[Magdalen] coffee

Lynn Ronkainen houstonklr at gmail.com
Mon Jan 5 18:10:36 UTC 2015


... always remember a 'cup' of coffee it usually calibrated at 6 oz... mugs 
are often twice that size.
Lynn

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From: "Jay Weigel" <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2015 8:24 AM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] coffee

> I've had a drip coffeemaker (Mr. Coffee or now, Black and Decker) since
> forever and keep them until they die. Gone through a few of them! When I
> was married to the late ex, who was a heavy coffee drinker, whoever was
> last to bed "set up" the coffeemaker the night before with coffee, filter,
> and water. It was then a matter of hitting the ON button when the earliest
> riser got up, or later on we had programmable models, and the remainder 
> was
> put into a thermal carafe for the later riser. The system worked quite 
> well
> for us as we almost never, in our entire married life, got up at the same
> time--which had to do with work hours. When I went off on my own, I
> acquired a smaller one, which has since expired. I had to buy a new one
> last year, and after looking them all over, chose a fairly basic Black and
> Decker model because so many of the others have become overly complicated.
> I'm the only coffee drinker here but bought a 12 cup model in case of
> company. I usually make 6 cups because I'll drink that much. one of its
> "cups" is a puny amount!
>
> On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 8:30 AM, Marion Thompson 
> <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On my own time at home, I'm a tea drinker -- Tetley's Regular, please --
>> bag in mug, except at breakfast time when I'm sitting in bed with my tea
>> pot and the two newspapers.
>>
>> However, I got a Tassimo and a supply of coffees for the occasional
>> visitor.  Works just fine and solves the problem nicely;  I'm the world's
>> worst coffee maker.  I'm happy to drink coffee away from home.
>>
>> Marion, a pilgrim    ... today my sail I lift ....
>> On 1/4/2015 12:08 AM, Molly Wolf wrote:
>>
>>> I grind my beans (fair trade) in a burr mill and make my coffee in a
>>> French press, although I cheat and strain the brew through a sieve into 
>>> a
>>> carafe.  I love my coffee.  I don't understand the appeal of Keurig; I
>>> don't know if their coffees are fair trade, and those little individual
>>> packs can't be environmentally sound.  The thought of Keurig tea makes 
>>> me
>>> ill.  Tea bags are pushing it!
>>>
>>> Molly
>>>
>>> The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in 
>>> no
>>> other way. -- Mark Twain
>>>
>>>  On Jan 4, 2015, at 12:01 AM, James Handsfield <jhandsfield at icloud.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Takes about 25 seconds. There are lots of varieties of coffee. I like
>>>> Newman's Own bold medium roast.
>>>>
>>>> Jim Handsfield
>>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>>
>>>>  On Jan 3, 2015, at 11:53 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
>>>>> oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Actually, it's longer than ten minutes.  I think it takes about three
>>>>> minutes for each single cup.
>>>>>
>>>> .
>>>
>>>
>> 


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