Coffee or Tea?

[Carbon 6]

And red tea.

 

[Eutycus]

If either tea or coffee tasted as good as it smells we'd all be addicts.

 

[sawyer04]

Strong coffee with lemon and honey for the head and strong tea with lemon and honey for the stomach.

 

[Carbon 6]

Ginger tea for the stomach.

 

[Nyckname]

If either tea or coffee tasted as good as it smells we'd all be addicts.

My usual comment about coffee is very few people actually like it; if they did, it wouldn't require between two and ten additives to make it drinkable.

 

[Carbon 6]

I've had coffee that tastes as good as it smells, but only a couple times in my life.
Coffee tastes best outdoors on a crisp fall morning with a wisp of wood smoke in the air.

 

[tenngun]

I’ve said about the same thing about a nation wide coffee house. That no one likes their coffee but does like their coffee flavored milkshakes.
I do buy a lot of green grams and roast myself.... I drink 99% of my coffee black, I do like it. So much so I limit myself to a pot on work days two pots on days off.

 

[Eutycus]

I've had coffee that tastes as good as it smells, but only a couple times in my life.
Coffee tastes best outdoors on a crisp fall morning with a wisp of wood smoke in the air.

I dont think there's a soul out there that can honestly disagree with that statement.

 

[Carbon 6]

I do buy a lot of green grams and roast myself.... I drink 99% of my coffee black, I do like it. So much so I limit myself to a pot on work days two pots on days off.

I'm not that much of a coffee drinker but I roast my own and grind fresh. This tastes better to me than anything I can buy.

 

[ugly old guy]

either. preferably a bit darker than tar.

 

[tenngun]

I'm not that much of a coffee drinker but I roast my own and grind fresh. This tastes better to me than anything I can buy.

Wrote, or at least thought green bean, typed Green grams (?). Fat thumbs or spell check I don’t know which to blame.

 

[Carbon 6]

Wrote, or at least thought green bean, typed Green grams (?). Fat thumbs or spell check I don’t know which to blame.

I knew what you meant

 

[Eutycus]

I think thats the beauty of us bad spellers or fat thumbs or spellchecks, most everyone out there can understand what you meant.(most of the time)

 

[Eutycus]

I've been experimenting with differant brands of coffee. So far I've only found one that I really dislike. Theres a store brand out there called " Nice"and believe me it is not. Yuk, it dont even taste like coffee.I think it's something they sweep off of a coffee factory's floor , dirt and all. But it might at least have some caffeine in it though ???

 

[Carbon 6]

I've been experimenting with differant brands of coffee. So far I've only found one that I really dislike. Theres a store brand out there called " Nice"and believe me it is not. Yuk, it dont even taste like coffee.I think it's something they sweep off of a coffee factory's floor , dirt and all. But it might at least have some caffeine in it though ???

Find a local coffee roaster, and buy a pound of green beans, I recommend Costa Rican, but whatever. grab a cast iron skillet and roast them over a portable butane burner outside. start on medium heat. Stir constantly. you want an even roast if they look like they are tuning black but you still have green beans turn down the heat and stir faster. when roasting the beans will shed their skin first then begin to pop and crack then darken and begin to crack again and turn shiny. When they turn shiny like oily, I quickly remove them and spread out on an aluminum baking sheet to dissipate the heat as quickly as possible stopping the roasting. I continue to blow off the chaff from the skins.
After two days, I grind a medium grind and steep in about 190 degree water. (do not boil the coffee).
Makes a nice delicious cup. The beans will taste good for about a month then they start tasting like store bought coffee.

Roast in small batches.
The beans increase in volume when roasted.
The nice thing about roasting your own is that you can control the level of roast and the final flavor. You can easily make 3 or 4 different coffees from the same green beans.
Green beans will last for years or decades but once roasted you have a month tops.

 

[tenngun]

Do it outside to ‘preserve domestic tranquillity’ I thought it would smell of roasted coffee rich and pure.
Not so much, it smells of burnt popcorn.
I have one of those camp braziers. And a small frying pan. I can cook it up outside have good coffee and not suffer the smell in the house for a week.

 

[Carbon 6]

Do it outside to ‘preserve domestic tranquillity’.

Oh ya, definitely. You'll only do it in the house once.

Some day I'm going to make an alcohol drum roaster.

 

[RAEDWALD]

Ditch your expensive and delicate teas and go the British 'builder's tea' route. Strong coarse tea with milk and sugar. All problems you could meet in life can be solved, or at east ameliorated, by hot strong tea. Add rum for 'gunfire'. Not the Earl Grey rubbish. You want the tea that Earl Grey's workmen drank. To be drunk in a large pot mug not a porcelain tea cup. 'What! Your leg has been shot off! Quel domage, have a mug of tea and you will feel better.'

 

[Nyckname]

'What! Your leg has been shot off! Quel domage, have a mug of tea and you will feel better.'

Since WWII, most all British tanks and armored vehicles have built in tea making stations.

I can just imagine some combat grizzled sergeant asking, "Shall I be mother?"

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Yes the British have a very "odd" sense of humor in very dire times...., they are apt to do just that as bullets are bouncing off the sides of the tank, and if outside of the vehicle, an NCO who had his mug of tea hit by a stray German 8mm round could be easily imagined to remark, "OH that's just bloody rude!"

LD