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How about some coffee
Metalbourne
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Okay so my French press still had coffee in it when I moved and grew mold in it. I've tried running it through the dish washer and boiling it but the mold is not coming out of the mesh screen. Am I fucked?
I know someone is going to ask how a mistake like that could happen and I'll counter with: I have Lyme disease, severe depression and various psychoses. Sometimes I forget what dimension I'm in, let alone what my coffee mug is doing.
With that said, coffee is delicious, especially right after smoking some pot. So this is also the coffee thread but no necessarily the pot thread because it's not legal everywhere because man politicians hate it when their voters are happy
I know someone is going to ask how a mistake like that could happen and I'll counter with: I have Lyme disease, severe depression and various psychoses. Sometimes I forget what dimension I'm in, let alone what my coffee mug is doing.
With that said, coffee is delicious, especially right after smoking some pot. So this is also the coffee thread but no necessarily the pot thread because it's not legal everywhere because man politicians hate it when their voters are happy
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Oh shit
At least this is an improvement over my old Red Bull habit
I haven't used my french press since.
I also got one for work and am slowly converting all the coffee drinkers there to using it.
This is me everytime I use it
I want a cup of coffee now.
And cheap, and easy to use, love it
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But in recent months I've been trying to get into it, mostly to expand my palate, but also because I've read it's good for weight loss as well as something to help me get through the day after a sleepless night. I started when Starbucks had a special going on with their holiday drinks (it was BOGO or something similar) and I really liked their peppermint latte (also tried the gingerbread latte, was good). I mostly avoid that stuff now and stick to brewed coffee at a local place because of calories/sugar/price, but occasionally I'll treat myself to a caramel macchiato at Starbucks
Anyway, I've drinking coffee most days for the past couple weeks, just had a blonde roast this morning. I wouldn't say it tastes good yet, and I can't yet tell the difference between various roasts, but I'm not forcing it down and it's an interesting experiment to me
French Press: You got them big grinds and the large pores on the metal filter. You get all the oils. It is a heady, powerful brew. Great for darker, bolder coffees.
Aeropress: Between its total immersion and filter you get a very smooth brew.
Coldbrew: No heat means less acidity extracted, so you get some nice flavor profiles.
Pour over: ULTIMATE CONTROL.
Drip machine: Fuck you it's 5 in the god damned am and I want my coffee now piss off.
Moka pot: It's late and after dinner and you want something to put a nice bow on the evening while we play some niche ass boardgames? Alright let me make you a cafe con leche with my moka pot. Fine ground espresso like coffee bubbled up to the top and then mixed in with brown sugar and beat into a delicious foam poured into hot milk with just a dab of butter and a pinch of salt. Take a sip and let your worries melt away.
Coffee is the fucking best.
I do like french press coffee, I'm just terrible about cleaning them. I have definitely had a moldy french press and I don't even have the really understandable reasons metalbourne has. Just 'Ill clean it later'ed it until it was a burn it with fire situation.
It's a little stove top coffee maker. You use very finely ground coffee with it. I typically use cafe la llave espresso for it. It's one of the ways to make cuban coffee, the other way is with an espresso machine, but you usually jam shit into the top of the espresso machine so it breaks the espresso machine over time, also espresso machines are expensive and moka pots aren't.
There are essentially three chambers. A bottom chamber that you fill with water. A middle chamber that is removable that you fill with the finely ground coffee that you tamp down to make very densely packed, and a top chamber that starts up empty. You put it all on the stove. As the bottom heats up, the water gets under greater and greater pressure, eventually enough to force itself through the coffee grounds and into the upper chamber. The first results out of the chamber are always very rich, and this is the part you pour out and beat with the brown sugar to make the espumita if you are making cuban coffee. Anyway, eventually it all bubbles to the top and it produces a very strong, very rich espresso style coffee. Which you can drink straight, but even someone like me who tends to drink his coffee black usually cuts it with milk or sugar. Just less milk and sugar than the average cuban in my family. :P
Because if it has milk and sugar in it, it needs to basically be a coffee and milk syrup. None of this 'a lil bit of milk and a dash of sugar' nonsense.
It made a really good cup of coffee, but it was impossible to clean, so after a while it became useless
edit: the moka pot thing I mean
what
I'm no coffee buff, I'm fine with instant and an absurd amount of sweetner, but when that aroma of simmered ground beans hits my nose I always stop by for a drink
I still like a big ol helping of sugar in mine, but god DAMN are you ever up and ready to go after you've had a cup of turkish, that things kicks your ass into high gear in a second flat
That just brought up memories of when I was in Germany, and whenever someone would get too drunk to keep partying we'd start buying them turkish coffees.
Which, all it got us in retrospect was a belligerent drunk who won't go to bed
But god damn I love me some turkish coffee.
it's basically a magic potion
I like it when I take a sip and my ears start ringing
It's not coffee, it's a cream-based drink with sweet and sour flavor added. I had one and it wasn't bad!
I am not fond of coffee though I quite like tea
I wonder this all the time.
Also I really want a moka pot now.
Turkish Coffee is indeed amazing, though, I guess what I have had is similar but different. I've only ever had Armenian coffee, given the high percentage of Armenians that live in my area of California. And, especially in light of the anniversary tomorrow, they would probably not take kindly to me describing it as Turkish Coffee. It uses the same basic process and tools however, though I understand there is some matter of debate among aficionados about how many times you are supposed to bring it to boil and with how much rapidity.
This very cute mom and pop coffee shop by me does this amazing vietnamese nitro cold brew. Which is basically cold brew served through a nitro tap to give it a head like beer, mixed with condensed milk. It's very tasty.
Also, when I was in Bali I had kopi luwak coffee, which is the coffee made from the beans that have been eaten, digested and pooped out by civets. It is of course cleaned very thoroughly before being served. Since the bean has already been digested by an animal, it has a totally different flavor profile that your standard coffee. Basically all the acidity was gone and it was super smooth. It was a very interesting cup, but didn't taste much like coffee. I had the cup at the plantation I was at but, didn't think it would be worth buying the beans.
Also, coffee adjacent, affogatos are the best desert. Just a nice shot of espresso poured over some ice cream. Simple and delicious.
Fuck, my burners are all too big I think, plus my gas is setup weird so it's hard to get a small flame on my smallest burner.
Ideally yes. If the flame is bigger than the base than you waste heat and can start heating up parts of the pot that should not be heated. Generally this is not a huge issue, however, I was doing a marathon session of making cafe con leche (I used to go to a lot of pot lucks in Japan, everyone would bring so much food I figured the best thing I could do is bring something completely different so I went for making coffee) and when I was on my 5th or 6th batch the handle was so hot that it started melting and I grabbed it without noticing and gave myself a nasty shock.
is there a brand you can recommend? I am looking at amazon and some are cheap and some are very much more expensive.
I used the Bialetti Moka Express 3 cups and it worked well for me. However, I don't really have any experience with any other brands. To be honest, I use that one simply because its the same one my Cuban Grandmother used.
Are you Elliott in the morning?!
But, yeah, I want to get back on the french press train. The coffee machine is good and all, but I'm the only person in the house who drinks it - I don't need to make it in bulk.
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The sizes are standardized so you should be able to just find one based on the diameter of your pot
Though mostly from a drip machine because I can't be bothered.