[Magdalen] coffee

[Jay Weigel]

Just an educated guess, Grace ;->

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >>
> >>
> >> website: www.ichthysdesigns.com
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> .
> >>>>
>