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WCDT Strips 3141 to 3145 (25 - 29 January 2016)
oeoek:
quote from You've got mail:
"The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup of coffee. Short, tall, light, dark, caf, decaf, low-fat, non-fat, etc. So people who don't know what the hell they're doing or who on earth they are can, for only $2.95, get not just a cup of coffee but an absolutely defining sense of self: Tall. Decaf. Cappuccino. "
'I'll make you a nice espresso instead.'
Morituri:
I recently discovered cold-brewed coffee. I've always preferred it cold (keeps its flavor better that way) but cold-brewing was new to me. It's simple, really: Put a pitcher of water, with coffee grounds poured into it, in your fridge overnight. Or if you're making concentrate, use a lot of coffee grounds and leave it a few days. Don't use a plastic pitcher for this, BTW; it's really hard to get them clean afterward.
In the morning, strain the coffee grounds out and you've got a pitcher full of really excellent coffee. It can be quite concentrated and flavorful without being bitter. Well, without being more bitter than drip coffee, which isn't very concentrated or flavorful.
If you want it hot, I suppose you'd put it into a microwave, but I prefer to get a mug straight from the freezer, or if I happen to have some (about three days a week depending on when my groceries are delivered) I can pour it over dry ice. I will never, though, pour it over water ice. Well, not unless I'm just thirsty and want the extra liquid volume.
Kugai:
The only true Coffee is Filter Coffee
Instant's OK if you're in a hurry though
Love how Emily calls bullshit on Fayes order in her typical fashion though. :)
bhtooefr:
I've tried cold-brewed, and it doesn't seem as strong to me, even if I let it sit for a long time. Then again, my cold brewing pitcher kit (basically it has a filter to hold the grounds in) basically said to go 12-24 hours to make concentrate, and I found I was drinking straight concentrate and getting almost as much caffeine as drip coffee, so maybe it needed to sit for longer.
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 29 Jan 2016, 07:32 ---I can't drink coffee. It does terrible things to me. It's not the caffeine - I can tolerate tea and sodas quite well. But there's something else in coffee - I don't know what - that I can't tolerate at all.
--- End quote ---
Apparently I suffer from a genetic reaction to an amino acid in coffee that burns iron. For most people, it's not a big deal - not that much of a reaction. But I was drinking 2 cups a day for a few months when I started grad school, and was passing out in the afternoon - in class, at my desk, during colloquia, wherever.
Then one day I went to give blood. The attendant pricked my finger, and let the drop into the little vial of blue stuff to test for iron (gives you an idea how long ago this was...).
She looked at the drop floating there on the surface, looked at me, looked at the drop again, and then asked me, "How come you're still conscious?"
Turns out coffee - even decaf - makes me anemic. Really anemic. I drink lots of black tea to get my caffeine.
When I started my new job, there was a free coffee machine that said it gave tea. It tasted like coffee, and I assumed that was just traces from the last cup. Turns out that they never put tea concentrate into the machine, just used watered down coffee. After a week, I was passing out in the training sessions and my wife said I looked like a ghost. I went back to real tea and recovered in a few days. Then bitched a royal fit to the vendor.
Just got word that they'll be replacing the coffee machines soon... probably not just me, though. Lots of people complain about how temperamental it is... almost as bad as a real barista, but with worse coffee!
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