Drink Coffee?

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I don't... and haven't had much desire to start... despite usually being dead tired in the morning.

I guess the actually process of starting a coffee machine in the morning... or even maintaining a coffee machine is just too much for me to deal with.

I haven't really acquired a taste for the stuff either... though I probably could.

Some at work and alot at college but rarely now at home. Tea is alot more friendly to my system. Though been awhile since I had tea.

I'll take good coffee over any form of alchohol any day of the week. Tolerance seems to be lower now though, which is a plus for health and student budget reasons.

Last edited by Crazy_Ben on 07 Aug 2007, 12:11 am, edited 1 time in total.

I agree with Crazy_Ben. A Coffee beats a G&T any day. Lasts longer, too.

May I suggest a french press? It is basically a large glass beaker with a plunger.
I can purchase one for about 20 bucks US.
you heat the water in a kettle on the stove, or in the microwave, in the beaker you put in a couple of tablespoons of ground coffee, then when the water is just about to boil, you pour it over the coffee up to almost the top and let it sit for about 5 minutes. Then you take the plunger and gently press the grounds down. Pour off the filtered coffee Voila. . perfect coffee!

I have the first cup strong, then I pour in more hot water to dilute down the second cup, but if I only have time for one, then I have another cup for tomorrow just as strong cause I leave it in the french press and heat up another fresh cup in the microwave.

and to clean it? I just run the beaker with the grounds in the bottom full of water, start it stiring with a rubber scraper and flush the toilet and pour it down while flushing!
done

of course, the grounds are wonderful in the garden, the roses love them!!

cheers!
Merle

Yes. I find that tea will perk me up but the same amount of coffee (just a cup or two) alters the way I process information, in a bad way. It tends to run the risk of pushing me into a state of depersonalization. I don't know if there's slightly more caffeine in coffee or what the difference is, but I don't care for it at all. (The feeling, I mean. It tastes great!)

Mostly I stay away from significant doses of caffeine, period.

Sometimes.
I used to love cappucino, as the stuff on top was really frothy, and it separated the chocolate powder on top from the coffee, but now it's a lot less frothy, it mingles with the coffee and ruins the chololate.

I am allergic to coffee - it makes me vomit. A lot.

I can have tea, although it does seem to make me more tired!

I have to rely on diet cola drinks for my caffeine fix. I know that there are all sorts of unhealthy things in diet cola, but it is the only caffeine I can have that I can stand that taste of and that doesn't make me ill or tired!

Hey, were you tested for that allergy or was it just something you noticed on your own? And do traces have a bad effect, or only larger quantities?

Don't mind me, if that's too nosy.

Coffee coffee yum yum yum.! !!...I usually drink it black. I am totally addicted, although when I drink it, it usually makes me reeely sleepy. Instead of using it to wake up, I use it if I am up too early and want to go back to sleep. It has been a long term ritual for me...even though I wish it really did wake me up instead of the opposite.

I heard recently on one of those news blips that anything other than filtered coffee can adversely affect your cholesterol level...something having to do with the oils in coffee not being filtered any other way. i generally use unbleached filters...though my newest coffee maker has a reusable filter, and I used that for a while, then realised that that..like the french press..ect...it does not adequately filter out the oils that can raise your cholesterol lever...so I swithed over to filters again.
Also I mainly only do whole bean coffee...

I can't stand any hot drinks (because they are hot!) I am very temperature-sensitive and it would physically scald my mouth to drink a very hot drink. I don't even like the sensation of swallowing warm drinks.

I have never understood why most people are totally incapable of going more than a couple of hours without a hot drink, even in summer. It is just completely incomprehensible to me.

I mean, why go to all the hassle of boiling a kettle etc when all you need to do is turn on a tap/open a can of a delicious COLD drink instead? (There is always Red Bull if I need a caffeine fix.)

I can just about force down tea if I let it get cold first, but hate the bitter taste of coffee (although coffee-flavoured things are usually OK).

One of the reasons I am uncomfortable when people come to my house is that I never know when or how often to offer them tea or coffee. For some reason people think it is rude if I don't. (I am not being rude, it is simply that it doesn't occur to me, because I don't want any myself).

And when caterers ask "tea or coffee?" why do they always assume I will want one or the other and look totally disconcerted when I say "No thanks - have you got anything cold?"

Coffee is great it definitely has it all over booze... i dont drink any alcohol but quite a bit of coffee.

i LOVE French Press, nobody lives forever


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6242467/



people try to pin a culprit" when it comes to coffee and cholesterol, "but people do not live in an isolated world," says Dr. Gail C. Frank, a professor of nutrition in the department of family and consumer sciences at California State University Long Beach. According to Frank, there are "several pieces to the coffee story," including not only whether people drink filtered or unfiltered coffee, but how much they drink and what they are doing besides drinking coffee‹such as smoking.

While unfiltered coffee may contain substances that raise cholesterol levels, many popular coffee drinks sold at coffee houses seem more like desserts than beverages to Frank. The "bolts" of cream and sugary calories raise questions of their own about coffee's effect on cholesterol, she says.

When making decisions about coffee, Frank encourages people not to look for a yes or no answer. It's not a simple question of "do drink coffee" or "don't drink coffee," she says.

Instead, Frank encourages people to "filter through" their own lives and their own cardiovascular risk factors to make a decision about how much and what type of coffee to drink.

when i drink coffee it makes me drowsey

I live for coffee. Nothing makes me feel happy all over like the aroma of coffee freshly ground or freshly brewing. Mmmmm, gonna go make a pot now.....

Coffee is my eternal friend.

In college when I was looking for the fix, I would drink a mug full of black espresso every morning.

Nowadays I'm in for a more mellow groove, and two cups of 1/2 caf is perfect for me. I regard decaf as a waste of beans and water, but regular coffee revs me up too much. The 1/2 caf is the happy medium for my tastes.