[Magdalen] coffee

[Grace Cangialosi]

I can't help wondering how on earth you know that, Jay??

Grace, considering the prospect of going over to the pond with a pot of coffee to see how much it would take to wake up a.....oh wait, no frogs out at all now...

> On Jan 5, 2015, at 1:21 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
>> 
>> My email  is changing soon to: houstonKLR at gmail.com
>> 
>> 
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>> 
>> When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not
>> a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me."
>> attributed to Erma Bombeck
>> 
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> 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.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> .
>>>>