Meet the coffee obsessives
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Meet the Coffee Obsessives Who Go to Any Length—and Pay Any Price—for a Great Cup of Joe
From $30,000 bespoke espresso machines to training with baristas, they're looking for java heaven.
https://robbreport.com/food-drink/dining/coffee-obsessed-men-culture-1236010082/
Paging @Mark ....
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What @Mik said. If someone else is making it, I’m happy to have the fanciest and most elaborate kinds.
But on a daily basis, simple and quick rules the day.
My theory is that coffee, pizza, panettone… they are all in the category of things that “even when they’re bad, they’re still pretty good.”
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Didn’t read the whole thing in depth. I like great coffee and do pour-overs here at home.
But I appear to be out of step with the current coffee movement. I like a dark-ish roast, and the coffee snobs would accuse me of having a leaden palate. I made a trip to a Devoción (mentioned in the article) coffeehouse in NYC and they don’t even offer a dark roast. Nor do other boutique places. Somehow, the fancy light-roast single estate darlings lack body and taste too acidic to me.
Well, I have found a couple of nice coffees that I order consistently. I know there are others out there but it’s Russian Roulette buying random bags and hoping you’ll like them.
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My favorite ever coffee that I ever had anywhere ever was a cold brew at a fancy place that does some super complicated 24 hour process to do a true cold brew.... It was delicious but there's no way I could recreate that at home or do anything remotely like it on a regular basis.
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My brother showed me a funny Internet picture the other day. It said--
How do coffee lovers take their coffee?
(Picture of coffee mug]
Seriously.
We alternate between coffee and tea. Tea is much easier.
Choose coffee beans.
Grind.
French press.
Organic half and half.
Organic sugar.My parents drank mass produced drip coffee black from morning to night.
I didn't know what coffee could taste like until I went to college.
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Off to Whole Foods tomorrow...they have an awesome coffee selection, many local roasters. The hard part for me is finding the roast level I like. (See previous post.) And I would like to support local roasters.
These days I have to order "dark" if I want light French style, "extra dark" if I want French roast. No traditional Italian espresso roast, it's all lighter than that. No uniformity in labeling anymore, so it's trial and error.
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I like light roast, and dark roast was in vogue for so long that its nice to have the option. I didn't know there were places that had stopped offering dark roast, though.
We have a variety of coffee preparation devices, and we use them depending on our moods--a Keurig, a Nespresso, a pourover that Muffin got me for Christmas and that I have learned to use. We have a nice frother/heater thingie, and frothed milk is all I need if the coffee isn't too bitter.
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@RealPlayer said in Meet the coffee obsessives:
Well, I have found a couple of nice coffees that I order consistently. I know there are others out there but it’s Russian Roulette buying random bags and hoping you’ll like them.
I used to follow that practice when I worked in downtown Pittsburgh because there was a coffee roaster just a couple of blocks from my office. I could go there, peruse the many possibilities, and purchase smaller quantities to try at home.
Now I have a few that are reliable go-to's and get to taste a new variety each month thanks to a coffee club that one of my sons enrolled my wife and me in a little over a year ago. I've enjoyed the bit of variety that has lent to my regular cuppa.
Big Al
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I bought a new coffee at Whole Foods today and noticed their posted return policy. Apparently if I am in any way dissatisfied I can get a refund. Hoping this applies if I find the “dark roast” I just bought isn’t dark enough for my taste.
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I'm roasting my own coffee beans now. I can buy the green, unroasted beans for as little as $3 or $4 per pound.
My coffee never tasted as good!
My Espresso machine was under $400. My grinder was only $200 but it is a 64mm flat burr grinder with variable speed.
My roaster was about $700
