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I want to talk about coffee.
Inlander:
Yes, a terrifying post-apocalyptic wasteland where the surving rabble have to fight tooth and nail for their coffee in whatever grim and meagre form they can find it.
BlahBlah:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 11 Oct 2010, 05:54 ---What I do is I take a jar of Marks and Spencers instant coffee (The gold one). Then I lovingly remove the lid with a clockwise turning motion of my right hand. Meanwhile, I have set my kettle to boil (remembering to only boil enough for one cup so I can SAVE THE PLANET!). I gently shake a rough amount of coffee powder into a mug, then seal the coffee jar again. Then I carefully drizzle boiling water on it until it turns into actually a real nice cup of coffee. And it only takes minutes! And I can get about a hundred cups for $5.
It's like living in the future.
--- End quote ---
Marks and Spencer's? It has to be
The process is the same though.
KharBevNor:
No!
M&S!
I will defend my middle England tastes to the death!
On the subject of instant coffee versus everything else, I've tried a variety of things. Indeed somewhere in boxes at my parents house I own a percolator, a stovetop espresso kit (I won it in a pub quiz: I hate espresso) and even a friggin' Senseo machine. Home-made percolator coffee is probably the nicest BUT when you take into account the extra mess and expense what seems to my palette to be only a slight improvement in taste doesn't really warrant it. I don't know of part of this has to do with the fact that I only ever drink coffee black (occasionally once in a blue moon if it is a bad morning and I need a kick up the arse some demerara sugar) and thus don't experience much complexity to the flavour that comea with being mixed? I know I need some sort of balance to the bitterness, because I dislike espresso and by extension americano: I hate getting coffee out because pretty much everywhere does americano now rather than filter coffee, and I can taste the difference, but drinking reasonable instant coffee never seems 'grim and meagre' to me. I don't think I'm really snobbish about any of the traditional snob foods/beverages, except maybe beer.
TheFuriousWombat:
Sadly, coffee and beer are the two things in life I let myself be fairly snobby about. I don't drink Folgers or the other big name roasters. I don't use a drip machine for coffee (French press or Chemex is mostly what I go for) and I really prefer to grind my beans fresh before every cup I make. None of this beans roasted two weeks ago and ground last week business. I buy most of my coffee beans from here: http://www.smallworldcoffee.com/ and here: http://www.rojosroastery.com/. Both are also good for a cup of coffee as well but my favorite place to go for that is here (assuming I'm in the city of course): http://www.kaffe1668.com/. They have amazing coffee, each cup brewed to order, four or five single-origin roasts to choose from everyday. Great stuff! I'm a big espresso fan too but tend to just drink shots, not lattes or cappuccinos most of the time. Also: black coffee almost exclusively. Sometimes a touch of skim. Never sugar.
usmcnavgeek:
I actually got one of those Senseo machines for free from an internet deal, years back. It made pretty OK coffee but my model was really really loud, to the point of annoyance, and also the whole cost per cup thing, what with the pods, discouraged me. Plus it took up valuable counter space!
Thoughts on the Starbucks instant stuff? I thought it was pretty good by instant standards, but if I'm in a place where I have access to good hot water I probably will be able to make a real cup of coffee. On that note their cold brew instant was yuck, but maybe I'm weird.
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