"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

I'm 36 and just in the last 3 months have started dabbling with coffee. I had always hated the taste of it, although liked the smell. And I usually didn't need the caffeine to get going in the morning. But now I've been having a cup in the morning 1 or 2 days a week. My coffee consists of 1/2 a mug of coffee, then a spoonful of honey from our honeybee hives, and then top it off with milk and french vanilla creamer. haha I don't think I'm quite a coffee connoisseur yet. I'm mostly just trying to make it palatable so I can chug it and get on with my day. :)
 
jackknife said:
Spam and eggs is the breakfast of champions
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When my boys were young we stayed in the woods fishing, hunting, camping any excuse was good enough. One of our staples was spam we fried it over an open fire, sliced it for sandwiches scrambled it in eggs good for breakfast lunch and dinner. One of my favorite campfire meals was to shoot a couple of rabbits dice them up with a couple of cans of spam throw in some potatoes carrots and corn with some salt and pepper wrap it in tinfoil one for each of us and throw it on the fire. My mouth is watering just thinking about it. :):rolleyes:
However Carl since I'm no longer able to do these type activities instead of saying "Spam and eggs is the breakfast of champions" now I must say "Spam and eggs the breakfast of ex champions". :D:D
 
Rookie82 said:
...My coffee consists of 1/2 a mug of coffee, then a spoonful of honey from our honeybee hives, and then top it off with milk and french vanilla creamer.....
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That ain't coffee. That's a drink with coffee as an ingredient.

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All of this coffee talk reminds me that everyone pales in comparison to the true BladeForums Coffee Connoisseur, Mr. GT @5K Qs. You guys with your Costa Rican roasts, French Presses, and Burr Grinders are living in the past. GT lives in the true future with his warmed orange juice with instant coffee stirred in. :D:p
 
Wurrwulf said:
All of this coffee talk reminds me that everyone pales in comparison to the true BladeForums Coffee Connoisseur, Mr. GT @5K Qs. You guys with your Costa Rican roasts, French Presses, and Burr Grinders are living in the past. GT lives in the true future with his warmed orange juice with instant coffee stirred in. :D:p
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Bless his heart. :)

While we're talkin' coffee: You know I'm an addict because I need to leave some coffee in the pot for the next morning so I can wake up enough to make coffee. I heat it in the microwave and drink it in the shower. Shower coffee is the best coffee of the day. :D:thumbsup:
 
dannyp said:
I've tried a bunch of different brewing methods, but lately I've been using the Clever Dripper...
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A few years back, I used to go to a place that made coffee that way. For many years I used a Bialetti stove top coffee maker that I got as a Secret Santa gift from an Italian studying in the USA. They're readily available in the USA but she didn't know and her family sent it from Italy in a care package! Recently I got a Nespresso from a relative.
 
Enjoying a cup of coffee while I read others' posts on how to make coffee. I'm always open to new ideas. I've been using the $4 plastic Melitta top-of-cup pour-over cone filter brewers for maybe 25 years now, along with an electric kettle to boil the water. Makes a single cup at a time, which works out well since I am the only coffee drinker in the house, and I make a pretty big mug of it so one cup usually does it.
 
I worked as a barista for about eight years starting just after high school and it’s interesting to observe my journey with coffee in retrospect. I started working at a fine coffee roaster in Southern California but at the time I couldn’t really appreciate what I had there as I still took my coffee with cream and two “Sweet & Lows” :confused:

After that, I was able to land a job as a barista wherever I happened to roam and my tastes evolved and I became quite the coffee snob. I’ve brewed coffee using just about every method other than steeping it in a sock over a campfire (real cowboy coffee) and was particularly partial to single origin shots of espresso. Did you guys know that it’s not uncommon for industrial espresso machines to cost well over 100K $$$ at the finer coffee establishments? I even tried the Civet coffee once when our green coffee bean importer sent us a sample. It was good, but certainly not $500 per pound + animal cruelty good.

Once I started traveling internationally I naturally wanted to see the arabica coffee plantations wherever I went. Particularly in South America and Southeast Asia. There I learned that the locals can’t afford to drink the good stuff they grow since it all gets sent over here for top dollar. So I started drinking what they drank while abroad (namely Folgers instant coffee) and so began my love affair with bad coffee.

Nowadays I appreciate a fine cuppa of “pick your fancy beans”, but the wife and I just drink pre-ground “Buckaroo Blend” from WINCO brewed in a standard drip maker while at home.

Goes to show it’s interesting how tastes and convictions can change over time.

Hope everyone had a great weekend!
 
Copperberry said:
I worked as a barista for about eight years starting just after high school and it’s interesting to observe my journey with coffee in retrospect. I started working at a fine coffee roaster in Southern California but at the time I couldn’t really appreciate what I had there as I still took my coffee with cream and two “Sweet & Lows” :confused:

After that, I was able to land a job as a barista wherever I happened to roam and my tastes evolved and I became quite the coffee snob. I’ve brewed coffee using just about every method other than steeping it in a sock over a campfire (real cowboy coffee) and was particularly partial to single origin shots of espresso. Did you guys know that it’s not uncommon for industrial espresso machines to cost well over 100K $$$ at the finer coffee establishments? I even tried the Civet coffee once when our green coffee bean importer sent us a sample. It was good, but certainly not $500 per pound + animal cruelty good.

Once I started traveling internationally I naturally wanted to see the arabica coffee plantations wherever I went. Particularly in South America and Southeast Asia. There I learned that the locals can’t afford to drink the good stuff they grow since it all gets sent over here for top dollar. So I started drinking what they drank while abroad (namely Folgers instant coffee) and so began my love affair with bad coffee.

Nowadays I appreciate a fine cuppa of “pick your fancy beans”, but the wife and I just drink pre-ground “Buckaroo Blend” from WINCO brewed in a standard drip maker while at home.

Goes to show it’s interesting how tastes and convictions can change over time.

Hope everyone had a great weekend!
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I used to love cheap coffee. I've preferred my coffee black since I was a teenager, but Western Family French Roast was plenty fancy for me... until I met my ex wife. She was a barista for almost 20 years (before and after me). She totally ruined my ability to enjoy the cheap coffee I was raised on.

These days I don't have a set brand that I buy, since I love variety, but I do tend to favor single origin dark roasts.

All that said, I have to admit to warming to instant coffee (on a limited basis) in recent years. It started with a trip to Easter Island. While I was working out there, the only coffee regularly available was instant, and I kind of started to like it. And there really are some instant coffees that are a definite improvement over the terrible crystals of my youth. Instant might not be _good_ but it has a place in my heart.
 
...I maintain that one strong cup of tea is better than 20 weak ones. All true tea-lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes.... ~George Orwell, "A Nice Cup of Tea," Evening Standard, 12 January 1946

I like coffee a lot and in many forms, but strong tea refreshes and inspires you like no other drink, it cools you in the blistering heat and warms you in the dark midwinter, but as Orwell pointed out, only when strong.

Then there's chocolate (pure cocoa powder not that drinking chocolate muck :poop::D) take 2 heaped teaspoons, 1 level spoon of sugar or maple syrup, mix with a little cream until you get a shiny oily paste, mix slowly with near boiling water and top up with milk to cool. A rich bitter tasty drink at night that will dramatically lower your BP after a week or so, try it:cool:
 
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