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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 Mine was either chopped off or permed into an out-of-date 20-30 year old style (Shirley Temple's) so no one had to bother with it.
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.
..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.
.....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.
My final word on coffee: I used to be a coffee only guy. Emptied pots of it at work. Buzzed like an alarm while driving home. But for the last quarter century I've been doing much more tea. I have a cup of coffee in the early morning, then a few hours later, a cup of decaf Folgers (better than most decafs but not nearly as good the regular), so I do use a little "CoffeeMate-Chocolate" so-called "creamer" to give it some flavor. (Ah-ha, the hot watery milkshake syndrome
). But for the rest of the day I stick to tea, Earl Gray and/or Oolong, as caffeinated during the afternoon. Toward late afternoon and early evening I change to various non-caffeinated herbal teas, orange, lemon, mint, etc. The mint usually at about 8 or 9:00, a couple hours before going to bed. Heart condition, probably shouldn't be having caffeine at all, but I'm nearing the end of my tunnel, use it before I lose it.
At least I'm not buzzing like an alarm anymore.
I'm in Southeastern Massachusetts. No hogs. I didn't mention the other wildlife, because they're not neccesarily just pond life. Thoug I did neglet to mention the frogs...at least two kinds. Those little ones that sort of chirp, and bullfrogs. I saw a woodchuck (groundhog?) once at the pond the first summer we were here. Haven't seen that again since. Also saw fireflies the first year or two...haven't seen them again, either, sadly. We do get deer, racoons, skunk, bats, used to see barn swallows and Yellow Warblers and other fly catcher type birds. Many birds. I love the variety of birds and wildlife around here. Moved from the city, where I lived all my life until 2001 when we bought this house. Was amazed at the variety of birds here.
The die is cast: I've been putting it off, but I finally started the ball rolling to have a root canal ($$$$).
But it will be a new experience.
Tooth has been announcing its presence more and more frequently, so it's time to get something done before I'm rolling in agony at an inopportune time. Called dentist this morning and have an appointment, unfortunately it's at their other office on the far side of the city.
That usually spells $$ for me because I have always taken an Uber back from that area. However, this time I arranged on-demand bus service from house to dentist, and from dentist back toward the hole-in-the-wall beanery in the decrepit mini-mall in time for lunch, and a takeout from the Chinese place. Wheee.
No need for the long Uber from the far side of the city. Then after lunch, it's time for grocery shopping again so a short Uber to the grocery, then my usual Uber back to home (no on-demand bus back to the boonies until 3:00.
Dentist appointment is only for a detailed X-Ray to locate the exact area. Actual surgery will be later. Hopefully not the day before my 60th High School reunion dinner.
Non-complaint: Wheee... I just noticed that the dentist's office on the far side of the city is across the street from a Wegmans grocery (a better quality store). It is up a block long hill but if my dentist is done with me in time (I gave myself two hours at the dentist), I'll slog up the hill and do my shopping up there before the bus comes, down at the dentist's office. That also avoids the short Uber from the decrepit mini-mall to the grocery. Saved on Ubers twice. New experience indeed!
I've been drinking coffee for less than ten years. Before that, I only drank canned beverages and tried unsweetened, creamer-free instant coffee powder, which I found extremely bitter and unpalatable. I also went to Starbucks for coffee, which was truly the worst experience. Until one day, I had an iced drip coffee at a restaurant, and it had no bitterness at all, and even had a sweet aftertaste like tea. That's when I started to understand coffee more deeply.
After that, I visited a coffee exhibition. At that time, specialty coffee and pour-over coffee were just starting to become popular. I tasted many coffees from various countries, including some expensive ones. I realized that the flavor of coffee could be so diverse. Then I bought my first pour-over coffee set and studied various brewing methods and the flavors of different coffee beans. At that time, my favorite coffee beans were from the Aurora Estate in Mexico and the Las Lajas Estate in Costa Rica. Coffee beans from Rwanda, Kenya, and Bolivia were also excellent.
Unfortunately, coffee beans are an agricultural product, and their taste varies from year to year. In recent years, the taste of coffee beans has deteriorated while their price has increased. To save on my budget, I only have one or two cups of hand-drip coffee on weekends, and drink instant coffee powder to get caffeine on weekdays. Nescafé or some Japanese brands of coffee powder are not very good. Currently, only Moccona is decent. I use a French press to make milk foam to create a fake latte because the machine is too expensive. I have tried cheap coffee beans from Costco, which was a nightmare. I have also tried some well-known brands of coffee beans, but the taste is far inferior to the coffee beans roasted in small shops. There is a shop that I really like, which is where I started. Even though it is the same coffee beans, the owner there can brew coffee that tastes better than mine. Now the owner is getting old, and I hope that this kind of life can last a little longer.
@DanaTA:
Nice, yes the feral hogs are usually in the nearby mountains but when food gets scarce they come and eat whatever they can find, same with black bears but thankfully there aren't that many of them.
We did on occasion get too close to a skunk, and our dog got the worst if it. Time and daily bathing got rid of the smell. Mostly.
A beautiful sheltie named Shep that was my Dad's dog (it had such singular focus of dedication to my Dad and sweetly tolerated everyone else), was bitten by a copperhead on the chest, and because of Shep's beautiful coat, we didn't know until an abscess burst. One scary trip to the Vet later, the Vet cleaned things up and gave Shep some antibiotics both topical and pills and thankfully Shep was resilient (he was after all, a registered purebred
) and was back to his old self in no time.
Bad Gateway! Bad boy! Stop it!
When I was a pre-teen our dog (a brindle colored pit-bull), roamed free in the town, as did most of the dogs here back in the '50s & '60s, they had their own clique, but she would go off hunting in the woods, alone. She always came back after doing the fun things that dogs do, like rolling in cow manure. But twice she came back after losing a battle with a porcupine, mouth & face full of quills.
Trip to the vet, swollen face for days. Yet she did it twice. Stupid dog.
She was a wonderful dog. A good family dog. Protective when she had to be, but tolerant of young children's antics.
Image generated by GoogleAI to match the story. Not as shocking as I remember it, but close enough.
Ow. Poor doggy.
I am not sure anything uses unground beans, although how ground varies - Turkish coffee has pretty coarse grinding, I think, and no doube cowboy coffee is limited by how much time the cowboy is prepared to spend rubbing two rocks together with a handful of beans between. Cafetieres take a fairly coarse grind, while espresso machines want it finer.
The aroma of coffee begins to release once the beans are ground, so it's best to grind and brew immediately, just like some people use freshly ground peppercorns.
While the coffee industry certainly has its fancy and hyped aspects, it is an agricultural product and food. As long as the chef isn't too bad and the ingredients are fresh, ultimately 80% of the flavor of coffee depends on the ingredients, not the processing.
The finer the grind the more surface area is exposed to the water, allowing the flavour to be extracted. However, too fine and the coffee will end up with an admixture of silt that manages to get through whatever if filtering it, which is not nice to drink. There is a trade-off which will be different for each type of device.
Buying coffee beans is mainly a matter of personal taste. Freshness is always the most important factor. I once bought very expensive Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee beans. Because they are roasted in limited quantities and few people buy them, each batch takes several months to sell out. When I bought them, they were no longer fresh, and the taste was really just average...
Coffee lovers in my area are used to ordering from small shops online, where the coffee is roasted only after the order is placed. This is affordable and ensures very fresh coffee.
I'm glad he's feeling so much better! (Though I'm sorry that creates its own set of problems...)
COFFEE: I drink gallons of the stuff, I've been immune to the effects of caffeine for well over two decades. I used to only drink Dowe Egberts but it became so prohibitively expensive in both ground and instant forms, I now use Asda (Walmart) own brand instant and Starbucks Blonde ground.
Can't drink tea unless I'm at home. As it has a highly diuretic effect, one cup or mug of tea and I'm in the bathroom (restroom) five minutes later.
To drink it black, I need a smooth coffee like Arabica beans.
And I prefer it even if I put a little cream and sweetner in it. The more acidic coffees give me severe heartburn which kind takes the fun out of it.
I couldn't otherwise tell the difference.
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 prefer butter.)