the Holy Smoke,
may they bring us succor from the aches and pains,
wakefulness before Office Hours
and the occasional Whisky Face.
AWoman
That is exactly the problem with good coffee - it makes it very hard to go back to the cheap stuff. I had withdrawal symptoms until Xmas day because of that.
this is true. some good quality espresso coffee somehow made my way, i just made regular coffee out of it, but it was very good indeed.
in fact, the red "markus" brand you see on the photo is the cheapest stuff you can get from the Aldi, and it's definitely less good than the "euroshopper", another cheap brand from another supermarket.
the aldi also got a slightly more expensive gold markus brand, which probably is better quality coffee, i gotta check if it's cheaper by the pound than the euroshopper variety. but this red brand will simply not do.
Locally brewed coffee in Hawaii is equivalent to drinking Beelzebub's poomp. Allow me to explain:
The roast that people are accustomed to here is known as "Pele's Menstruation," which essentially involves blackening the beans until they can be used to make charcoal drawings. This is the First Sin against Decent Coffee.
The air is warm and often very humid, and not everyone is diligent about keeping their coffee grounds stored in a cool, dry place. This is the Second Sin against Decent Coffee.
The coffee is then brewed by hastily squeezing some hot water through some pitifully small amount of the ground beans (I believe it is somewhere between two and eight beans' worth of grounds, but this may be an overestimation). This is the Third and Final Sin against Decent Coffee.
Result?
WHO WANTS SOME ASH-FLAVORED WATER?!
And the Kona isn't any cheaper here than it is anywhere else.
There are a couple of REALLY good coffee establishments around my area that serve such delicious espresso. I am not generally a fan of drip coffee--I have a machine with an auto-timer, so I have drip coffee in the morning because it wakes me up and keeps me warm en route to the bus, but when it comes to drinking for pleasure, I do love some nice delicious fresh espresso, made properly.
I will have to experiment with your method, Trip0, cause that sounds like it could be quite satisfying.
Paging Richter to this thread, plz...Richter to this thread...
Richter's Espresso-thing : DO NOT WANT. I hallucinated for about 3 hours of heart racing caffeinated fascination until crashing into my desk. Hard.
I also had 2 cups of the stuff. :mrgreen:
In related news, I applied at Peet's coffee. On the application question: What is your favorite coffee or tea? How often do you drink coffee? I replied, "I drink coffee every day. My preference is Medaglia D'Oro espresso blend, which I steep in a glass masonry jar with a cloth sack. My favorite tea has to be Yorshire Gold, due to it's full flavour and low tannic acid."
Quote from: Suu Fett on January 28, 2008, 03:37:56 PM
Paging Richter to this thread, plz...Richter to this thread...
Richter's Espresso-thing : DO NOT WANT. I hallucinated for about 3 hours of heart racing caffeinated fascination until crashing into my desk. Hard.
I also had 2 cups of the stuff. :mrgreen:
As Leln sagely pointed out last time we chatted, most folks over here do not drink coffee for the flavor. It's the caffine.
Granted, I can make espresso taste OK (not fantastic), but that would defeat the reason of making it in the first place. The goal is to be awake, manic, and indifferent to EVERYTHING but your goal. Side effects are nothing to the productivity of a well channeled dose.
This is only work thou, for the "Friendly Neighborhood Mentat" effect. At home I only have tea.
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Quote from: Suu Fett on January 28, 2008, 03:37:56 PM
Paging Richter to this thread, plz...Richter to this thread...
Richter's Espresso-thing : DO NOT WANT. I hallucinated for about 3 hours of heart racing caffeinated fascination until crashing into my desk. Hard.
I also had 2 cups of the stuff. :mrgreen:
As Leln sagely pointed out last time we chatted, most folks over here do not drink coffee for the flavor. It's the caffine.
Granted, I can make espresso taste OK (not fantastic), but that would defeat the reason of making it in the first place. The goal is to be awake, manic, and indifferent to EVERYTHING but your goal. Side effects are nothing to the productivity of a well channeled dose.
This is only work thou, for the "Friendly Neighborhood Mentat" effect. At home I only have tea.
As I remember correctly...we WERE spouting a lot of Dune quotes that day. We only talked about the mind-bending intelligent stuff BEFORE the morning cup.
I would really like some coffee now.
But I don't have time to make any.
Fart.
Quote from: Suu Fett on January 28, 2008, 06:10:45 PM
Quote from: Richter on January 28, 2008, 05:02:04 PM
Quote from: Suu Fett on January 28, 2008, 03:37:56 PM
Paging Richter to this thread, plz...Richter to this thread...
Richter's Espresso-thing : DO NOT WANT. I hallucinated for about 3 hours of heart racing caffeinated fascination until crashing into my desk. Hard.
I also had 2 cups of the stuff. :mrgreen:
As Leln sagely pointed out last time we chatted, most folks over here do not drink coffee for the flavor. It's the caffine.
Granted, I can make espresso taste OK (not fantastic), but that would defeat the reason of making it in the first place. The goal is to be awake, manic, and indifferent to EVERYTHING but your goal. Side effects are nothing to the productivity of a well channeled dose.
This is only work thou, for the "Friendly Neighborhood Mentat" effect. At home I only have tea.
As I remember correctly...we WERE spouting a lot of Dune quotes that day. We only talked about the mind-bending intelligent stuff BEFORE the morning cup.
Yeah. Like the day we figured out how to make a fake wormhole or build planets form scratch.
Quote from: Cthulhu's Squidling on January 28, 2008, 06:16:33 PM
I would really like some coffee now.
But I don't have time to make any.
Fart.
Nor do you have a decent Dunkin' Donuts ANYWHERE in Central Florida. Starschmucks yes. DD, nope. (Not even on 192. I've looked.)
But there IS one in Clearwater off of Belcher. I'd recommend it if you want the 1.5 hour drive, the next closest one that I remember is in St. Petersburg on the corner of
9th St Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Blvd N. and 62nd Ave N.
but if you're lucky, maybe you can find one in Lakeland or Daytona! Drive, woman, drive!
Quote from: Richter on January 28, 2008, 06:18:17 PM
Quote from: Suu Fett on January 28, 2008, 06:10:45 PM
Quote from: Richter on January 28, 2008, 05:02:04 PM
Quote from: Suu Fett on January 28, 2008, 03:37:56 PM
Paging Richter to this thread, plz...Richter to this thread...
Richter's Espresso-thing : DO NOT WANT. I hallucinated for about 3 hours of heart racing caffeinated fascination until crashing into my desk. Hard.
I also had 2 cups of the stuff. :mrgreen:
As Leln sagely pointed out last time we chatted, most folks over here do not drink coffee for the flavor. It's the caffine.
Granted, I can make espresso taste OK (not fantastic), but that would defeat the reason of making it in the first place. The goal is to be awake, manic, and indifferent to EVERYTHING but your goal. Side effects are nothing to the productivity of a well channeled dose.
This is only work thou, for the "Friendly Neighborhood Mentat" effect. At home I only have tea.
As I remember correctly...we WERE spouting a lot of Dune quotes that day. We only talked about the mind-bending intelligent stuff BEFORE the morning cup.
Yeah. Like the day we figured out how to make a fake wormhole or build planets form scratch.
I have no idea how that conversation started, but it seemed like it would work at the time. Then we had coffee and had to actually sit at our desks instead of staring down the rotunda at the concierge for no reason.
Oh, the ideas WILL work. I'm quite confident in them. The problem is the materials.
(Regardless of the feasability of a toroid singularity, the devices needed to artificialy generate a singularity would be weaponised and hose us all first.)
Because it's more important to be able to kill people with cool shit than be able to travel through time. :|
Silly humans.
You know they would. People would apply the same logic I apply to espresso. Game over man.
You can also roast your own beans in a cast-iron skillet, you just have to keep stirring them to get an even roast. It's a bit smoky and smelly, but there's nothing quite like just-roasted coffee.
I've seen DIY roasters put together with a power drill, steel bowl, and blowtorch. Takes a bit of work, but does avoid having to toss them around the skillet.
Yeah, cool, but where can you buy unroasted beans?
Good question.
The Cult of DIY would have some solution I'd guess.
It'd probably be carbon neutral too.
Wankers.
i think you can order unroasted beans off teh internets
A lot of local coffee roasters sell them too, you just have to ask.
Cool. I would totally do that, just to be more of a coffee snob than any I've ever met. Just so I could one-up them when I talk to them.
"Yeah, I've dabbled with roasting my own coffee beans, for perfect freshness, oils, flavours, and scent."
"Wow, was it good?"
"No."
"No?"
"It was perfect."
Combine that with the Vegetarian-as-moral-superior bit, and you're all set.
I'm not sure I can sink that low. :lol:
If you take it as far as you can it becoems an IRL troll.
Sometimes a good cup of coffee is all in the service...
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2008/feb/15/baristas-aim-to-up-coffee-sales-by-stripping/ (http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2008/feb/15/baristas-aim-to-up-coffee-sales-by-stripping/)
"No sir, the half & half is in the one on the left."
Quote from: Diseris on February 15, 2008, 08:54:06 AM
Sometimes a good cup of coffee is all in the service...
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2008/feb/15/baristas-aim-to-up-coffee-sales-by-stripping/ (http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2008/feb/15/baristas-aim-to-up-coffee-sales-by-stripping/)
When I was in Argentina, they had these sorts of things on every corner. It was very weird going into a coffee shop at 7:00 am and being served by a woman in a fishnet catsuit and thigh-high leather stilletto boots.
My inner caffeinatrixx says: I love this thread
thanks for reminding me, I need to go make some joe
Hey, anybody catch the last Iron Chef America? It was Battle Coffee!
I suddenly want Thai Iced Coffee.
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on April 08, 2008, 08:14:15 PM
Hey, anybody catch the last Iron Chef America? It was Battle Coffee!
Was that the one with Ken Oringer?
I wanted to see that. I am in love with his cooking.
Yep, and after seeing that ep. I want to go to one of his restaurants.
3 restaraunts in Boston: Clio (Ultra-high end french), Toro (Hig-end tapas), and La Verdad (cheap taqueria in Fenway).
They are all amazing.
Quote from: LMNO on April 08, 2008, 08:55:03 PM
Toro (Hig-end tapas)
It's pronounced Tape Ass...
Hmm, maybe the wife and I need to make a trip to Beantown for the 5th Anniversary.
Fuck, now I want Thai iced tea. I want it now. I am going to go make this happen.
Quote from: Triple Zero on January 27, 2008, 06:45:07 PM
this is true. some good quality espresso coffee somehow made my way, i just made regular coffee out of it, but it was very good indeed.
in fact, the red "markus" brand you see on the photo is the cheapest stuff you can get from the Aldi, and it's definitely less good than the "euroshopper", another cheap brand from another supermarket.
the aldi also got a slightly more expensive gold markus brand, which probably is better quality coffee, i gotta check if it's cheaper by the pound than the euroshopper variety. but this red brand will simply not do.
Dear past self.
The "gold brand" stuff is pure arabica, whereas the "red brand" stuff is robusta+arabica, with the proportions never listed on the cheaper brands, so it probably varies quite a lot.
Pure arabica is nice for a change, but too smooth for every day drinking.
Also, you were a snotty bitch. Please stop that. Oh wait, you already did 8)
Note to future self: try mixing up gold+red brand of extremely cheap ALDI coffee, see what happens.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD on April 08, 2008, 08:55:03 PM
3 restaraunts in Boston: Clio (Ultra-high end french), Toro (Hig-end tapas), and La Verdad (cheap taqueria in Fenway).
They are all amazing.
The wife and I are planning a Boston get-away sometime this summer so I need to remember to look into these places.
One of his proteges is Jamie Bissonnette (and he won his episode of Chopped!), who now has a place called "Coppa" in the South End, which specializes in Italian Bistro-ish dishes, with a focus on charcuterie. It's awesome.
Coffee: Out of a can, into the filter. Run water through it. Serve hot. Inna mug.
OR
Death Coffee (the cold-rolled/slow heated version)
Everything else is blasphemy.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD on May 13, 2011, 02:20:55 PM
One of his proteges is Jamie Bissonnette (and he won his episode of Chopped!), who now has a place called "Coppa" in the South End, which specializes in Italian Bistro-ish dishes, with a focus on charcuterie. It's awesome.
I will, on principle, never patronize any restaurant if I am aware that the chef there has been on a reality TV cooking show.
Clio, however, is awesome. If that dude has ever been on some Food Network piece of schlock, I don't want to know about it.
Fuck you, Ken Oringer lost on Iron Chef America.
There.
Elitist bastard. GO BACK TO SEATTLE!
I would definitely go to a Morimoto restaurant. Not sure if he even has any in the States. Granted, I'm not a chef nor much of a cook, but the stuff the guy pulls of on Iron Chef sometimes is completely mind-boggling. Especially that think he did where he made a smoker out of ice.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD on May 13, 2011, 06:41:40 PM
Fuck you, Ken Oringer lost on Iron Chef America.
There.
Elitist bastard. GO BACK TO SEATTLE!
I prefer to think of myself as an
anit-elitist. :lulz:
ECH,
crusading against ridiculous foodie culture since, umm, 2010 (when it occurred to me exactly how ridiculous and hypocritical the entire foodie subculture really is)
Quote from: R.W.H.N. on May 13, 2011, 07:02:21 PM
I would definitely go to a Morimoto restaurant. Not sure if he even has any in the States. Granted, I'm not a chef nor much of a cook, but the stuff the guy pulls of on Iron Chef sometimes is completely mind-boggling. Especially that think he did where he made a smoker out of ice.
The REAL Iron Chef show is absolutely exempt from my previous statement. I would do just about anything for a meal cooked by Morimoto. And I can't really blame the guy for doing the crappy American version either. Dude worked his balls off forever, he deserved to get a few fat checks.
Quote from: Rip City Hustle on May 13, 2011, 06:00:50 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD on May 13, 2011, 02:20:55 PM
One of his proteges is Jamie Bissonnette (and he won his episode of Chopped!), who now has a place called "Coppa" in the South End, which specializes in Italian Bistro-ish dishes, with a focus on charcuterie. It's awesome.
I will, on principle, never patronize any restaurant if I am aware that the chef there has been on a reality TV cooking show.
Clio, however, is awesome. If that dude has ever been on some Food Network piece of schlock, I don't want to know about it.
What if the chef got a shitload bucket of moneys for appearing on a reality TV cooking show?
Doesn't it go against your very own principles to not accept large amounts of perfectly green money when offered by pinks? Certainly a chef that would
turn down such an offer should be lower in your esteem?
Yeah, once I thought about what I said I realized it was dumb. You, of course, are totally correct. My utter disdain for the Food Network and reality cooking shows should not carry over to the chefs who cash in on them.
That said, I probably still wouldn't spend my money at a restaurant owned by a chef who had his own show on Food Network.
Unless it was Bobby Flay's joint, and I knew he would be there in person and I'd have a chance to beat the crap out of him.
ah that's the ECH we all came to know and love! :D
Quote from: Rip City Hustle on May 14, 2011, 10:37:20 AM
Yeah, once I thought about what I said I realized it was dumb. You, of course, are totally correct. My utter disdain for the Food Network and reality cooking shows should not carry over to the chefs who cash in on them.
That said, I probably still wouldn't spend my money at a restaurant owned by a chef who had his own show on Food Network.
Unless it was Bobby Flay's joint, and I knew he would be there in person and I'd have a chance to beat the crap out of him.
I'd go as well, if I could watch.
Don't get the deal with Bobby Flay. He's totally predictable on ICA. Oh look, he's grilling something cooked in chiles and making tamales. Never saw THAT before.
He's got that "middle American non-threateningly handsome" thing going on, and housewives love that.
Guess who makes up most of the Food Network's target demographic?
Also, his food is easily replicated by the home viewer. [/backhanded chef insult]
Hello, housewife here--have NEVER liked Bobby Flay NOR have I EVER replicated his fucking recipes. (this may be exaggerated as I might have inadvertantly, and if I did it wasn't b/c it was BF but a good recipe)
...just saying.
But I think a lot of DIY shows are watched by domesticated white people and their spouses, yes.
Quote from: Rip City Hustle on May 15, 2011, 06:50:24 PM
He's got that "middle American non-threateningly handsome" thing going on, and housewives love that.
Quote from: Jenne on May 15, 2011, 07:34:02 PM
Hello, housewife here--have NEVER liked Bobby Flay
That's because YOU, lady, are out of his league. ;-)
(just googled the guy, he's not
that handsome)
:lulz: Thanks, Trip Zip--yeah, he's kinda weird-lookin' to me. And he acts like a total asshole, too, in his interviews. I haven't watched his action on TV in years. So I can get the "THAT guy? Why?" reaction about him.
Quote from: Jenne on May 15, 2011, 07:53:19 PM
:lulz: Thanks, Trip Zip--yeah, he's kinda weird-lookin' to me. And he acts like a total asshole, too, in his interviews. I haven't watched his action on TV in years. So I can get the "THAT guy? Why?" reaction about him.
I just Googled him, too, and he's totally generic-looking. He looks like a guy.
Yeah. Apparently, there are alot of pretty generic people out there who find that sort of thing both comforting and attractive.
I mean, there are no shortage of guys who think that Rachel Ray is attractive, FFS.
Quote from: Rip City Hustle on May 22, 2011, 05:42:37 PM
Yeah. Apparently, there are alot of pretty generic people out there who find that sort of thing both comforting and attractive.
I mean, there are no shortage of guys who think that Rachel Ray is attractive, FFS.
I don't think I know what she looks like.
I'm sure tons of people think he's attractive. He's not ugly or anything; he just looks like a guy.
Quote from: Nigel on May 22, 2011, 05:58:33 PM
Quote from: Rip City Hustle on May 22, 2011, 05:42:37 PM
there are no shortage of guys who think that Rachel Ray is attractive, FFS.
I don't think I know what she looks like.
You've read the "Nessie" thread, yes?
Imagine one of those, but with a whisk in one claw and a really annoying squeaky voice.
Quote from: Rip City Hustle on May 22, 2011, 06:08:11 PM
Quote from: Nigel on May 22, 2011, 05:58:33 PM
Quote from: Rip City Hustle on May 22, 2011, 05:42:37 PM
there are no shortage of guys who think that Rachel Ray is attractive, FFS.
I don't think I know what she looks like.
You've read the "Nessie" thread, yes?
Imagine one of those, but with a whisk in one claw and a really annoying squeaky voice.
:lulz:
Quote from: Rip City Hustle on May 22, 2011, 06:08:11 PM
Quote from: Nigel on May 22, 2011, 05:58:33 PM
Quote from: Rip City Hustle on May 22, 2011, 05:42:37 PM
there are no shortage of guys who think that Rachel Ray is attractive, FFS.
I don't think I know what she looks like.
You've read the "Nessie" thread, yes?
Imagine one of those, but with a whisk in one claw and a really annoying squeaky voice.
She's built funny. I mean, she looks like the sort of lady who would be coming over to snake your pipes, not bake you a pie.
Just image searched her. She's not unattractive, I believe the word is "cutesy". The somewhat hotter pics of her appear to be heavily retouched. I don't particularly feel any urge of augmenting my knowledge of her with any video or sound, though.
ANYWAY, /REJACK (not quite, cause I'll talk about ice cubes a lot)
I just made some cold brew coffee. The iced coffees we had in the USA were delicious, and I'm trying to recreate them here. It's funny, I have made "really cold coffee" before, but I didn't like it very much. It turns out that you really need a bunch of ice cubes in your iced coffee, regardless how chilled it already is from the fridge. Without ice cubes, even though it's nearly the same stuff, iced coffee becomes "cold coffee", which is not very good at all :)
Unfortunately I have a very small freezer (just 11x14x6 inches), so I can't make a lot of ice. I'm going to use EoC's brilliant idea of using coffee ice cubes instead of regular water ones, though. I don't even have an ice cube tray, so I'm going to have to improvise something. I might have a few of those compartmented plastic bags that you can fill to make ice cubes, but they are leaky and messy and I don't want coffee in my freezer :) Anyone got any good ideas on how to improvise an ice cube tray? (freezer is not very full right now, so space is not too much of an issue)
I had this really brilliant idea of a space-saving ice cube tray that would sort of look like a cube with 3x3x3 ice cube cells inside. The inner cell walls would be a kind of silicone "skeleton" shape, with small openings between the cells so the water can spread equally, but small enough so you can break the ice apart. The inner skeleton would probably consist of two parts so you can access the inner middle ice cube as well. The outside of the cube would just be a box, big enough to fit the skeleton and probably also made of silicon, but with reinforced edges and a separate cover so you can stack things on top of it. or maybe the reinforcement and cover could be one piece of hard plastic like a tiny square gazebo with four pillars you place over/around the floppy box. Am I confusing yet? Maybe I should draw some pictures.
The advantage over a regular 3x9 ice cube tray is that the regular one takes up a lot of space. You can't put anything on top of it cause it'll get in your ice cubes. But you can't really put it on top of something else either, because the water will probably spill before it's frozen enough (which is especially bad if you use coffee instead of water). The 3x3x3 cube produces 27 ice cubes, but uses the space much more efficiently, for both large and small freezers.
I should check this with my brother, he studies Industrial Design. Though he once told me--when I asked him whether it would be possible to design a better, less messy, garlic press--that there's not that big of a market for small "clever" kitchen tools. Because initially the quantities would be way too small to efficiently mass-produce, making the price too prohibitively high when compared to the utility the buyer would gain from it. Though maybe that's different from an ice cube tray that's actually really useful (IMO) versus a cleaner garlic press which would be nice, but I probably still wouldn't use it much.
ANYWAY ANYWAY
Back to the coffee. I prepared the cold brew coffee at about 20h yesterday, so it's been in the fridge for 17.5 hours. I shook it a couple of times. How long till it's done, do you think?
I usually only give my cold brew an overnight. Mind you, it will never be like Dunkin Donuts, but it will be a lot smoother than hot coffee, and I use the Cafe Bustelo (that crazy strong Spanish stuff in the yellow can) all the time.
Though if you want, I could ship you some Dunkin Donuts coffee beans, if you're longing for American coffee that bad. :)
Ok then it should be done about now.
Our regular coffee is actually pretty good (more strong like the espresso stuff we bought you in the supermarket, than the cheaper grind you had before), so I think it'll be fine :)
I improvised a sort of ice cube tray, with a large low plastic fresh-keeping container and placed a few plastic bits in it from the cutlery-box in my dishwasher held apart by some clothing pegs, in order to make it less like an unbreakable block of ice when it's frozen solid ... Let's hope it works :) I tried it with water first, don't want to waste my cold brew coffee on this experimental design yet.
Quote from: Your Evil Stepmother on June 12, 2011, 02:57:14 PM
I usually only give my cold brew an overnight. Mind you, it will never be like Dunkin Donuts, but it will be a lot smoother than hot coffee, and I use the Cafe Bustelo (that crazy strong Spanish stuff in the yellow can) all the time.
Though if you want, I could ship you some Dunkin Donuts coffee beans, if you're longing for American coffee that bad. :)
CAFE BUSTELO FTW!
I let that stuff cold-brew for 3 days before I leave on a road trip and rarely if ever regret not bringing any actual pharmaceutical-grade speed.
Quote from: Your Evil Stepmother on June 12, 2011, 02:57:14 PMI use the Cafe Bustelo (that crazy strong Spanish stuff in the yellow can) all the time.
Wait I missed that, now I'm confused. I think we had two kinds of coffee while we were at your place. The first one wasn't particularly strong, and then later on we got you some other coffee which said something about being espresso coffee or whatever. I can't remember what cans they were in though. Which was which?
The one you got me is the Bustelo, it's what I typically buy, but I've been using a big bag of coffee I have in the freezer which is a lot weaker and refilling the other can.
DO YOU WANT ICE CUBE TRAYS?
THEY ARE A DOLLAR! I WILL GIVE YOU!
I will ship them. They make silicone ones. I think I have heart shaped ones I've never used, in fact.
Yup, there are two of them and they are pink.
Want em?
Squid- why don't you have ice cube trays?!?!
wait... your ice kinda falls out of the sky in Dutchspaglandia, doesn't it?
I LIEK COFFEE!!
:lulz:
we have icecube trays, I just happen to have lost the one I owned and never bought a new one. I will do so soon, though, probably silicone indeed.
the improv icecube tray I made seems to have done its job, though I still needed to smash it apart with a hammer, so I might as well just have made a large block of ice without the clothes pegs and plastic bits in it :lol:
the cold brew coffee is horribly strong and awesome.
mixed with improv half-and-half (which we don't have but it appears you can mix whole milk and cream half and half! AMAZING) and chunks and shards of ice, our verdict is:
probably just as good as the Dunkin' Donuts stuff. also, buy longer straws.
BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT COFFEE bouncybouncybouncy
Quote from: Triple Zero on June 13, 2011, 05:29:09 PM
BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT COFFEE bouncybouncybouncy
I've gotta get a smaller coffee pot... I'm going through a whole pot every morning...
I HAS BEEN DRINKING COFFEE AT NIGHT!!
INSANITY!!!!
I prefer the trix method for manly coffee:
I grab a bunch of big coffee beans, shove them in my mouth, chew on them for about 90 seconds, then wash it down with boiling water.
You're such a badass.
Teach me. Please.
I really enjoy those little starbucks via packs.
They taste a helluvalot better than the coffee at banks/gas stations/etc. Though I may be biased as my need for caffeine supersedes my sense of good taste. Still, all the other folks I know who can't let go of the sweet sweet bean like them.
Trix: If you're not roasting them yourself you're doing yourself a disservice.
Quote from: Rip City Hustle on June 20, 2011, 11:41:45 PM
You're such a badass.
Teach me. Please.
Easy.
Get job that starts at 2:30am
Quote from: Alty on June 21, 2011, 12:56:40 AM
I really enjoy those little starbucks via packs.
They taste a helluvalot better than the coffee at banks/gas stations/etc. Though I may be biased as my need for caffeine supersedes my sense of good taste. Still, all the other folks I know who can't let go of the sweet sweet bean like them.
Trix: If you're not roasting them yourself you're doing yourself a disservice.
I always meant to one day try out some well-made coffee. I once got my hands on a local Costa-Rican brew from a friend who went there and brought some back (apparently it is illegal to export their good stuff), and it was great, I mean GREAT, but I still only got to try it in a cheap coffee maker machine. When time and funds permit, I'm going to try it the elite way.
Quote from: Rip City Hustle on June 20, 2011, 11:41:45 PM
You're such a badass.
Teach me. Please.
No problem, here's the trix 5-step guide to becoming an Internet Tough Guy:
Step 1: Don't.
8)
I'M SUCH A BADASS!
LOOK AT ME!
ALL BADASSIN AND STUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUFF.
pfff :roll:
Quote from: trix on June 21, 2011, 06:06:03 AM
Quote from: Alty on June 21, 2011, 12:56:40 AM
I really enjoy those little starbucks via packs.
They taste a helluvalot better than the coffee at banks/gas stations/etc. Though I may be biased as my need for caffeine supersedes my sense of good taste. Still, all the other folks I know who can't let go of the sweet sweet bean like them.
Trix: If you're not roasting them yourself you're doing yourself a disservice.
I always meant to one day try out some well-made coffee. I once got my hands on a local Costa-Rican brew from a friend who went there and brought some back (apparently it is illegal to export their good stuff), and it was great, I mean GREAT, but I still only got to try it in a cheap coffee maker machine. When time and funds permit, I'm going to try it the elite way.
Quote from: Rip City Hustle on June 20, 2011, 11:41:45 PM
You're such a badass.
Teach me. Please.
No problem, here's the trix 5-step guide to becoming an Internet Tough Guy:
Step 1: Don't.
8)
So much for keeping your bullshit to your intro and OKM, eh?
Liar.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on June 21, 2011, 04:36:52 PM
Quote from: trix on June 21, 2011, 06:06:03 AM
Quote from: Alty on June 21, 2011, 12:56:40 AM
I really enjoy those little starbucks via packs.
They taste a helluvalot better than the coffee at banks/gas stations/etc. Though I may be biased as my need for caffeine supersedes my sense of good taste. Still, all the other folks I know who can't let go of the sweet sweet bean like them.
Trix: If you're not roasting them yourself you're doing yourself a disservice.
I always meant to one day try out some well-made coffee. I once got my hands on a local Costa-Rican brew from a friend who went there and brought some back (apparently it is illegal to export their good stuff), and it was great, I mean GREAT, but I still only got to try it in a cheap coffee maker machine. When time and funds permit, I'm going to try it the elite way.
Quote from: Rip City Hustle on June 20, 2011, 11:41:45 PM
You're such a badass.
Teach me. Please.
No problem, here's the trix 5-step guide to becoming an Internet Tough Guy:
Step 1: Don't.
8)
So much for keeping your bullshit to your intro and OKM, eh?
Liar.
It was a joke. Whether or not you find it humorous is beside the point.
Also, I didn't insult anyone, so I fail to see what you're getting at. It seems to me that you are grasping at straws now.
Somebody told you that it's illegal in Costa Rica to export their good coffee, and you believed it? :?
Quote from: Your Mom on June 21, 2011, 09:35:46 PM
Somebody told you that it's illegal in Costa Rica to export their good coffee, and you believed it? :?
I've never been there, they have, so I figured they knew what they were talking about. I take it that fact wasn't true?
Quote from: Your Mom on June 21, 2011, 09:35:46 PM
Somebody told you that it's illegal in Costa Rica to export their good coffee, and you believed it? :?
No, it's illegal to import it, because of the embargo against Fidel Kruschev.
Oh my! I don't think I've seen a more elitist place regarding coffee :lulz: ! Though, good coffee is good and shitty coffee is kind of... Well, I don't know. When it comes to coffee, I'm akin to a ravenous, all consuming cum gargling slut. I can guzzle down cheap instant coffee and feel satisfied, I can use the drip brew method and enjoy my coffee. I can even take the time to whip up an amazing batch of french press coffee, and then I can waltz on down to Starbucks or some similar establishment for a latte/cappuccino/other pretentious bullshit. And I can enjoy it all! Except the coffee at my workplace, its fucking horrid.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on June 21, 2011, 10:29:06 PM
Quote from: Your Mom on June 21, 2011, 09:35:46 PM
Somebody told you that it's illegal in Costa Rica to export their good coffee, and you believed it? :?
No, it's illegal to import it, because of the embargo against Fidel Kruschev.
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
Quote from: Your Mom on June 23, 2011, 08:19:48 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on June 21, 2011, 10:29:06 PM
Quote from: Your Mom on June 21, 2011, 09:35:46 PM
Somebody told you that it's illegal in Costa Rica to export their good coffee, and you believed it? :?
No, it's illegal to import it, because of the embargo against Fidel Kruschev.
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
Roger's been on a total roll lately.
Quote from: Captain Swampass on June 23, 2011, 04:01:31 AM
Oh my! I don't think I've seen a more elitist place regarding coffee :lulz: ! Though, good coffee is good and shitty coffee is kind of... Well, I don't know. When it comes to coffee, I'm akin to a ravenous, all consuming cum gargling slut. I can guzzle down cheap instant coffee and feel satisfied, I can use the drip brew method and enjoy my coffee. I can even take the time to whip up an amazing batch of french press coffee, and then I can waltz on down to Starbucks or some similar establishment for a latte/cappuccino/other pretentious bullshit. And I can enjoy it all! Except the coffee at my workplace, its fucking horrid.
I'm pretty much the same way. The only coffee I won't drink unless completely desperado is that vending machine shit. I'll just get a cup of powdery hot cocoa and get the same buzz as I would the coffee flavored water coming out of those things.
For the longest time I refused to drink homebrewed coffee. Herbert got me into it. I was so picky I would only drink Dunkin Donuts because I actually didn't even start drinking the stuff until I moved to Rhode Island. You just don't drink coffee in Florida. Breakfast for me was either a Pepsi or Mountain Dew.
Quote from: Jenne on June 23, 2011, 03:01:09 PM
Quote from: Captain Swampass on June 23, 2011, 04:01:31 AM
Oh my! I don't think I've seen a more elitist place regarding coffee :lulz: ! Though, good coffee is good and shitty coffee is kind of... Well, I don't know. When it comes to coffee, I'm akin to a ravenous, all consuming cum gargling slut. I can guzzle down cheap instant coffee and feel satisfied, I can use the drip brew method and enjoy my coffee. I can even take the time to whip up an amazing batch of french press coffee, and then I can waltz on down to Starbucks or some similar establishment for a latte/cappuccino/other pretentious bullshit. And I can enjoy it all! Except the coffee at my workplace, its fucking horrid.
I'm pretty much the same way. The only coffee I won't drink unless completely desperado is that vending machine shit. I'll just get a cup of powdery hot cocoa and get the same buzz as I would the coffee flavored water coming out of those things.
Oh god. I once had coffee from a vending machine in a hospital (There was a puddle of horrible vomit beside it) and it was... Well, like some sort of black, putrid sludge that smelled like it might've been coffee if it tried extremely hard.
Yeah, hospital vending machine coffee--NOT EVEN ONCE.
Quote from: Jenne on June 24, 2011, 12:57:46 AM
Yeah, hospital vending machine coffee--NOT EVEN ONCE.
I don't know, it was horrible enough that I want to try it once more. Hell, I cant even recall the fragrance (Though a better word might be stench) of the muck. Actually, I should try their 'cappuccino' and mocha flavours next time I'm down there. My first time I just had dark roast.
You gotta do what you gotta do. If the options are caffeine vs no caffeine the winner is clear.
Quote from: Alty on June 24, 2011, 01:12:51 AM
You gotta do what you gotta do. If the options are caffeine vs no caffeine the winner is clear.
... Yeah... Go to the next machine over and grab a Mountain Dew...
Quote from: Luna on June 24, 2011, 03:51:13 AM
Quote from: Alty on June 24, 2011, 01:12:51 AM
You gotta do what you gotta do. If the options are caffeine vs no caffeine the winner is clear.
... Yeah... Go to the next machine over and grab a Mountain Dew...
The next machine had a pile of odd vomit beside it. Y'know. I'm thinking consuming anything from those vending machines would be a bad idea.
Quote from: Luna on June 24, 2011, 03:51:13 AM
Quote from: Alty on June 24, 2011, 01:12:51 AM
You gotta do what you gotta do. If the options are caffeine vs no caffeine the winner is clear.
... Yeah... Go to the next machine over and grab a Mountain Dew...
If I was out of coffee and the ONLY other source of caffeine at hand was Mountain Dew, I'd force myself to vomit and then drink my own vomit in the hopes that there would be some stray coffee grounds in it before I'd do the dew.