Anybody serious about coffee?

One more habitual user here.

Coffee is some inseparable thing of my everyday life for decades. I start it after the breakfast and drink at least three cups of it until the late afternoon.

This Bosch is our brand new machine that substituted the previous one which served us for more than 15 years. It is a filter-type coffee machine (the coffee is put in a paper filter into the machine, one filter per make).
We use different brands of finely ground coffee, usually Lavazza, Jacobs or Tchibo as well as Lidl packs.



the filters:

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We usually find coffee makers like this in office lunch rooms. Not as fancy as this.

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I’m here only on Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays. That’s why I’m here now.

I’m sure iced coffee is delish, but my coffee has to be hot.

Yes, but I don’t want to make my own coffee. The Keurig inventor said he wished he never invented these cups because they’re non-recyclable.

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I fixed the image. Odd thing. I uploaded the image like I upload all my images. It doesn't make sense.

It seems that has changed.


https://www.keurig.com/recyclable#:~...e%20Recyclable

Cool. IIRC, Keurig means “wonderful”.

Two new flavors for my coffee. I think I like the vanilla caramel better.

I hate the flavor of coffee.

I like tea and not that herbal crap.

It is annoying not to be in sync with ones countrymen (Americans).

After switching to lattes my taste for coffee in hot water has declined to the point I wont make coffee without milk most of the time. I prefer instant crystals. Dump them in the milk and microwave it. Add flavors such as chocolate, almond, mint or coconut. Shake hard, fetch out foam, then drink.

I've bought enough bad lattes while out shopping that I almost never buy them anymore at coffee shops, I cant trust their drinks to be pure and uncontaminated. Thats fine though because a coffee shop latte is $6-$10 per cup while a home made cup is more like $1-$2 when you calculate out the expense. So, not trusting them is an all-around win-win situation.

Some might say it’s hard to be in sync with one’s countrymen (Americans) right now.

I love lattes, but most baristas don’t make them hot enough. I hate a hot drink that is not hot enough.

Probably to avoid a lawsuit like McDonald's

Dunkin’s coffee is as hot as anyone could possibly want it. That’s why I have it every day.

I like mine hot but not so hot I must sip at it. I like big gulps of my espressos, it soothes the morning horse throat and goes good with my AM cig.

I never drink anything hot. I have my coffee as iced mocha.

At work is Nespresso: Palermo or Napoli, 10am.
Home I often use a moka pot and Sical, classic.
Weekends three times a day, week days just one, rarely two.

I wish the QT's had a french roast. They've got damn good coffee.

I have transcended caffeine affecting my sleep (obviously not a good thing 😅 ).

I will make a french press (or two, if someone doesn’t want the little handcrafted luxury I made for them when I get up). Then one when I arrive at work from the Flavia. And another in 3 hours and 3 hours after that.

It definitely fills a cigarette hole, without all the social benefits 😀

I only drink coffee if there is less coffee, more (way more!) milk and a good portion of sugar in it. Only then i can handle its taste, otherwise it tastes more like shit to me.

Did latest cold-brew with a teaspoon of vanilla and cinnamon. Turned out better than I expected!

I've never had a single of cup of coffee. I have tried it, but have never liked it. I sometimes like tiramisu, as long as it has a lighter, rather than a more heavy, coffee flavor, which I've always thought is a little bit of a strange contradiction. Even though a ton of people like and drink coffee, I've met a lot of people like me who don't as well.