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Doctor Butts posted:Ok smart guy, where the gently caress can I get those crystals that Folgers has in their coffee? crystal mine on crystal mining planet OBVIOUSLYT
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Mr.Pibbleton posted:I have forty dollars in unused star bucks gift cards. Venmo me
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BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:Nary enough to cop a large bro Oh sure, you mean cop a grande sir coming right up
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The secret to make Folgers crystals at home is to strain hot water through a tube sock full of cat turds. They have to come from the litter box though or the crystals won’t form
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Jan 10, 2023 03:17
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what ARE those lovable crystals, anyway?
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:what ARE those lovable crystals, anyway? Cat litter probably
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That’s a interesting question, op. I don’t really have any answers for you though, so sorry good luck
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are there good decaf beans? I just make decaf espresso and buy pre ground decaf
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Jan 10, 2023 05:40
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Thesaurus posted:are there good decaf beans? I just make decaf espresso and buy pre ground decaf Can be gotten, sure. Try to find superfluid CO2 processed if you can; there's an improvement over water processed in terms of body and flavour.
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Jan 10, 2023 10:28
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Mozi posted:if you don't roast your own beans you might as well just eat powdered nespresso right out of the tube *Looks up in sudden panic, freezes, eyes wide, spoon still in mouth*
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Jan 10, 2023 12:30
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i spend £2 on 'colombian' instant coffee from aldi and put milk and a sweetener in it and although it tastes a bit different from expensive coffee with 50 steps to preparation, it is neither better or worse. it tastes kind of bitter and weird, like all coffee. the difference is 95% fiction. coffee snobs are worse than wine snobs because the wine snobs at least have the excuse of wanting a cover for boozing up.
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Jan 10, 2023 13:02
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do tea snobs buy fresh tea leaves and cure them at home
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Jan 10, 2023 13:04
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roomtone posted:i spend £2 on 'colombian' instant coffee from aldi and put milk and a sweetener in it and although it tastes a bit different from expensive coffee with 50 steps to preparation, it is neither better or worse. it tastes kind of bitter and weird, like all coffee. the difference is 95% fiction. coffee snobs are worse than wine snobs because the wine snobs at least have the excuse of wanting a cover for boozing up. Instant coffee tastes very different than any espresso based coffee and you'd need to be a clown with no taste if you can't tell the difference. Also OP's beans probably taste like poo poo compared to professionally roasted coffee.
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Jan 10, 2023 13:07
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Buy fresh tea leaves? What kind of worthless gutter trash doesn't own a plantation in Sri-Lanka and grow their own?
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Jan 10, 2023 13:08
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roomtone posted:i spend £2 on 'colombian' instant coffee from aldi and put milk and a sweetener in it and although it tastes a bit different from expensive coffee with 50 steps to preparation, it is neither better or worse. it tastes kind of bitter and weird, like all coffee. the difference is 95% fiction. coffee snobs are worse than wine snobs because the wine snobs at least have the excuse of wanting a cover for boozing up. Lmao
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Jan 10, 2023 13:09
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i acknowledge that it tastes a bit different. i'm saying it's not better, and still in the same general taste area. some people prefer the ground coffee taste, but you can get bags of that for the same price as instant. spending hundreds on coffee brewing stuff or getting precious about bean quality is the same thing as swirling your wine to 'open' it or thinking there's quality difference between a £10 and £50 bottle of wine. blind studies have shown people can't tell the difference. you're better off getting reasonably priced stuff and dropping the pretense. there's a whole industry which requires people to believe that there's something substantial going on when there isn't.
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Jan 10, 2023 13:14
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Because gently caress it. I used to get fancy with a french press and fresh ground coffee, but then I just stopped caring.
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roomtone posted:i spend £2 on 'colombian' instant coffee from aldi and put milk and a sweetener in it and although it tastes a bit different from expensive coffee with 50 steps to preparation, it is neither better or worse. it tastes kind of bitter and weird, like all coffee. the difference is 95% fiction. coffee snobs are worse than wine snobs because the wine snobs at least have the excuse of wanting a cover for boozing up. lol of course the alcoholic blowhard gbs guy has this opinion
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roomtone posted:i acknowledge that it tastes a bit different. i'm saying it's not better, and still in the same general taste area. some people prefer the ground coffee taste, but you can get bags of that for the same price as instant. spending hundreds on coffee brewing stuff or getting precious about bean quality is the same thing as swirling your wine to 'open' it or thinking there's quality difference between a £10 and £50 bottle of wine. blind studies have shown people can't tell the difference. you're better off getting reasonably priced stuff and dropping the pretense. there's a whole industry which requires people to believe that there's something substantial going on when there isn't. The difference between a light and dark coffee roast is extremely obvious - it's not one of those subtle "$20 vs $200 red wine" differences. Roasting is a fairly brutal process - it's like how you can taste the difference between the same cookies baked to "beige and a bit doughy on the inside" and "dark brown and crispy". The problem is that finding actual light roasts to test is a bit hard. Dark roasts all taste fairly similar, sort of "bitter and bread crust", and that means you can get away with an assortment of cheap beans and still get a consistent taste. And that doesn't make it bad - it's a taste many people are used to and enjoy. However, it means that almost all instants are very dark roasts, because they're easier and cheaper to make. The easiest way to just test a cup is probably to find a hipster coffee shop and buy a cup of overpriced filter coffee. If nothing else, it should be noticeably bad in a different way - more sour and less bitter is fairly typical. I've heard people who don't enjoy the style describe it as "like a tea made from coffee beans". 
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It's diminishing returns for sure , but the jump in quality from instant to fresh ground is lightyears difference
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The best coffee is from an AeroPress. I'll drink that on weekends. I drink instant at work, though. We have some great coffee shops in the area, but I'm not paying for it.
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Peggy Edson posted:lol of course the alcoholic blowhard gbs guy has this opinion pfft
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Piss Creep posted:The best coffee is from an AeroPress. I'll drink that on weekends. This too. I grind nice light roasted beans and make a V60 if I'm home, but on a work day I'll happily have a bland filter coffee from a metro kiosk and follow up with the "we now get the second cheapest beans money can buy" machine at work. Having something warm but not sugary to drink is nice, having an interesting complex taste is definitely secondary. Caffeine doesn't really do that much for me.  (Reminds me, I have a box of mint tea satchels I should put in my backpack.)
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I'm Finnish so I put preground coffee into the normal coffee maker to make normal coffee every single day. There will be a very small amount of milk. Some oat milks are just as good, even though they taste different. Black is acceptable.
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Torquemada posted:Can be gotten, sure. Try to find superfluid CO2 processed if you can; there's an improvement over water processed in terms of body and flavour. Thanks. Now how can I do the superfluid CO2 processing at home?
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Computer viking posted:The difference between a light and dark coffee roast is extremely obvious - it's not one of those subtle "$20 vs $200 red wine" differences. Roasting is a fairly brutal process - it's like how you can taste the difference between the same cookies baked to "beige and a bit doughy on the inside" and "dark brown and crispy". light roasts taste like rear end and I'm extremely glad that fancy hipster coffee trends seem to be swinging towards medium roasts
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my previous rich boss/ceo that was only in the office 1 day a week dictated that our free coffee had to be the darkest burnt dog poo poo imaginable. also that one day a week he checked every single chair in the office at 8am and emailed the supervisor of every person not there yet LOL!
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the holy poopacy posted:light roasts taste like rear end and I'm extremely glad that fancy hipster coffee trends seem to be swinging towards medium roasts I don’t know much about coffee but I vaguely recall reading that despite dark roasts having the perception of manly coffee for manly men their flavors are typically more plain/easier to drink for someone who doesn’t like coffee very much because you basically just taste the roast and not the bean. I tend to drink cheap coffee but dark roasts so that matches my experience.
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Thesaurus posted:Thanks. Now how can I do the superfluid CO2 processing at home? Do you have room for a pressure vessel that operates at- 22F and 1000 psi?
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Torquemada posted:Do you have room for a pressure vessel that operates at- 22F and 1000 psi? Yeah, I know at least my toilet can handle this after I drink coffee
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computer. beans. coffee. roast. dark.
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AARD VARKMAN posted:my previous rich boss/ceo that was only in the office 1 day a week dictated that our free coffee had to be the darkest burnt dog poo poo imaginable. also that one day a week he checked every single chair in the office at 8am and emailed the supervisor of every person not there yet LOL! How often was his coffee pissed in
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Imagine thinking there's no difference between 10 and 50 dollar wine lol I actually feel bad for you
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Costco Meatballs posted:Imagine thinking there's no difference between 10 and 50 dollar wine lol Sometimes there is but sometimes there isn’t.
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My impression of wine is that there's some kind of inverse proportional relationship going on - every time you double the price, the quality increase is smaller and more subtle, sort of like you're getting incrementally close to the ideal red wine.
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People have different tastes and all enjoy different flavours. There is no ideal wine. 99.99% of the appeal of luxury hyper expensive food (or any product for that matter) is you can afford (or appear to afford it) it while others can't.
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dark roast taste like charcoal smells. enjoy your coal miners disease dark roast lovers i'll be here enjoying a warm, caramelly medium brew.
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didnt the wine and booze industry change its flavor profile over the decades to better compliment the pill habit of rich white people?
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Computer viking posted:My impression of wine is that there's some kind of inverse proportional relationship going on - every time you double the price, the quality increase is smaller and more subtle, sort of like you're getting incrementally close to the ideal red wine. there is a lot of poo poo going on with wine prices that has nothing at all to do with quality. like i have seen french wines for sale in american grocery stores for like $25 (and in restaurants for $40) that you can get in french grocery stores for like... 5 euros. the exact same wine. meanwhile spanish and portuguese wines don't undergo that same level of markup, and are thus considered to be lower quality in the us simply based on the fact that they are cheaper. a lot of this changes over time too, like argentina used to be considered a place that made "cheap/bad wine" until malbec from mendoza became trendy and then, a few years later, much more expensive, and now every wine shop has a high end argentinian wine section. Earwicker fucked around with this message at 04:01 on Jan 11, 2023 |
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OP is so dumb his coffee grinder broke so he inserted the beans like a suppository
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