Coffee

[CarlD]

So you guys get all wired up on the black juice for what??? Pool maintenance???
hehe!

Sure! What's your point??

No, I'm not roasting my own beans...It's not like I have time or energy to do what I need now!

There's also cold-extraction coffee--super-smooth, but uses far too much coffee for what you get.

I mess with the coffee, my wife brains me! So I stick with a GOOD drip pot.

[CanuckPool]

CarlD's other signature line...

Stay ahead of your coffee!
Take 2 to 5 minutes every day for java maintenance!

[CarlD]

CarlD's other signature line...

Stay ahead of your coffee!
Take 2 to 5 minutes every day for java maintenance!

ROFLMAO!

I take about that to develop it, but I take a lot more time than that drinking it!

[ChuckD]

Sure! What's your point??

No, I'm not roasting my own beans...It's not like I have time or energy to do what I need now!

There's also cold-extraction coffee--super-smooth, but uses far too much coffee for what you get.

I mess with the coffee, my wife brains me! So I stick with a GOOD drip pot.

Where's chem_geek when we really need him?

[CarlD]

Where's chem_geek when we really need him?

Oh, NO!....Richard would RUIN the coffee. Unlike pool care, GREAT coffee requires a little magic and secret rituals!

No matter how closely she follows my steps, my wife INSISTS that the coffee is always better when I make it!

Either I make great coffee, OR I'M BEING HAD!

[CanuckPool]

I heard somewhere if you put a little salt in with your grinds your coffee will be more mellow. Anyone heard the same?

[CarlD]

I heard somewhere if you put a little salt in with your grinds your coffee will be more mellow. Anyone heard the same?

yup. It's an old trick. Never seems to do much to my coffee so I don't bother.

Also heard a little sugar in them--Yuck! The guy who insists that helps makes THE WORST coffee in the world. But he doctors his with tons of milk and sugar. I drink it black.

Good coffee, good water, good measurements, good filters and a good machine make good coffee.

[waterbear]

No matter how closely she follows my steps, my wife INSISTS that the coffee is always better when I make it!

Either I make great coffee, OR I'M BEING HAD!

Trust me, you are being had! I use the same trick to get the significant other to brew the java even though I make a better pot! (Especially on Sunday morining when I want to read the paper and sip the brew!)

[NWMNMom]

...and just as important is WHEN you drink your coffee in relation to when it is brewed AND if it is kept on a warmer or not. Our factory chemist came in one day recently while I was enjoying a very particularly good cup (I brew my own expresso in my office so I don't drink from the community Bunn machine like the rest of the hoards) and told me that after X amount of time of being brewed the chemical content in coffee becomes something else all together at the molecular level and this does not take into account the different types of water being used etc. My eyes must have begun to glaze over so he moved on to the next office to ruin their coffee experience too. Does every large corporation have one of these guys or is it the same one, moving from place to place???

[CarlD]

Oh, I KNOW I've been had--but I still make better coffee (but I LOVE hers--it means I didn't have to make it! )

That chemist is full of it. Besides, he can say anything he wants. If my tongue is happy with the coffee, I'm happy!

Two things happen when coffee sits just after it's brewed (on a plate that isn't hot enough to boil it off)
1) the convection currents even it out. you can (should) stir it if you don't have time.
2) there's a slight smoothing of the flavor as some oils evaporate.

Of course, if the warmer is too hot, the coffee gets burnt tasting, so if you like it blistering hot, wave it, or drink it fast.