Know-It-All nadin Teaches DUmpmonkeys About Coffee

[jtyangel]

You know, I'll give her that. I think the quality is crap in a lot of foreign made appliances too. However, what happened to American quality dummies? Yeah, unions, that's right--allowed substandard work in some cases and priced employees right out of jobs in others.

[formerlurker]

It's all exactly the same. Coffee snobs are as tiresome as wine snobs and soccer fans.

That is like saying all chocolate is the same.   

I drink an obscene amount of coffee, so after a while it is all the same to my taste buds by the end of the day. That said, I do appreciate good beans, and Melitta is something I treat myself to every morning.

[formerlurker]

Speaking of coffee snobs!
Macaroni Grill is a great restaurant chain.
We don't have a convenient Olive Garden, but really enjoy Macaroni Grill.

I've eaten Italian food all over, including Rome and Venice, and Macaroni Grill
is as good as any of them...if you aren't a snob.

Mario Batali has a restaurant in NYC that houses a store where you can buy pasta, etc.     Next time you are there buy the dry pasta, go home, cook it and try it without anything on it. 

Then tell me it is the same as Olive Garden or Macaroni Grill (I love Olive Garden by the way).    It's not even close in any stretch of the imagination, and it isn't even fresh pasta. 

Appreciating good food and drink doesn't make you a snob.   

[formerlurker]

I like our Keurig --

They are expensive to operate when you compare pound for pound, and I am sure some liberal (if it hasn't happened already) will bash them for the 'waste' and that prepackaged coffee comes from anywhere, not just so-called 'fair trade' sources - but I love the variety and convenience.

I have one that sits in the closet because I think it is too expensive.   I need to run two little canisters through to make one cup of coffee or I think it is too weak.    I see that DD sells them now too, so I may give that a shot.

They are nice to have though when you have company so the coffee is always on.

[Alpha Mare]

Me, I like the cheapest stuff I can find. Right now it's Folgers Breakfast blend in a 2 lb plastic "can" for $7.99.

It's "brewed" in a $15.99 Black and Decker Mr Coffee ripoff. No paper filters, just a fine screen. I need all the caffeine I can get.

That's me. Folger's Black Silk. And I love HEB's San Antonio coffee. 

[jtyangel]

Mario Batali has a restaurant in NYC that houses a store where you can buy pasta, etc.     Next time you are there buy the dry pasta, go home, cook it and try it without anything on it. 

Then tell me it is the same as Olive Garden or Macaroni Grill (I love Olive Garden by the way).    It's not even close in any stretch of the imagination, and it isn't even fresh pasta. 

Appreciating good food and drink doesn't make you a snob.   

Agreed.To me a food/coffee snob is someone who picks out something because of its pedigree versus its taste. In the real world, you put 3 things in front of someone and let them taste it and they won't necessarily pick the priciest or most pedigree of the options. Example with coffee? I like Folgers at home and Dunkin Donuts out and about, yet I'm not a Starbucks fan. I like some gas station coffees in a pinch too, but not others(and part of the problem here is not necessarily the actual coffee's taste, but it being made too weak or sitting too long). I've thrown cups of coffee away, even from my favorite places that tasted terrible so taste can even vary in those.

[Vagabond]

Speaking of coffee snobs!
Macaroni Grill is a great restaurant chain.
We don't have a convenient Olive Garden, but really enjoy Macaroni Grill.

I've eaten Italian food all over, including Rome and Venice, and Macaroni Grill
is as good as any of them...if you aren't a snob.

You found good food in Rome?  I must not have had any luck, but I was staying away from the tourist areas.  I got tired of the mobs of New Yorkers real quick.

Venice was good, but I thought the best food I had in Italy was north of Venice.  Pordenone and Sacile both had excellent restauruants.

Oh, and yep Macaroni Grill is just as good and a little cheaper.

[jtyangel]

Me, I like the cheapest stuff I can find. Right now it's Folgers Breakfast blend in a 2 lb plastic "can" for $7.99.

It's "brewed" in a $15.99 Black and Decker Mr Coffee ripoff. No paper filters, just a fine screen. I need all the caffeine I can get.

That's about what I do at home...Although it's the big tub of Folger's at SAms club and its up to 14.99 Cheap coffee maker with its own filter. I've found what makes the difference with home brewing more then anything is the water!!! At my old house, I bought distilled water because the water was too heavily chlorinated and the coffee tasted liek crap because of it. Here, the water actual tastes good to drink right out of the tap and it's great in coffee! But there still is a difference in taste. I've bought even cheaper coffee in a pinch and it was bad--seemed like it was not kept well or stored well and every time it would already be stale. Folgers or Maxwell House and even Kroger's brand is worth the little extra. Always fresh and makes a good, solid cup o joe.

[formerlurker]

That's about what I do at home...Although it's the big tub of Folger's at SAms club and its up to 14.99 Cheap coffee maker with its own filter. I've found what makes the difference with home brewing more then anything is the water!!! At my old house, I bought distilled water because the water was too heavily chlorinated and the coffee tasted liek crap because of it. Here, the water actual tastes good to drink right out of the tap and it's great in coffee! But there still is a difference in taste. I've bought even cheaper coffee in a pinch and it was bad--seemed like it was not kept well or stored well and every time it would already be stale. Folgers or Maxwell House and even Kroger's brand is worth the little extra. Always fresh and makes a good, solid cup o joe.

That is really interesting about the water.   I never even considered that before but it makes so much sense.

[RWKindaGuy]

I bought my husband this cuisinart keuring coffee maker yesterday for his birthday.

I'm drinking a cup of java made with that model as we speak.  I like the fact that we can use it with our own ground coffee and a cup at a time.  Sweeeeeet.  We've had it running for two years now with ZERO issues.

[BEG]

Speaking of coffee snobs!
Macaroni Grill is a great restaurant chain.
We don't have a convenient Olive Garden, but really enjoy Macaroni Grill.

I've eaten Italian food all over, including Rome and Venice, and Macaroni Grill
is as good as any of them...if you aren't a snob.

I too like Maceroni Grill, my favorite item is their shrimp potofino. YUM

[BEG]

I'm drinking a cup of java made with that model as we speak.  I like the fact that we can use it with our own ground coffee and a cup at a time.  Sweeeeeet.  We've had it running for two years now with ZERO issues.

That is good to hear. How often do you change the water filter?

[TVDOC]

Speaking of coffee snobs!
Macaroni Grill is a great restaurant chain.
We don't have a convenient Olive Garden, but really enjoy Macaroni Grill.

I've eaten Italian food all over, including Rome and Venice, and Macaroni Grill
is as good as any of them...if you aren't a snob.

I suspect that it depends on the local management.....we had a Macaroni Grill here in the East KC suburbs, and it was great, however it closed as a victim of the smoking ban.  We missed it, so on a recent trip to Iowa and Nebraska, we ate at the Macaroni Grille in West Des Moines.........it was AWFUL......grotesquely overcooked pasta, and sauces that were obviously influenced by a Mexican somewhere (I detest Mexican food).

Next night, we went to Biaggi's........best Italian west of the Hudson river.

Back on the topic, although I certainly appreciate a cup of Jamacian Blue Mountain, we typically buy Folger's Columbian, and use a Krups electronic drip coffeemaker that we've had for nearly ten years......we make probably three pots a day, and it's never failed us.......pain in the ass to program when the power fails, but overall a good appliance, and I think we paid $30 for it on sale at Bed, Bath & Beyond.

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[Traveshamockery]

We are hardcore espresso drinkers in my house and this is our machine.  We've had it for about five years now and it's still going strong and makes the best coffee/espresso.  In my opinion, it makes better espresso than Starbucks. 

[Traveshamockery]

My favorite Italian food is at Maggiano's or a new place they've opened here recently called Mandola's.

Both yummy! 

[RWKindaGuy]

That is good to hear. How often do you change the water filter?

If you are talking about the filter at the bottom of the water reservoir, I asked my wife about it and she says she has changed it only once, and it really didn't look like it needed it at the time, but it had been a while.  So I'm going to say once a year or so.

[miskie]

I have one that sits in the closet because I think it is too expensive.   I need to run two little canisters through to make one cup of coffee or I think it is too weak.    I see that DD sells them now too, so I may give that a shot.

They are nice to have though when you have company so the coffee is always on.

It depends on what you buy for it.. If you like your coffee strong, try this..

If it were any stronger, it would be chewy.

[Wineslob]

Speaking of coffee snobs!
Macaroni Grill is a great restaurant chain.
We don't have a convenient Olive Garden, but really enjoy Macaroni Grill.

I've eaten Italian food all over, including Rome and Venice, and Macaroni Grill
is as good as any of them...if you aren't a snob.

Well, I'm going to guess that the ones near me suck. I thought the food tasted like nuked, pre-frozen crap.