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I want to talk about coffee.
usmcnavgeek:
So, according to the search, there hasn't been a coffee thread in like, years. I want to talk about coffee so I'm making one.
I like coffee, guys. But, like many people, I'm a sorta-broke-ish college student. This means no $1000 espresso machines in my apartment. It also means no daily $5 coffee drinks from local places. I am by no means a super coffee snob but I will say I haven't drunk any Folgers in, like, 5 years, sooo....
So yeah. I have been using a cheap $20 blade "grinder" and an aeropress to make my coffee. The aeropress website is pretty hyperbolic but it is pretty inexpensive and makes a darn good cup of coffee, if you ask me. I've got a hand-cranked burr grinder on the way to me so I can elevate my coffeenerdness by a little bit.
What kind of coffee am I drinking? I'm so glad you asked! I happen to be blessed with a pretty good local roastery and I usually go with them. Obviously I'm rocking whole-bean and grinding my own. I've also been recommended this stuff and I have some on the way to me.
ADDITIONS! I usually take a little sugar and nothing else, but I've just started out on the paleo diet (as part of a nutrition challenge my local crossfit gym is doing, which is a whole 'nother thread) so now I'm drinking it just black. I also have a few flavored syrups that I've used to make those sugary sweet Starbucks-style drinks. Ask me about my coffee price spreadsheet showing how much money I save by making my own drinks instead of buying them from coffee shops!
SO. Coffee. What do you like, where do you get it, what are you making it with, what do you put in it? Do you miss sleeping?
Inlander:
--- Quote from: usmcnavgeek on 10 Oct 2010, 19:35 ---$5 coffee drinks from local places.
--- End quote ---
Holy shit! Please tell me that's for some grotesquely enormous American-sized cup because here in Australia $3.50 has really only very recently become an accepted standard price for coffee.
scarred:
yeah I haven't paid more than $3 for a cup of coffee in ever
usmcnavgeek:
A medium mocha-latte-whatever from the Starbucks in my town is $4. An extra shot is $0.75, and if you go large it gets worse.
So yeah it's for the uber-huge-Amurrica sized ones.
Lunchbox:
I think he means like, fancy expensive Starbucks drinks. Those are pricey. Also huge.
I stopped drinking/caring about coffee when I stopped working as a barista. I can't afford to buy it every day and I can't be bothered making my own. However, I still LOVE the taste and smell of coffee. But: now that I don't drink six shots of espresso every day, I have developed a sort of intolerance to it and can't actually drink coffee without feeling sick. This is no fun, but I do enjoy a sip or two of ambrosia when my boyfriend is drinking it. It makes it that much more special maybe?
Anyway, despite being a pretty good barista at a highly rated Sydney espresso bar, I'm not that much of a coffee snob. I'm just as happy with professional or home stove-top espresso as I am with plunger (French press) or percolator (drip) coffee, although the latter two are quite hard to find in Australia. (My boss, a champion barista, even drank Moccona instant at home.)
I don't like flavoured syrups but I do enjoy milk coffees, lattes or macchiatos being my preference, with a tiny smidgen (half a teaspoon maybe?) of sugar.
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