Just finishing my second cup of coffee for the morning

coffee
#21

Interesting because we just got done depleting a stash of new coffee we tried, by a company called Black Rifle Coffee. It was probably a lot fresher than what we usually get. Last week we had to get some prepackaged brands from Walmart and this whole week I’ve had horrible post nasal drip and worse headaches, and other symptoms. I didn’t have any of that while drinking the Black Rifle brand.

Possibly the coffee we got from Walmart has sat long enough to have the mold you speak of. Very interesting.

(Brian) #22

I have wondered how different one coffee brand is to another. I’ve not tried Black Rifle Coffee yet.

I have heard pros and cons about coffee. No plans to quit drinking my morning coffee. (I rarely drink it after breakfast but I like it then.)

I have been on a bit of a quest to find the one I like best. Started out with Folgers and drank that for several years. Tried a few others with varying amounts of like / dislike but ended up with 8 oclock of late being the “fall back”. (We generally buy the whole beans and grind right before brewing.) Tried a bag of whole bean from Sams Club about 6 months ago. Horrible. Almost threw it in the trash. (Actually, I think I might have thrown the last of it away, and I NEVER throw away food, I just don’t.)

I bought a package of coffee from a “bents and bumps and bargains” type store years ago that I believe said “Brazilian Sunrise” on the package. Really liked that one and was sad when it was gone because I’ve never found one I liked quite like that one.

A friend of mine tells me that Brazilian coffee is “boring”. I told him maybe I like boring coffee. LOL!!

Whatever the differences are, all coffee does not even come close to tasting the same so the idea that one might be better or worse for us isn’t exactly a lightning bolt revelation.

(Doug) #23

Indeed. I think it’s often hit-or-miss, even within one producer and blend; sometimes it’s better than at others.

We’ve got home renovations going on, and I employed an architect for some work. He’s originally from Columbia, and recently was back there for a week. His family there has produced coffee for many decades, and he gave me a package of it. Really good. But not earth-shatteringly good.

I worked in Jamaica in 1998, and had some of the famous ‘Blue Mountain’ coffee there. Same thing - while it didn’t really rock my world, it was certainly really good coffee. I brought some home, and most people agreed.

Some days I wonder if it’s me, not just the coffee - or just exactly how strong it’s brewed, etc… Mysteries…

(Brian) #24

Thanks, Doug!

I’m on a couple of chat forums, one of which is a survivalist type forum. And they often talk about coffee and how “prepped” they are for the end of the world and a world with a severely compromised coffee distribution network. Lots of 'em have stockpiled a LOT of it and talk about how they’d fight tooth and nail to keep people from stealing it. (Lots of big talk on forums like that. Keyboard warriors don’tchaknow. LOL!)

While I like coffee and have no plans to give it up without any particular reason to, if there does come a time when it’s just not available or not affordable, I’ll be OK. I’ll miss it for a while. Won’t be that dramatic, though. :slight_smile:

(KM) #25

I occasionally do “minimalist retreats” - a fancy way of saying I go camping for a week or so with my supplies and my car and don’t restock anything. I realized a long time ago that coffee is a pretty big commitment when resources are at a premium like that. I like mine with dairy in it. So there’s a matter of specially packaged milk or having refrigeration (or dumping powdered “creamer” in it, which IMO is enough to ruin anything). There’s the question of processing the beans, then the heating of the water, then the actual elements needed to create a drinkable product and separate the grinds from the water, then the clean up of these things which actually get a bit oily and also require yet more clean water. I realized at some point that I’d rather pack a few caffeine pills and enjoy a cup of herbal tea.

(Brian) #26

Yup. I like mine whipped with both butter and cream. LOL!! Just black, it wouldn’t take me long at all to say bye-bye. Have tried multiple times and it just doesn’t work for me that way.

One thing that happens on occasion is making that butter and cream laden morning coffee into not just something that goes with breakfast, but making the coffee the whole breakfast. It goes just fine when I do that. Plenty of fat for fuel.

Perhaps it’s a luxury, don’t know. But I figure I’ll enjoy it while I can. I would miss the “pick me up” for a day or two. And yes, I’d probably get more interested in teas. Wouldn’t have to be anything all that special, either. Just plain ol’ mint tea is a long time favorite and I grow some of that around the place anyway. :slight_smile:

(KM) #27

Yes, I currently dump a big scoop of collagen powder in mine, about the only processed product I consume, which often lasts me til 4 in the pm. I wouldn’t want to give it up, but I often wonder how some “preppers” imagine the world without infrastructure looks, focusing on coffee sounds a bit naive to me.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #28

Good point. The mentality seems to focus on storeable food supplies and enough guns to fight off marauders. I wonder where they think their food will come from after the supplies run out. Are they expecting the supermarkets to re-open? Are they planning on hunting? Managing their own herds? Do they even think that far ahead?

My personal plan is to be close enough to ground zero when the bombs arrive so as not to have to worry about anything, lol!

#29

I do this! I use MCT Oil, a good dose of Collagen Peptide Powder, sometimes butter, and HWC. It’s sooooo deeelicious. Such a treat and satiating for hours.

#30

I love this part of the story. The ‘lost love’.

(KM) #31

I just had to google, it’s that sort of morning. :roll_eyes:. It’s probably not the same product at all, but there are a couple of flavored coffees out there called Brazilian Sunrise, they’ve got some extracts in them - citrus, coconut. Could it possibly have been a tasty flavoring that caught your tongue?

(Brian) #32

kib1, I don’t think it was a flavored coffee… but who knows. I’m reachin’ back probably close to 10 years.

Believe it or not, I’m actually debating about cutting back on my morning Joe. Have been of a mind to have close to a quart each morning for several years now. Have thought about dropping back closer to a pint and see if I’m not just as satisfied. I’m finding that I feel like I’m “overdoing” the intake sometimes, not just of coffee, but of food in general. I’m not gaining weight, but not losing it either. Have been in the same 5 pound range for quite a long time. Not really worried about it though dropping just a few more #s wouldn’t be a bad thing at all. Don’t wanna be a stick person, never felt good there even when I was young. But another 10 to 15 pounds would put me in a nice spot. Again, not worried about it in the least.

(KM) #33

I’m pretty sure caffeine has an addictive element to it, and it tends to creep up. Ordinarily my husband and I split a French press, I’m assuming one liter, of coffee every morning. Lately he has been leaving very early for work, so I have the whole pot to myself. No problem! I also will take the occasional caffeine pill if I’m feeling especially sluggish, and lately that seems to be every morning. You are probably on track in thinking less is more.

(Peter - Don't Fear the Fat ) #34

I have about 3 or 4 mugs of strong coffee in the morning, defo an adict. Only down side for me (apart from the addiction) is bigger the caffine hit = bigger the rush to the toilet. wow that’s a super strong laxative

#35

1 Quart = 1.14L. 1 Pint = 0.56L. 2 pints to a quart, by the looks.

Now, I know what a pint is as that is a standard drink measurement at the pub (soda water).

I was interested in the volumes being drunk. My coffee measurement is a ‘mug’. Mug sizes vary.

My mug is 400ml (about 14 oz) That is almost two ‘cups’. I have two mugs of coffee per day at home. So, now I realise I have almost 4 cups of coffee a day.

I also measured the takeaway coffee cup it is also 400ml (about 14oz). So, when I’m at work I have about the same amount. The contexts are different. Coffee at home, must be the ritual, feels more relaxing.

The other factor is how the coffee is made, I think? I have an Italian stovetop coffee (a moka) where the water is steamed up through the ground roasted coffee beans (I like Columbian, but Papua New Guinean is nice as well). Or I’ll have a cafe made coffee by a barista, a similar method but a machine forces the hot water through the disc/puc of ground roasted coffee beans.

#36

And I have thought I drank too much coffee in the morning: a few small cups (it varies a lot and I don’t always use my tiny and very pretty cups - just when I want to quit - ) on a good day… :smiley: Several on a bad one. And of course I kept drinking coffee until the evening at least, I rarely drink it after dinner but 2-3am happened in my life too. IDK if I mentioned the time when I only drank coffee until 5pm yet… It is good for hydration, I have drunk 1.5 liters :smiley: But that was exceptional. Or who knows, it’s not like I track the amount and I make only a little at a time.
My coffeine consumption must be tiny compared to you folks as I drink extremely weak coffees :smiley: (And usually NOT 1.5 liters a day… Maybe if we count the copious amount of cream/milk/egg in it on some days but that’s not the coffee part.) After I put a tiny cream into my coffee, it’s way closer to white than brown :smiley:

I still wanna quit. Or reduce the amount very seriously. It goes okay lately, I still drink some coffee every day (and I can’t even last until lunch :rage: ) but it’s a fragment of my old amount!
I try to swap to tea but tea is flavored water while coffee feels more substantial (and it is as I don’t drink it black)… I only can put cream into my Irish Cream tea. Sometimes I accept that instead of a coffee, sometimes not. The same as with cocoa though cocoa is the closest to coffee for me. Still can get old. Coffee with cream never gets old :frowning:

I don’t use any fancy things. Just pour hot water into my handy metal and plastic filter with ground coffee in it. And if I want a really tasty one (or need coffee for flavoring in something), I use my fav instant coffee… But after the cream and whatever else (usually egg) treatment, they get closer to each other. Mmm, cream. I could just drink cream, actually… But I already tend to overeat fat. And the coffee flavor does have some charm… But I often just habitually drink the coffee, not enjoying it as I should. That’s wrong.

(KM) #37

Ah. My mug is 28 oz. It’s enormous. My estimate is 8 oz of cream / protein powder, 20 oz. actual coffee. So pretty similar, about 2.5 literal measuring cup’s worth of coffee.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #38

You have to be careful with those measurements. A U.S. pint is 16 oz., whereas an Imperial pint is 20. The ounces are somewhat different, too, but pretty close in size. However, cups, pints, and so forth differ noticeably. This makes it difficult to translate British recipes into American, and vice versa. And it’s one of the reasons that European recipes have standardised on metric weights of dry ingredients and mL for liquids, rather than on traditional volume measures for all.

The main thing is that 2 c = 1 pt, 2 pt = 1 qt., and 4 qts. = 1 gal, regardless of the system, but the quantities are definitely not the same, as is evidenced by the values in milliltires, centilitres, and litres.

The U.S. standard was the old English measures, and I well remember my Nana quoting the old saying, “A pint’s a pound, the world around.” The SI metrics are similarly calibrated, so that 1 L of water at standard temperature and pressure weighs 1 kg. (Bear in mind, however, that this may now vary slightly, because of re-standardisation based on physical constants, instead of standard weights and measures kept in London and Paris.)

#39

I still enjoy my coffee but went from drinking heavily sugared coffees (mocha and hazelnut coffee with whipped cream and caramel on top) to coffee with a splash of heavy cream or half and half with a packet of stevia (optional). I will admit it took some getting used to. I do enjoy a nice Americano or blonde espresso at Starbucks (or any coffee shop!), though! :laughing:

(Peter - Don't Fear the Fat ) #40

The Coffee Subject is a big one … and devicive perhaps.
There are things to remember here.
1/ It’s very addictive and bloody lovely.
2/ It’s a bean and has a carb content and I guessing plant toxins.
3/ Totally unnecessary but bloody lovely.
4/ Not ancestral though lovely.
5/ Can become an issue with some people … not me though