Coffee Oct. 11

[5thDragoons]

As mentioned in other threads, fall is here, and with that, the wonderful time change is coming. Maybe I'm not seeing the big picture, but wouldn't it be simple to just change time 1/2 hour one way or the other, and call it good?

Wifey isn't up yet, so coffee isn't made. Granddaughter often makes it, but she worked last night so she's sleeping in. I don't get coffee for myself unless there are stale donuts in need of soaking. None of those until I get a few groceries in the morning. Since it's cooler now, I'm in the mood for a big pot of ham & beans! I put garlic sausage in mine with ketchup and brown sugar. No onions, though. Life is too short to eat onions!

Other than that a typical Saturday here. Wifey is revved up to watch football - I'll find a movie while she's doing that. I like to see them do well, but don't get all caught up in team spirit.

For the moment, Flop Ears and I are being quiet so they can sleep in. SW

[lyman]

slept in a bit, but he wife was up at 0dark 30

ventured out to get gas, wash the car etc, and down to a local bakery that does Gluten Free stuff very well, wife is GF,
had a quick breaky, stopped and dropped off postage stuff,

now making lunch, and will head out of town to a friends for a small picnic late this afternoon,


had a busy, but not as productive, week past,
drove down th SWVA , stayed with wpnsman, then ventured into WVA and picked up another load of stuff from Dan Phillips Grand Daughter,

while at Wpnsman's, we tiled his bathroom floor, put up new crown, door trim, and base boards, and installed a new crapper

[Allen]

I've used a thermal coffee maker for many years now. Both the ones that take the thermal carafe and those that contain it (reservoir) and dispense a cup at a time. Either way the coffee stays fresh and mostly hot for a couple of hours. Coffee makers that have the glass carafe have a heating element for the pot and usually cook the coffee after a while making it "old" tasting. The thermal pots have no separate heating element. The coffee is hot when brewed and the pot keeps the coffee hot afterwards.

Anyway, at my house, while everyone likes fresh coffee the most, making it with one of these thermal makers isn't such an issue. I can make coffee an hour before my wife gets up and the coffee is still good and nearly as good as it was when first brewed. So, when someone wants coffee they simply make it. The rest does not go to waste. Someone always comes along later and drinks it and/or makes another pot.

Without making rocket surgery out of it this is what works for us.

[Doc Sharptail]

Not really a fan of the thermal pot system. Tim's coffee and donut chain has gone to them on a commercial basis, and I've had to take coffee back for being too cold on a couple of occasions. Old school coffee drinker- it's gotta be lip burning hot at the first sip. Find the stuff in our heated carafe drinkable up to about 3 1/2 hrs. After that, it's gotta be dumped if there's any left. If I'm here by myself, I'll turn it off after 2 hrs. and zap up the leftovers a cup at a time in the mike.
I'm the main coffee drinker in the house, and seem to get along okay regardless of whether anyone else is drinking it or not. Mrs. S. likes a cup of coffee at getting up, but rarely drinks 1/2 of it.

I don't mind making coffee at all. I can do it with my eyes closed. It takes me 127 seconds to make a pot of coffee.

-D.S.

[lyman]

Not really a fan of the thermal pot system. Tim's coffee and donut chain has gone to them on a commercial basis, and I've had to take coffee back for being too cold on a couple of occasions. Old school coffee drinker- it's gotta be lip burning hot at the first sip. Find the stuff in our heated carafe drinkable up to about 3 1/2 hrs. After that, it's gotta be dumped if there's any left. If I'm here by myself, I'll turn it off after 2 hrs. and zap up the leftovers a cup at a time in the mike.
I'm the main coffee drinker in the house, and seem to get along okay regardless of whether anyone else is drinking it or not. Mrs. S. likes a cup of coffee at getting up, but rarely drinks 1/2 of it.

I don't mind making coffee at all. I can do it with my eyes closed. It takes me 127 seconds to make a pot of coffee.

-D.S.

I cannot stand the taste of coffee, so drink Tea,

wife is like you, (infact we had this convo yesterday)
coffee needs to be scalding hot, (tho she adds a lot of some funky creamer) till it is just hot, then tossed or reheated,

or iced,

no luke warm or room temp coffee, ever


I drink mostly English Black Tea, and don't like it scalding hot,
warm to barely hot to the taste , room temp, or iced, it is all good,