A Tim Horton's just opened in my small town, which has sparked the debate of what constitutes good coffee. Some people like Robin's Donuts coffee, others like the local coffee, and a lot are happy with the new Tim Horton's. Still others swear by McDonald's.
Myself, I've only been drinking it the past 10 years and I only drink one 16 oz. cup per day. I like Tim Horton's but when I'm in the city I prefer Second Cup or Seattle's Best Coffee. More so Second Cup as SBC has been bought by Starbucks. I don't like Starbucks at all, it is akin to motor oil.
What in your mind is the best coffee?
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Handsome B. Wonderful wrote:What in your mind is the best coffee?
The kind that is in my hand, at five o'clock in the morning.
"The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego."
Despite of all this coffee has some of the best health benefits for humans. I have to work mostly at night for the educational purpose and coffee is one of the best to re energize me and my mind. I can study well and longer and i do not feel any negative health differences in me.
My sister just brought some back from Costa Rica and my BIL says it is fantastic. Still waitng for her to bring me some. The new single cup brewers are nice.
I'm with Burnt Hill on this one. The best cup of Joe I've ever had was on Jaco Beach, in Costa Rica. The beans were fresh, local, and it was, and continues to be the best cup of coffee I've ever had.
(2nd) After discovering "the piss" as the locals call it, I proceeded to drink myself into oblivion and beyond. I crawled into the cafe the next morning only to discover the locals also insist on a massive breakfast of eggs, ham, sausage, beans, all sorts of things, and coffee-- oh my goodness the coffee was good. I think it was nescafe from the Phillipines, but it was still very yummy, and so hot that the coating in my mouth and throat was removed and washed into my belly. I was ready to indulge again by noon; importantly not missing a key time to network at the local lunch spot!
Freshly ground dark roast poured over hot organic WHOLE milk that is whipped with raw, Vermont honey and Ceylon cinnamon with any utensil I can stumble upon in the dark on a work morning!
Handsome B. Wonderful wrote:What in your mind is the best coffee?
Best everyday, everyman's coffee is Dunkin Donuts. Case closed. If I'm feeling a little more bourgie and feel like walking a few extra blocks, I like La Colombe.
I will always settle for leaf, if black and steeped to its utmost, cooled and poured over ice with raw sugar that sinks to the bottom of the glass and sweetens the ice cubes and lemon slice, rind and all.
Coffee. Let me say this about that. I don't think I can name a best coffee. I love coffee. I mostly make it at home. I drink five or six large mugs of it every day, sometimes more. I'm dependent on coffee. Late at night, I often crave coffee. I'm not sure whether or not I have a "problem." I was seeing a doctor last year and he said five cups a day was okay; in fact, he said, there's a correlation between large coffee intake and lower incidence of diabetes, which I show no signs of despite a family history of it. All the more surprising perhaps because I stir about a half-tablespoon of sugar* into each mug.
Sugar & cream both. "Cream" might be Half & Half, or, more often (coffee snobs turn away!), powdered milk. Powdered milk works great, actually: it doesn't dilute your coffee, and you can stir in as much as you like to make it "creamier." I tend to add more as the day goes on. Without milk or cream, more than one cup disagrees with my stomach. (Helpful tip: buy cheap powdered milk for coffee, the fancy stuff never dissolves as well and usually tastes weird.)
I used to buy multiple lattés and "Americanos" every day at coffee shops. Now, usually, I grind my own beans, the darkest, oiliest beans I can find at the discount grocery, where I pay $10 for two pounds. But sometimes I'll go through a whole jar of instant coffee before going back to the "good stuff." Partly from laziness, instant is the fastest way to get a hot cup of coffee. And cream & sugar level the playing field, somewhat.
Once, I set up a blind taste test with my neighbor, a coffee lover. A fresh, 16oz Americano (cost: $3), with sugar & cream, from a good coffee shop, was pitted against a same-style paper cup of instant coffee with similar amounts of sugar & cream. He couldn't tell the difference.
Just one time, I bought some "bad coffee" but it was my fault; it was Vietnamese coffee, ground, apparently, in the Vietnamese style -- very, very fine -- and I ignored the brewing instructions. That coffee was unbelievably strong in every way. You could put like one teaspoon of it in the ten-cup basket and you'd still get an inky-black brew that twisted your gut into a knot. I set it aside as "emergency coffee" and eventually drank it.
I could go on---I've had way too much coffee---but don't take my word for it: "the incomparable goodness of coffee" is celebrated in this film by the Coffee Brewing Institute (worth watching, at times, just for the music):
"This is Coffee" 1961 Coffee Brewing Institute 13min
I have a coffee pot just like the one the lady uses in the opening! It's lightweight aluminum, I use it for camping.
Love the cigar at 11:50.
Fun party game: get a bottle (or two) of whiskey, watch the film and take a drink every time they say "coffee."
* (I tried switching to xylitol, but I found I'm one of the small percentage of people who get 'the runs' from more than a very small mount of xylitol. I want to grow some stevia, or find some decent, affordable processed stevia in bulk.)
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