Coffee

[subdjoe]

I've found that the Wal-Mart Arabica is pretty darned good.  I was surprised.  We made the mistake of trying Maxwellhouse...never again.  Folgers isn't bad.  And forget the flavored coffees...cheap beans covered with chemicals to try to give it a flavor.  If you want a vanilla coffee, add some to the pot if you use a drip.  And a touch of cinnamon in with the grounds. 

[Heather]

You telling us Matt cannot fry or scramble an egg?

Won't and Can't are two totally different things. 

Heather

[okielectrician]

Heather I have drank coffee for a lot of years and have drank just about every brand out there,I probably drink 8 to 10 cups a day.Seems like brands I use to drink starts to taste very bad and bitter.
I have always drank it black and stout,so when I complain about it my wife will pick up some we have not tried before.
So for the last year we been drinking Dunkin Donuts original blend in the foil bag we buy at Sams.
Even brewed stout this is the smoothest coffee I have drank.
Another thing that makes a difference is the coffee maker,if you want one that does the best brewing I like a Bunn but most will usually buy whats the cheapest.

[mechanic]

Heather,

When I was a little fella' we would go to my great-grandma and grandpa's every third Sunday for dinner.  About five AM granma Ella would put some water in that old porcelain coffee pot, and place it on the wood stove.  When the water boiled, she would dump in a handful of coffee grounds, and move it away from the fire a bit.  When the coffee got low, she would add some water, and some more coffee grounds.  By two pm when we got there, that coffee was gettin' about right.  That's where I learned to drink coffee.  When you fix it that way, it doesn't really matter what brand it is...........

[Swampman]

Folger's Breakfast Blend is my favorite.  I drink it black.  Maxwell House smells like......I'm not going to say what it smells like.

[torpedoman]

 for those that like the chicory taste but can't find it were you live, pull, dry and bake, then grind dandeline roots and use them

[scootrd]

My sister works for a small coffee roaster , she always gives me different coffee's to try . I always thank her and would never hurt her feelings, but I gotta be honest  -  and I know everyone is going to laugh , but the best tasting coffee to me  is 8'oclock coffee. I grind the beans either right in the store or when I get home , I use them in an old peculator. and depending on my mood may add some condensed milk in the cup or just drink black. It's funny but out of all the coffees I have tried this least expensive 8'oclock coffee actually tastes the best to me.

[Rex in OTZ]

My ex-wife had joined a coffee club that sent out a box of coffee's each month all sorts of flavors some sort of scandinavian sounding name Javelia? or somthing close to that,
I was wondering what was your favorite way to brew your JOE the way you like?
Stove top percolater? table top? enamal'd steel? or stainlesssteel? electric countertop drip?
Has anyone had bad coffee off a campfire?
I figure if the drip coffee maker is clean and if the coffee is reasonibly fresh its good.
For what its worth Ive been useing distilled water (have a distiller) in the Bunn maker at work that way the water tank doesent have all that nasty brown crudd cakeing up the heating coil seems nobody likes to clean the coffee maker so the Caraf gets a brown stain going, I soak them in TSP every couple months along with the filter basket.

I used to not like liptons tea bags i thought the taste was kinda sharp, I found you can brew a good pot of tea useing one those tabletop perk-o-lators makes awesome tea that way I add a little Labrador tea for a little kick the stuff grows all over round here.

[williamlayton]

I like Maxwell House, Community and Chickory, old Morning Call.
I like/love perculated coffee.
I like coffee.
Blessings

[Victor3]

Has anyone had bad coffee off a campfire?

 Can't say I have. Nor a bad hot dog.

 Wouldn't it be nice if coffee always tasted as good as it smells? Seems even horrible stuff smells great.

[351 power]

all this talk about coffee and no Tim Hortons?

[Dixie Dude]

The coffee I drink is Millstone Foglifters.  They make several kinds. 

[no guns here]

I made four big urns (60 cups each) this past weekend for adult BSA training.  They drank it...  It was some Folgers crap.  Don't know what "type".  I just grabbed a big can off the shelf and threw it in the basket.  I've never drank coffee in my life.  I've had a sip or two but can't stand the taste.  Can't stand talking to people who drink a lot of coffee.  It just totally trashes whatever attempt you made at gargling and brushing earlier in the morning.  I like the smell of the beans, I like the smell of the brewing, I can't STAND the taste!!!  Y'all can have it... uggggghhhhh!


NGH

[Empty Quiver]

Ah the man purse. It has everything in it I need for a drive to Mt. or Mo. Sunglasses, Advil, Rolaids, 1/4" allen wrench, combo screwdriver, flashlight, work gloves, Log book, Gold Bond Powder, books on CD medical card, the list is endless. If I could find some clean ones I would carry briefs in there and could then call it my Briefcase.

With a wife and three daughters at home here it was inevitable that it became Dad's purse. A man can only take so much estrogen poisoning before he succombs.

[Heather]

Ah the man purse. It has everything in it I need for a drive to Mt. or Mo. Sunglasses, Advil, Rolaids, 1/4" allen wrench, combo screwdriver, flashlight, work gloves, Log book, Gold Bond Powder, books on CD medical card, the list is endless. If I could find some clean ones I would carry briefs in there and could then call it my Briefcase.

With a wife and three daughters at home here it was inevitable that it became Dad's purse. A man can only take so much estrogen poisoning before he succombs.

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Matt has a red Craftsman tool bag that I call his man purse.  He packs up all of his stuff in it when he rides the bike to go do jobs.  He HATES it being called a man purse so don't be surprised if this post gets deleted!    He affirms that Craftsman don't make purses and I say anything you put your personal belonging in and carry around is a PURSE! 

Heather

[rockbilly]

As a kid my father, uncle and a cousin would go fishing and camp on a sandbar on the river.  We set lines and ran them every couple of hours taking the fish and re-baiting the hooks. On one trip the river was up due to a recent rain so my Dad and Uncle would not let us go in the boat with them to run the lines, they told us to stay on bank, make a pot of coffee and start frying some bacon.  We filled the big enameled pot with water, and put it on the fire to boil, after a while we added the coffee grounds, and then set back griping about being left behind.  At some point one of said something about the large coffee can of worms we had dug from behind the barn.  One dared the other to put a worm in the coffee; this went on until a considerable number had been added to the brew.  Shortly we heard the boat motor and knew they would soon be turning so we started on the bacon to have grease to cook some of the fresh fish.  They came ashore, took a couple of nice Blue cats and cleaned them and got them ready to cook.  One of them set the coffee off the fire, cracked an egg and added it to settle the grounds, after a while they poured up a cup and begin sipping.  They bragged on how good that coffee was for twenty years until one day we broke down and told them about the worms, I was a grown man at the time but I narrowly missed a tail kicking.

The moral of the story, just keep your mouth shut and chuckle to yourself when you perform some devious little act……………….

[eye shot]

Irish Cream makes any coffee taste good.

[Hooker]

I like Maxwell House, Community and Chickory, old Morning Call.
I like/love perculated coffee.
I like coffee.
Blessings

Chicory
Sir you are a tougher man than I am.
Webster nail it right when defining the word Chicory " it is a herb used to adulterate coffee ".
Of course my Webster's is a much older version and instead of adulterate they used a word that is now considered vulgar.
I do agree on the Maxwell House , Mrs Olsen knew what she was talking about.

Pat