November 9th, 2009 by editor
There are as many opinions about what a great cup of coffee consists of as there are coffee drinkers in the world. Every coffee drinker knows exactly what he or she wants in a good cup of coffee. Some like it hot, some like it cold, but very few like it in a pot nine days old…..as the old nursery rhyme goes.
The one thing that all coffee drinks will agree on is that coffee needs to be freshly made. About the only other thing that coffee drinkers will agree on is that the best coffee is made in a clean coffee maker. The pot doesn’t need to be “well seasoned.” It needs to be well cleaned after every use.
There are a great many coffee-pot-cleaning products out there on the shelves of your local supermarket or chain discount store. All of them work when they are used as directed, but you honestly do not have to buy the products in order to keep your coffee maker clean. Granted, these products do make keeping your coffee maker…
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October 4th, 2009 by editor
There was a fellow that I talked to not long ago that I hadn’t seen in a good many years. The first thing that he said to me was, “I remember a cup of coffee that I had at your house about twenty years ago. It was the best cup of coffee that I have ever had in my life!” Of all the things that he could have said, that would have been my last guess. But that is exactly what he said.
There are a few basics that go into making a perfect cup of coffee. First your coffee maker must be kept clean. Making coffee time after time after time without cleaning the coffee maker will make the coffee bitter. All coffee makers must be cleaned regularly — both drip makers and percolators.
There are two ways to clean coffee makers. The first way is that after every…
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September 23rd, 2009 by editor
Today, just about every where you look, people are using the automatic drip coffee makers. You can hardly find a percolator on the shelves of your local discount department stores. Percolators may well be out of vogue, but there are still a few of us (me) who prefer the taste of percolated coffee and still use an electric percolator every single day (several times).
Percolators have gotten to be rather expensive, too. I remember when I could buy a percolator for about ten bucks. Today, they cost closer to $90, and that is IF you can even find one.
It is just my opinion, of course, but perked coffee smells better. There is an aroma that can be enjoyed from a distant room early in the morning. A pot of coffee perking and bacon frying is the surest way that there is to get those lazy bones out of the bed and to the breakfast table.
And then there is the scientific fact that there is simply more caffeine in a pot…
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