Best coffee beans?
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Comments (24)I use 12 level tbsps of coffee plus about 1 1/2 more for our ten-cup Braun. I always offer guests added hot water if it's too strong, but no one has ever complained. We buy Don Francisco online or from the catalog; it's DH's favorite. Don't care for Starbucks; it tastes very harsh to me. We have a variety of D.F. flavors that we like. When they have a sale we occasionally spring for Kona. There is now a discussion about coffee brewed in French press coffee makers being bad for one's cholesterol. A Dutch study comparing filtered to unfiltered coffee indicated that this was the case. There's a fair amount online about this question. I just googled 'french press coffee cholesterol'. Very interesting information....See MoreBest way to make coffee; best coffeemaker
Comments (17)Thanks for all the very helpful information, everyone! I learned a lot more from this than I did from trying to get it from Google searches! I was not really familiar with the Bialetti machine (although I had seen them, but not in use), and so the link I posted below was very surprising to me. I had no idea that it worked that way. I'm intrigued by the Toddy coffee maker, but it would require me to plan perhaps too far in advance, and I'm not good at that. However, it is very affordable, and if it will make coffee that will upset my stomach less, I think I should give it a try. I never drank coffee until I moved to San Francisco in early 1970s, and back then the Melitta drip was what everyone seemed to use. Coffee still upset my stomach back then, but I tolerated it better then than I do now! Peet's coffee is available at Bristol Farms, and the store is in my general neighborhood, but I will go back to the Venice coffee & tea shop where I used to buy my tea. I'll probably go back to buying tea there again as well, as they have the best selection, and I love their "Fancy Keemun" tea. Annie, it sounds like you have all bases covered, and I might eventually end up with multiple coffee makers! Lars Here is a link that might be useful: Bialetti cappuccino maker with video...See MoreGrinding coffee beans
Comments (19)Correction: I use HALF a cup of beans to grind coffee for 3 cups of coffee, not a whole cup of beans. I would prefer a glass container for the ground coffee, but don't find the plastic on in the Cuisinart a big problem so far. The plastic container for the whole beans is of no consequence to me. It's grinding evenly, and a setting just south of "Medium" grinds fine enough for me. The roar is a waker-upper. Think of an old cartoon where a character has upset a hive -- only *louder*. The most important feature of any drip coffee maker is its' ability to heat the water to the right temperature and keep it there to the finish. You also need good water. Our tap water is great, but I still draw from the filtered water dispenser in our refridgerator door. I only want coffee brewed NOW, not an hour later, and not 'kept hot' on a hot plate. My old Krups drips into a pre-heated thermos carafe that I can then seal tight. I don't find that feature on any 'grind and brew' makers. (Some have thermos carafes, but they don't seal.) We would probably be good candidates for the single cup capsules, but I'm too cheap to pay more for the maker or the capsules!...See MoreRoasting green coffee beans for coffee lovers....
Comments (16)petalique, most green coffee bean sellers have a date on their beans, so you know when they were shipped from the coffee grower to the seller you buy from. We use ours pretty quickly, but it's said they keep from 1 year to 3 years. I'd not want to go past 1 year. We keep ours in the plastic zip bags they come in from Burman's, and inside a translucent bin with a snap on lid, in a dark area. Burman's (not sure about Sweet Maria's) gives a flavor profile, and even tells you which crack point to roast to for certain flavors. So when we first bought beans, we tried a number of profiles that described 'chocolate, caramel, floral, acid, smooth, etc.' Higher acid is a stronger, sharper taste, 'smooth' is lower acid. When you find a bean you like, and the roasting time you like, after a year, there will be a new crop, with a different flavor. We typically stay within the region or Country, for similar flavor. And of course, we read the descriptions. FWIW, when we started roasting, and even now, our preference is chocolate and caramel flavor tones, and I can taste it. DH can't, he just knows he likes it. Floral is nice, but I don't care for higher acid cups. On the Fresh Roast, if anyone is interested in that, we use hot pads to hold the top and bottom (they come apart, and some is glass) together and lift the roaster when the beans first start - shaking it a bit to move the beans, and also start with lower temps as green beans are heavier. As they roast, they puff a bit and lighten up in weight so move more easily in the air and roast more evenly at that point. Again, you can watch a lot of videos. We listened to a couple just to hear the 'crack'....See More- 9 years ago
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