You watch Good Eats, don't you?I don't even own a coffee maker.
I do have a coffee grinder -works nicely for whole spices.
Of course I do!
Love it.
I've all my Alton Brown cookbooks signed by him, too!
Officially a coffee snob
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Of course I do!
Love it.
I've all my Alton Brown cookbooks signed by him, too!
Welcome to the club, jkladis. 
I've often joked that I've learned three things from Generation X: Drink good beer, drink good coffee and smoke good pot. Of those three, the one I do by far and away the most is drink good coffee.
Thanks to GenX, I've been grinding my own coffee for a couple of decades. Nothing beats it. I am also very blessed lately in that I can get a great bean from a local company, Coulee Coffee, that is as good as anything I've tried.
And I remember buying Peet's Coffee when it was one store in Berkeley that really only sold beans. You could buy a cup to go in back, but they weren't really set up for it. How times have changed.
My coffee splurge this last year was for a Bunn coffee maker. After buying and destroying Mr. Coffee machines for years, I spent way too much money on a Bunn that uses an insulated carafe. It makes a pot in five minutes and keeps it warm for many hours. Plus, since the coffee isn't on a burner, it never has that burned taste. A reheated cup in the afternoon tastes just like the first cup of the morning. The Bunn coffee maker was money well spent.
Lately, I've had a few friends trying to convince me to roast my own beans. They're buying good Italian beans and roasting them in their garages. You can't do it inside. Your house would smell like coffee for days, if not weeks.
I think I'll stay with buying the Oktoberfest Blend from Coulee Coffee at my local supermarket. Part of the profits go to MS research, and that alone is good enough reason for me.
I've often joked that I've learned three things from Generation X: Drink good beer, drink good coffee and smoke good pot. Of those three, the one I do by far and away the most is drink good coffee.Thanks to GenX, I've been grinding my own coffee for a couple of decades. Nothing beats it. I am also very blessed lately in that I can get a great bean from a local company, Coulee Coffee, that is as good as anything I've tried.
And I remember buying Peet's Coffee when it was one store in Berkeley that really only sold beans. You could buy a cup to go in back, but they weren't really set up for it. How times have changed.
My coffee splurge this last year was for a Bunn coffee maker. After buying and destroying Mr. Coffee machines for years, I spent way too much money on a Bunn that uses an insulated carafe. It makes a pot in five minutes and keeps it warm for many hours. Plus, since the coffee isn't on a burner, it never has that burned taste. A reheated cup in the afternoon tastes just like the first cup of the morning. The Bunn coffee maker was money well spent.
Lately, I've had a few friends trying to convince me to roast my own beans. They're buying good Italian beans and roasting them in their garages. You can't do it inside. Your house would smell like coffee for days, if not weeks.
I think I'll stay with buying the Oktoberfest Blend from Coulee Coffee at my local supermarket. Part of the profits go to MS research, and that alone is good enough reason for me.
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Well, there's a threesome I'll never be to scrub out of my mind.
You're just jealous.
I absolutely love Alton Brown and I am sickeningly jealous that you have cookbooks signed by him!!You watch Good Eats, don't you?I don't even own a coffee maker.
I do have a coffee grinder -works nicely for whole spices.
Of course I do!
Love it.
I've all my Alton Brown cookbooks signed by him, too!
Oh, and I certainly treasure your love Worf.....right back atchya.
ETA: Sorry about the double post, I meant to fuse them together but it wasn't cooperating for some reason.
I love coffee. Right now I'm trying to justify buying a good burr grinder and find a local source for green coffee beans.
I love the organic Guatamalan from WF.
My mother-in-law (who was born and raised in Havana) got me hooked on café Cubano, which is basically just really strong espresso that's sweeted with sugar as its brewed. You drink a teeny tiny cup and then you won't sleep for quite some time. ¡Muy bueno!
I have a deep love affair with coffee...but it's Tim Horton's all the way for me! I buy it to brew at home (I have the measurement/water ratio just perfect) and I buy one to go every morning
That doesn't make me a coffee snob though...it just makes me Canadian
But you know, Tim's has good coffee, and it is (comparatively) reasonably priced.
I would never buy their beans, though.
Sometimes I wonder if the people at the one I go to know the difference between skim milk and 2% milk, but that is something I solved by buying a small thermos.
I'll have to echo previous posters and agree that you're not a snob until you use a french press. In fact I'd go even further and assert that unless you grind your own beans (fair-trade & organic of course), you might as well get your coffee at Burger King.
Timmy's coffee tastes like cigarettes and the tears of African slave children.
Timmy's coffee tastes like cigarettes and the tears of African slave children.
I'll have to echo previous posters and agree that you're not a snob until you use a french press. In fact I'd go even further and assert that unless you grind your own beans (fair-trade & organic of course), you might as well get your coffee at Burger King.
ALL coffee tastes like that.
That's what makes it so delicious!
I've got some coffee from http://ptscoffee.com/ that I'm ready to try in the press. And a real snob would use a coffee siphon too. http://www.coffeegeek.com/guides/siphoncoffee
http://www.coffeegeek.com/guides/siphoncoffee
jkladis, you're my idol.
I tend to be more of a Starbucks snob but whatever. I do buy Peet's coffee to brew at home. To me though, there is nothing like old school coffee.....percolated. You may laugh but I'm telling you, nothing beats it. The percolator I have was my grandma's and I have no idea how old it is but it makes the best damn pot of coffee.
Absolutely agreed!
Officially intrigued. You should go into sales.
I think they posted my picture at each register with the single caption "9-1-1".
The best coffee for the money. I like how their coffee and donuts nearly taste as they did 20 years ago.
Welcome to the club, jkladis.
Thank you. I personally would be like our good man DarkHelmet and replace that last one with good wine.
jkladis, you're my idol.
I tend to be more of a Starbucks snob but whatever. I do buy Peet's coffee to brew at home. To me though, there is nothing like old school coffee.....percolated. You may laugh but I'm telling you, nothing beats it. The percolator I have was my grandma's and I have no idea how old it is but it makes the best damn pot of coffee.
Amen to that.
Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find one I've liked in a while, so I save that particular pleasure for trips to Grandma's (She's made her coffee in a percolator forever).
My brother's got one, and I'm thinking about buying one. Not terribly impressed with the coffee out of it (could be the chef though), but it makes one hell of a pot of tea.
