Coffee

[Gary '79 5C]

I am very pleasantly surprised as to how many 'bus drivers' have such a flair for their coffee.
This is great as if it is your pleasure go for it...

For me coffee has a purpose, to wake my old bones up in the AM.  I agree that the smell is just about as effective, Pavolog's Dog thing I guess.

I made coffee in a construction trailer in NE Texas, just a little tooooo strong once and was accused of being a Louisanna Oilman !!! It got me out of making coffee again.

I 'm going for my second cup.
Have a great day...

[Green-Hornet]

For my daily fix of Joe I use a French Press. Simplicity and a great cup, or 4 , of coffee. It costs about $20. and is a glass or plactic cylinder with a screen plunger. Just add ground beans and boiling water wait about 5 mins and push the plunger for yer brew. You get some sediment in the cup but that is ok.
I also have a hand crank grinder from the 50's called Zassenhaus. They still make em new too, got it off EBay on the cheap. With this setup I take it camping too. Nothing like fresh coffee on a trip.
Fresh beans are most important. I have been doing the " Home roasting" thing for about 5 years now and love the variety you can get. I get green beans from www.ccmcoffee.com and a great lil site for the roasting instructions can be found at www.sweetmarias.com if yer interested.
I am drinking a Costa Rica cooffe today but usually drink a coffee bean from Kenya. It is very chocolaty and robust, good qualities in coffee. Can't beat Kona for a light flavor in a bean in MHO.

[John Z]

I have the wall mounted Crystal Arcade coffee grinder that my Grandfather had when he was a bachelor. I remember it being mounted in the basement "store" room in his house when i was a kid. I use it everynight to grind my own beans. When i am going out for the weekend in my bus, i grind up enough coffee, put it into plastic containers and freeze them before i leave.

I also think the aroma of fresh coffee perking has to be right up at the top of my list of great smells. My favorite mornings are lounging in the bus, drinking fresh coffee, and smelling the bacon frying!!!!!

[Green-Hornet]

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.....BACON!

[JimC]

Im with Green Hornet,

There is nothing as simple, or as good as coffee from a FRENCH PRESS.
All you need is hot water and ground coffee beans. Its great on the bus, you don't have to have a generator, or invertor, (I have both) just a flame to heat the water.

Since getting the press, we haven't made any other type, the biggest problem is that you get spoiled, I actually don't like coffee from other types of makers anymore.

You can buy the smaller press, (about 14 oz.) for about $20 at most of the larger home stores, a cheap grinder is about $15. and you get what I consider to be gourmet type coffee.

All the serious coffee drinkers I turned on to the french press, have started using it.

I do not buy the green beans, I buy whole beans already roasted, and vary the type or style we drink on a regular basis, it usually depends on the time of day we are making it.

JimCalllaghan 4106


 

[HighTechRedneck]

And now for the good news for those of us who drink large amounts of coffee - "Coffee by the Tank Car Does Not Increase Risk of Coronary Heart Disease"

http://www.medpagetoday.com/Cardiology/AcuteCoronarySyndrome/tb/3154

In fact, men and women who drank six or more cups of coffee a day for up to 20 years had a slightly lower relative risk of developing coronary artery disease than men who consumed a cup or less a day (P for trend= 0.41 for men and 0.08 for women) according to a study in the April 25 issue of Circulation, Journal of the American Heart Association.

Action Points:

• Advise interested patients that this report found no association for consumption of total caffeine, decaffeinated coffee, or tea with coronary heart disease. Thus, these data provide no evidence that coffee consumption increases the risk of coronary heart disease.
• Explain to interested patients that drinking unfiltered French press or boiled coffee has been shown to increase LDL.