Coffee coffee coffee coffee

thanks-- no ikea nearby, but i still have a bathroom cabinet i bought there about 14 years ago

Coconut oil has many wondrous applications. But you should probably get your own tub.

Yeah, don't consume things that have gone through another animal's digestive tract ... unless it's honey.

32 oz? of caffeinated coffee? And 32 oz of decaf? 64 ounces of coffee a day? Your kidneys must either love you or hate you.

(after a bout of near caffeine poisoning in my mid-20s, I limit myself to 20 - 25 oz. a day ... jealous)

I've considered getting this silly thing. The idea of diluting what looks like perfectly good coffee doesn't sit well with me, but I have to admit, Stumptown cold brew is pretty popular up here, and this is a cheaper option. Especially since so many roasters here in Seattle over-roast their beans or are doing something wrong, so that perfectly decent Americanos end up strangely bitter.

Tired of strangely bitter coffee (or having to go 4 blocks or more out of my way for decent coffee) ... in SEATTLE!

*throws up her hands, stomps away*

Isn't it, though? Yet, being able to tell people, "Yes, I brewed my coffee in a sock" may be worth the lulz.

I think they also have mason jar wine glasses on stems? I dunno, my mind has partially blocked it out.

i did a quick image search, but that guarantees nothing.

@patrickbatman check out this one-cup pour-over - it's like the tea bag but better, because you can use your own coffee:

Melitta

Very cheap and easy to use. Yeah, you can get fancy with grind and temperature and whatnot, but the beauty of it is that you don't NEED to. I use one almost every day. And fuck keurig for making single-serve coffee so wasteful and expensive and stupid.

Thread necrophiliamancy!

So I’ve started grinding my own beans (funky bass) and have to reset my little manual grinder thing (funkier bass) to switch from espresso to french press. I had to get my old machine repaired and the mechanic recommended I get an aeropress (which uses the same grind as the espresso machine), and that if I didn’t want to deal with the filter paper I could get a little metal mesh. The all the screwing and adjustment of the little knob and crank on the grinder (funkiest bass) isn’t a big deal but can be a bit of a hassle (especially at 6:30 AM), and the press’s filter screen is probably nearing the end of its life so should I make the plunge?

Oh man songstarliner that brief comment sent on a wiki wormhole/search through various sites about the differences between americano and French press—I knew I preferred the latter but I didn’t know why. I actually think I’ll stick with the French press for now—I like my thick, rich sludge in the morning (and you have to drink something like six cups of unfiltered coffee per day to maybe get a marginally greater chance of higher cholesterol, which doesn't show up in large-scale studies of coffee drinkers). Also the aeropress is a bit more involved than I thought it was, not necessarily in terms of brewing but in terms of components it doesn’t seem like much less hassle.

My espresso machine old (as in older than I am) and I tend to be a bit careful with it—it needed a new heater after its old one shorted. The guy I brought it to actually said he wouldn’t do it, then googled it out of curiosity and called me back because he was so into it. It was also an easy (and cheap!) repair—“simplicity itself” in his words (pour water in the column, column heats up generating steam). I tend to do it for single shots plus milk for a café au lait, which I also sometimes do in the morning.

My "convenient" go-to is a pour over. I have a French press but cleaning all the parts (and scraping the grounds out the bottom for compost) is soooooooooo much work compared to tossing the filter and all in the bucket and giving it a quick rinse.

Roy Batty's Pet Dove That would actually be too fine, at least for the grinder. I did the scientist thing and decided to turn the grinder a couple notches coarser than I’d been doing for French press this morning and the hard cleaning problems disappeared (I’ve got the disassembly-reassembly down in muscle memory), so no chance I’m shifting. It’s back to be purely metaphorical sludge (really does feel like part of the meal, quasi-hot-chocolate consistency).

Cold brew is made by mixing grounds and water, letting it steep overnight and then straining the grounds. It's less acidic and great cold mixed with milk. You can heat it up, if you want.