The Virtues of Black Coffee

[Brendan]

I've got one of these steel french presses, indestructible, take it camping.

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Gonna have to get one myself, I really don't understand why they still bother with the glass.

 

[romaso]

Gonna have to get one myself, I really don't understand why they still bother with the glass.

They can sell you more glass ones! Plus the steel one is double-wall vacuum, so keeps it hot while steeping.

 

[LotusEater]

What a bizarre and strangely entertaining thread.

 

[PipesRock]

Hot black coffee from fresh ground beans is an every day, many times a day, treat. I prefer Kenyan Peaberry varieties but Dunkin whole bean does the trick as well.

 

[Streeper541]

People keep telling me that there are other ways to drink coffee, that I should try something else other than "plain old straight, hot, black, coffee." Even sugar fouls up the taste of a good cup.

I don't see the point drinking it any other way. It's fantastic just as it is.

 

[telescopes]

What a bizarre and strangely entertaining thread.

Ha, ha. It is February. I thought it was obvious, but sometimes, to quote Freud, a cup of hot black coffee is..... just a cup of hot black coffee. Apparently? Humor. It's not what it once was.

 

[kcghost]

I wouldn't drink black coffee if I had a gun to my head.

 

[Tbaggins]

I like my coffee like I like my women. Hot blonde and all over my lap when I drive.

 

[The Amish Tyrant]

I like my coffee like I like my women. Hot blonde and all over my lap when I drive.

Funny, mine usually end up cold and bitter the next day.

 

[UB 40]

One of @anotherbob 's post in another thread got me thinking about Black Coffee. When I was in college, I really developed a taste and a preference for some steaming hot black coffee. I came to appreciate the beauty, the essence, and to be honest, the simple refreshing honesty of black coffee.

Now I recognize that black coffee isn't everybody's so called cup of tea - and that is their loss. Yes, people would stare at me when I was in a restaurant or having a great night out as I sipped up the essence and joy of the slender silky black coffee before me. But I didn't care. I knew what I had and I thought it was too bad for them to allow their own predisposed views on coffee to keep them from enjoying and celebrating share beauty and uninhibited joy.

My parents, to be honest, were not all that happy with me in my choice of coffee. But being a college kid, I didn't really care. This was my time to try new things and explore the world - right?

Anyway, I got to thinking, are there any other coffee drinkers with a similar preference or disposition when it comes to coffee?

Good morning once I read one of your posts I found out your s great tale teller. Now you evolve on a more pragmatic question. But I didn’t get the point. What’s wrong about black coffee?

 

[JOHN72]

Damn it guys, it just makes me want to kick your ass, like a fresh cauliflower. I'm going to send you all to purgatory.

 

[bullet08]

Always imagined a hot black coffee would taste like a hot pint of Guinness. But never does. Only way I have my coffee is in a creamer container with creamer in it.

 

[AJL67]

I used to hate black coffee, on deployment i was suffer it because that’s what there was, horrible horrible black coffee. For years after i would drink it with extra cream and like 4 sugars, i never liked the taste of “coffee” no matter what type of bean or fancy brew method, tried them all and the i went on keto and started to force myself to drink it black, took 3 or 4 months for me to developed a taste for it, and i drink 4 or 5 a day at least so it was a lot of suffering through, now for the last 3 yrs it’s all i drink.

 

[telescopes]

Good morning once I read one of your posts I found out your s great tale teller. Now you evolve on a more pragmatic question. But I didn’t get the point. What’s wrong about black coffee?

Subtext is context.

 

[gervais]

I like a good cup of hot bean water , however I'm starting to favour the leaf juice over it these days

 

[UB 40]

I used to hate black coffee, on deployment i was suffer it because that’s what there was, horrible horrible black coffee. For years after i would drink it with extra cream and like 4 sugars, i never liked the taste of “coffee” no matter what type of bean or fancy brew method, tried them all and the i went on keto and started to force myself to drink it black, took 3 or 4 months for me to developed a taste for it, and i drink 4 or 5 a day at least so it was a lot of suffering through, now for the last 3 yrs it’s all i drink.

Black coffee can be a hard task. Thremember times I’ve been working in

 

[UB 40]

I used to hate black coffee, on deployment i was suffer it because that’s what there was, horrible horrible black coffee.

Black coffee can be a hard task. There was a time everyone got a coffee machine, paper filter and warm plate.

I remember working at a newspaper desk. In the morning the secretary used to brew a can of coffee. In the afternoon there was still some left left on the hot plate. Some black, bitter, acrid smelling fluid. You couldn’t enjoy that stuff, but what can you do other than drink that stuff, when you’re harried, down and out having to much phone calls.

Even sugar or milk added, if there had been some in the fridge, that didn’t turn bad, helped.

And even in some restaurants in the 1970/80 you got that stuff, brewed in the morning, served in the evening. And on top they charged you some bucks for the stale drink.

 

[pappymac]

I really didn't become a coffee drinker until I was stationed on an icebreaker. The coffee was so bad it was sometimes used as cleaning solvent (but my memories of it are still better than Starbucks swill). On one trip, a mess cook was caught cleaning the large coffee pots with a diesel soaked rag. It improved the coffee.

When we got back into Seattle, I learned how good could taste when properly roasted (don't burn the damn beans) and made. I've had Ethiopian, Jamaican, Blue Mountain, Kona and Colombian coffee. My personal favorite is a good 100% Colombian medium roast.

 

[Streeper541]

I used to hate black coffee, on deployment i was suffer it because that’s what there was, horrible horrible black coffee.

Similar story here.
In college I drank it black because that's what I could afford. In the service, that's what was usually available. (In 12 years of service we NEVER once had enough condiments aboard the cutter to last a full patrol.) After a while, you get used to it. Once you get used to it, you start to prefer it.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Also, for guys trying to lose a few pounds, just cutting the sugar and cream from your coffee makes quick work of shedding those. And, I mean coffee… not what telescope is eluding to. Sex definable helps lose weight too.