Coffee Geek-ery

[Stuhoo]

4 minutes ago, FortWayneHoosier said:

best I can do is a Mr. Coffee maker....take it or leave it

We can do so much better for you my friend.

When life is challenging, really good coffee or bourbon can make it so much better.

[FortWayneHoosier]

2 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

We can do so much better for you my friend.

When life is challenging, really good coffee or bourbon can make it so much better.

there is a local joint here in the fort that I go to get my coffee from, they have a lot of blends you cannot get elsewhere, but I am using the coffee pot I posted above haha. Is this bad?

[Hovadipo]

It's summer so I put my pouch of cheap coffee in a pitcher overnight in the fridge and have about 6 days worth of coffee ready to pour over ice 12 hours later. Suck it Stu!

[Stuhoo]

21 minutes ago, FortWayneHoosier said:

there is a local joint here in the fort that I go to get my coffee from, they have a lot of blends you cannot get elsewhere, but I am using the coffee pot I posted above haha. Is this bad?

In order of importance:

1. The quality and freshness of the ingredient. That means whole beans that have been roasted between 5 and 30 days before use.
2. The skill of the 'cook'.
3. The equipment. Ground by a conical or flat burr grinder (not a blade grinder) before each use. 

So freshly roasted, properly ground beans brewed in a Mr. Coffee is infinitely better than stale, pre-ground coffee brewed in very, very expensive equipment.

Compare it to making a steak. The most important thing is getting a excellent piece of uncooked meat. Even a Michelin chef can't make it good if it's gristle that is six months old. And a great chef with a great ingredient can make it great with a bad frying pan. Give that great steak a great chef and great equipment and you're never gonna put ketchup on that sucker. 

Final rule: If you are making coffee that has ANY correlation with any ideas of @Hovadipo? It is bad and wrong and bad. And wrong.

[Stuhoo]

12 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

It's summer so I put my pouch of cheap coffee in a pitcher overnight in the fridge and have about 6 days worth of coffee ready to pour over ice 12 hours later. Suck it Stu!

That's actually not a bad strategy. Put great coffee ground fresh in a pitcher in the fridge overnight and you'll have six days of fantastic iced coffee with no extra effort!

[Hovadipo]

3 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

That's actually not a bad strategy. Put great coffee ground fresh in a pitcher in the fridge overnight and you'll have six days of fantastic iced coffee with no extra effort!

But I'm cheap.

[Hovadipo]

10 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

Final rule: If you are making coffee that has ANY correlation with any ideas of @Hovadipo? It is bad and wrong and bad. And wrong.

But cheap!

[Stuhoo]

8 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

But I'm cheap.

Yet priceless.

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

All in favor of changing the name of this thread to Coffee Snobbery signify by raising your paper cup from your favorite gas station.

[Stuhoo]

36 minutes ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

All in favor of changing the name of this thread to Coffee Snobbery signify by raising your paper cup from your favorite gas station.

It’s not the “Coffee” thread; it’s the “Coffee-Geekery” thread!  :)

[Pagoda]

1 hour ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

All in favor of changing the name of this thread to Coffee Snobbery signify by raising your paper cup from your favorite gas station.

When you see these bad boys with the coffee beans in the air above the coffee (why???), you know you’re about to get some great coffee.  ;-)

[FortWayneHoosier]

@Stuhoo, will likely call for my head here.....but goose season has kicked off the last couple of weeks, and my mornings getting up have been wayyyyy too early (4 am). So I been using a lot of instant coffee. The taste is bitter but I love it! Am I doing this right????

 

[Stuhoo]

3 minutes ago, FortWayneHoosier said:

@Stuhoo, will likely call for my head here.....but goose season has kicked off the last couple of weeks, and my mornings getting up have been wayyyyy too early (4 am). So I been using a lot of instant coffee. The taste is bitter but I love it! Am I doing this right????

 

[FortWayneHoosier]

27 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

I love my instant coffee. I also make cowboy coffee over my coleman cooker in the blind. 

[Hovadipo]

45 minutes ago, FortWayneHoosier said:

I love my instant coffee. I also make cowboy coffee over my coleman cooker in the blind. 

Stu is too much of a city slicker to even comprehend this.

[Stuhoo]

2 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

Stu is too much of a city slicker to even comprehend this.

That is a compliment, which I will gladly accept.

BTW, I just spent two weeks in Africa, where even the side of the road snack stands have proper coffee equipment. 

Y'all are heathens!

[AZ Hoosier]

4 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

That is a compliment, which I will gladly accept.

BTW, I just spent two weeks in Africa, where even the side of the road snack stands have proper coffee equipment. 

Y'all are heathens!

Was in Ethiopia several years ago, and the coffee there was amazing. Much better that some of the crap pushed on the masses around these parts. The same is true of much of Central and South America.

Coffee Snobs rule.

[Dave from Dayton]

44 minutes ago, FortWayneHoosier said:

I love my instant coffee. I also make cowboy coffee over my coleman cooker in the blind. 

Stunoo asked me to ask you:  Which hand do you wipe with when in your blind?  (Why?  Well, the rest of us use TP.)  https://www.tiktok.com/@bakkuntry_outdoors_az/video/7179346090603449643?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc

[mamasa]

Does this count?

[HoosierHoopster]

23 hours ago, mamasa said:

Does this count?

OK I am going to go look for that tonight...