Today, I noticed that my coffee supplies - while nowhere near running out - are beginning to run a little low.
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No, not quite.
I would imagine perhaps a week's supply remaining, maybe, a little less.
Anyway, time to think about replenishing my diminishing supply.
One week supply is an emergency situation in my book. As Captain Kirk would say, "red alert, Scottie!"
I had been waiting for my automatic delivery date (once a month), but I've recently decided to trigger the order when I have just one pound remaining. It was really close last time and I was in a panic. I did hear the sirens.
Yes, it would appear that I am in complete agreement with all of you.
In any case, this afternoon, you will all be more than pleased to learn, that, while peering out at a dismal, dreary, overcast and quite threatening January sky, I succumbed and placed an order for some coffee, (that is, two different coffees from El Salvador, and one from Costa Rica, respectively), along with some filter papers for coffee.
@Madhatter32, @DaveFromCampbelltown, & @svenmany, I did hear the (screaming) sirens, - and kudos for the Star Trek reference - and responded accordingly and appropriately.
However, with serious storms forecast for tomorrow, I doubt that I shall see - let alone take possession of - my coffee supplies until the week-end at the very earliest, - quite frequently, deliveries of coffee arrive on a Saturday - or, as I suspect may be more likely, probably sometime early next week.
However, with serious storms forecast for tomorrow, I doubt that I shall see - let alone take possession of - my coffee supplies until the week-end at the very earliest, - quite frequently, deliveries of coffee arrive on a Saturday - or, as I suspect may be more likely, probably sometime early next week.
I am in a mood for an evening mug of coffee; thus, I am drinking a mug of coffee from El Salvador with organic hot milk.
Apparently it is possible to imbibe too much coffee.
I normally make a coffee each for my beloved and myself when we get up. This morning I got up a bit earlier, and made one for myself. When m'lady got up, I made one each (my second). I am now feeling a little bloated with coffee.
I normally make a coffee each for my beloved and myself when we get up. This morning I got up a bit earlier, and made one for myself. When m'lady got up, I made one each (my second). I am now feeling a little bloated with coffee.
Really?
This is something that I was not aware of........well, not since undergrad days, when eight to ten cups of coffee a day was not unusual - actually, even more than that, if I was one of a party of people busily editing one of the student publications I wrote for - this was invariably an all nighter which ended with a dash to the printers when they opened in the morning.......
Full marks for preparing your lady's morning coffee; this is the sort of gesture that meets with my full, wholehearted, and delighted approval.
This is not fully a matter of my own choice. M'lady declines to learn the magic incantations involved in making any coffee more complicated than a sachet of instant coffee.
She is quite happy to make her own tea, but only when I am not at home.
I think this is why she keeps me...
Perhaps it is simply that she is not a morning person.
I'm not remotely - and never was, even as a small child - a morning person, and anyone who thinks to serve my morning coffee (I have even been known to accept morning tea in lieu of coffee as the gentleman who used to prepare it for me - a gentleman who was once upon a distant time a part of my life, - and no, no tragedy, just different directions - and who was very much a morning person - had never learned to prepare real coffee, (he didn't much care for it) but he adored tea and had mastered the preparation of tea as I liked it) will earn my undying and eternal gratitude.
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I'm not a morning person either, but if I do have to get up early*, there are two things I must do in order not to spend the rest of the day in an irritable, brain-fogged daze. (1) shower and (2) strong espresso topped with frothed milk (i.e. a cappuccino, latte or flat white).
As for "too much coffee" - the problem is the opposite. Caffeine is addictive and withdrawal manifests itself as a headache. So the problem is, technically, too little coffee to stave off the withdrawal 😁
* Or any time of day, really.
As for "too much coffee" - the problem is the opposite. Caffeine is addictive and withdrawal manifests itself as a headache. So the problem is, technically, too little coffee to stave off the withdrawal 😁
* Or any time of day, really.
A kindred spirit.
Wonderful.
That sounds very much like a description of my morning essentials: Piping hot powerful shower - and I mean piping hot - and a strong coffee, (even as a teenager I drank real coffee and always served it to friends and guests in my student days; in fact, in my undergrad days, I was one of (only) three people I knew who always and invariably served - and only served - real coffee), preferably served with milk, although, if I am in a place where milk is not to be had (and I have worked in many such places), then, I will take it black.
Everything else - juice (although I do like fresh fruit juice in the morning), cheese, bread, eggs, yogurt.......while perfectly delightful, is optional.
But my shower and my coffee are non-negotiable in the morning.....
Agreed completely.
And I find myself in complete agreement with this, as well.
Although I do also love tea (English mainly, with milk, but also Chinese/Japanese teas from my time visiting and living in Asia) I was, like you, the only person at University back in ....years ago, with a coffee machine.
This is the model I had.
This is the model I had.
Also, if you have Lapsang Souchong tea at work, nobody will nick it...
Actually, I didn't have a coffee machine, in university, although the homes of some of the professors (I was asked to housesit on more than one occasion, as a postgrad) did come equipped with such delights.
However, I did have (still do) a French Press, which is what I used when keeping a group of us alive and alert and fully functional with endless supplies of coffee.
Later, I also added a Hario dripper (my first one was plastic, a gift from my mother following a trip she made to Amsterdam) and filter papers to my coffee-making repertoire.
Ah.
At the risk of (ever so slightly) derailing this wonderful thread, I have also spent quite some time in central Asia (mostly Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan) - and also east Africa (Kenya, Somalia, Uganda) - for work - where I must admit that I did acquire a taste and develop a palate for really good Asian influenced teas (and, in Kenya, I managed to arrange to visit both tea and coffee plantations - extraordinary, absolutely amazing).
I understand exactly where you are coming from: I have always loved coffee - and knew how to prepare it even as a child (actually, even as a child, I had learned, or had been encouraged to learn, to prepare the really good coffee that my parents used to consume after a long lingering lunch on a Sunday, when they were feeling especially relaxed).
Thus, I have always liked the good stuff, - the "gourmet stuff" - (that scene in Pulp Fiction really resonated with me) and used to be baffled as a student that I was one of only three people - the other two were male friends, one of whom was gay and had exquisite taste, the other was a diplomat's son, who had been brought up to serve & prepare stuff properly - who always and invariably served real, proper coffee whenever guests turned up, or, even after the pub shut and some classmates/mates/friends accepted my post pub invitation for coffee.
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A small parcel, containing coffee, (and coffee filters) arrived today.
I get my green coffee from Sweet Maria's. Always Brazil. Always dry process. And, usually the Brazilian dry process is the cheapest. 😁 I roast my beans in a hot air popcorn popper. I make just enough to last a few days (what will fit/roast in the hot air popper). That insures the absolute freshest roast, til it's gone. Yeah, I gotta roast more, frequently, but it's worth it. I also use a stainless steel puck screen, to keep my Breville Barista Express clean.
I'm away from home and can report that there are still places where it's hard to find a decent cup of coffee
Come to 'Stralia. We have the opposite problem. In most places it's hard not to find a decent cup of coffee.
Except Starbucks.
That's because in the 20's and 30's, we had many Mediterranean migrants who brought their coffee culture with them.
I hear you; I have been to some (if not several) of those places.