Coffee

How many run water through their machine twice? Seems the grounds still have enough left to make good coffee. A waste to use once btw I like mine black on the cool side!

Too weak the second time around, even with Death Wish Coffee. (Yes that's really a coffee).

Yeah, to weak the second time around, I like my coffee like I like my woman, hot, black and strong.

I have to have a oversize coffee first thing in the morning.

I put 6 tablespoons of “light roast” coffee in a Mellita “pour over” single cup coffee maker and manually pour sixteen ounces of 190 degree water so that all the grounds get a get even wetting.

I add three teaspoons of maple syrup to this and begin sipping
while I immediately pour another 4 ounces of hot water on the already wet used coffee grounds to make a slightly more bitter small second cup.

I like coffee,
even though I did not start until age 38
but I also consider it a powerful mixture of drugs
because it contains:

caffeine

Phenylindanes
(part of the dark color of coffee comes this chemical)

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2018.00735/full

If someone gives you a hard time about drinking twice watered coffee you can answer:
“I paid good money for those fresh coffee grounds and I want to get most of the Phenyllindane out of it even if becomes bitter”

and it was recently discovered coffee contains
trigonelline

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-09-trigonelline-derived-coffee-cognitive-function.html

One of the oldest medicinal herbs,
first written about more than 3000 years ago,
is the seed of the legume plant “Fenugreek” ( literally “Greek Hay”)
which also contains trigonelline.

From 11 am to 1 pm I might have a one ounce shot glass of coffee if I begin to feel “blah” as the morning coffee wears off, but no coffee past 2 pm.

I reuse about a quarter of grounds I use a stovetop perculater and I like it plain black

Dark Roast, black for me.

I have a Keurig so I use K cups. I've reused them a couple of times when I only make the smallest cup.

On Gunsmoke Chester uses the same grounds for several pots! He just boils it up and adds Chicory

WWII for sure until there was not tint to it

I use a Keurig and rather than selecting the large cup button I select the smallest twice, that way the coffee grounds steep a little in between the two half ka ups and I get a stronger full cup.

During the Civil War the beans from “Kentucky Coffee Trees” were tried as coffee bean substitutes.

I had a friend in Hillsborough NC who had a Kentucky Coffee tree in his yard.

He collected his “pods” off his lawn one fall and brought them into a Chapel Hill coffee shop where I helped break the fairly tough pods open and the shop owner/roaster roasted them dark brown and finely ground them.

Yuck....

We talked about soaking the grounds in Methyl Chloride to isolate, weigh, and calculate the the caffeine percent, but that never got done

11. It is thought that hunting tribes put large quantities of the seeds into rivers in order to stupefy fish and make them easy to catch.

from

https://mileshearn.com/2019/09/11/25-kentucky-coffee-tree-facts/

In Broward County FL at a farmer’s market I bought small sample bags of Robusta coffee locally grown in a field right up against the Everglades.
Taste wasn’t horrible but not good. Hurricane Wilma ruined the young trees.

Nestle has a new hybrid coffee tree that resists the Central America coffee rust disease,
and can tolerate a range of altitudes and temperatures.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1c1F0PpbHdg


It had to be done......

So much could be said here..... but I wont.

I thought you had said "a hole and a heartbeat" was all they needed to be.

hot off the presses -

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Coffee is one of the most consumed beverages and contains polyphenols, such as caffeic acid and chlorogenic acid (CGA), and antioxidants like trigonelline, melanoidins, and the oil cafestol. One study revealed that coffee consumption (at least one cup per day) was associated with a 10% lower COVID-19 risk among the United Kingdom (UK) Biobank participants. { more than 500,000 people}

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https://www.news-medical.net/news/2...offers-new-dietary-defense-strategy.aspx

My fuzzy memory is that
in one of the John Wayne movies a character says:
Strong enough Coffee will cure anything...

Same here.

Coffee is THE most disgusting thing on this earth! I can't believe people actually like this crap! Why would someone WANT to drink muriatic acid?

This 👇🏻

HAHAHAHAHAHA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i drink at LEAST 1/2 or 3/4 of a pot every morning.
what does that make me ?

Crazy Texas used coffee grounds idea:

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Caffeic acid belongs to a family of compounds called polyphenols, which are plant-based compounds known for their antioxidant, or free radical-scavenging properties. Caffeic acid is unique because it can penetrate the blood-brain barrier and is thus able to exert its effects upon the cells inside the brain, Narayan said.

The process the team uses to extract CACQDs from used coffee grounds is considered "green chemistry," which means it is environmentally friendly. In their lab, the team "cooks" samples of coffee grounds at 200 degrees for four hours to reorient the caffeic acid's carbon structure and form CACQDs. The sheer abundance of coffee grounds is what makes the process both economical and sustainable, Narayan said.
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more here

https://www.news-medical.net/news/2...may-be-found-in-used-coffee-grounds.aspx