The coffee and tea thread

Legion said:
That's why I prefer small, independent roasters. Corporate employees don't seem to care about their work or the company's reputation in some cases, in my experience.
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I am seeing the breakdown of America everywhere, but I suppose that could be true, as I never go anywhere to get coffee but Starbucks. For awhile we had some awesome Bikini Coffee Shacks but the government went after them, they got boring, and so I stopped.
 
I could have said that one sign of the decline of America is that I can no longer get free naked tits attached to a female with my coffee, but I didn't.
 
Legion said:
I'm going to try it.
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I do know, and this us all about coffee my former friend, is that in the DFAC's we would regularly do the field coffee by throwing the grounds onto a Cambro, dumping boiling water over it, closing it, and then we sent it out.

I never tried it, but I did wonder how tasty it could possibly be, and if the soldiers cared.
 
Legion said:
Yes, that's what I do, but several have succumbed to the rash of small business owners closing because of lockdowns/lack of employees, etc. I'm reluctant to use a mail=order supplier for a variety of reasons.

It makes a discernible difference IMO, but either type blade is OK if you replace the blades as needed, which isn't easy to do on bargain-priced grinders. That's why I usually get the roaster to grind small batches for me on demand. Storing larger amounts defeats the purpose of using freshly ground beans.

No doubt. I have dozens of vintage teapots for exactly that reason. The composition, design, and manufacturing have to be consistent, and the news ones just don't measure up.

There's a real decline in quality. The new ones craze, even though I always pre-heat before use, and the spouts are inconsistent, so the new ones tend to leak and dribble.
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I'm on the lookout for this teapot. It's silverplate in the Art Deco style, and is probably easier to find in England.

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