Americans: why don't you use kettles?
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Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
Instant is cheaper than buying coffee beans, which have to be bought in relatively small amounts because they go stale a couple of weeks after roasting, and they have to be ground right before you make the coffee, because the oils start to react to the air as soon as you've ground them. So if you want 'real' coffee that actually tastes decent you're going to have to be spending more than you would on a jar of instant. Even an Aeropress (which I own, and like) can't turn stale coffee into nice coffee.
I don't drink black coffee, mine always has sugar, and more often than not milk (or, rather, hazelnut milk because I don't like dairy in my hot/warm coffee), and with my preferred instant brand it makes a very tasty cup, and is far cheaper than buying beans.
Unless you're saying poor people shouldn't be allowed to enjoy coffee. I'm sure you're not saying that.
I don't drink black coffee, mine always has sugar, and more often than not milk (or, rather, hazelnut milk because I don't like dairy in my hot/warm coffee), and with my preferred instant brand it makes a very tasty cup, and is far cheaper than buying beans.
Unless you're saying poor people shouldn't be allowed to enjoy coffee. I'm sure you're not saying that.
maomao
普費斯
Been done. They're shit. Coffee goes stale very quickly when exposed to air and a little bag doesn't really hold enough for a mugfull.
There is / was Q tea too. Again awful.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
If you're putting sugar in your coffee then there's no point drinking the good stuff really, you might as well go with instant.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Another thing that the Americans on here need to explain: calling main meals entrees - what the fuck?
maomao
普費斯
Ground coffee's ok if you keep it in an air tight tin and drink it reasonably quickly. Beans keep longer and make better coffee but you do need a grinder. Not convinced that anything but budget instant is significantly cheaper. Also a bit reticent to listen to opinions on instant coffee without an accompanying statement on whether you ruin it with milk and/or sugar.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
this occurred to me whilst researching Salisbury Steak. Doesn't it look delicious?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salisbury_steak#/media/File:Salisbury_steak.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salisbury_steak#/media/File:Salisbury_steak.jpg
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Very confusing. In the whole rest of the world, entrée means starter.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
'ruin it' - lol
people like it in different forms- away with your snobbery
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
theres a three-spliffer before facing it meal
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
The basic principle is sound—they generally suffer from bad design (letting too much water through) and low quality/old coffee IME. Vietnamese coffee filters work like that but it's surprisingly hard to get them to work properly even with good coffee.
maomao
普費斯
Well if you're just adding flavouring to milk it doesn't really matter so much.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
I've got Vietnamese filters, but they make a huge mess and don't work. (A friend brought them back, along with some Vietnamese coffee).
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
The fact that it is possible to make them work keeps tempting me back, but it requires some combination of grind, water temperature and quantity that I only ever get by accident. Which is a shame because they would be super convenient.
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
I don't like even the best beans in existence without sugar. It's a cross I have to bear.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Exactly the same for me.
I am learning about coffee on this thread. The idea of cold-press is totally new to me. And I'm tempted to have another go with the Vietnamese things - said friend swore the coffee she had there made like this was lovely, and she knows her coffee.
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
I'm the worst type of person. I eat and drink things because I like their taste, rather than because of what I should or shouldn't do. I deserve to be flogged.
In summer I buy fresh beans and grind them at home, and make cold press coffee. I sometimes use them in my aeropress as well. The rest of the time I drink instant. I like both. I'm a fucking monster.
In summer I buy fresh beans and grind them at home, and make cold press coffee. I sometimes use them in my aeropress as well. The rest of the time I drink instant. I like both. I'm a fucking monster.
maomao
普費斯
I'd settle for community service or a fine.
mentalchik
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit."
*high fives VP*
do you know i do the same with music/art/tele/films and books.........................MASSIVE monster me
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
Exactly the same for me.
I am learning about coffee on this thread. The idea of cold-press is totally new to me. And I'm tempted to have another go with the Vietnamese things - said friend swore the coffee she had there made like this was lovely, and she knows her coffee.
Cold press is very nice. No bitterness, naturally sweeter than hot brewed coffee because of the (lack of a particular) chemical reaction.
Like the very worst kind of coffee wanker, I make my own chocolate sauce to go in it to make long cold mochas during the hot (warmish) summer months.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
How would you know?
*stirs in VP's third lump*
That sounds rude
I know because I have tried coffee with no sugar, which is why I know I don't like it. I have also tried cold press coffee with no sugar, which is why I know it's sweeter, but I still need more. I blame my nana. She had a right sweet tooth. Lived to 93
Mogden
I like tea
Oh good grief! After squashgate this thread took off and I couldn't face it on my tablet but I've just tackled it on the PC.
Right then *cracks knuckles*
Griddles are generally cast iron with ridges (and can be circular, square or rectangular) to allow for "branding" but they can also be flat, see industrial kitchen planchas. It's generally a flat-ish surface for cooking food directly.
Grilling and frying may be usually interchangeably when using a frying pan. A frying pan that is deeper is a saute pan as saute is French for jump so when the chefs do that fancy pants shuffle and toss the food up into the air while in the pan, you really need deep sides. Saute pans also usually come with lids, frying pans do not and to this day I can't imagine what people fry that requires a lid.
A grill/broiling pan is something you stick under a grill/broiler.
However!!! Having worked in a cookshop I can confirm that the term is used for the cast iron ridged pans too so upon being asked for one I used to clarify by asking, "The one that goes under a grill or the one you put stripy marks on your steak in".
Had to get that out.
I too want to try poutine.
The Subway smell/container thing is probably cos it's waxed paper that is usually to wrap the subs and I'd hazard a guess that the cardboard round your frozen Greek bits was waxed too.
And tea from loose leaf tastes tremendously different to that of tea bag tea. That's like saying I can't taste the difference between Bells and Jura.
Ahhhh that's better.
Right then *cracks knuckles*
Griddles are generally cast iron with ridges (and can be circular, square or rectangular) to allow for "branding" but they can also be flat, see industrial kitchen planchas. It's generally a flat-ish surface for cooking food directly.
Grilling and frying may be usually interchangeably when using a frying pan. A frying pan that is deeper is a saute pan as saute is French for jump so when the chefs do that fancy pants shuffle and toss the food up into the air while in the pan, you really need deep sides. Saute pans also usually come with lids, frying pans do not and to this day I can't imagine what people fry that requires a lid.
A grill/broiling pan is something you stick under a grill/broiler.
However!!! Having worked in a cookshop I can confirm that the term is used for the cast iron ridged pans too so upon being asked for one I used to clarify by asking, "The one that goes under a grill or the one you put stripy marks on your steak in".
Had to get that out.
I too want to try poutine.
The Subway smell/container thing is probably cos it's waxed paper that is usually to wrap the subs and I'd hazard a guess that the cardboard round your frozen Greek bits was waxed too.
And tea from loose leaf tastes tremendously different to that of tea bag tea. That's like saying I can't taste the difference between Bells and Jura.
Ahhhh that's better.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Yay. Good rant.
Moar of that please. Angry, yet focussed and educational.
Moar of that please. Angry, yet focussed and educational.
maomao
普費斯
Broccoli. I cook broccoli in a frying pan with garlic and chilis and the lid on. If I don't put the lid on the broccoli dries out.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
That sounds good. You can do the same with sprouts.
maomao
普費斯
Or you can just put the sprouts in the bin and have some more lovely broccoli.
Mogden
I like tea
Thank you. There's a justifiable reason now
Seriously though, the older client base were obsessed with frying pan lids!
