Hello Coffee House!

[colls]

Sorry for going radio-silent for a couple of months. Thank you, brisus for keeping us chatting a bit. :)
How are you all doing?

I thought I'd take a moment and gauge interest in making some more regularly scheduled topics/posts here.

So, TICKY BOXES!

Poll #11952 Coffee House

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 27

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Topics you'd be interested in talking about

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social media trends
16 (59.3%)

general fandom, meta
21 (77.8%)

books, literature
23 (85.2%)

movies
17 (63.0%)

technology, gadgets
19 (70.4%)

writing, creating
19 (70.4%)

house and home
17 (63.0%)

cooking, foodie stuff
24 (88.9%)

beer, wine, cocktails
10 (37.0%)

healthy lifestyle, exercise, sports, hiking
14 (51.9%)

travel
13 (48.1%)

pets
11 (40.7%)

other (I'll leave suggestions in comments)
1 (3.7%)

Would you be interested in hosting a discussion post?

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Sure, I'll volunteer
7 (28.0%)

No thanks
18 (72.0%)

What country do you live in?

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Which would you rather? (choose as many as you want)

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take a walk
15 (55.6%)

read a book
25 (92.6%)

take a nap
12 (44.4%)

have an engaging discussion with a celebrity
6 (22.2%)

go shopping
8 (29.6%)

eat pancakes
13 (48.1%)

watch TV
14 (51.9%)

something else
9 (33.3%)

In the meantime, does anyone want to talk about coffee?
How Drinking Coffee Could Improve Your Health

Do you drink coffee? Tea? other caffeinated beverage?
Favorite? Least favorite?

Comments

[arethinn]

I drink both coffee and tea.

I would like to be more of a tea snob but I often feel it too expensive to justify, since I don't drink tea every day and when I do it's more of a "utility beverage" - I just want something warm, or whatever - than enjoying the tea for itself. I don't have a proper tea "layout" with a good pot and nice cups and all. I would really like a glass pot so I can use those "blooming flower" teas, but again, kind of a lot of expense to justify when I am the only real tea-drinker in the house.

Coffee, we have an Aeropress in my house, and it's really true, if you follow the directions precisely it can make mediocre coffee into quite good coffee. It does not, IME, make excellent coffee better, though, nor can it make bad coffee very good. We tend to use it kind of wrong (water too hot, wrong proportions) on purpose, though, because the first time we tried it it was so successful at avoiding the bitter properties etc. that our palates hardly registered it as "coffee." So we add some of that back in by purposely screwing up the technique.

[colls]

I don't drink tea enough to feel like I can be any sort of authority on the subject, I like Bigelow's Constant Comment, Tazo brand and plain old Lipton.

Using it wrong on purpose amuses me. LOL- Obviously whatever it's doing isn't making the kind of coffee everyone would like without some futzing about with the details? IDK, it looks interesting though.