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Making Coffee

W!nston

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How do you make your coffee?

I brew a pot every evening in our percolator coffee pot. I fill my partner's thermos full for his breakfast the next morning (he clocks in at 6am) and we drink the remainder with desert or with sugar and cream AS desert, lol. If there's a cup left it's rare but I heat it and drink it first thing the next morning.

I know most guys use a drip coffee maker or one of those single cuppers like Keurig or other brand. My other family members think the percolator is too much trouble so they use a Mr. Coffee maker. But they love my perked coffee and always join us for a cup after dinner.

How do you like to make your coffee?

Here's how I make perked coffee:

First fill the pot with water and the basket with ground coffee (1 scoop for every 2 cups you are making):

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Assemble the stem, basket & lid and put it in the percolator:

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Bring the pot to a boil until the water bubbles up the stem and trickles down through the basket full of coffee. Continue for 5 to 7 minutes depending on how strong you want your coffee (I brew mine 8 mins):

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Turn off the fire and let the coffee stand 3 to 5 minutes then empty the grounds, rinse the basket and pour yourself a cup:

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With Moccamaster. Always use cold water. Put one spoonfull less of the coffee than the amount of cups you want. Dark roasted. Enjoy throughout day, till you feel a headache and can't concentrate on anything:D
 

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A good cup of coffee gives me at least as much pleasure as a snifter of fine cognac so I invest it with time, attention and expense. I start with whole beans which I measure into doses that go into tiny ziplock pouches and kept in the freezer. Frozen coffee beans is said to grind into more uniform particles. I grind a dose in my Capresso burl grinder right before they go into the funnel of my vacuum coffee pot.



I boil a measure of filtered water in a whistling kettle, pour the boiling water into the waiting clean coffee pot, press the top funnel with the freshly ground coffee on top of the pot and watch the water well up and get pushed up by the pressure in the pot. Replace the whole set up on the still hot heating element of the stove and allow it to gurgle a minute, stir this a bit to disperse the coffee ground into the hot water then allow it to cool down whereupon the mixture of water and coffee ground in the funnel gets sucked down and filtered back into the pot. I take the funnel off and pour my coffee into my cup that has been preheated and rinsed with the remaining hot water from the kettle. I then enjoy my aromatic, strong but not bitter fresh coffee with just real 10%coffee creamer.


I used a few of these before I acquired the stainless steel version above. These glass vacuum coffee pots are interesting to watch in that you can actually see how the science lab experiment process works. They invariably break though even with very careful handling. The stainless vacuum pots on the other hand are indestructible.



 

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Hello W!nston, when I read your post I must think to make coffee is really a big science.
But nonetheless I like my tea! -:)
 

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I use the Mr Coffee auto drip these days. I used to use a percolator but I would also use a coffee filter that I cut a hole in the bottom to fit over the stem, it made very good coffee but is a little more fuss. I often just run plain water through the auto drip coffee maker so that I have a supply of hot water for either instant coffee or tea depending on my mood. I have a very basic coffee maker so it does not have the auto shut-off so I can keep the hot water hot for several hours.
 

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Hello W!nston, when I read your post I must think to make coffee is really a big science.

It is a BIG science how to prepare GOOD coffee...

This is how I prepare Turkish coffee:

1. Measure the water into the pot by using one full espresso cup for each person.

2. Add 1/2 a teaspoon of sugar to the pot per cup of water.

3. Boil the water.

4. Take the pot off the heat.

5. Stir in one heaped teaspoon of finely ground coffee for each cup. Stir rapidly with a circular motion and return the pot to the heat.

6. Watch the pot like a hawk. When the coffee begins to bubble up, pull it off the heat, let it settle, and return it to the heat and do it again.

7. Let the coffee settle to allow the grains to fall to the bottom, then pour into your serving cups.

:cheers:

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I do it the Bodum way.
 

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As I mentioned in the original post I brew coffee for my partner's breakfast at work the next morning. The items vary but coffee, diet coke, v8 fusion & gatorade, breakfast, cheese & fruit and a sandwich or leftovers are always there. I also throw in some surprises like m&m's or cookies.

Here's some pics of me packing his food for the next day:

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Voila

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And I always have a bite before I take my night time meds:

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For many years I ground beans in a burr grinder the night before ( because it's too noisy to do in the early morning), and made drip coffee in the morning. It was delicious, but messy.
Now, I use the dolce gusto pod system. The coffee is not great, but it's pretty good, and there's a variety of styles.
For me, a good trade off to start my busy day.
 

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Folgers

I use a drip coffee maker and buy Folgers dark roast. We buy folgers because it is AFL-CIO made and we are a union family. I feel guilty not making better coffee but my cats occasionally get playful while we are sleeping and usually the coffee maker is the appliance that gets broke. I have had 3 or 4 grinders, and two Keurigs break. I finally just got a cheap Hamilton Beach drip coffee maker. I would move the coffee maker from the end of the counter it sits on but I have so many Kitchen gadgets since I bake and cook a lot there is no room to move it. I also found a lot of coffee going to waste as I have always just served fresh coffee, but I see W!nston mentions keeping coffee even from one day to the next so I might reconsider.
 

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I have a coffee maker something like this



But I don't use it. I tried a few times but it just didn't taste as good as it did with my old coffee maker. I kept the filter basket thing
and the glass coffee pot from my old one so here is what I do . I put this filter basket thing



(With the paper filter and coffee in it) on top of the glass pot and pour boiling water into it. After the amount that it will hold has filtered I pour more boiling water and keep doing that until it's a pot full .
 

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Here’s a present day version of the mid-previous century vacuum coffee brewing setup that shows the science lab experiment spectacle it affords your dinner guests if you choose to bring it to your dining area.

 

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I use a hand-crank burr grinder and an aeoropress. The hand-crank isn't loud like an electronic mill, and the few minutes it takes to grind the beans is a nice way to get the body started early in the morning. Plus the fact that it takes some labor to make even a single cup prevents me from mindlessly drinking a whole pot every morning.
 

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At home it's usually pour-over (no, I don't have the fancy scale or kettle - just a filter holder over a cup, thanks ;-) ), or French press if I'm going to have more than a few cups.

At work, sadly, it's K-cups, though some days I need the extra so I toss a spoon of instant into what comes out of that.
 

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"Anyone who consoles himself with 'money can’t buy happiness'
hasn’t spent money on a supply of really good coffee."
Trencherman
 

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I make mine with a 'pour-over' (single-serve drip), or what us olds used to just call 'making coffee'
 
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