dude i’m a musician and an accountant and i haven’t been able to count for thirty years
yeah i play percussion why
🎶One, you got to one, you got to one! Two, you got to two, you got to two! Three, you got to three, you got to three! Four, you got to…🎶 Fuck!
No offense to anyone who drinks Folgers, but Folgers isn’t very good coffee.
I’m no coffee snob, but it’s definitely something worth spending a little extra money to get better quality stuff. You don’t have to go nuts and get whole bean Jamaican blue mountain whatever, but don’t buy the plastic jug of pre-ground Folgers swill either. Treat yo self.
My in-laws always use a half scoop per cup, no thank you. Cardboard flavoured water.
To be fair though I’m spoiled with single origin, roasted to order beans
My old work had it posted that we were to use four scoops per pot of coffee.
They did not say level scoops.
Requirements unclear, scoop mountain.
Folgers has ground cockroaches
i wish they’d get rid of the roaches
The best part of waking up…
Is Folgers in the trash!
To be fair, you gotta be brain damaged to be brewing Folger’s 🤮
I was in military for over 23 years and coffee is coffee to me. Yes, some are tastier than others but at end of day I am just looking for the caffeine. Taste is an after thought when you get woken up at 2am for operations. I also drink it black.
Its what I drank for 20 years until I got some amazing coffee for my birthday one year. I just couldnt go back. If you’ve retired from military life and have the time to enjoy instead of rushing for ops it might be time to treat yourself.
Also, weigh it. Volumes change with different beans and grinds. Weights dont. Kitchen scales are cheap and easy.
Army coffee is special. Part of its effectiveness in waking you up is the shockingly bad taste, which you maximize by drinking it black. It’s better when it’s bad, because you’re gonna drink it anyway.
You want wimpy good-tasting coffee, go join the Air Force.
Folger’s tastes like jail coffee, which tracks with the “coffee is coffee” philosophy 😂
Military, jail - what’s the difference?
One pays you and sets you up for a life afterward, the other takes away your dignity and everything you had put together for your life.
I have seen both do both
Humans are just a more articulate version of cockroaches. An over-engineered insect, turned inside-out and wrapped in skin.
The office buys it, so I drink it.
Pro tip: A tablespoon to measure is stupid. Use a 1\4 cup measuring cup. 1\4 cup = 4 tablespoons, so 2 1\2 scoops is your 10 cup carafe, and one rounded scoop is a half pot (5).
I buy my own because my job offers nothing, so I get Dunkin original blend and caramel/french vanilla creamer!
I’m bougie as hell with my coffee at home. Fancy whole beans, burr grinder, aerobie coffee press, and temp adjustable kettle.
I don’t have a home 😅
Well you making coffee from somewhere.
Most people are excited to leave work.
I’m not.
Meh, it’s cheap and it’s good enough. I like coffee but not enough to spend money on “the good stuff” for daily consumption. And there’s no way in hell I’m grinding beans at 6am.
If there’s a Winco near you, they have good-might-be-stretch-but-significantly-better-than-Folgers coffee in their bulk section that you can grind in store. It’s fairly cheap - no idea if it’s a better or worse deal than Folgers. Decent variety of strengths and flavors.
If you don’t have a Winco nearby, you might have something similar- on a scale of [normal grocery store] to [Costco], Winco is kind of right in the middle; I’m guessing it’s not the only chain that’s like that, and that similar stores will have a similar inventory.
Winco is far and away the best grocery store ive shopped at.
Wish there was one near where i live, so damn cheap compared to the competition.
second best for us. we got a damn fine locally owned gourmet chain called Nugget where we buy our fancy dinner ingredients, but Winco is our employee owned everything else grocer
Yeah, we used to live right next to one and it was fantastic. Then we moved and now it’s about 20 min away, so I now go to Costco and the grocery store since there both a mile or two away.
there’s no way in hell I’m grinding beans at 6am.
You act like you have to go outside and break boulder-sized beans apart with a pickaxe, lol. It’s the exact same number of scoops, you just put whole beans in your grinder first, then your coffee maker. Literally takes about 5 seconds longer.
To be clear, there’s nothing wrong with liking cheaper coffee, and I don’t think the majority of us need or could tell the difference from using the absolute best beans and equipment to enjoy it… BUT, grinding your beans fresh gives a huge improvement to aroma and taste, such that I’m still amazed at the coffee I’m sipping out of my thermos late in the day. And it goes without saying that it improves every morning for me, personally. Most people discover a giant improvement, even using the exact same brand and type of coffee, only whole-bean. Very little experimentation is required to make amazing coffee that tastes perfect to you. Good luck if you try it…
I was a big coffee guy for awhile for the taste, now I’m really just in it for the caffeine. Aeropress + whatever’s on sale is good enough for me
Aeropress is a significant leap above basic coffee for the caffeine.
It’s also fast and easy which is what I’m looking for at 6am
Looking online, it’s up to around 50 cents an ounce, personally I’m drinking cafe El Morro, it was around 2.50 for a 10 oz brick, but it’s a lot cheaper if you order direct now with price increases. Also it’s pretty good coffee.
Get a 1/3 cup measuring cup from your local dollar store. Two scoops will land you at almost exactly 10 tbsp.
No one should be expected to count all the way to 10 during that shitty period between waking and caffeine!! 2 is much more manageable.
I use a 1\4 cup just because my brain likes knowing it’s exactly 4 tablespoons.
1\4 cup = 4 tablespoons, so 2 1\2 scoops is your 10 cup carafe, and one rounded scoop is a half pot (5).
I have this problem with measuring 3 measley cups of rice for the rice cooker. Even if I count out loud, there’s a small chance I have to start over. It’s like my brain gets lost in a 5-second time loop between “2” and “3”. I suddenly have the attention span of a squirrel.
I had to make 6 cups of rice a while ago, fairly certain now that I only put in 5 and filled the water up to 6.
You should check out the finger method. You’ll never have to worry about having the correct ratios again.
That’s how I learned and it’s fantastic when my kids “help”. I never know whether we did 4 or 6 cups (we aim for 5) because they keep doing little half scoops. So I guess and use the finger method after rinsing the rice. Perfect rice every time.
That’s why you gotta learn how to eyeball it.
I have a balance on the kitchen table all times and weigh everything. Coffee? 15gm don’t need to count shit.
I need to use mine more, but I always want to only use one vessel, so if I’m going to make something I start throwing in an item and then move to the next item and forget where I’m at. Then I’m like shoot I never weighed the vessel, so I haven’t a clue how to figure it out short of pouring it all into another vessel I’ve measured. So I just take my best guess at how many units I’ve added
Put the vessel on the balance and tare every time you finish including an ingredient. Always start on zero, don’t bother with the math.
This is good advice, but every so often I’ll screw up and put some grounds in before I think to tare the scale, so what I’ve done is put a little label on my French press that says how many grams it weighs when empty. That way, if I find myself in that situation, I can do the math of how much the press and grounds should all weigh together.
You are done when the filter is level full.
I mean if you want bitter coffee.
More like if you want coffee flavored coffee. Coffee is bitter.
good coffee isnt really bitter though (shade grown coffee for the win!)
There are ways to influence the bitterness of the coffee, I personally prefer cold brew, but there is an inherent bitterness to coffee regardless when made with decent strength. Some people be making some watery-ass coffee
So true. I just saw an opportunity to enlighten people with the shade grown beans being way better. It removes this disgusting bitter taste of coffee but it of course stays bitter tasting, if you get what I mean hahaha.
Always been interested in cold brew though but didn’t do the time sink (yet)
It is the only way to be sure you have enough.
the trick: start to count with 11
Step 1) If you are never sure… add just one more Step 2) And then if you forget that… add just one more Step 3) Repeat Step 2.
I spent a lot of time on places where the coffee is normally brewed a bit stronger (Italy, Turkey, North Africa etc).
I tend just fill up the filter paper to around to 2/3rds.
I have also been banned from making coffee at a few offices I have worked since. Their shrill cries of “Who made the coffee???” were quite fun however.
