Coffee!!

LoyalTubist · Post by **LoyalTubist** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 5:55 am

My ex-wife is from Indonesia and I adopted the Javanese/Balinese approach to making coffee. No coffee pot is necessary. You grind the beans into a very fine powder--almost the consistency of instant coffee. Put two teaspoons of this fine grind into a coffee cup, then add eight ounces of boiling water, then wait about three minutes, or untill the grounds all sink to the bottom of the cup.

My girlfriend is Vietnamese and doesn't drink that much coffee. (She is a devout Coke drinker! Coke for breakfast, anyone?) I think Vietnamese coffee is much like French coffee--they serve it in a demi-tasse.

LoyalTubist · Post by **LoyalTubist** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 7:43 am

I like Coke, too. But my rule is, no soda pop before 10:30 am.

NickJones · Post by **NickJones** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 8:58 am

Black one sugar...and if after 8.00pm with a shot of Grappa..

Rick Denney · Post by **Rick Denney** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 1:09 pm

bloke wrote:Just stay away from the "hazelnut foo-foo" coffee and you'll be alright.

I have to be in the company of someone I really trust to order my usual breakfast drink, a venti nonfat light-whip mocha. I try to simplify it, but in the end just have to explain it to the person behind the machine, and it's easier just to give it to them like they write it down.

In the evening, though, I don't order a breakfast drink. "Coffee. Large. Black." seems adequate. And that's all I ever ordered at Starbucks before meeting by wife and being corrupted by feminine influence.

Rich "who likes it bitter" Coffey

prototypedenNIS · Post by **prototypedenNIS** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 3:36 pm

1 sugar, 1 fake sugar, 1 milk

elimia · Post by **elimia** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 6:37 pm

little cream, little bit of REAL sugar.

Starbucks is in the milk business, not the coffee business - I'm paraphrasing. That stuff is garbage.

I buy beans from a real nice little coffee roaster in downtown Pittsburgh, like 100 choices of coffee there.

tubatooter1940 · Post by **tubatooter1940** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 11:04 pm

Can't beat Nescafe instant hot out of a microwave with artificial sweetener and low fat Cremora. Yum yum!
Seriously, we are on the road a lot here lately and I am not young. When it's my time to drive at night, I get a large cup of bitter black coffee in an insulated cup and sip it for hours. Being a diuretic (spelling?) coffee makes pit stops much more frequent than normal.
Not a bad thing when driving late at night.

TheChiefofStaph · Post by **TheChiefofStaph** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 11:46 am

tubatooter1940 wrote:When it's my time to drive at night, I get a large cup of bitter black coffee in an insulated cup and sip it for hours. Being a diuretic (spelling?) coffee makes pit stops much more frequent than normal.
Not a bad thing when driving late at night.

Sometimes there is nothing better for driving at night that nasty, cheap gas station coffee. I like to indluge in the fancy stuff when I can actually enjoy it, but when I'm using it for a purpose the three-day old middle-of-rural-Mississippi black-as-night (let's see how many more hyphenated phrases I can fit in here) coffee is the only stuff for me.

I'm secure enough to, like Rick, fess up to my Starbucks order (triple grande two pump almond latte).

prototypedenNIS · Post by **prototypedenNIS** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 12:58 am

elimia wrote:Starbucks...That stuff is garbage.

Tim Hortons... good coffee, fast service, unhealthy doughnuts, low prices.

LoyalTubist · Post by **LoyalTubist** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 3:17 am

prototypedenNIS wrote:Tim Hortons... good coffee, fast service, unhealthy doughnuts, low prices.

...and only available in a few places in the United States--none near me...

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Coffee!!

How do you like your coffee??