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Roasting Coffee – the Basic Way

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Not much to add here! This is from Columbia and the coffee is being roasted in a big pan [...]

The Two Best Office Drip Coffee Makers

Traditional manual coffee grinder

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Drip coffee makers in the average office are machines of the devil. Even if they started out shiny, fresh, new and innocent, the evil ways of the office user – never cleaning any of the parts, refusing to wash out the carafe or turn off the heating pad so that thick nasty brown [...]

What Do You Put In Your Coffee?

Coffee and Milk

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Time for another poll…

What do you put in your coffee. All the coffee tasters in the world confidently say that coffee should be drunk black. When they line up to taste test coffee (known as ‘cupping’) they sip from a row of small glasses, each with a little black coffee.

But [...]

Someone Had To Do It – The Starbucks Instant Taste Test.

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But it wasn’t us. Sorry. Not going to take that one for the team. But the Sacramento Bee did – sort of. I wish they had done a double-blind test against regular brewed Starbucks, but alas no.

The bottom line was that they felt it was better than most instant but not very good [...]

The Best Coffee Cup

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First off, we are not going to pretend that we can tell you what the best cup for drinking coffee is. Only you can do that. But we are going to run down some of the alternatives and discuss them and maybe introduce you to a few alternatives.

The 16oz paper cup – made [...]

Coffee And Your Liver

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I’d guess that most people if asked would say that coffee was probably not so great for their liver, maybe not terrible or anything, but not great. WRONG! Turns out, according to the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, that coffee is extremely protective of your liver. Of course, if, like me, [...]

Make A Great Cup Of French Press Coffee

French press family

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Many coffee aficionados and cafe hounds will tell you that the best way to make a plain cup of coffee – rather than an espresso-based coffee drink – is to use a French Press. While I disagree and feel that there are at least three ways to make a better cup [...]