[Magdalen] coffee

[Jay Weigel]

6 oz. isn't enough to wake up a frog!

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com> wrote:

> ... 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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  .
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>