Coffee Problem

springlering62 wrote: »

I’ve made super easy cold brew in my Aeropress.

That thing is sheer engineering genius.

Do you have the "regular" size model? How much coffee does it make at one time? I presume it's the same with hot or cold. It seems like it makes a small cup, but it also suggests on the website that it's pretty strong and more like espresso. They seem to suggest adding boiling water to make "American coffee," which I translate to "Americano (espresso and water). I find an Americano not at all the same as a pour-over.

I should see if anyone I know has one and is willing to make me a cup of coffee (and another cup of cold brew for later).

I went to a coffee shop today that doesn't actually make coffee. I met a friend on his last day of work. He retires tomorrow. He always wanted to take a coffee break and SIT DOWN TO ENJOY it instead of filling our refillable cups and taking it to go. Well... not only didn't they have coffee, they only had paper cups. I got a Jasmine green tea, and guess what it tasted like? Yep. The paper cup. Very sad. I won't be back. Neither will he. We only went because it is a very convenient location, and he said, "It's the one place that it's guaranteed not to see anyone else from work."

I came home and made a pour-over decaf.

I do not have a problem!

Thanks @springlering62

That's kind of what the website seemed to say. There's a nice man who still works where I used to work who uses one. I've been trying to get him in a canoe for years. Maybe I should "schedule a meeting" with him and see if he'll make me a cup. He probably offered once or more when I worked there, but usually by the time he was making one, I was done with coffee for the day.

Can you find the paper filters for sale locally, or do you have to order them? I like the idea of a reusable filter, and they sell one. I also like the idea of the paper filter removing the cafestol.

springlering62 wrote: »

I’d suggest a community compost bin but these are the laziest old possums you’ve ever seen in your life. We are two blocks from the “square” and some of these jokers drive there. My neighbor drives to the courthouse, which is literally 300 yards from his front door. Defies logic because he walks further than that from the parking deck. My suggestion for a garden club to landscape our pocket park was a major bust lol.

I compost very little around my house anymore. We've got opossums - they aren't native, but are naturalized. We also have raccoons. Worse than the opossums. And... rats. My neighbor has chickens. And ducks. And rabbits. And dogs. And a cat. And... goats. Yeah. So all that food attracts "vectors." I do still spread most of my used coffee grounds around. It's really good for the soil. We are fortunate that the company that hauls waste has a composting facility. For as long as I can remember, we've been able to put yard debris in a special cart. They sell the compost. Maybe a decade ago they started letting us put in some kinds of food waste and eventually ALL food waste. We can put contaminated pizza boxes, onion skins, crab shells, and even bones and animal fat in the bin and it gets composted. A nearby city has a waste hauler that also has a composting facility, but for the longest time they didn't have the permit for food waste. I think they finally got it. It's a really really good idea to keep that stuff out of the landfill and instead turn it into a resource.

We don't call it a Yard Debris Cart anymore - it's a Green Waste Cart. Mine is full pretty quickly after it's dumped these days - all the fruit tree pruning stuff. At some point, and I don't remember when, they started doing weekly collection instead of every other week. Some weeks it's nearly empty, and I don't bother to put it out. Other times of year, like now, it's always full. Sometimes the neighbors share space if they aren't filling up theirs and another neighbor has more than will fit.

It's sad this service isn't universal.

I do still have a compost bin out back. I do put a few things out there. It goes so slow....

AnnPT77 wrote: »

mtaratoot wrote: »

drmwc wrote: »

I don't really make traditional cold brew. I have a widget I keep in my freezer I can plop pour over through for very nice ice coffee. (One of these:
https://shop.squaremilecoffee.com/products/coldwave)

Here is my espresso corner of my dining room:


This is mid-shot. (The Decent machine has an Android tablet on top of it, and loads of monitors, so temperature, flow rate and pressure at each point of the shot are user-defined.)

This shot was the third off a new bag, so not completely dialled in. It was a bit over-extracted; the next one was very nice.

I'm curious about the freezer thing; the link didn't work for me.

It sounds like you definitely enjoy coffee, and it is NOT A PROBLEM!

@mtaratoot, Remove the parenthesis that's at the end of the URL.

https://shop.squaremilecoffee.com/products/coldwave

Ah thanks! Neat idea. Kind of like Whiskey Stones.