Coffee

[vinteuil]

Einaudi piano music ?

... cruel, Gong², very cruel...

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[teamsaint]

INSTANT COFFEE ???????

Ok for some I guess

Would you also like some alcohol free whisky ?
Poundbury fire station ?
or
Einaudi piano music ?

suggestions for a brew, ANY brew that works well in a thermos flask welcome !
TBF to Poundbury Fire station, it probably does at least function correctly........

[doversoul1]

A solitary voice here (but not perhaps everywhere) for instant coffee made with hot milk, it just tastes more like coffee to me without any of the harsh tannic edges that many of the patent 'expert' methods produce.

From time to time, I enjoy instant coffee as a hot drink when I am not particularly looking for coffee, as long as it comes with milk. If it is coffee, it has to be black, and I think that’s why I like filter-and-cone method. Any other way makes coffee far too thick and strong.

[MrGongGong]

suggestions for a brew, ANY brew that works well in a thermos flask welcome !
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Whisky

[teamsaint]

Whisky

Blended? Single Malt? A go-go?

[french frank]

Coffee

Have any of the regular visitors to France recently seen those metal individual filters that sit on the top of your cup? I bought a couple many years ago and unearthed them today. It occurred to me that coffee machines and espresso percolators have totally taken over. Better coffee too?

Somewhere I came across a ref. in one of the Larkins novels, with Pa (?) Larkin &c. discussing how the things always got stuck before they had filtered all the coffee through and being unsure about what to do about it...?

[Thropplenoggin]

Surely what you refer to belongs to the days of L'Indo-Chine: Vietnamese drip-coffee. As an ex-resident of Vietnam, I can say this is incredible, if nerve-jarringly strong, coffee. They tend to favour the robusta bean (hence the shredded nerves). Most often dripped over ice and with masses of sugar, taken black or white (using condensed milk). People in Hanoi, where it can get cooler, do take it like a normal hot coffee, though.

[french frank]

The similar images online do seem to come from Indo-China/Vietnam. I bought them in a Paris department store in the 1960s - La Samaritaine, I think.

[Don Petter]

Principle still alive with Rombouts?

[kernelbogey]

My parents used a similar-principle Italian device they called a 'Neapolitan'. Into a container you filled with water fitted a sleeve surmounted by a compartment with perforated top and bottom for the coffee grounds. You put the inverted coffee pot on top of this, placed it on the gas and when the water had boiled, inverted the whole so that the water percolated through the coffee into the pot, now at the base, from which you poured it. Somehow quite charming.

[french frank]

My parents used a similar-principle Italian device they called a 'Neapolitan'. Into a container you filled with water fitted a sleeve surmounted by a compartment with perforated top and bottom for the coffee grounds. You put the inverted coffee pot on top of this, placed it on the gas and when the water had boiled, inverted the whole so that the water percolated through the coffee into the pot, now at the base, from which you poured it. Somehow quite charming.

That sounds like my stove top percolator (though the pot isn't inverted: it's just screwed on top of the lower container).

I'm surprised no one remembers the filter one being used (it's not a percolator). I inspected mine and it's definitely French (marked Inoxid..Déposée-France). And I tried it again tonight - it made a rather smoother cup than the average cafetière, a method I don't much like.

[kernelbogey]

I'm surprised no one remembers the filter one being used (it's not a percolator)...

I suddenly have a memory of something like what you describe, with a lever that opened the base for the coffee to flow through after steeping...?

(I hope you made the coffee with both hands.... )

[french frank]

I suddenly have a memory of something like what you describe, with a lever that opened the base for the coffee to flow through after steeping...?

Nothing quite so sophisticated!



It doesn't have plastic handles like the Vietnamese images you can see online and it's just a straightforward filter, using normal ground coffee. When it's all run through, you can take off the top, upend it, take the filter off the cup, using the lid to catch any drips. Much more likely that the French took is out to Indo-China and the expresso machines took over in France.

[amateur51]

Any chance of merging these identicals threads please?

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthread.php?7039-Coffee

[Nick Armstrong]

Any chance of merging these identicals threads please?

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthread.php?7039-Coffee

You wish is my command...