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Aimless:
These punks call it "Norwegian" which is absurd although, tbh, it's probably as unknown here as it is in Norway... have any of you heard of/tried this?

http://blog.khymos.org/2010/08/04/norwegian-egg-coffee/

There's another coffee thread but I can never figure out the official/unofficial stance on thread-necromancy or thread anything :o

It's this one: http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,25095.0.html

Merge if necessary?

Redball:
I'd never heard of that, but I can remember my grandmother in the 1940s putting eggshells in coffee. I hadn't remembered why, but apparently the calcium counteracts some of the acidity and makes a smoother drink.

Lines:
Innnnnnteresting. I am kind of curious about trying this, since the reason I don't drink coffee is because of the bitterness and usually have to stick to iced, overly sugary coffee drinks. They say it's popular in the Midwest, but I've never heard of it. (Then again, the population around where I am is predominantly of German descent, not Scandinavian.)

Also I wonder how filtering it a second time would change the flavor. I made a milk liqueur this past Christmas and improving the clarity improved the taste because it removed all of the excess solids and milk. Maybe if I get a hankering for coffee tomorrow morning I'll test this out. :)

pwhodges:
Filtering through paper in particular removes some of the oils, and is considered by some to be a health benefit; other people say that it has an adverse effect on the flavour, though.  Presumably filtering twice would increase this effect.  The filter has to be paper because the fibres adsorb the oil, which plastic or metal filters don't.

I found a page that covers these issues (including double filtering)

Lines:
Michael's coffee maker came with a metal filter, but has switched to paper because he said it improved the taste. (I had a ton of paper ones lying around because I had to buy them for the liqueur and a bulk pack was the cheapest.) So I'd be filtering through the paper. It'd be a good experiment.

Though I just remembered I don't have any eggs, just egg substitutes. So this will have to wait until I go to the grocery store again, whenever that is.

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