Whats Your Favorite Coffee?

[jazzy]

for most my life ive preferred brewed coffee---just what i grew up with. but over the years i started using instant. tried several but my favorite is cafe de olla, a cinnamon flvored instant coffee and i make my own coffee creamer . ive been tryting to stock up on instant coffee and it seems instant will last a good long time. after 2 years of warnings of coffee crop problems and shortages growing im thinking coffee could end up being pretty important,

what are your favorites and how do you like it made?

 

[Amish Heart]

I just like plain ol Folgers made pretty strong in our Mr Coffee, and I drink it black.
We do have a barista on our counter, and I do sometimes grind beans and make a latte, but not too often. I think our kids, when they visit, use it more than I ever do.

 

[Supervisor42]

When I was down here in the 80's, I got addicted to 4 cups of this stuff every morning.
When I moved back to Bama in '89, I kept the habit and had it shipped in, for the next 29 years, to give me my now 6 cups per day .
I rarely drink coffee now because I no longer work and love to take naps...
But when I do, it is always this stuff:
*Warning, this is highly addictive... but damgood!

...Loaded with a potent amount of caffeine, it will definitely get you butt off the launch-pad.

 

[Haertig]

I always use the Keurig K-Cups these days. I've grown accustomed to the convenience if a hot cup of freshly brewed coffee that takes like one minute from start to finish. Our new Keurig brewer is really fast, much faster than previous ones we've had. I mostly use the Costco Kirkland Pacific Bold, because it's always available, super cheap, and holds its own quite well against more expensive offerings. It's like 25¢ a cup if you buy it on sale (by "cup" I mean "12 oz mug"). About 30¢ a cup regular price.

 

[Pearl]

I make one 14oz Kcup (Member's Mark French Roast) with honey, cinnamon, and coconut oil! Sometimes I'll have a second if I'm home and it's really cold out!! Hubby has a pot of Folgers, black. Puts it in his thermos and drinks it until it's gone!

 

[zoomzoom]

My day-to-day coffee is Maxwell House.
Sometimes, we get Dunkin Donuts coffee which is much better.
Favorite is Kona, the real stuff from Hawaii. Would drink it more but it's around $50 per pound.

 

[Sourdough]

I drink "Cold Brewed" coffee with vanilla flavored creamer.

Does anyone know of any coffee that still comes in a 'real" can, top & bottom and sides being can. No peel back aluminum foil top seal thingie.

 

[Magpie]

My fav coffee is the one I get handed to me at 6.45am by my husband, who understood very early on coffee every day trumps flowers and jewellery any day.
In the States we drank Folgers- can't remember the pack, but they had it in bags - was it a green pack?
Milk, no sugar.
As a treat while out I like a Latte.

 

[Cabin Fever]

We buy whole French Roast beans in 4lb bags. We grind our coffee beans fresh every morning. Then, drip brew the coffee.

 

[Mountain trapper]

Don't drink coffee, don't like the stuff. A couple times a year or so we have someone come out and spend a few days here that drinks coffee. One of these days we'll get a coffee pot and learn how to make it. A few times I've had coffee with Baileys in it and was able to get it down.

 

[kenv1950]

 

[havasu]

We use dark, French roasted beans. We grind them every morning. Problem is that mama adds cream and sugar, so she wants it real strong. I mean 14 scoops of coffee for 14 cups of coffee. She loves it, but it can make my hair stand up on end. I'll drink 2 cups a day, but she will suck it down all day and night.
SWMBO
(She who must be obeyed)

 

[Morgan101]

If there is one thing I miss about going to work it is the coffee. One of my co-workers, who is a good friend that I still keep in touch with, claimed that he was a "caffeine based life form". He had a coffee maker in his cubicle (our cubicles were adjacent) and he made the best coffee. I never knew what it was, since he used several kinds, but it was always great. Once in a while he would make chickory coffee which I really liked.

I do prefer brewed coffee, and we usually have Folgers, but I have found Tasters Choice to be a very good instant coffee. That is what I drink most of the time. We don't drink enough to make a pot, so I make due with the instant.

 

[Weedygarden]

I do prefer brewed coffee, and we usually have Folgers, but I have found Tasters Choice to be a very good instant coffee. That is what I drink most of the time. We don't drink enough to make a pot, so I make due with the instant.

I drank brewed coffee for most of my life, but I have changed it up a few times. I don't remember the name brand of what I purchased at the store, but it came in pouches and I ground it before I made coffee.

For a few years, I made coffee with a Melita pour over cone with paper filters, but I quit that for no known reason a few years ago. I house sat for a couple who has silver cones with very fine holes and finely ground coffee. Pour hot water over the top and it is great stuff. I bought myself one of those filters and have used it, but not consistently.

I have been mostly drinking Tasters Choice mostly since I retired. When I house sit, every house has a different set up for coffee making. Of all the things I drag with me to house sitting jobs, a coffee pot has never made the cut, so Tasters Choice it is.

I do drink coffee that people have once in a while when I house sit. I have realized that I need a dedicated coffee set up in my cooking bag that I keep set up for house sitting if I want to drink something other than Taster's Choice. Again, more to drag along if I do.

When I started drinking coffee at the age of 6 , I always used sugar and milk in it. I eventually cut out the sugar and the milk has changed up over time to powdered creamer (not good for you, but somewhat shelf stable), to half and half, to cream. I really do not like black coffee, but I like the flavor of coffee with something dairy in it.

 

[Morgan101]

I have been drinking coffee black for 50 years. The only exception was when I was in Montreal, and they had maple sugar cubes. That was a sweetener I really enjoyed.

 

[havasu]

they had maple sugar cubes

Sounds fantastic!

 

[zoomzoom]

On a related note:
In our house, there is always at least one cup left in the pot for whomever gets up first the next morning. Whenever the pot is empty, it's always refilled. There may be 3/4 of a pot still sitting there for the next morning.
Am I alone here?

 

[Weedygarden]

On a related note:
In our house, there is always at least one cup left in the pot for whomever gets up first the next morning. Whenever the pot is empty, it's always refilled. There may be 3/4 of a pot still sitting there for the next morning.
Am I alone here?

When I was teaching and allowed to have a coffee pot in the classroom, I would leave whatever coffee was left at the end of the day for the next day. I would heat it in the microwave and drink it. I know that some people were just weirded out by that. My assistant would drink some coffee if it was freshly brewed but would never drink day old coffee.

 

[havasu]

On a related note:
In our house, there is always at least one cup left in the pot for whomever gets up first the next morning. Whenever the pot is empty, it's always refilled. There may be 3/4 of a pot still sitting there for the next morning.
Am I alone here?

Exactly like my house. I take the remaining cup of cold coffee, add about quarter cup of water to make is "less strong" and throw it into the microwave for 2 minutes. While heating up, I make a fresh pot for mama. This also takes about 2 minutes, and my first cup of coffee tastes just perfect.

 

[Morgan101]

Sounds fantastic!

It was. I spent a lot of time up there project managing a business, and enjoyed it very much. Good people. I learned how to speak a smattering of French. That sweetened coffee was always one of the highlights of the trip.

 

[backlash]

Every morning I make 1 cup of coffee with pods. Our water dispenser has hot water and it has a built in coffee pod maker.
While that is happening I make a pot of Folgers coffee in the Bunn coffee maker for my wife.
I drink 2 cups every morning and that's it.
My dad and mom made coffee all day long.
They would use a 3 pound can of Folgers a week.
Grandma made coffee in a percolator on the stove.
She would fill the basket with as much coffee as it would hold then perc it for at least a half hour till it was burnt.
Then she and grandpa would add Folgers instant coffee to their cups, fill them with the burnt coffee then pour that into saucers and drink from them.
Never made any since to me.
My wife drinks her coffee with coffee mate non dairy creamer.
I tease her that she just likes hot water with the creamer in it.
She drinks very weak coffee.

 

[jazzy]

i like my coffee but im ok with drinking hot tea in the morning if thats what i got. earl gray. but i undertand the physical nd emotional attachment to that morning coffee or the morninng rituals that helps us to be human and fvce the day. kind of a critical-comfort item. . . i can see it ias a very important prep for different reasons.

 

[Pearl]

i like my coffee but im ok with drinking hot tea in the morning if thats what i got. earl gray. but i undertand the physical nd emotional attachment to that morning coffee or the morninng rituals that helps us to be human and fvce the day. kind of a critical-comfort item. . . i can see it ias a very important prep for different reasons.

It could just be a mental thing!! I can do without coffee, I can do without beer.....but smelling the coffee or just having the cup of coffee made is all I need. I've (Many many times) had an unopened beer in the coozie, just having it around is comforting! Yet some busy mornings I forget to make coffee and don't miss it. I don't miss beer if I don't have it!!

 

[dademoss]

I always use the Keurig K-Cups these days. I've grown accustomed to the convenience if a hot cup of freshly brewed coffee that takes like one minute from start to finish. Our new Keurig brewer is really fast, much faster than previous ones we've had. I mostly use the Costco Kirkland Pacific Bold, because it's always available, super cheap, and holds its own quite well against more expensive offerings. It's like 25¢ a cup if you buy it on sale (by "cup" I mean "12 oz mug"). About 30¢ a cup regular price.

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Every morning, a cup of costco Pacific Bold from the Keurig.

Grid down, I have a stove, percolator and hills coffee.

 

[angie_nrs]

I drink the cheap store brand or whatever is on sale. I've had Folgers, Maxwell house, and a few others and they all pretty much taste the same to me. I think the water we have at home probably makes as much difference as the coffee itself. I much prefer our coffee made at home to any fast food or hotel coffee.....those taste so bitter to me. I also don't need a 'knock your socks off' cup of coffee. A mild to medium blend works fine for me.

That said, it sure smells so good to walk down the isle at the grocery store where they have fresh beans and a coffee grinder. I have had the fresh hazelnut coffee and it is fabulous. But, it's a treat I don't usually indulge in b/c hubby likes plain ole' black coffee and that's fine with me too.

 

[SouthCentralUS]

It could just be a mental thing!! I can do without coffee, I can do without beer.....but smelling the coffee or just having the cup of coffee made is all I need. I've (Many many times) had an unopened beer in the coozie, just having it around is comforting! Yet some busy mornings I forget to make coffee and don't miss it. I don't miss beer if I don't have it!!

How in the name of all that is holy can someone forget to make coffee.

 

[backlash]

Our coffee got a lot better when we started using bottled water instead of our well water that's full of hard minerals.

 

[Tim Horton]

I make and still drink a homemade instant blend that I started back when working in the tool and die shop... It is much like the Nescafe Rich and Creamy instant from the old style Canadian IMP (military MRE) meals...
When I make a pot of coffee it is always Folgers ground coffee... With half n half and Splenda..
Occasionally with a shot of good quality maple syrup..

I do drink a lot of hot tea.. Usually in the evenings.. Tetley or Red Rose brand..
Morgan.. I also learned the proper French for when you hit your finger with the hammer...

Tool Box Coffee...
1 cup instant coffee
1 cup powdered creamer
1 cup powdered milk
1/2-3/4 cup Splenda to taste
Mix well, use a rounded tea spoon per mug to taste..

 

[Tommyice]

I think the water we have at home probably makes as much difference as the coffee itself.

This is so true. It's also true for bread baking.

I mostly drink Maxwell House. Occasionally I pick up a Dunkin Donuts canister while at BJs or Costco, but that is getting rarer as the price is ridiculous.

Growing up, my mother always used instant. Perculator or brewing was for holidays primarily becuase the coffee pot was so big to accomodate the amount of guests.

 

[Pearl]

How in the name of all that is holy can someone forget to make coffee.

Coffee is not a necessity to me, so occasionally, I realize that I haven't slowed down enough to make it! When I sit for a few minutes to see what's happening here, I'll have to get back up and make my big cup of coffee!!