[Magdalen] coffee

[Lynn Ronkainen]

From: "Jay Weigel" <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
> 6 oz. isn't enough to wake up a frog!



well... I know THAT... but when coffee makers use cup designations it is 
based on 6 oz. per.  Which is why a 4 cup drip pot barely fills two mugs! :)

Lynn


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