Do you roast your own coffee beans?

thanks, folks.

here is what i will try:

1. buy roasted and ground beans and then seal them in a glass Mason jar at room temperature.
2. buy roasted/ground//Mason/and freeze.
3. buy Maxwell House in the can.

when visitors arrive, they will have their choice.
i do not expect any coffee drinkers this month.

Blecch. Mum used to get MH, and I always hated making/having coffee there. It was like coffee-scented sawdust.

When it has to be a quick cup of good coffee, I make Bei & Nannini Miscela Colomba in a manually tuned Bialetti.

Some of the religious fanatics my now scream heresy, but I like it like that.

All the house smells like coffee, the cup has a wonderful profumo, and the not too hot black juice of life is pure salaciousness.

Take out religion, add sensuality and sensibility.

LOL!

It’s a cup of caffeinated liquid, it’s not a blow up doll!

I try not to fret too much, but I do have a minor routine that I follow.

Chris

Blow up doll? What?

ROTFL

No. I’m just a coffee addict.

i agree with flashburn:
“…the cup has a wonderful profumo…”

actually, i like the smell of brewed coffee
and pipe tobacco, but i do not smoke, either.

I love the smell of coffee!

I don't like the taste of coffee, but I do love the taste of cappuccino.

I don't like all the caffeine of cappuccino, but the flavor is amazing.

Maybe ’cause I haven’t had my coffee yet, but that made me very… confused.

My post?

It's simple.

I like the smell of coffee, but I don't like the taste of coffee.

There isn’t one taste of coffee. There’s coffee that tastes like cherries, even blueberries, for instance. (anaerobic process)

To clarify, I have found that every type of coffee that I have tasted has been repulsive.

Meanwhile, most cappuccino I have tried has been absolutely delicious.

In other words, I have tasted enough types of coffee to know that it isn't for me, no matter how good is smells.

You can say that I haven't tasted every type of coffee on Earth, but I also haven't smelled every type of dog poop, yet I know that dog poop isn't for me either.

For me, it’s sugar, ½&½, and a half-capful of vanilla extract.

Cappuccino is coffee….

Just had some gas station Mexican coffee. Too strong for me, so I watered it down. The way I hear it, if you don’t grind your coffee beans, you are getting roach legs and other vermin in the grounds. Funny.

I would accept that as an axiom.

Back when I used to drink coffee, I didn’t roast my own, but I usually purchased directly from roasters, roast-to-order. They don’t roast it until you order it and then ship it the same day, so I’d get it within 2-3 days of roasting. There is some off gassing that happens within the first couple of days after roasting, so for best flavor you want to wait a couple of days before brewing anyway.

Sure.

Go to Starbucks and order a cappuccino and see if they give you coffee instead.

If they do, then they screwed up your order.

Cappuccino has coffee in it, but all of the extra ingredients make it cappuccino and not coffee.

Your post is like saying "concrete is cement."

Concrete has cement in it, but the extra ingredients make it concrete and not cement.

Have you ever heard of the phrase, "grasping at straws" ?

You can call cappuccino "coffee" all you want, but words have meanings and those meanings don't change just because you want them to.

Do a double-blind taste test and let us know what you find. :sunglasses:

Indeed.

It’s really amazing how varied coffee can taste depending upon from where the beans were harvested. Those fruit similarities aren’t artificially introduced either. Some speculate that there might be pollination influences, i.e. where bees had been before. Then there’s the soil and the weather…

Roasting that is artfully done can help bring out those qualities… and otherwise, careless roasting can trash ’em.