Who likes coffee???

[Steve]

Like the other fellas, I hear you just fine, sister.

On-line is actually easier for me because I'm from Boston, we don't speak the King's English, much preferring a Wicked Pissa form of the language. Sometimes if we have guests from out of town they'll wonder why I'm running around the house frustrated because I can't find my khakis. Until my wife informs them "he's looking for his car keys."

I just don't understand why you guys have so many damned dunkin donuts. I asked for directions downtown once, and the guy said, "Okay. You go down to the corner and take a left. Keep going until you get to the dunkin donuts. Go past the dunkin donuts, take a right and go a couple blocks down to the dunkin donuts that's across the street from the cemetary. Another right turn, then pass two dunkin donuts and it'll be on your left."

Honestly, i was in Boston about 10 years ago for work. Spent 4 months living about 2 blocks from Faneuill Hall. What a wonderful city.

 

[seasoned]

I just don't understand why you guys have so many damned dunkin donuts. I asked for directions downtown once, and the guy said, "Okay. You go down to the corner and take a left. Keep going until you get to the dunkin donuts. Go past the dunkin donuts, take a right and go a couple blocks down to the dunkin donuts that's across the street from the cemetary. Another right turn, then pass two dunkin donuts and it'll be on your left."

Honestly, i was in Boston about 10 years ago for work. Spent 4 months living about 2 blocks from Faneuill Hall. What a wonderful city.

But the question is, did you ever go to dunkin donuts?

 

[Steve]

But the question is, did you ever go to dunkin donuts?

Ha! I did, actually. I typically drink coffee black. That's important to the story. So, I was working at the federal building, and the 5 or 6 block walk from the hotel included passing like three dunkin donuts, all of which had a line out the door. I thought, what the heck? So, I stood in line, got to the front and tried to pay attention so I wouldn't look like a tourist.

I said confidently, "I'll have a large coffee." Guy responds, "Regular?" I thought he meant regular or decaf, so I said, "Yeah." He takes a giant, styrofoam cup and shovels about 4 tablespoons of sugar into it from a bit bowl in front of him, then squirts about half a cup of cream over the sugar and pours coffee over that. I was like and then like . But then I tried it and was like .

 

[seasoned]

Ha! I did, actually. I typically drink coffee black. That's important to the story. So, I was working at the federal building, and the 5 or 6 block walk from the hotel included passing like three dunkin donuts, all of which had a line out the door. I thought, what the heck? So, I stood in line, got to the front and tried to pay attention so I wouldn't look like a tourist.

I said confidently, "I'll have a large coffee." Guy responds, "Regular?" I thought he meant regular or decaf, so I said, "Yeah." He takes a giant, styrofoam cup and shovels about 4 tablespoons of sugar into it from a bit bowl in front of him, then squirts about half a cup of cream over the sugar and pours coffee over that. I was like and then like . But then I tried it and was like .

Instead of a donut and coffee you had a donut in coffee.

 

[seasoned]

Jenna, sorry for derailing your thread.

 

[Buka]

I just don't understand why you guys have so many damned dunkin donuts. I asked for directions downtown once, and the guy said, "Okay. You go down to the corner and take a left. Keep going until you get to the dunkin donuts. Go past the dunkin donuts, take a right and go a couple blocks down to the dunkin donuts that's across the street from the cemetary. Another right turn, then pass two dunkin donuts and it'll be on your left."

Honestly, i was in Boston about 10 years ago for work. Spent 4 months living about 2 blocks from Faneuill Hall. What a wonderful city.

Dunkin started up here in MA in 1950 or so. And there's still twice as many as Starbucks, probably always will be. I can't drink their coffee anymore, much prefering my own in a travel mug. (I'm spoiled, I buy good coffee)

But every weekend I'll go to Starbucks and get a large (or whatever the hell they call large) Americano.(no relation to the paintbrush) Which is a coffee with three shots of expresso. Most delicious coffee I've ever had. It is exceptional rocket fuel. I don't really care for the yuppified atmosphere of Starbucks, and the wait, which is long around here. But that expresso Americano - oh man, my favorite coffee drink of the last fifty years.

Do you like Starbucks coffee, Steve?

Yeah, Jenna, sorry for the derail.

 

[Steve]

Instead of further derailing a thread in another area, I thought I'd just ask the simple question, "Who likes coffee?" I love it. I drink too much of it. I have about 14 different coffee or espresso makers at home, about half of which I use regularly.

Who likes coffee? What kinds of coffee do you like? What machines do you own and what are your favorites?

For me, the one obvious type of machine I don't have is a Kuerig. I had one for a while, and ended up donating it to my office break room. It's okay, but not great.

I have a very good grinder, so that I can support all of the various kinds of machines I use. On my counter are the four machines I use the most. A bunn drip machine that I use on weekend mornings when I want more than one cup. I have a nespresso, capsule machine that makes a killer americano. The capsules are spendy, so I don't use it very often. My baby is a La Pavoni lever espresso machine that I use a few times per week when I want a really good cappucinno. I also use what's called a vacuum press (or sometimes called a vacuum siphon) machine. Those are my four "go to" machines. I also have several bialetti style, stove top espresso machines, a percolator, a french press, a few oddball, coffee brewing gadgets and several antiques that mostly just look pretty.

As for what I like to drink when I'm out, I'm really not overly picky, although I appreciate a good cup. Buka mentioned an americano from Starbucks. If I'm at Starbucks, that's what I'll drink, unless they have a clover machine. Not all Starbucks have one, but Buka, if they do, it's worth it. Very good cup of coffee. Strong but not bitter or burnt tasting, opposite of how I find their drip coffee usually.

 

[Steve]

Dunkin started up here in MA in 1950 or so. And there's still twice as many as Starbucks, probably always will be. I can't drink their coffee anymore, much prefering my own in a travel mug. (I'm spoiled, I buy good coffee)

But every weekend I'll go to Starbucks and get a large (or whatever the hell they call large) Americano.(no relation to the paintbrush) Which is a coffee with three shots of expresso. Most delicious coffee I've ever had. It is exceptional rocket fuel. I don't really care for the yuppified atmosphere of Starbucks, and the wait, which is long around here. But that expresso Americano - oh man, my favorite coffee drink of the last fifty years.

Do you like Starbucks coffee, Steve?

Yeah, Jenna, sorry for the derail.

Thought I'd create a thread in the locker room for this dicussion. I'm also sorry for derailing things, Jenna.

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[elder999]

Couldn't live without my elixir of 1,3,7, trimethyxanthine....actually, I probably could live without it, but I'm not about to...

Really like Sumatran coffee-black, and after that Rwandan or Congolese...though Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee is pretty fine.....when I'm in Jamaica on vacation, anyway-it tastes good, but may as well be decaf....

I've got a Cuisinart coffee maker with a built in grinder-I've had it for about 15 years, so it's a really fine machine, actually....

Keurig at work.....eh.....kinda hard to get properly clean, but it makes okay coffee, and we don't waste it....

 

[Transk53]

Not much to tell machine wise. I had a basic perculator a few yeasr ago. Anyway I tend to favour dark roasted beans. Some of the cheaper (branded specialist) brands upto Kenco with is my favorite maker with freeze dried and the proper stuff. Have tried other makes like Millicano, but somehow always lack a bit of oomph for me.

 

[Xue Sheng]

Like Coffee, use to be into it a whole lot more. Whole bean ONLY, Grind my own, French press kind of guy. Favorite use to be, and likely still is, tanzania peaberry (Grown and harvested on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro near the Kenyan border). But I must admit I use to enjoy a good cup of Hawaiian Kona too

But these days I am MUCH more a tea person....so I will exit the thread stage left to avoid derailing

 

[Steve]

Lol. Well okay then

 

[Buka]

Coffee - oh, man, don't know where to start. I have a long, strange history with coffee.

My dad was born in 1888 in a dirt poor, failed farming community in rural northern Italy. They nearly starved, ate squirrel, rat, lizard, anything to make a stew with some form of meat. Things like coffee and chocolate were unknown to him, they were things the aristocrats in fine carriages had. He had heard about them, but never actually saw either, until he was in his twenties.

When I was growing up in Boston in the fifties, there was always a box of chocolate bars in the fridge, which he always gave to me and my friends. To my dad, this was symbolic that he "had made it in life". He owned his own house, had a job, a family and chocolate to give away to children. Same thing with coffee.

There is an Italian dish commonly called Expresso Zabaglione. From his village it was known as Rosamatta (sp). It was something they never actually saw, just heard about. Break two eggs into a bowl, pour in two cups of steaming hot, black coffee, add sugar and milk, beat with an egg beater. It foams up.
He would make it for me for breakfast before I went off to school. I'd pour in my favorite cereal, usually something very healthy like sugar frosted flakes or Trix, chow it down and off I'd go. My dad had a third grade education, had to quit, then work in a factory instead, twelve hour days, two cents a day for pay. He didn't have any knowledge of nutrition. As I said, as a kid, he didn't see much food. So, to him, giving me a coffee whatever, was like being a millionaire, he had made it in life.

I went off to school every single day with coffee and sugar screaming through my system. Seven years old, wired out of my fricken mind. But it was natural to me. I didn't fidget in school, but when we moved, I moved quickly. The teachers always said, "That Buka should does have a lot of energy."

That was my initial exposure to coffee. I stopped drinking it when I was thirty, didn't have any again until my fifties. I was the only cop I knew who didn't drink coffee, I drank tea. But for the last twelve years, I've been making up for the lost time. I love coffee, absolutely adore it. Good coffee. I won't drink crap coffee or coffee that's been sitting for an hour. Has to be fresh.

I'll be back to this thread - but right now I'm Pavlovian and drooling. I'm going to go grind some beans and make myself a hot cup of Kona Peaberry. Oh, yum.

 

[Steve]

Not much to tell machine wise. I had a basic perculator a few yeasr ago. Anyway I tend to favour dark roasted beans. Some of the cheaper (branded specialist) brands upto Kenco with is my favorite maker with freeze dried and the proper stuff. Have tried other makes like Millicano, but somehow always lack a bit of oomph for me.

You can actually make a damn fine cup of coffee in a percolator. Just takes a while.

 

[jezr74]

I love a good coffee, but I also enjoy a good instant.

I'll average about eight a day.

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[Tgace]

Tim Hortons every day.

Tim Hortons

 

[Dirty Dog]

I've always thought coffee smelled wonderful.

Shame about the way it tastes.


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[ballen0351]

At work I drink 5 to 8 extra large coffees a day from Dunkin donut or royal farms. I'm pretty sure that's way too much during an 8 hour day. At home on my days off I never drink it at all.

 

[ballen0351]

At home all I drink is iced tea about a gal or more a day.

 

[dancingalone]

I like coffee, but my taste is fairly low brow. I don't mind the ground stuff that comes from the grocery store, though sure I can tell the difference when someone is serving me brew made from quality freshly roasted beans. I like French roast.

When I buy the grocery store stuff, I like Folgers Black Silk or Chock Full of Nuts Original or Starbucks Pike Place. Yup, I'm easy to please.

I use a regular drip brewer and also a Keurig. I have a French press as well, but don't use it frequently.