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@Torquinox
Apologies, seems I missed a whole post of yours and that you had already replied. It happens a lot and I've no idea why. I thought it must be an issue with the forum software, perhaps a side-effect of all that 'Bad Gateway' crap. but I've yet to see anyone complain about posts being missed due to not showing.
Weird.
It does sound safe enough where you are, I was speaking from my own experience. I have been on my family's farm where I've lived since I was eight, we started building a herd of cattle shortly after we moved into the new house my parents built on land that was purchased/inherited from my Father's Father and has therefore been in the same family for well over 100 years and is being passed on to my Brother's baby girl who has become our tireless helper these last six years or so, along with her rock-solid husband, so it is staying in the family into the future.
But back to eight year old me. In the years following, we built the farm up, adding chickens and cattle, and eventually built a barn, and dug a pond. And that's where my experience is.
It became necessary for the sake of our farm to eliminate pests, one of which was a couple of alligator snapping turtles, and other assorted pests like Virginia Opposums.
My Father had a full-time job as a Watchmaker in the nearest city all of those years and I stayed and helped my parents as they grew older, working full-time for the same company for more than 30 years during which we wound down our little farm until we were just making a vegetable garden because small farming was something that was no longer profitable. Then Dad passed, then Mom, and my Brother came home to live with me again.
And we're headed for our next adventure - in assisted living, where I hope we don't run into any more of these guys.
On Coffee: When I was a teen, I wanted coffee, which had always been forbidden to us kids. My mother was a heavy coffee drinker and it was always available on the kitchen counter and in her cup, all day. So, when I finally asked, she said "OK, but you will drink it black, so that you can tell when you have a good cup. No sugar, no cream, black". I've drunk it black my whole life. Yeah, yeah, I have tried sugar & cream and flavorings, but always went back to black. When I went to Europe I couldn't find a cup of coffee that didn't disgust me with its bitterness. So super strong, blech. No wonder people flood it with sweeteners & emulsifiers. I used to brew coffee at home, but for the last quarter century I've been using Folger's instant (red jar). Enough flavor, not bitter, more pricy than some other brands, but not much (momma bear situation), and easy. One cup at a time. No fancy machine required, no exhorbitantly priced one-use modules to add to the garbage. I could never understand the attraction of Starbucks other than as a status badge, or watering hole for morning flocks on their way to work. Or pompous showoffs using faux Italian to design their special concoction. For me, their coffee was undrinkable. And to the people who need massive amounts of caffeine to get through a day, and require coffee the consistency of Hershey's chocolate syrup, I say, "get help".
I used to use Folgers Instant also and I thought it was good. But then I discovered the Keurig machine and use Maxwell House K cups -- Much better flavor!
In that case, I feel quite certain my coffee would gross you all out. The coffee itself you'd probably like. The add ins, certainly not. But they do all serve a purpose and you can't get what I make from Starbucks or anywhere else.
Of course, I've "stirred the pot" so to speak and have probably trampled on religious toes, and will probably be "roasted" over my concept of coffee, but I like what I like.
And of course due to my recent infatuation with GoogleAI, it and I have been having a conversation about coffee concepts around the world. I have been educated about bitterness, sourness, blackness, adulteration, cultural norms, misconceptions, bean features, price ranges, inconsistencies in harvesting, ageing and brewing,etc. And even GoogleAI says, that despite Folger's ground coffee being the biggest selling in the US, their instant, despite its mid-range price and rapid-dissolvability feature, is often graded low satisfaction unless using double the dose. (*sigh*) But still, for me, for a pleasant, relatively inexpensive coffee, I MUCH prefer it over anything I get from Maxwell House or other similarly priced instants. Brewing a pot, for me, is wasteful, and I'm not interested in overpriced coffee mechanisms. And true, my European experiences (England, Amsterdam, Berlin) were often the simple act of asking for a cup of coffee at a casual restaurant and getting a hot, watery milkshake, and when specifying "black" coffee, getting a confused stare as if I were insane.
I can't drink coffee at all unless it's half hot cocoa. But since Dunkin's discontinued that (they called it a Dunkacchino), I don't drink any type of coffee. At Dunkin's or Starbucks I get a strawberry refresher, and at home I mostly drink flavored water or the occasional cup of chai.
Always bet on Black.
I agree with Charlie Charlie Judge that, as far as Keurig pods go, Maxwell House has gotten something right that Folgers has gotten wrong. And this is disappointing because the best part of waking up is supposed to be Folgers in your cup.
I am one of those people who depends on caffeine to get through a workday. I had briefly managed to use less coffee, and was starting to transition from coffee to tea. Then some big meany said we can’t work from home anymore, and caused me to get two hours less sleep every day. Now I’m back to coffee.
Keurig machines have to be one of the worst things to ever happen to our environment. But they do make coffee easy. So easy. And the coffee from some of those pods isn’t as bad as people think. Not all pods are the same.
The machines aren’t the same either. My $60 Cuisinart branded Keurig machine seems to do better than the $120 Keurig branded Keurig machine it replaced. And when the Keurig machine failed after like three months, it wasn’t the moving parts or heating element that failed. It was either the electronics or the programming. I think it was the programming.
A few years ago, I came home to find a whole bunch of little turtles in the street in front of my house. Didn't know what they were. Some were already squished. I helped a few get across, though I wasn't sure which side to which they were heading. I just put them on the side to which they were nearest. Took a photo of one with my phone and searched later. Found out they were baby snapping turtles. We have a pond across the street. But, it isn't fed by a stream. It was a retention pond made by the developer while building this development, in case of a fire. It developed a life of its own. And reportedly, someone stocked it with some fish. It was deemed protected by the proper agency and cannot be built upon. But, it's basically stagnant water. Rises and recedes based on the rainfall we get each year. Visitors include Canada Geese, Mallards, occasional Great Blue Heron, Green Heron, once I saw a Belted Kingfisher, and maybe an Egret or two. I loved seeing these birds now and then. Only saw those Snapping Turtles that one time, but saw a Box Turtle a couple of times. Once, one was in my yard, crawling along the fence. I guess it was looking for a good spot to lay eggs.
On coffee. When the weather is cold enough, I have been known to crave coffee. The rest of the time, I just want caffeine so if I want a hot cup of tea, I use what tastes good to me. I get a big mug and dunk the teabag so that know the bag has thoroughly soaked and then squeeze out the bag because I like the way it tastes. I sip that, and I relaxxxx...
Sometimes it feels like I can see through time.
Mostly I get my caffeine from Diet Coke (I'm trying to cut down, but caffeine).
John
From my perspective, the coffee preferences in this group are remarkably boring. I've no doubt you all like what you like, and that's fine. But nothing said so far is any cause for excitement or even anything more than polite interest. That probably sounds really snobby. It might be! But it's not meant that way.
I see coffee as a base ingredient for so many other possible drinks and even food items. Also, the coffee world has a great many roasts and blends which offer a variety of flavors while still being coffee. Of course, I have my go-tos and none have been mentioned or even hinted at In the discussion so far.
I also enjoy chai, but I avoid the syrup-based dessert drinks served at the usual commercial outlets. Far too much sugar and not nearly enough spice or tea in those! But people must like them or they would not last long on the menu. Clearly I'm the outlier. I'm ok with that, too.
Our pond had some of the fresh water mussels common to our creek that lies at the back border of our farm. Dad told us to pick up mussels, periwinkles, and even crawdads (crayfish) and throw them in the pond. Over the years, those fresh water guys became very prolific, and we in short order had leopard frogs, and began getting visiting great blue herons, who left neat little heaps of opened shells. Canada geese, mallards, wood ducks (those little guys found a woodpecker cavity in a dead tree that leaned over the pond and built a nest there and I actually observed the ducklings jumping out of the nest to join their mother in the water through binoculars - a thrill for a 12 year kid!) and a menagerie of rabbits, deer, feral hogs, etc. all come to drink the water. This kind of life was why I studied Biology for a Bachelor's, and art became a hobby.
Dang, I'm getting so long-winded, I apologize.
John
In my conversation with GoogleAI, it informed, me about deliberate snob-like behavior in Berlin regarding coffee in proper coffee places. The comment it had was a warning about Berlin's "global reputation for a specific type of hip snobbery combined with Berliner Schnauze (a famously gruff, no-nonsense Berlin attitude)". Yep, that's what I had noticed (blank stare of incredulity) despite just trying to get a basic cup of coffee in my hotel during breakfast. In London, I just drank the hot watery milkshake.
Our conversation also included Australia which it reported was similar, but different to England. But surprisingly, when I was in Australia for 5 weeks, I had no complaints about coffee that I remember, so maybe I just gave up and drank the hot watery milkshake there too.
No worries! It's easy to miss a post or two in forum discussions.
Coffee: I am old enough that we had a perculator when I was at home. All of us kids were weaned off of the bottle/sippy cups by being offered 'coffee milk' in a metal glass (came with the cottage cheese in the 50s? or as a giveaway at the store?) Sugar, milk and a couple tablespoons of coffee. We gradually increased the coffee to milk ratio, but the sugar stayed, at least for me. Until I had to get rid of all simple sugars. Now, just coffee and some milk. My father got me onto grinding my beans and using a drip coffee pot in 1976, but I also drank from the military office 50-cup monster coffee maker all day too. You would just rinse out your mug and the pot, no soap would dare touch the surfaces. Coffee creamer and sugar packs. (Before fake sugars) I can't tolerate black coffee. Acid is bad news. But I tested a number of those little packages of coffee to find a brand with a decent taste and the lowest possible price. So far Cafe Bustelo, Dark Roast at the Commissary has been the best. At Target it is around $12 - $14 but at the Commissary it is $6.99 each. So I stock up. That bag costs about the same as one Starbuck drink, but makes over a week of coffee for two. We only have it first thing and switch to water or tea after.
What do I like about Starbucks, at least the one at the Glendale Target, lots of varied seating and a free large container of help-yourself ice water and cups for anyone that needs it. Started this spring as the temperatures went up, and unless they get swamped with orders, they keep it filled. I sit there after shopping and wait for my flatmate to get off work. It allows me to people watch, read, talk to folks, or just see what people are wearing. And FWIW, some of the more bizarre outfits and hair styles I have seen offered at DAZ3d have been walking into the store on a lot of people of all ages and shapes. I envy those kids whose parents care so much for them to braid their hair, put the hair up into elaborate updos, or encourage their creativity. Mine was either chopped off or permed into an out-of-date 20-30 year old style (Shirley Temple's) so no one had to bother with it.
They don't have Dunkin' here in the UK (as far as I'm aware), so I don't know what that drink tastes like, but I can personally recommend this stuff from Mokate.
I first bought it thinking it was some fancy tasting coffee, but it tastes more like cocoa to me (really nice cocoa). I put three sweetners in the cup with these sachets, and it's pretty much taken over as one of my favourite drinks. I reckon I drink it more than tea or coffee now.
I know they call it coffee, but to me it's not coffee, it's more like a luxurious cocoa with I suppose a little extra (which would be the coffee part of it). You get nine in a box for £1, so they only cost around 10p each.
Sweetner does make or break the drink, though. I use three Hermesetas in these, and never use too much water so as not to ruin it.
I mostly use Sainsbury's decaff, but after lunch on weekends and bank holidays I have ground coffee made in a cafetiere - various different ones from Whittard generally, which I put in the freezer until needed. So I am not going to quarrel with the instant or the ground beans camps.
Alas, Google tells me you can't get that here. There's a Belgian Chocolate Cappuccino flavor of that brand on Amazon (only 7 left!) but otherwise you'd have to import it. And I don't like coffee enough to bother with that.
I live in Massachusetts so you're never far from Dunkins. There are four in my very small city, plus multiple others in the surrounding towns.
Ever since I was a nipper, my mother has had a coffee machine called a "Coffee Percolator" unless I'm mistaken. She still has it to this day.
You put loose coffee stuff in a compartment in the top, and it looks like a tall chrome kettle with a slider at the bottom, and a glass handle on the lid that lets you see the coffee gargling through it as it percolates. The more you slide the slider to the right, the longer it makes gargling noises for, and the stronger the coffee. And once it stops gargling (which takes quite some time), that means it's ready.
I'm not sure what the type of stuff you put in it is called, but it's not beans and it's not coffee you get in jars.
Whatever it is, though, it smells absolutely fantastic and tastes very nice indeed!
Sorry to hear that. I'm surprised though since I always thought of Mokate as being a global brand.
Wow, didn't expect to find it so easy, but this is it, 100% identical, it's a 1970s SONA Coffee Percolator.
It sincerely makes your home smell like some fancy, cosy, boutique coffee house!
And, damn it, I'll have to get one for my own flat now
..hmm, a semiautomatic sweetener dispenser.
...I also use YouTube quite a bit particularly for music (lots of nice live classical performances) and "real" news *(I tend to frequent international feeds). However, being on a meagre SS benefit and living in a fairly expensive city I endure the adverts.
I am also subscribed to Amazon Prime which for now is more important, not just for waiving shipping fees, but we also have a large warehouse/distribution centre in the area so what I order is often delivered in a day or two. It is also great for bulky items that would be a pain to deal with on the bus not just for myself but other riders.
Maybe if there is no rent increase this year ("wish wish"), I can use some of my paltry SS COLA next year to get a YouTube subscription, as getting adverts interrupting a symphony or concerto is rather annoying (and most of them are for "dubious" sounding products or services).
...interesting, that makes it even better, but again will have to wait until January.
Indeed, she's the most bestest semi-automatic sweetener dispenser known to mankind, and now a celebrity thanks to Leather Gryphon!
Unfortunately, you missed all of the live 'as it happened' excitement, but the aftermath is still there to enjoy!
.....ahh, coffee. As NylonGirl mentioned I'm one of those people who has been dependent on coffee Began when I was in college in the 70s splitting time studying and working for the campus as an illustrator newspaper (layout nights usually lasted into morning an over several pots of Denny's coffee) which had a full comics page that was locally produced. Then years later there was my stint in radio where i had to be up before 05:00 to make a 48 oz thermos of coffee before "toddling" offto turn the campus radio station on for the day (I had the first programme slot that began at 06:00 that was titled "The Coffee Cantata Club" as it was all classical). Finally there was my last job here I had to manage 3 - 4 departments that included a 90 - 110 minute transit commute each way (making for about a 13 hour day (without ehavy doses of caffeine, would have been hard pressed to make it through the day).
Yeah, having lived in the Northwest for some 46 years, I have imbibed to a multiple variety of coffee types and drinks and yes, have certain preferences..
These days I actually start my mornings with a strong British tea as the acid in coffee doesn't always sit well with me that early in the day any more (particularly on an empty stomach). However on weekends when I sleep in a bit, I still brew a pot (I use an old French press carafe but with a drip filter basket rather than the traditional method [again too acidic as it sits there continually steeping]).
In the afternoon I also usually go out for coffee at one of the many local coffee shops. One of y favourites is in my neighbourhood by the Safeway and another in near southeast (which used to be a Starbucks that had closed and recently was taken over by an Egyptian fellow).
As to my first coffee experience, it was "cowboy coffee" which my granddad used to make (in the "classic" speckled enamelled pot). Later the grandparents moved up to a Corningware™ electric percolator.
[whew, needed a pot of coffee to get caught up with the backlog here on the thread]
Hmmm...: "getting adverts interrupting a symphony or concerto is rather annoying" Arghhhhhh.... noooooo. Shatter my world.
No level of hell is sufficiently suitable for the perpetrator.
At least if they could wait to between movements for the ad. Interruption mid-movement is worse than an ad just as the receiver reaches the 10 yard line with half a dozen opponents closing in on him at the end of a tie game.
Or worse than a wing spontaneously falling off your airplane. Or worse than... .........
That would be ground beans, you can either purchase the beans and grind them as needed or you can puchase them pre-ground, with various degrees of coarseness.
A percolator is the vessel with a filter (usaually paper but some older ones had a fine mesh basket) in it. The coffee is percolated by gravity - water soaking through the grounds and then the filter.
Yep, a percolator. That's what was in our kitchen. Back in the early '50s, nobody bothered with filters, the metal cup for the ground beans had numerous perforations to let the hot bean juice escape below into the pot. I remember several different percolators in the house at various times during my formative years( '50-'66) before I left for college. Some were electric, others were stovetop types. I think she wore them out.
And the coffee was always (*shudder*) Maxwell House ground, in big red metal cans. So perhaps her idea of a "good cup" tainted my expectations.
I find it too acidic. That's why I switched to Folgers sometime during my college period. I used to use a percolator with ground beans, but when I started throwing away a half a pot of coffee every day, I switched to their instant.
My flatmate bought a jar of instant coffee after we moved in together in Denver in 2014 and it still lives in our refrigerator. I made a cup of coffee to go when I headed out for California at 2am back in 2019. I was surprised just how good it still tasted. I think he used it while I was gone for a week (he doesn't make coffee in our coffee pot). But I don't use the InstaPot or very often the rice cooker.
My MRIs went very well, was shorter than I expected, and my results were posted late yesterday. About what I expected, except for an observation of Cholelithiasis or gallstones. Something I have never felt before. And the diet that causes them, well, pretty much everything I love. They will have to pry my full fat dairy from my dead hands. I don't eat/drink manufactured/faked dairy crap. Now getting my flatmate to agree to fresh veggies, that is a tough one. We can't afford two totally separate diet stocks. And he is a great chef.
@3DIO - Thanks for the pictures. They look pretty much like the perculator I remember, except a little newer and shinnier.
And for what it is worth, however you get your caffine fix, enjoy it, savor it, share it with a companion or friend, or even a fur person who thinks we are nuts. (My cats thinks coffee and tea is bad stuff. Much prefers butter.)
Some more AI crap I made.