6 thoughts on “Coffee”

    1. Generally because you made it wrong. Out of deference to our host who has expressed aggressive indifferent to quality in coffee, I’ll keep it short:

      – fresh grind of decent beans
      – clean pot
      – water at 190-200F, NOT sea-level boiling
      – Drink within a half hour of brewing (and NEVER after it’s been sitting boiling on an overly-hot warmer)
      – Never never NEVER boil it. Percolater brewing is RIGHT out.

      1. When I was a kid I managed a little pizza place and the waitress was late so I made the coffee. My customers were so mad at me that those that didn’t just walk out scolded me to tears. To this day I don’t know what I did wrong. That was the first and last time I ever made the coffee.

        My mother used to work in an airport cafe that had German pilots visit. Others wanted to throw out the coffee but mom didn’t let them. Those Germans got day old coffee and said they could never find an american anywhere that knew how to make such good coffee.

        Put a teaspoon of coffee in a mug of good chocolate and I can’t drink it. But I can still remember how good coffee beans smell in the antique coffee grinder we had in our restaurant in Tacoma when I was ten years old.

  2. Ken, ever tried cappuccino? I don’t mean the junk at Starbucks or similar mass market places, but the good stuff.

    I was always ambivalent towards coffee, until I was introduced to good cappuccino and espresso in Italy.

    I’m still no fan of drip coffee – I prefer good quality instant to drip. But I’m a huge fan of cappuccino, and make it every day for my morning coffee.

  4. I use a french press. This keeps all the oils. It also has a nice ‘cream’ to it. Three heaping teaspoons of coffee works very well.

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