CECAA850:

depress the plunger (tell it that it's fat)

 

CECAA850:

Daddy Dee:

Would some alternate filter material strain out grounds while leaving oils to pass through?

There's really not a lot of grounds in your cup, some, but not a lot.  The screen is pretty fine on the press.

 

you could probably use some sort of nylon mesh but then there we go gettin girly again.

 

Tigger- iced chocolate coffee with sweetener= girlymang             jk 

Daddy Dee:

Michael,

medium rare is acceptable for manliness restoration.

 

...and Mad Cow Disease...

Bill

In my underware while emptying the dishwasher in the morning, it may not be a manly thing but at our house the Kitchen is all mine since the better half can actually burn boiling water

Dunkin' original grind in the old Braun

Nespresso.. 

kaiser SET say:

In my underware while emptying the dishwasher in the morning, it may not be a manly thing but at our house the Kitchen is all mine since the better half can actually burn boiling water

Dunkin' original grind in the old Braun

 you were talkin' 'bout coffee, right???

Bill

colterphoto1:

Tigger- iced chocolate coffee with sweetener= girlymang      

True but who am I trying to impress?  My three dogs who watch me drink it? 

I heard someone call it adding perfume to coffee.  I like that.  "Give me a coffee, hold the perfume." 

Michael,

I'd go with medium well on the burger ... as Bill (Silversport) said ya want to avoid that Mad Cow Disease... if you're going to eat beef that's half raw, make it steak as it's less likely to have anything in it needing to be killed by heat.  

I dunno, I'd think a good burger with Joe Cocker on the 301s would keep your manliness intact. 

I can't really complain... many years ago, before I started taking meds that said should not take while drinking alcoholic beverages, which was quite a while before I moved up to the meds that say do not take while drinking alcoholic beverages.... I'd prefer the girly looking pretty drinks, sloe gin fizzes, fruity daiquiries or margarita's   or maybe a whiskey sour or Long Island or Boston Ice Tea over real drinks and never did learn to like beer.  Don't know how that happened with 6 years in college.  I think one of my favorites by name anyway as I'm not sure I ever had more than 1 or 2 was the Skip 'n Go Naked from Claras in Muncie, came it a glass to keep with presumably naked women molded around the side.  I think we still have one somewhere.  A little rum in the eggnog can really smooth it out.  And that was back in the day when eggnog was made with raw eggs.  Now they tell us that 's not safe.  And amaretto in hot chocolate topped off with a scoop of Breyers vanille bean ice cream was a favorite on cold winter evenings.  Now, I don't drink anything stronger than diet soda or ice tea.    

Never did learn to like coffee either though I do like my iced tea dark and sweetened, what we refer to as sweetened blackened tea.... though most of the time anymore its decaff and sweetened with Splenda.  Think sun tea except boil it had and long, blackened tea looks more like coffee than the tea colored water found in most restaurants.  

So I don't like beer and yet I'm pretty sure I'm still an American.  And I don't like coffee though I'm close to 50% Swedish or may be 50 % Swedish.  And I don't eat the rotting fish (Lutfisk) but that seems more like common sense.  

My wife just uses a simple drip coffer maker and normally store bought coffee pre-ground in a can though will sometimes get some beans and have it ground in the store.  Love the smell but can't understand why I don't like the taste.     

 

Well I went about 10 years without drinking coffee.  For my wifes birthday this past summer I got her a Jura Capresso super automatic espresso machine.  I am now addicted to coffee again!  The machine is awesome you just add water and beans and it does the rest, even cleaning itself.  The wife loves lattes and I found a perfect cup for me which is an Americano.  8 ounces of hot water and then a shot of espresso.  Top it with a pinch of brown sugar and it is tasty.  For beans we finally settle on a local roaster - FreshCoffeeNow.com and we pick up 5 pound restaraunt sized bags direct from them for great prices.

Chris

During Christmastime at the house, Ms. Rose and I (Verna is a tea-totaler)  grind either Starbucks French Roast or House Blend in a cheap Mr. Coffee grinder and brew it strong in a Cuisinart Model DCC-1200 Brew Central, 12-cup drip coffeemaker. The rest of the year, we grind 8 O'Clock Coffee French Roast or Columbian. At work, I brew various coffees one cup at a time in my Phillips Senseo Coffee Pod brewer. I can brew coffee for about 23 cents a cup which is a lot cheaper than the 45 cents my employer wants for regular coffee from a machine or the $1.25 per cup the company cafeteria wants for Starbucks. -Glenn

kaiser SET say:

In my underware while emptying the dishwasher in the morning, it may not be a manly thing but at our house the Kitchen is all mine since the better half can actually burn boiling water

Dunkin' original grind in the old Braun

Yes the kitchen is all mine also.  Cheif cook and bottle washer.    Coffee, starbucks sumatra beans, grind at home and use a krups 12 cup with duo filter.     About 10 cups from 6:30 am to 11:00am.   Gets the shakes going just right.   Wind down and crash about 3:30 in the afternoon. 

Coffee: Peace Coffee ("Sustainable,  Shade-Grown, Small-co-op etc etc"). Their 'Guatemalan Dark Roast'.  Nice and chocolaty and very caffeinated.  I've swayed a few Starbucks drinkers to switch to it...   You can get whole bean or they will grind fresh for you prior to shipping for a cheap flat fee I think.  Discounts on 10+ I think.  Works out just a little more expensive than Dunkin, but you save a trip in the car.  

(After switching to the Peace from Dunkin, I realized I was using half the normal amount of cream+sugar... because the coffee tasted so much better.)

Method: ' French'  Press.  Anything medium-sized from Bodum made of glass not plastic.  I think the older simpler (less decorative) models are a little better built.  Fewer moving parts to get in the way and to clean.  Just don't press down too hard and have it kick out/break on you. I leave the grounds in the bottom there until time for the next batch, rinse out in sink (no soap, blech!), then use a few ounces of the almost boiling hot water to re-rinse (plunge a litte) prior to putting the new grounds in. This gets out leftover oils pretty well.  Disassemble and clean properly w/soap once a week (5 minutes).

*Your morning warning - Don't leave your gas stove on and leave the house after heating the water.  Or use a micro-wave.

 Environmental bent:

-Sustainable etc coffee choice. (...it's gotta be shipped from somewhere, so why not right to your door.)

-No paper filter waste etc etc

-I save the coffee grounds (steel mesh sink-strainer thingy collects them well, found cheap at dollar stores, sometimes for 3x the price at the market) dry them (dump in ice-cube tray, set in sun or on top of fridge), then sprinkle around evergreens in yard.  I think they like the acidity.  Should help with water-retention in the soil. ...also may be a deterrent to Roaches and some other bugs (unsubstantiated).   You will also quickly realize how much volume and weight you are removing from the waste stream this way. My collection tray fills up about every 1-2 weeks. 

 *Edit:  By 'ice-cube tray', I meant to mean the larger rectangular  shoe-box sized thing.  Not the trays that make the cubes.  :-)

We use Keurig

http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=11297069&whse=BC&topnav=&browse=&lang=en-US&s=1

and just an old frothing expresso maker

The Keurig is VERY nice and easy.  Bit loud but fast.  I can stumble to the coffee maker with eyes near closed and have a hot cup in 30 or so seconds.

I don't really drink coffee.   Only on REAL bad days......