Coffee Preparation Procedures

1. pour

2. drink

1. pour

2. cream

3. light cigarette

4. drink

5. open eyes

pee

1) Gripe that someone put coffee out

2) Boil water

3) Put tea bag in pot

4) Pour hot tea into adrenaline syringe

5) Inject into heart

6) Shudder.

7) Not blink for eight more hours.

Stick my nose inthe air and drive past all the gourmet coffee shops AND dunkin doughnuts.

Goto the coffee store...(Whole foods and Food Lion do in a pinch...even Giant. No Safeway) buy my beans.

Go home. Mix my beans. Freeze my beans.
Clean coffee maker. Go to sleep.

Wake up, grind frozen mixed beans...enough for just one pot.
BREW!!!!!!
(Stare at cat..stare at cat...stare at cat....)
then I follow steps 1 to 3 in post #1 on this thread...unless I am heading to work, in which case I have my own special mug with a lid......
( HUH?! what did you call me? HUH? Well, you're right!!!!!)

1. Dump filter and grinds from previous use into trashcan.
2. Prepare fresh coffee (strength determined by how sleepy I am at that moment).
3. Brew.
4. One of three favorite mugs onto counter.
5. Pour brewed coffee into mug.
6. Add sugar. Stir vigorously.
7. Add non-dairy creamer. Stir vigorously. Check color. Add more creamer if necessary.
8. Inhale aroma.
9. Drink.

My wife keeps her coffee in the freezer. It keeps it fresh longer. I keep my tea in the fridge for the same reason.

PeeDee said:

My wife keeps her coffee in the freezer.

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If she has to keep it fresh, she's not drinking it fast enough.

She doesn't see caffeine as being quite as essential as I do. I figure, caffeine can build you up enough momentum so that when you die, you can keep going for another ten years on sheer intertia alone.

PeeDee said:

My wife keeps her coffee in the freezer. It keeps it fresh longer. I keep my tea in the fridge for the same reason.

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My sister does that. I don't.

I don't want to add an extra step. Besides, I buy the cheap stuff. I doubt it was fresh when I bought it.

I buy as expensive a tea as I can afford. If I were a little wealthier, I would drink with whole tea leaves and be making really proper pots of tea. Instead, I settle for what I can get. And since I have five or six different boxes of different teas around the house, and I don't drink all the flavors that often, the Black Rasberry go into the fridge. The Earl Gray and the Constant Comment could probably be left out. They vanish pretty quickly.

The Chai tea will still be sitting in my fridge long after I've died. Even counting my caffeine inertia.

Shadow_Ferret said:

I didn't say coffee snob.

outloud

You freeze your beans?

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I think the more important question is how do you get your beans in the freezer without having cold fee...... I should just stop there.

G'night everybody!

Unique said:

My sister does that. I don't.

I don't want to add an extra step.

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Ummmm, you do, at least, stare at your cat, right?

tiny terror said:

I think the more important question is how do you get your beans in the freezer without having cold fee...... I should just stop there.

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You already answered that one, dear.
(The Monkey Did It). . . . .

Sugar
Coffee to dissolve sugar
Half & half
Stir
Drink
Repeat

Somebody told me that keeping coffee in the freezer causes ice crystals that break molecular bonds and lessen the coffee experience so it should be kept in the vegetable crisper instead. I just nodded and went on keeping it on the shelf in a decade-old coffee tin that I just empty the new sack of coffe into.

I do stare at the cat, yes. And the cat stares at me. And another cat comes over. Soon, they're all there, and we all stare at each other till the tea kettle starts whistling and they run and hide before the sound of the demon.

PeeDee said:

I do stare at the cat, yes. And the cat stares at me.

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Mine stares at me, too. She's a tad creepy, because she doesn't blink.



Imagine that sitting on the bed next to you....just staring at you. Not moving....

Stumble into kitchen.
Look in cupboards until I find filters and coffee.
Empty old coffee from pot unless I did that yesterday.
Remove basket, dump out old grounds.
Put in new filter, fill almost to the top with coffee.
Fill decanter with water, pour into coffee maker.
Turn on pot.

Ten minutes or so later:
Choose a cup.
Pour coffee in it.
Add lightner. Stir. Add more if needed.
Drink.


I only drink half of that cup, and pour the rest of the pot out. Still, I make a full strength, full pot everytime.

Let dog out
Flip switch while she goes to pee(I prepare water, coffee and fresh filter the night before.
Cream
Sugar
Let dog back in
Feed dog
Stumble back upstairs
Husband finishes in shower, dresses and goes down to bring coffee
I snarl at the world until I finish the first cup.

Jaycinth, you don't roast your own beans? Feh! You might as well drink instant (No, I don't roast my own, but my sister does.)

I'm caught between "really like good coffee" and "work as a freelance writer so can't afford good coffee". I do freeze my beans, grind them (though I grind enough for 3-4 days at a time, and it's a blade grinder instead of a burr grinder), and brew each cup individually, so I'm sort of a coffee snob.