Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/09/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jayanand, I'm no coffee connoisseur.? I sampled various blends years ago, and found a combination that I liked, and that my wife also liked.? I have been ordering it in case lots from an online grocer for years. It is vacuum-packed, so keeps well.? I drink it black, with sugar, and it is strong.? My Mom used a gravity coffee maker, and we tried that early in our married life, but finally settled on a more conventional automatic coffee maker.? I recently had to replace mine, with a Mr. Coffee 5-Cup unit using premium paper filters.? Since I live alone, this works fine for me, providing 3 cups in the cups I use. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA On 9/23/2019 9:44 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG wrote: > Jim, > We don't drink coffee with chicory, though many do as it is cheaper that > way, just a 50:50 mix of Plantation and Peaberry. Both are berries of the > Arabica plant, but the former has both beans stuck together, and the latter > is a single bean. Both are roasted separately, Peaberry for flavour, and > Plantation more deeply for strength, and then ground together, medium fine > for our coffee filters, by bean weight to achieve the blend. Our final > coffee, after letting gravity do its work, commonly called "decoction" is > about 2-3 times stronger than espresso, so it is impossible to drink it > without milk or cream, and normally sugar as well, though I do not - other > stuff you can use to dilute it are butter, ghee, almond milk, coconut oil, > coconut milk, etc - all the funny stuff ends up with it being called > bulletproof coffee, and used by those on various diets - vegan and keto, to > name two. > > We have a local retailer who does the roasting and grinding and delivers > half a kilo of the finished product every week - there are thousands of > shops doing this in Chennai alone, as fresh brewed coffee is very serious > business in our South Indian culture. In my grandparents houses, the beans > would be roasted and hand ground daily, and had a much better flavour, but > these are modern times.... > Our coffee is grown in South India, and is consumed 100% domestically, so > is not so well known worldwide. We grow Robusta as well, but all of that > goes straight into making instant coffee. > > Cheers > Jayanand > > On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 7:26 PM Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> > wrote: > >> Jayanand, >> >> I also drink coffee mixed with chicory, but mine comes from the Cajun >> country of southern Louisiana. I'm not certain where the beans are >> grown. It provides a great way to start the morning. But, I don't spoil >> it with milk. >> >> Jim Nichols >> Tullahoma, TN USA >> >> On 9/23/2019 2:24 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG wrote: >>> This is what we drink - coffee brewed with the sole help of gravity. I >> personally use cream instead of milk because of my keto diet: >>> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_filter_coffee >>> >>> The tumbler and davarah essential for the proper taste and temperature >> can also be seen there >>> Cheers >>> Jayanand >>> >>> >>> Sent from my iPad >>> >>>> On 23-Sep-2019, at 12:42, Philippe via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> You both surprise me about coffee. Unless what we each call coffee are >> different beverages ;-) >>>> Amities >>>> >>>> Philippe >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> Le 23 sept. 2019 ? 05:24, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG < >> lug at leica-users.org> a ?crit : >>>>> Douglas, >>>>> I disagree. Coffee is best drunk from a thick walled stainless steel >>>>> tumbler. You might well be right about tea! :-) >>>>> Cheers >>>>> Jayanand >>>>> >>>>>> On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 3:22 AM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Yes indeed Jim, my grandmother served me apple tart on willow pattern. >>>>>> She couldn't do peach as they don't grow very well over here at 53 >>>>>> degrees north. >>>>>> As for the tea cup, you can't beat drinking tea or coffee from fine >> bone >>>>>> china. >>>>>> >>>>>> Douglas >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> On 22/09/2019 19:34, Jim Nichols wrote: >>>>>>> Taking a break from my library book, I looked around for a suitable >>>>>>> subject for a photo exercise. The most suitable were found in my >> late >>>>>>> wife's china cabinet. Here are a couple from her diverse collection. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The first is important to no one but myself. It is a single piece of >>>>>>> English China in one of the many Blue Willow patterns, and it was the >>>>>>> plate on which my Mother served me my piece of pie, usually peach, >>>>>>> because we had peach trees, during the depression years of my >>>>>>> childhood, in the 1930s. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20190922-P9220193.JPG.html >>>>>>> The second is one of about a dozen English tea cups and saucers in >>>>>>> assorted patterns that my wife inherited from her Grandmother. These >>>>>>> apparently made their way to Mississippi after a visit to her >> Canadian >>>>>>> family members, and have been jealously guarded ever since. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20190922-P9220197.JPG.html >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Leica Users Group. >>>>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Leica Users Group. >>>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >