Coffee

[evulik]

ehm.... so addicted fellows this is time for us to talk little about something we adore, something we love, something that accompanies us all the time, when it rains when sun shines.... coffee.... ;)

I start "Hello, I am Eva and I am a coffee-holic, I like black coffee, coffee with milk, coffee with liquer etc"

well, not that bad, I just like it.... :angel:

[Jay]

Hello Eva ;), what about not addicted people? Coffee is yucky lol. In any form or state or whatever. On the other hand hot choc :nod:... :p;) that's a completely different matter :D.

[evulik]

well, I do not know about czech republic (I suppose you are from czech republic) but in Slovakia we have very few places where to get really good choc... :sick: maybe Bratislava... we had one place like that in Prievidza, but this place is always full of people and smoke... not really great to go to enjoy choc... :yawnb:
and another important point, I love coffee without sugar and choc is full of calories :eek2: :eek2: :eek2: just had one with milk.... yum-yum ;)

[ravana]

I like coffee, but can stay without it for years. A cup of tea is forever!

[evulik]

well, I used to drink 5-6 litres of tea (various types) per day, until my mum scared me that it was not healthy for my body... so I drink 2 litres of coffee instead... ;) not good solution either... but then again, I am not that ordinary either... :lol:

[evulik]

is here somebody who loves coffee as much as I do? Or am I simply insane?

[ravana]

Wow! Evulik, 2 litres of coffee will do more harm than 5-6 litres of tea. Take good advise: return to your previous habit.
I wonder the size of your cup.

Three cups of tea is my daily doze.

[Shea]

Hey Eva, I'll join you in your love of coffee, only I tend to be rather whimpy about it. I love drinking lots of coffee though I'll try to put myself on tea binges because I know it's better for me. But my coffee can't be too strong, nor can it have a ton of sugar either.

The one thing I will never understand is how Starbuck's came to be so big. I can't stand thier coffee! :sick: It tastes like sludge to me. Even thier cakes and stuff sit like lead in my stomach. Why can't they cater to us sensitive people? Even when I order tea there, I have to specify only one tea bag, because they'll want to give me two making my favorite (Earl Grey) really bitter.

I hope I haven't turned this into a Starbuck's bashing thread. :blush:

[amuse]

no you haven't but their stuff is really way too dark! liquid asphalt is not my idea of yum. :rolleyes:

i waitressed once in college. it was at - you guessed it, a diner. what did i live on? COFFEE! every night, i would release it into my veins, often by the pot. sometimes i went home with 2 pots circulating in my lymph system and blood vessels. I LOVED IT. one day, this person was like, you know, that's not good for women. and i thought, oof, off, what do you know? it makes me happy.

i am now a teaaholic, but the days of joe, straight up campfire style were glorious. now i indulge only if there's lots of cream and sugar around, but oh, way back when...drifts into nostalgia, wafted along by a particularly appealing scent curling in the air, smelling suspiciously of Sumatra.

drool.

[emily655321]

The smell of coffee makes me sick. :sick: I tried it once because everyone else was having it, but I couldn't get a quarter of the way through the mug.

[Jay]

Yeah Eva, I'm from the Czech rep, Liberec to be exact. Also I don't drink hot choc that much, only when the others are having coffee I go with the choc. And as I don't 'socialize' a lot I don't get to be with people drinking coffee (aside mom and sister) too much anyway.

[trismegistus]

Coffee good.

[verybaddmom]

coffee very good. I am totally with you in your addiction, evulik. i drink a minimum of one pot a day. my home brew is either fresh ground dark roast beans or the famous "Tim Hortons" blend. i also drive through Timmie's at least once a day with my sister for an extra large "triple triple" which is triple cream, triple sugar. its my other vice. (or i guess my other other vice)
anyhow, i pay my son five dollars a week, and every morning before i get up he brews a pot of coffee and man, is he good at it. a small price to pay for early morning satisfaction. yum

[evulik]

hi all, those who like, those who does not... well, my pot/glass or what is it I drink from is rather reaaaaaaaly biiiig.... but I drink just softly made weak coffee, otherwise with my amount I would be dead by now. I hate sugar in it, makes my stomach really "loud" :D and I love a lot of milk in it, cafe ole was it called in France (If I remember well)...
and to tea. I used to drink tea when I was studying, having always one pot of tea near me, drinking reaaaaaaly a lot... and then I realised that I spent far more time with going to "place where even kings go by themselves" and by making tea, that I had to give up.... choice was made school or tea.... so I turned to coffee instead :nod: and then I heard "life is not solely comprised of tasks but taste" ;) and I understood.... coffee

[Ingenieur]

I love coffee. Three to four cups a day, sometimes more. It's one of my (few) simple pleasures in life.

[Kiwi Shelf]

I'm a cappaccino gal, I can't gather a liking to coffee...

[den]

Coffees good it keeps the arteries unclogged :p

Welcome to the forums Ingenieur! Gee, are you french? Or speak french?

[IWilKikU]

Gimme coffee in any form! Coffee, Esspresso, Buzzbombs, scraping the grounds out of the filter with my bare hands and shoveling them down my throat!!! Ok so maybe not that last one, but coffee, yeah! Oh and Amuse, I totally know what you're talking about. I drink about a pot of Denny's breakfast blend a night.

[evulik]

IWilKikU - exactly... just enjoying one... I also agree with Ingenieur... one of the things that make me really happy. I mean what can be better than to wake up in the morning take news and put legs on the chair and smells the wonderful coffee air in the room, sensing the wonderful morning sunshine from the window and listening to simply nothing, since there is still no television, no cars outside... nothing... just me and my coffee :cool:

well this sounds as a marketing story to sell coffee... but I just like it.. this reminds me, do you, any of you, have some funny story, either from life or fiction, about coffee? maybe we can try to create some :))) like

"I woke up in one of the hard raining moments. I looked out of window and the darkness of the clouds reminded me the color of coffee... I was half asleep but I decided to take a coffee anyway. I prepared delicious coffee, weak one intending to go back to sleep... put in four spoons of sugar, to have sweet dreams... waiting in the darkness, listening to rain was so calm... it made me feel asleep. so, "coffee time and straight back to bed" I thought to myself...I took big swallow (if this is the word) of coffee... coffee pouring down my throat, delicious coffee, my coffee, coffee with a lot of sugar... glass almost empty.... :sick: never knew how long can be the way to toilet... there was salt instead of sugar" ;) this was just created, came to my mind... never happened to me, I never use sugar (no wonder why :lol: )

[Isagel]

I´m addicted. But I try to cut down. My stomach couldn´t take it. It is a weak, pathetic little body part. After drinking about two liters of black coffee every day a for cuople of years, it gave up on me. I use milk now. And sometimes I drínk ... I can hardly speak the words... herbal thea. *sobs*

Joy is a triple espresso.

[Jay]

:) herbal tea is yummy.

[evulik]

I understand your point Isagel, something I feel I will not stand coffee no more and then... the wonderful smell of it...
to be honest it all started two years ago, when I quit smoking... I guess my body needs something to rely on ;)

herbal tea is great, yummy... I still drink herbal tea, but more mineral water, quicker to prepare it.

what about to vote for the most delicious tea?

[ravana]

I'm really addicted to gatig.(nor coffee, neigher tea) You don't know what it is. It's like sour-cream, but very liquid , very tasty than it and very usefull for stomach , too. It's good that i can make it myself.

[Isagel]

Is it like yoghurt? We have a lot of different "sour -milk- products" here. I eat it for breakfast with cornflakes and fruit.

[evulik]

oh I know what you mean (at least I hope so). I buy some, not regurarly, but when it comes to my mind. True is also that it is rather expensive solution over here, considering possibility to buy it everyday :mad: but I like it. and you know what? I am buying white yoghurts regurarly for one month now, so I guess that the time to switch coffee for sth is near.... aaaaaahhhhhhhh, no please....

[ravana]

I'm sure that you don't know what it's. My friend is in Europe and he wrote that it's not prodused there and asked me for its recept. It isn't sweet. I like to have it after meals. Some our national meals can't be eaten without it.
If you mix it with water and add salt you would get another drink "ayran". And it's most cool drink I've ever had.
If you put some syrup into it you would get tasty youghurt.

It can help, even save your life in that situation when you have something wrong food. (what a terrible structure)

Ok, I can tell how to make it. It's simple. Take one pot of boiled milk, add into it some sour-cream (which is for salad), cover that pot with towel and keep it in normal temperature for 12-16 hours. Then take off towel and put it into refrigarotor. Your gatig is ready.

[evulik]

wauuuuu, sour cream sounds horrible, but well. will try it. certainly it is not what I thought.I would never willingly pay for it :) kidding. I will try it as soon as I live on my own... next week ( :banana: ) I will send you my feelings on it. but I like the way you describe it. I just hope I understand well what is sour cream, otherwise I might have very interesting experience :D

[ravana]

Horrible? If you think that sour-cream for salad is "mayonez" (I don't know its translation, but it's also used for salad) then that's not what I meant. My sour-cream is an ordinary sour-cream. And gatig is maden only from that one.
Some advise: Milk mustn't be hot and very cold, normal temperature. harf glass of sour-milk will be enough for 1,5 litres of milk.

I'm waiting for your feelings with curiosity. But I can guess them right now. I'm sure 100% that you'll make it wrong and your feelings will be terrible.
I just remembered my first trying. :lol:

Good luck, eva!

[Sancho]

I love coffee, so…

Come and hear this tune that I wrote this afternoon:

Zing – Zing – Zing
Buzz – Buzz – Buzz
Gimme – Gimme – Gimme
Coffee for me, Coffee for you, Coffee – Coffee for everybody
I’ve gotta gotta got’sta have COFFEE
- Yeah baby

Black coffee, creamy coffee, coffee with little bitty bits of chocolate

French Coffee, Italian Coffee, Irish Coffee Hmmm

Espresso, Cappuccino, Macchiato, Americano

Gimme-dat, gimme-dat, gimme some of dat …. Heavenly bean… ee-ee-ee-ean

Coffee from: Costa Rica, Guatemala, Colombia, hmm

Coffee from: Mexico, Arabia, India, Africa hmm

Coffee from: Kauai, Kona, Ethiopia – Utopia hmm

Buzz – Buzz – Buzz
Gimme – Gimme – Gimme
Coffee for me, Coffee for you, Coffee – Coffee for everybody
I’ve gotta gotta got’sta have COFFEE
-Yeah baby.


OK, so it’s not much of a tune but I have an excuse: I’ve been bouncing off the walls since my fourth cup-o-joe today.

[emily655321]

LOL You have such little faith in us. :D You know us too well.
I'm interested in trying just to see what it is. But I'm crossing my fingers that your sour cream is the same as my sour cream, because I've never heard of it being used for salad. Salad dressing here is usually olive oil with vinegar.

[evulik]

ok, so I took it wrong. lucky me that I was not trying it yesterday :eek: I guess that I know now what you mean. I never tried it, because the word sour is simply sour... but I will. if I am lucky, might be it this week :brow: wish me luck people. If I am not here by Thuesday, you know what happened ;)

[evulik]

oh Sancho that is so beautiful... like a anthem for "coffee member club". what about this? just created...

bonjour coffee,
my dear friend,
for your presence,
I am so glad.

you are the beginning,
sometimes the end,
you are the meaning,
of very long day.

you bring the best of best,
and I would like to thank you,
I feel I need psycho test,
but I know I deserve you.

:banana:

[Koa]

Hello Eva ;), what about not addicted people? Coffee is yucky lol. In any form or state or whatever. On the other hand hot choc :nod:... :p;) that's a completely different matter :D.

I second that... I don't like cofee...Sometimes I think i should drink some to keep me awake, but I can't force myself. And in Italy this is quite strange, everybody drinks coffee all the time... Even if Italian cofee is so strong that is drunk in tiny cups and most people can't stand more than 1 or 2 a day...otherwise they'd never sleep. In England I drunk some coffee cos to me it was like the drink that sometimes children have for breakfast here, that is 1/4 coffee and 3/4 milk... That way I can stand coffee, the Italian way it's just too bitter.

[evulik]

oh I know what you mean. the tiny tine cup ... and the feeling when you take one or two... warm spreading your body... you feel very hot, suddenly cold and hands shaking ....
the children coffee... something like this I drink. but more like 1/2 coffee and 1/2 milk... I love it...

[Sancho]

Eva, C'est Bon - C'est Bon!

Let's make up a song about red-red wine next. It's all those little indulgences in life that make it worth living eh?

I think the Italians have the right idea with respect to coffee. Here in the US, half the time you get a little styrofoam cup of coffee and it looks like a clear beef broth. I mean you can see the bottom of the cup through the coffee. That's just coffee flavored water. You know, what's the point?

[evulik]

merci beaucoup :) actually that poem was created for one garcon long time ago :mad:

for the red wine? (are you french?) I had a discussion about red wine with my french friends recently. I love it by the way, when having horrible day (as today) I just sit in the evening with a glass of wine, listen to relaxing music, e.g . Le peuple migrateur (if that's the correct spelling) or Norah Jones and I feel great... we usually mix it here with cola or sprite. 1/2 or 1/3 of cola and 2/3 wine. depends on person. have you ever tried it? yummy :brow:

[ravana]

LOL You have such little faith in us. :D You know us too well.
I'm interested in trying just to see what it is. But I'm crossing my fingers that your sour cream is the same as my sour cream, because I've never heard of it being used for salad. Salad dressing here is usually olive oil with vinegar.


But here salad dressing is different: oil (corn, olive etch), sour-cream, mayonez. And they're rather different in taste. There's one Russian famous, tasty salad "stolichniy" (table), sour-cream is used in it. If you want to feel different salad taste then try it.

[ravana]

Sancho, I read your anthem. It reminds me English-teaching book by Excersley. There was one thread about in which country you can drink the best coffee and tea. And mr. Priestley's student-Pedro who travelled all over the world put last comment and his teacher agreed with him. His comment was like: "The best coffee I've ever had was in Turkey, the best tea was in England."

Ok, you forgot about Turkey.

[ravana]

Eva, good luck!
Hope to see you in safety here by Tuesday.

[Koa]

I think the Italians have the right idea with respect to coffee. Here in the US, half the time you get a little styrofoam cup of coffee and it looks like a clear beef broth. I mean you can see the bottom of the cup through the coffee. That's just coffee flavored water. You know, what's the point?

Well as I said I don't drink coffee so I don't care,but usually Italians are DESPERATE when they go abroad, about coffee! (as well as about food in lots of cases). When I went to London with some friends, they repeated every morning at breakfast that that coffee was like the one given to old people at the retirement house... :D We're used to having it strong, you know :)

[Sancho]

Koa, I know exactly what you're talking about. Infact, not long ago I was in London (actually Crawley, a small town near Gatwick Airport) and after eating a British meal - tastless chicken with tastless potatoes although yummy peas (the British do like their peas) I came up with a new saying:

When in Rome, do as the Romans...
When in England, eat at an Italian restaurant

Ravana, how in the world could I have left out Turkey; the country with possibly the greatest coffee lovers in the world? I'm going to add an entire verse dedicated only to Turkish Coffee.

[Koa]

When in Rome, do as the Romans...
When in England, eat at an Italian restaurant



LOL!!! :brow: ... :banana:

[Sancho]

Italian food is soooo gooood!

Eva, no m’am,

I’m not French, but I do like French Fries. Oh yes, also I like French Toast – with French Roast COFFEE! Yeah!!!

As for French Wine: C’est si bon. It is so good. There is nothing else in the world like a good Bordeaux. My wife likes to make a big pitcher of sangria with a bottle of French Beaujolais, 7-UP, and sliced oranges.

Hey, so your cola-red-wine idea gives me an idea for a new song:……. I hear ukuleles:

Tiny bubbles, in the wine
Tiny bubbles, make me feel fine
Tiny bubbles, make me warm all over

OK, so maybe that was Don Ho’s idea.

[evulik]

hello ravana,

I am in a hurry. just a small note - IT WAS DELICIOUS :thumbs_up well, the whole family liked what I did, and if that's exactly what you've been talking baout ( I followed your receipt), I understand why you like it...
THANKS for tip.... I owe you one...

[ravana]

Hi Eva! I'm so glad... I was waiting for your comment scaring that you would dislike it.

addition adwise:
1.If you would like to do it again you can add it into milk instead of sour-cream.
2.before having it stir it.- I forgot to tell you.

sancho, Azerbaijan's meals are as delicious as Italian's, maybe more than.

[Koa]

mmm kebab...

[emily655321]

Oooh... after eating little but cereal and dried fruit for the past week (attribute it to laziness) I can only say... *drool*

:D

[evulik]

hi ravana, advices accepted. I would like to do it again but with syrup or someting sweet. but I like the version sour cream plus milk. really great. it was also caused by the tough day I had and it was so.... FRESH having it in the evening, fascinating... I should stop complimenting it otherwise whole forum would be about this ;)
and the pictures of yours. do you imagine that right now I am starving at work? try to guess what those picts did to me :D

hi sancho, great idea that of your's wife. honestly I did not have drink for some time now... I ought to have one today... many things to celebrate. I will try the way you mix it. sounds interesting. once we did similar things, mixed sangria with some sprite or something and added a lot of fruit into it. imagine the amount of people drunk etc etc... and then the whole garden was full of **** that was eaten by dog and so this poor dog slept for two days completely drunk also :D survived and is very well, no damage on animals in my house, do not worry. just no one will ever forget this night...

[emily655321]

Slightly off topic (surprise!), but speaking of getting drunk off fruit, ;) have you heard of this?--> You take a whole watermelon, drill a little hole in the top, and insert a funnel. Then you fill the funnel with vodka and leave it, checking now and then and when it has drained empty, you fill it again; you keep doing it until the melon has enough vodka for you (either until it's as much as you want; til it won't hold anymore; til the bottle's gone; til you think the paramedics will still be able to recuscitate you... ;)). Then you can cut it up and serve it like you normally would -- probably a good idea to tell your friends it's not normal watermelon, though. That is, assuming your friends lack their senses of taste and smell. :p

[verybaddmom]

here that is called 'yukkaflux' Em. and if done right there is very little to give away the fact that there is vodka in it. i think that is why one chooses vodka, it has little scent or flavor on its own. anyhow, here we also use other fruits and soak them in alcohol and then eat them. this is a great way to get immediately drunk and stupid. i havent done it for years.... ;)

[emily655321]

Hehehe sounds like a good way to play a dirty trick. :goof: :D

[evulik]

this is what I have been talking about.... something you never forget... and I personally do not want to try again :lol:

[emily655321]

Hahaha! :D Don't worry, I'll try it for you, Eva. ;) *evil plans percolate*

[evulik]

hehe thinking about it twice.... :brow: no no no I must resist, it was terrible :sick: but in my thoughts always with you emily, enjoy *cheers*

[elibennet]

Morning. Bar. Coffee. Cigarette. Bliss

[verybaddmom]

mmmm.....coffee... cigarettes.... morning ....bar?

[emily655321]

Hopefully a coffee bar?

[evulik]

hello ravana - question:
if I add syrup into it - what would be the reaction considering syrup as I think of is from fruit and thus there is a part as lemon and lemon + milk is not the best reaction.... :D
asking before having chance to spend weekend on the place where "even kings walk by themselves" ;)

[ravana]

Hi eva. You are very clever. If you haven't asked you would probably spend the weekend their.
Thanks the God!
Were you going add syrop into milk? you must add it into ready gatig and stir it. And the syrup that I meant was a syrup of jam (cherries, strawberries etc)

let me give you another good receipt regarding to gatig. Add into gatig some water (not much) cut cucumbers, greens, salt. Have it with bread. It's also delicios.

[evulik]

oh thanks, this thread is definitely turning into cooking thread. I wish I could give you some receipt, but (unfortunately) I am not a great cooker. living on my own exactly 1st day :D the only thing I cooked was gatig ... thanks for the other one, will try it very soon.... somebody who wants to join me ? ;)
wauuu... I like it...

[ravana]

Oh, eva, I'm really very delighted that you liked my favorite drink so much.

Oh, don't think that I'm great cooker. To make gatig and "ovdug" (the last thing) is very easy. I can cook only some easy meals and learned it lately. As I'm going to marry I have to learn cooking.

There's another meal - "dovga" which is also made of gatig, Its cooking process is a little difficult. Bit it worth to do it. It's most delicious. I've never cooked it before, so can't now give its receipt. But I'm going to try to cook it this week. I'll need the help of my mom. Then I will share it with you.

Eva, it's random thought: Maybe then being a great cooker at our meals you would be able to open a little restaurant of exotic meals. ;)

Ps. according to "ovdug". Add quite cold water, not warm ot hot.

[evulik]

oh, it is very kind of you to tell me those receipts, really. Even my boyfriend loved it, althought he was little suspicious at the beginning. I suppose I love it so much because I am in love with cheese and milk and all things that come from it. and it was also refreshing. I will prepare some with that syrup of jam today, so that we can have it tomorrow. yummy :)

to the restaurant, I love to cook, but it should be called "experimenting" :D
I love food coming from foreign countries but Vietnam food.
Will think of some receipt and include it in that thread you started. emily is right, what is better than good book + good food + feet on table ;)

[subterranean]

I dont know whether someone has mentioned about this (i'm too lazy to read from the beginning)...well i'm a coffe addict my self...like 4 or 3 cups a day...then one day my mom told me that coffee is bad for woman's fertility..then i said o really ma? i gave it a checked at this healt journal and she was right.
well her words got in to me then i tried to stop..but i couldnt..so i said to my self.."ok, i believe in God and i also believe that children come from God not from coffee.. so there's no use of trying to stop drinking coffee only cause i want to have children"
Bit ironic that i have that kind of thinking...but hey as long as i can drink my coffees..anything goes..

[evulik]

I heard the same, I also checked and it was true :eek2: but I love coffee, just having one in front me yummy I am trying to cut the number down, as I love children, there are days though when I drink up to seven and there are days as yesterday when I need only two.
any receipts or ways how to prepare coffee? maybe some of us are preparing it in unusual way and want to share? I drink just ordinary, coffee and a milk. ordinary way of pouring water into it. so how about YOU?

[verybaddmom]

im the same as you evulik but not milk, cream. the richer the better, although i hate how too much cream makes the coffee cold. coffee must be hot hot hot. i actually have one of those things that sits on my desk and plugs in (cause i dont have enough power sucking gadgets at my desk :confused: ) and acts like a small burner to keep my cup hot.
on occasion i will add sweetened condensed milk instead of cream and sugar(i understand that is how it is often prepared in Thailand). it adds a completely different flavor. however, i am not a fan of all the flavored creams (irish cream and hazelnut and so on) just because to me, coffee should taste like coffee. if i want irish cream, i'll open a bottle of bailey's. ;)
how bout Chai tea? anyone here a fan? i will quite often brew a pot on the stove in the evening. a couple of cups of milk, two chai tea bags, a few spoons of sugar, mmmmmmm........i have this silly little whip thing too that makes the milk all frothy for extra decadence. i pour it into a cappucino mug and drink it over a crossword. wonderful!

[Koa]

ok, i believe in God and i also believe that children come from God not from coffee..


LOL, it was very funny put like this...
(ok so if I'll ever have a bf I'll start drinking coffee instead of using other ways to avoid the kids...;) :D)

As for the question of particular ways of making coffe...well, how do you make coffe? With a kettle or stuff? In Italy we normally use a thing we call 'coffee machine' or 'moka', I don't think I've seen it elsewhere...

[verybaddmom]

in canada we have coffee makers too...you put the ground up beans in a basket and pour a potful of water in the top and it drips through and Voila! coffee. i only use that when we have company and need more than two cups at a time, because we also have a french press, and that is what we make coffee in for mornings. you put the grinds in the bottom of this large glass jar thing with a handle on it and add boiling water. after about four minutes or so you put the top on and there is a plunger type lid with a sieve on it. you push it down and it forces all the grinds to the bottom and the coffee just pours right out. i find that the coffee retains more of its bitter flavor with the press, and is much stronger...perfect for mornings. the problem with it is that the coffee you get out of it really stains coffee mugs, and therefore, i assume, teeth. we are vigilant about the use of whitening products. :nod:

[amuse]

love french presses. really great for green tea, too. (and other loose teas, of course. ;))
yum! was about to ask about them when i saw your post.

[evulik]

oh well, just usual way - either by moka-coffee machine (I am not sure if that's the same as in Italy), or when in a hurry pour water on coffee ;) I love what I drank in France, called "Cafe Ole", hope I have it correctly. There is a lot of milk milk milk, thus the coffee is not that strong. And I love COLD coffee (we have saying in Slovakia - that cold coffee makes us prettier, imagine the beauty in me :D )
and I do not like creams, sugar and other things in coffee. I did not like milk either, but then I fell in love with milk and you know how it is with love, once you are there you are deep inside ;)
for the whitening toothpathe, cannot be missed, with the amount of coffee I drink without whitening tootpathe I could be a sun during nights :lol:

by the way, the question was put so that I pick up some new ways from you guys... thanks for tips...

[subterranean]

i rarely use coffee machine/maker, ussualy i often mix the coffee my self, and i thin it taste much better. and i prefer dairy creamer instead of milk, add some cinammon sometimes

[Koa]

oh well, just usual way - either by moka-coffee machine (I am not sure if that's the same as in Italy), or when in a hurry pour water on coffee ;) I love what I drank in France, called "Cafe Ole", hope I have it correctly. There is a lot of milk milk milk, thus the coffee is not that strong...

I think it's 'café au lait', which just means with milk... We call it 'macchiato', spotted - Though there's probably much less milk.

I have attached the pic of the coffe machine we normally use, hope it works.

[subterranean]

O gee..looks like an ancient one to me :D :D

[evulik]

hi KOA, I have the same at home :) but my father travels a lot and he brought it from somewhere, so we do not have it in Slovakia... usually... I love coffee from it and then I add half glass of milk into it and that's it yummy

[Koa]

O gee..looks like an ancient one to me :D :D

But that's what we normally use... not electric bar-style ones...
what do you use then?

[emily655321]

It's a percolator! Like in the Maxwell House commercials.
Ours is buried somewhere in the back of a cupboard, since my mom just buys one or two cups a day at Dunkin Donuts and my brother makes a thermos of instant to bring to work. My dad drinks tea. But our thing looks more or less like this:

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[Koa]

ah, you technologic ones :D

i've seen those in england, i dont know anyone who has that here... we like oldfashioned ones :)

[verybaddmom]

that's almost identical to the ones we have here.
mine has a stainless steel carafe instead of a glass pot, that's really the only difference.
oh, and they run anywhere from about 20.00 at WalMart to 250.00 (cdn) at the finer kitchen shops. of course, there are many different features you can get: timers, so the coffee is brewed right when you get up, steamers for making cappucinos etc.

[emily655321]

I miss the electric pitcher things they have in the UK. I don't know what they're called, but there was one in every hotel room and they were really handy. You fill this big plastic pitcher with water and plug in the cord and it boils the water without a stove, for tea.

[evulik]

oh you do not have it where you live? It is really useful, especially in the office. you know those day, it is raining hard, you feel really bad, without energy and gray and then you use this, makes a coffe or herbal tea (mint) and suddenly life is fine ;)

[ravana]

Salam eva!
you know i began to have a cup of coffee every morning at 11. It's my coffee time. Before I had it just when I was offered. Sometimes I want more but can stop myself on time thinking that if not then I'll end up as eva: 5 litres a day, oh sorry I confused it with your tea, 2 litres a day :D

[evulik]

hi, is salam the same as salam alejkum, alejkum salam? or is it just for movies?

for coffee, well I bought myself a coffee that is weaker, so I hope I am saving myself. and I drink just 4 per day of that weak one. is it ok like this? I do not think so, but better for sure.
I drink coffee when I wake up, on my way to bathroom and start the coffee maker and when I am out my coffee is ready ;) and then I have few during day. But I started to drink also herbal tea, do not want to kill myself.
It is great that I serve as your example... even as a bad one ... btw how are you? I was not very often here last few weeks, it will be sooner now... hopefully.

[ravana]

Hi Eva, Salam is greeting, short form of salam aleykum. We use Salam most. Aleyka salam is answer the greeting.

Thanks, eva. I'm also not very often here last weeks. To stay in city in these hot days is impossible.

[evulik]

yes I know what you mean. It is horribly hot, so hot that I do not like my coffee so much hihi luckily last three days were rather cold, so I could enjoy it... any plans for holidays besides coffee ? :D

[subterranean]

speaking of coffe, i just got this spam ads in my email.."gevalia kafe..", which claimed has given extraordinarily pleasure for over 150 years..

funny, i never heard of it..not even once