Coffee.. how do you take it

[PanchoHambre]

Hi my name is John and I have a problem....

So who's a coffee drinker? I am not a coffee drinker so much as an addict. I cannot even function without getting my fix.

How do you take it?

I'm a milk no sugar guy cant stand the sugar

How do you make it?

At home I French press... out.. whatever I'll drink burned gas station sludge if it's all I can get my hands on.

In summer I'm a big fan of the DD iced coffee but can never understand why cold coffee is 3x the price of hot

[joec]

I'm a big coffee drinker too about 3 - 12 cup pots a day. I'm not much on iced coffee but have drank it a few times. I like 1 sugar and milk or half & half. As for brands Maxwell House or Foldgers drips are fine with me. Never had a cup of coffee at a Starbucks I liked, don't care for McDonald's but Burger Kings is OK with my favorite made by others coffee is probably Dunkin Donuts shops. The best coffee was the old Howard Johnson's but they are gone for the most part these days.

[Miniman]

I'm milk no sugar as well. Usually drink instant (DW prefers the taste) but will make up an occasionally jug in a cafeteire. Out I like it properly made.

[JoeV]

Decaf with one cream/milk. Usually 1-2 cups per day max. Used to drink enough to get the afternoon shakes, but wised up when I realized MY system couldn't take that much. I do like DD & BK Joe when out. DD is too expensive, IMHO. They think they are the next Starbucks.

Funny story...traveling to a fly fishing event with a friend and we stopped on the Turnpike for a break. Hit the can then went for a coffee in the food court. My friend asked how I wanted my coffee, as he wanted to buy for us from Starbucks. I said, "thanks, but I'll just get a cup of BK Joe. I refuse to support $3 a cup coffee, even if YOU are paying for it." He thought about it for a second, then joined me for a BK Joe, and had to admit it was a damn good cup-o-Joe! Every stop thereafter was for a BK Joe. I brought another disciple into the flock.:applause:

[chowhound]

Just cream for me, not too light.
I only drink it in the morning. I make around 8 cups in the coffeemaker and sometimes have one cup left over.
No coffee on Sundays, even though I still get up at the same time and go to work for a while.
Folgers. When it's on sale I stock up.
Loved Dunkin Donuts coffee, too bad there's none around here anymore.

[cara]

milk, no sugar, please.

prefer the coffee from our Saeco, every cup is a fresh one.. the usual coffeemaker is okay at work, to keep the coffein high... but no way and never Instant coffee :yuk:
I don't know why that is even called coffee

Milk should be real milk or cream, no condensed coffee cream.. that destroys the whole flavour...

btw.. I'll fetch myself a coffee now ;o)

[waybomb]

Like my liquor - neat! Black. So it has to be good coffee. My wife makes it the Polish way - with a press like thing that ends up with about an inch of coffee grounds in the bottom of the cup.

[homecook]

Black! I only drink it in the morning, maybe 2-3 mugs. I don't think I've ever had coffee out except at a restaurant after dinner and that's very rare. I just don't like the taste of it later in the day.

Barb

[heb1976]

I use powdered cream and sugar. I drink 2 cups in the morning and 2 cups at night. It doesn't effect me at night.

[joec]

I've never had a problem with coffee at night either and often fall asleep with a half of cup sitting on the bed stand beside me.

[buzzard767]

Black, half decaf, 5-6 cups every day, only in the AM.

[buzzard767]

Like my liquor - neat!

Single malts too? Most Scots add a few drops of H2O to "bring out" the flavor.

[RobsanX]

During the week, one cup black while watching the news, and one 20 oz. thermocup black for my commute and at work.

One the weekends I drink 2-4 mugs in the morning with half-and-half.

[Lefty]

With cream and sugar normally, but for after dinner I will add some Irish Cream.

[sattie]

Don't drink the stuff.... hate it. I prefer JD in the morning... that really gets the motor running!

[joec]

JD is that Jack Daniels, Sattie? If so that would sure make you warm and fuzzy in the morning. :bounce:

[Maverick2272]

I take mine with just sugar if it is a medium brew. If it is a strong brew, I will use light cream (once called coffee cream) never half n half or milk.
We use a Gevalia coffee maker or a French Press depending on my mood if I want to haul it out and use it. It is a small one and makes one cup at a time.
I don't like most of the coffees around here like Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts or BK joe or anything like them. We like to get Gevalia, Caribou, or Teligencia. Sometimes we do get organic from Whole Foods.

[RobsanX]

Ugh, we have a Gevalia coffee maker that we got as a gift. The water fill hole was about 1" x 2" which is not conducive to early morning filling. I usually ended up with more water on the counter top than in the machine... It wasn't long before I switched back to our trusty Black and Decker. It's the best coffee maker I've ever owned!

[Maverick2272]

Yea I think that is a draw back to our Gevalia maker, you have to be so careful when pouring the water in it.

[waybomb]

Single malts too? Most Scots add a few drops of H2O to "bring out" the flavor.

I've always drunk, drank, drinked it neat. I'm not Scot! Most of my bud's that do single malts religiously don't add any water either. I'm more of a Tequila guy.

This is new to me. A drop or two per ounce? I'll try a blind taste test at my next opportunity!

[lilylove]

at home...coffee with vanilla flavored cream please.

Starbucks... either a tall white mocha with no whip
or a tall skinny vanilla latte if I'm being good. :)

[jim_slagle]

Just a little cream no sugar. I start with the first cup @ 6AM or so. I'm usually looking around the forums 6:30 or so with the second cup. then a few more cups during the morning.

Jim

PS - here is a picture of the data center and one of our servers.

[Maverick2272]

Jeez, talk about your spaghetti set up! :shock:

[BamsBBQ]

at home... lots of powedered cream(or half and half) and sugar

tim hortons - large triple triple

dunkin donuts - light and sweet

starbucks - cafe latte - with sugar in the raw

[jim_slagle]

Jeez, talk about your spaghetti set up! :shock:

I'm retired now but I spent 45 years in telecommunications. This pic is a perfect example of poor planning. An overhead cable tray and a little advance thought on which device should be in what rack would have made this location easier to install and much easier to maintain.

[VeraBlue]

I have one of those machines that grinds the beans and then shoots them right into the basket..so I get really fresh taste each time.
Then I add a bit of fat free half and half and a couple of spoons of splenda.

[TexasGirl]

No sugar with coffee mate Italian sweet cream or coconut if they are out of that. pds, my starbucks is a white chocolate mocha frappucino, YUMMMMMMMMMM.

[lilylove]

Sounds good TG or it does once it warms up!!!

[suziquzie]

Dark, strong, nothing NEAR it!!!!!
Not a fan of auto coffee pots, we use a Melita drip cone, boiling water, and an airpot. I drink a pot myself in the morning, then (DH works overnights) when I make DH his pot to take to work, there's one cup that doesn't fit in the thermos so I drink that after the kids are in bed.
I need a new espresso machine, mine broke. At work I drink 3 shot Americanos..... with about 1/2 cup of water in it.
Once in awhile I do like a latte with 2 extra shots and I have a good time squirting different flavorings into my cup.
:)

[GreenWannabe]

I use a Mr. Coffee with a carafe, and feed it either Eight O'Clock original, Maxwell House Master Blend, or Folgers breakfast blend if I can't get either of those. Drink it black. I don't drink as much as I used to, may be 2 or 3 mugs in the morning. And I dislike Starbucks, McDonalds, and most other coffees I can buy out. Waffle House seems to be ok for the most part, if it's fresh.

Back in my Air Force days, as a young 2nd Lt, I was being mentored by a first sergeant from another organization. My first day, he took me over to the NCO club for coffee. The attendant asked him how he liked his coffee, and he responded, "I like it like I like my women - hot and black!!" (No, flames please, just quoting him.)

My line when the server asks if I want cream or sugar, is "Oh, I never spoil good coffee." One time, the waitress gave me a really funny look, and said, "What do you do if it's not good?" I responded, "Oh, that's OK, I never spoil bad coffee either." You think maybe she was trying to tell me about their coffee?

Fred

[UnConundrum]

Black. We roast and grind our own beans.... use a Technovorm to brew.

[joec]

Now when I hear of someone drinking gourmet coffee I think of the movie The Bucket List and the coffee that Jack Nicholson drank.

[PanchoHambre]

I used to have one of these http://tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:8JKFH-jAd9TrmM:http://www.wired.com/images/article/magazine/test2007/hh_bodum_santos_electric_f.jpg

Wow it made a great cup of coffee and looked great doing it... problem is it was not made for coffehaulics... it was great for a few months but the whole thing is plastic and all the seals failed first water/coffee started leaking into the heating mechanism then onto the counter... so disappointing because it was a beautiful contraption.


one of the few things I miss about living with my folks is espresso w/ Sambuca after dinner with them it was ritual but i never do it on my own.

I collect coffee making apparatus I have gangs of em... but I only really use my insulated french press.. I had gone back to the old drip machine but it kept getting deprogrammed and was taking up needed counter space.

my all time favorite is probably the Vietnamese iced coffee where you have an individual drip over your glass which has sweetened condensed milk at the bottom then when its done you pour over ice and stuf... great stuff but my silly individual drip thingys never see use... too much of a pain for at home... great in a restaruant

[UnConundrum]

My son loves that Vietnamese coffee too. We have several of those tin things, but like you, they're gathering dust.

[PanchoHambre]

yeah I got turned onto the stuff in Houston which had these great late night Vietnamese joints miss that stuff... there are some down on Wash ave but I don't get there much. I need to go get some condensed milk and dust those suckers off. I paid a fortune for em from Williams Sonoma ages ago

[UnConundrum]

LOL, I think I paid about $3.99 each in Montreal's Chinatown.

[PanchoHambre]

yep know I got hosed... was living in CT at the time though :confused:

[AllenOK]

Ok, call me a blasphemer. I prefer instant. Wally World Arabica. Or Duewe Eggets (sp?), which is made from a refrigerated super-concentrated liquid. Brewed coffee just has to much acid for my system.

I've never tried a French Press. If the brew is less acidic than other brewed coffee's, I might be interested.

I also refuse to support $3/cup coffee.

I usually only drink one mug, when I get up in the morning. If I don't get it, I'll go into caffeine withdrawl around 1 pm or so, and will get a nasty headache.

I usually only drink coffee at night when I'm pulling an all-nighter, like two weeks ago when we went to Michigan for PeppA's Mom's funeral, or those rare instances that I make an all-night catfishing expedition.

[Fisher's Mom]

Black, or with a little Half-N-Half. I drink coffee throughout the day and I have a great brewing station - a commercial Bunn brewer and a commercial, dual-bin, Bunn grinder. I don't roast my own beans (yet) because I don't know where I would get the green beans. Does anyone else roast their own beans?

[The Tourist]

Believe it or not, this nine dollar coffee maker makes the best brew that I have tasted. My guests cannot believe it.

http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb231/TheTourist_bucket/DSC00370.jpg

[Ol-blue]

Black for me and made in a coffee maker. I have one cup in the morning and one in the evening most times.

[PieSusan]

We have a wonderful small batch roaster in town who exports coffee all over the world--even Italy. I love their Blue Moon blend. Carl is a sweet man who really knows his coffee.
http://www.phoenixcoffee.com/shop/

[Fisher's Mom]

We have a wonderful small batch roaster in town who exports coffee all over the world--even Italy. I love their Blue Moon blend. Carl is a sweet man who really knows his coffee.
http://www.phoenixcoffee.com/shop/Wow, thanks Susan. This site looks great. I'll definitely try the Blue Moon.

[FooD]

Where's the poll?

I take mine black. No cream, no sugar, no nothing!......the way coffee should be drunk......regardless of type or how it's prepared ......and that includes instant coffee. :p

[Fisher's Mom]

Believe it or not, this nine dollar coffee maker makes the best brew that I have tasted. My guests cannot believe it.

http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb231/TheTourist_bucket/DSC00370.jpg
Wait a minute....I've seen that coffee maker before somewhere......I think it was on another cooking forum. (There couldn't possibly be 2 of those coffee makers in the world.)

[The Tourist]

Probably from me. I posted this ugly machine once before. But considering that it makes coffee the best way--hot water through coffee once without re-boiling the coffee again--it most likely is just ugly on the outside.

I know it gets the water really hot, just short of a roiling boil.

[Wart]

Single malts too? Most Scots add a few drops of H2O to "bring out" the flavor.

I've been known to have some water in my scotch, depends how much I'm going to drink.

Usually the humidity in the air is enough for me.

[Wart]

I'll have my coffee two ways, Cream and Sugar or Black.

In the morning I C&S, as the day goes on I'll move to Black.

And I like my coffee strong. Interestingly Wife is from Italy and she says my coffee is too strong. Ok.

[Ronjohn]

I take my coffee scalding hot, and in massive quantities. Oh, and usually a little bit of cream or 1/2 and 1/2 since we aren't allowed to have Kahlua here at the office

[MexicoKaren]

Now you are talking our language. Maybe being from the Pacific Northwest has "raised our consciousness" but we are a little bit fanatical about coffee. We drink 2 cups in the morning and one in late afternoon. Sometimes the afternoon cup is a latte, and as the weather warms up, it will become an iced latte. I use a drip coffeemaker and have a french press in reserve if we have a power outage (coffee is important to our well-being). We have a pump-driven espresso maker for espresso shots and lattes. We like our coffee dark-roasted, freshly ground, brewed strong, with cream and sugar. If I'm enjoying coffee with dessert, I'll drink it black. Our favorite coffee is grown right here in our state of Nayarit and distributed by a small coop of growers. Only two store here in Bucerias sell it, and I doubt if it can be found anywhere else.

[buckytom]

i'm an oddball when it comes to coffee. (no comments necessary, mr. ronjohn :nono1: )

i'll drink an espresso after a good italian meal with a little dolce. the bitterness balances the sweetness of the dessert.

but i abhor regular coffee, all thanks to my brother. in order to get me back for sneaking my g.i. joes in his duffel bag when he went off for basic training for viet nam, he breathed morning/coffee breath in my face when he got home. ever since then, when i smell coffee, i smell his breath.
it sure didn't smell like victory. more like napalm.

[bowlingshirt]

Believe it or not, this nine dollar coffee maker makes the best brew that I have tasted. My guests cannot believe it.

http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb231/TheTourist_bucket/DSC00370.jpg

...and the coffee maker sits nicely next to that blender.


FWIW, I take my coffee black, no cream, no sugar, no decaf, no nuttin'

[Ronjohn]

i'm an oddball when it comes to coffee. (no comments necessary, mr. ronjohn :nono1: )

:wall: :beer:

[bowlingshirt]

FWIW, here's a pic of my daughter enjoying a cup after a long hard day...

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k10/bowlingshirt/Coffeesipc.jpg

[RobsanX]

Believe it or not, this nine dollar coffee maker makes the best brew that I have tasted. My guests cannot believe it.

http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb231/TheTourist_bucket/DSC00370.jpg

Damn! You couldn't pay me to keep that thing in my house! 24?!! http://planetsmilies.net/vomit-smiley-31.gif

[GreenWannabe]

Funny - the blender looks like the one we had....

Fred

[PieSusan]

Fred, I have that blender, too. It was my mom's.

[RobsanX]

Fred, I have that blender, too. It was my mom's.

My mom has one too, in split pea green to match the rest of her mid-seventies decor! :thumb:

[leolady]

I usually only drink coffee at night when I'm pulling an all-nighter, like two weeks ago when we went to Michigan for PeppA's Mom's funeral, or those rare instances that I make an all-night catfishing expedition.

Where have you been all my life? I love to fish for catfish, especially at night but I haven't been for awhile. It is just not safe for a lone woman. :sad::sad:

Back to coffee. I don't drink much because I get the coffee jitters so bad.

I was at a restaurant once where I was served the best decaf coffee! The waitress was vietnamese and I could barely understand her. I must have drunk 8 cups that day. I couldn't sleep at all that night, cause I was tossing and turning, turning and tossing, tossing and a turning all night! :dizzy::dizzy:

That dummy served me regular coffee rather than the decaf I had asked for!:shock:


When I do drink it, it is decaf with sugar and cream.

[RNE228]

How do you take it?

1st cup of the morning, Mocha with a double shot. Ghiradelli chocolate. Usually fresh ground Starbucks Espresso roast. Had a michine at hoe for 15 years. I hate paying $3+ for a mocha at a coffee house...

2nd cup, at work, just thier premium from the cafeteria, with cream.

At home on the weekend, may make a cup in the press.

Camping, we have a couple of those Coleman drip setups for the adult leaders in our Scout troop. Someone usually brings a good grade coffee, and fresh cream.

Backpacking, I have a little espresson pot.

[ArtisanBreadBaker]

I enjoy Gevalia Coffee , different varieties. I also like Peruvian and Jamacian . I drink the coffee usually with half and half and sugar. Once in awhile I will add flavor syrup like Amaretto .