Coffee

[jochanaan]

Denver:  I must at some point.  We should play together!

Yes!  Bring some Henningmusick for me to read!

[Mookalafalas]

My wife occasionally decides to cook, and when she does it tends to be complex. She buys a lot of expensive ingredients, uses a small percentage of them and the rest get old and go bad.
   Anyway, she occasionally needs heavy whipping cream. No one uses it here in Taiwan, so she has to go to the import shop and get a one liter container. Then she uses two table-spoons or something and I end up using it in my coffee.  It's incredibly good   It turns your coffee into tiramisu or something.

[Ken B]

My wife occasionally decides to cook, and when she does it tends to be complex. She buys a lot of expensive ingredients, uses a small percentage of them and the rest get old and go bad.
   Anyway, she occasionally needs heavy whipping cream. No one uses it here in Taiwan, so she has to go to the import shop and get a one liter container. Then she uses two table-spoons or something and I end up using it in my coffee.  It's incredibly good   It turns your coffee into tiramisu or something.

Goes really well with whiskey.  but 

[springrite]

My wife occasionally decides to cook, and when she does it tends to be complex. She buys a lot of expensive ingredients, uses a small percentage of them and the rest get old and go bad.
   Anyway, she occasionally needs heavy whipping cream. No one uses it here in Taiwan, so she has to go to the import shop and get a one liter container. Then she uses two table-spoons or something and I end up using it in my coffee.  It's incredibly good   It turns your coffee into tiramisu or something.

I am glad she doesn't cook Mexican and buy ten gallon container of lard.

[Mookalafalas]

I am glad she doesn't cook Mexican and buy ten gallon container of lard.

Hmmmm....lard

[Wanderer]

It's incredibly good   It turns your coffee into tiramisu or something.

That reminds me, I haven't been to that trattoria with the ridiculously good tiramisu in months...

[EigenUser]

Anyway, she occasionally needs heavy whipping cream. No one uses it here in Taiwan, so she has to go to the import shop and get a one liter container. Then she uses two table-spoons or something and I end up using it in my coffee.  It's incredibly good   It turns your coffee into tiramisu or something.

That's hilarious! A 1L container for a few tablespoons! That must be annoying, but at least you put what you can to good use.

[Brahmsian]

My wife occasionally decides to cook, and when she does it tends to be complex. She buys a lot of expensive ingredients, uses a small percentage of them and the rest get old and go bad.
   Anyway, she occasionally needs heavy whipping cream. No one uses it here in Taiwan, so she has to go to the import shop and get a one liter container. Then she uses two table-spoons or something and I end up using it in my coffee.  It's incredibly good   It turns your coffee into tiramisu or something.

At Christmas time as a treat, I would get a small container of heavy whipping cream 40%, and put a small dab in coffee (that was in the day I put milk/cream/sugar in my coffee). 

Delightful, creamy taste and texture (although there may at times be slight curdling, but nothing alarming)

[Karl Henning]

My wife occasionally decides to cook, and when she does it tends to be complex. She buys a lot of expensive ingredients, uses a small percentage of them and the rest get old and go bad.
   Anyway, she occasionally needs heavy whipping cream. No one uses it here in Taiwan, so she has to go to the import shop and get a one liter container. Then she uses two table-spoons or something and I end up using it in my coffee.  It's incredibly good   It turns your coffee into tiramisu or something.

A full liter of heavy whipping cream?  Yikes.

[Mookalafalas]

At Christmas time as a treat, I would get a small container of heavy whipping cream 40%, and put a small dab in coffee (that was in the day I put milk/cream/sugar in my coffee).
Delightful, creamy taste and texture (although there may at times be slight curdling, but nothing alarming)

Yeah, it disappears with minimal stirring

A full liter of heavy whipping cream?  Yikes.

Yeah. I was bragging over in "Fat enders" about how much weight I was going to be losing in the next 3 months.  I seem to have drifted behind schedule...

That's hilarious! A 1L container for a few tablespoons! That must be annoying, but at least you put what you can to good use.

It has terrific shelf life...2 weeks, easy.  Maybe the fat and cholesterol clogs all the little organelles in the bacteria...

[Todd]

So my favorite local coffee shop, owned by the original owners of Coffee People, decided to bring back the original recipe of Black Tiger coffee, but since the brand name had been sold when they sold Coffee People, they renamed it Red Tiger.  I had to get myself a bag.  It is extra tasty, loaded with extra caffeine (it uses a hefty dollop of robusta beans), and super smooth.  It brings back memories of the early 90s, when I drank liquid crack without restraint.  The six shot mocha I had yesterday kept me turbo charged most of the day.

[Mookalafalas]

So my favorite local coffee shop, owned by the original owners of Coffee People, decided to bring back the original recipe of Black Tiger coffee, but since the brand name had been sold when they sold Coffee People, they renamed it Red Tiger.  I had to get myself a bag.  It is extra tasty, loaded with extra caffeine (it uses a hefty dollop of robusta beans), and super smooth.  It brings back memories of the early 90s, when I drank liquid crack without restraint.  The six shot mocha I had yesterday kept me turbo charged most of the day.

Wow Sounds like a serious metabolism booster. 

  One of my students gave me a bag of special Vietnamese coffee.  It turned out to be "ferret-poop" coffee (it is literally passed through the digestive system of a ferret to "remove bitterness".   My wife didn't like it much (as I recall) until she found out it is wildly expensive. Now she says it was fantastic and wants to get more. 

[Ken B]

Wow Sounds like a serious metabolism booster. 

  One of my students gave me a bag of special Vietnamese coffee.  It turned out to be "ferret-poop" coffee (it is literally passed through the digestive system of a ferret to "remove bitterness".   My wife didn't like it much (as I recall) until she found out it is wildly expensive. Now she says it was fantastic and wants to get more.

Tell her the Boulez boxes are incredibly expensive.

[Mookalafalas]

Tell her the Boulez boxes are incredibly expensive.

Nothing will induce her to like Boulez. (Or at least his compositions).  She would probably like the Debussy and Ravel just fine.  It's actually a problem when she likes something, because then she (like most normal people) wants to listen to it frequently.  She fell in love with the Gulda Mozart "tapes", and Szell playing Haydn's 93rd.  I was delighted at first, but after a few listens tend to want to move on..

TD: I teach at a semi-conductor factory today. They give me a huge pot of cheap coffee with fake creamer. I don't want to drink it, but it really does help with teaching...

[Bogey]

My wife got me one of these for Christmas.  Grinding my own beans and using the peculator setting for the grinding.  I guess depending on the amount of water added you can play coffee chemistry.  Any tricks to getting the full potential out of this little beast?

[torut]

https://www.youtube.com/v/p5SHjEdJ87g

[Ken B]

My wife got me one of these for Christmas.  Grinding my own beans and using the peculator setting for the grinding.  I guess depending on the amount of water added you can play coffee chemistry.  Any tricks to getting the full potential out of this little beast?

Round filters for it. When I used a press it helped with small particles.

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

My wife got me one of these for Christmas.  Grinding my own beans and using the peculator setting for the grinding.  I guess depending on the amount of water added you can play coffee chemistry.  Any tricks to getting the full potential out of this little beast?

We use the coarsest grind on our coffee grinder & rarely have particles in it.  Some coffee we got as a gift was "french press" ground & that also filters fine.

My wife makes iced coffee using about 1 cup of coarse ground coffee with cold water overnight.  Then use half of that with half a tray of ice blended in the blender with about 1/4 to 1/3 can of sweetened condensed milk.  Delicioso!