Coffee for a n00b
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So... for the record, like good beer, there's nothing wrong with some bitterness in coffee. Obviously it's dependent on an individual's preference, but there's nothing inherently wrong with coffee having some...
I should get an espresso machine and then use it exclusively to draw shots that I'll add fats to…
Part of this may be that caffeine in and of itself is perceived as bitter, albeit apparently not through the usual/canonical bitter taste pathway:
The Taste of Caffeine
Many people avidly consume foods and drinks containing caffeine, despite its bitter taste. Here, we review what is known about caffeine as a bitter taste stimulus. Topics include caffeine's action on the canonical bitter taste receptor pathway and caffeine's ...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Not eating this morning so black as my heart.
I did a new to me French press technique.
Before:
- preheat press then grounds in
- twice as much 195-200F water as volume of grinds, 30 sec, break up bloom and push down the chunks
- remainder of water, cover
- when 4 min from initial water press down plunger and pour into another container
Different method:
- preheat press then grounds in
- all water in at once, not covered, don’t break up bloom
- 4 min
- now push down all the chunks, still don’t cover, optionally take out floating chunks with spoon
- 5-6 extra minutes
- put in plunger and lower to top level of coffee but not lower, pour all out
It uses the plunger as a filter but otherwise is a different slower technique. Resulting coffee tastes good, less texture, not bitter at all, smaller amount of oils on surface. It is different, not necessarily better or worse.
I gotta eat if I'm going to have coffee. Upsets my stomach and I get super twitchy.
Have it with cream.
Then my stomach would thereby not be empty. See intermittent fasting thread. Easy solution would be to add crap to it but also not drink it first thing, instead bringing it into work in a ThermoFlask and having it as I break my fast with accompanying foods.
got your text about lunch too, btw, but also saw you cancelled ride plans so figured that was a no-go.
Honestly that is my wife's, I never use it.
I will drink when she makes it for me though.
Coffee really puts my colon in overdrive in the morning I will admit.
Uh-oh
www.huffpost.com
A Coffee Crisis Is Brewing And It Could Make Your Morning Joe Less Tasty
Climate change, disease and poverty threaten the global coffee industry.
Just try cream - it doesn't separate very quickly...
Or maybe don't do that shit.
Or maybe don't do that shit.
I don't understand why you need to put anything in your coffee other than coffee. Why not take a supplement for the other things you need/want and leave your coffee pure and wonderful?
Adding MCT oil can increase ketone levels for those shooting for such things.
I understand that someone may have convinced you that MCT oil can/should be part of your diet. Even accepting that, why does it need to be in your coffee? Just enjoy your coffee and take an MCT supplement if you want the benefits.
and also ruin coffee
I’d rather drink a cup of coffee with MCT oil in it than drink that same coffee straight and the MCT oil straight, as it were.
No matter how I prepare my coffee, Melitta filter, French Press, Espresso machine, Turkish style, I always drink it black as it should be.
Made coffee this morning, 20g being the remainder of my pre-ground Major Dickason's, 12g ground of espresso beans in my new Porlex ceramic burr hand grinder set at, of course, 11. Decent brew, but too many variables changed at once for judgement.
you shouldn't drink *anything* there
With the exception of Starbucks. I only drink Latte there.
you shouldn't drink *anything* there
Today I am fasting. Wrong thread? Actually not: after skiing in a fasted state and driving home I made myself 20 oz of French press coffee before driving into work in turn to work 5-10 PM.
From 5 PM until just a moment ago, just after 9 PM I've therefore been drinking a fair amount of caffeine. Will I bounce off the walls all night?!
(And, for the record, in that 20 oz of coffee I put 2.5 tbsp of MCT oil, again for the purported ketone-increasing effects during the fast.)
From 5 PM until just a moment ago, just after 9 PM I've therefore been drinking a fair amount of caffeine. Will I bounce off the walls all night?!
(And, for the record, in that 20 oz of coffee I put 2.5 tbsp of MCT oil, again for the purported ketone-increasing effects during the fast.)
I was fine after that late night caffeine. Go figure.
This morning I made myself a delicious mocha: French press over several squares of some 92 or so % dark chocolate, heavy cream, a dollop of coconut oil, no added sugar beside that small amount inherent in the chocolate.
Dark chocolate and coffee are definitely along the same spectrum of flavors.
This morning I made myself a delicious mocha: French press over several squares of some 92 or so % dark chocolate, heavy cream, a dollop of coconut oil, no added sugar beside that small amount inherent in the chocolate.
Dark chocolate and coffee are definitely along the same spectrum of flavors.
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not everyone has caffeine induced sleep issues.
also stop putting oil nonsense in your coffee.
and yes, dark chocolate is a bitter. you're just now learning this?
in other news, i picked up an inexpensive manual grinder for my presso. good decision.
Simma' down, now - and go have yourself a cup of coffee.
My coffee today tastes nice and smooth because of all the oils and shit I put in it today^H^H^H. I’m drinking it black, because today is day 1 of my open-ended extended fast and I don’t want to do anything to inhibit lovely autophagy effects. Gotta recycle those organelles, mannnnnn