Coffee with salt

[mjarrels]

If you used the wrong deep sink on a Navy ship, you naturally salted the coffee... Usually a mistake only made once if the Chief drinks coffee and all Chiefs do!

mark

 

[Thomas]

Brin.
"sonofagun...you are kidding right ? You are picky about your coffee and you drink instant coffee.."

Guess I better be dunk'n and running..instant Maxwell for me.

 

[brin]

Brin.
"sonofagun...you are kidding right ? You are picky about your coffee and you drink instant coffee.."

Guess I better be dunk'n and running..instant Maxwell for me.

LOL - Thomas...you never said you were picky about your coffee though ! I have had Instant Maxwell house and Sanka and other instant coffees in a pinch but when given a choice I like the real deal but decaf for me and that will get some folks going right there watch...They will say...Decaf is no good but I got to where the caffeine kept me up at night a too wired during the day. Just getting old I guess..:laughing:

 

[Bird]

instant coffee is good

Lots of folks would disagree, but I think you're right. I think (can't say for sure, of course) that the reason a lot of people don't like instant coffee is because they have not used the right amount in the water.

I didn't know why he put the egg shells in the coffee

That used to be a common thing, but not anymore. I thought it was to settle grounds out of the coffee, especially if you made coffee by simply boiling the coffee grounds in a can or pan of water. Of course there's another way to settle the grounds that I learned to use on camping trips many years ago, and that is to boil the coffee in a can in the campfire, then when you remove it from the heat, drop about a teaspoonful of cold water in the can, and the coffee grounds fall to the bottom of the can.

 

[Bird]

Another thing that seems to have disappeared was the practice of drinking coffee from a saucer. My paternal grandfather was the last one I saw do that. People poured the hot coffee from the cup into the saucer, blew on it to cool it, then drank it from the saucer. It used to be so common that it resulted in a common saying that once something is "saucered and blowed" that meant it was ready.

 

[Thomas]

Brin.
I can understand about being addictive to coffee,I am down to 4-6 cups day from 14-16..you could say Mrs. recuse me.

{{DECAF}} =unleaded..please say it ain't soooooo.

 

[brin]

Brin.
I can understand about being addictive to coffee,I am down to 4-6 cups day from 14-16..you could say Mrs. recuse me.

{{DECAF}} =unleaded..please say it ain't soooooo.

Thomas...I was drinking 2 pots of real coffee a day..way back when..then My Mrs..(LOL) started buying Decaf...at first it was tough..talk about withdrawal..Yikes ! but now it is fine and I drink about 3 or 4 cups of decaf a day...Those were the days my friend --we thought they'd never end..and so on..LOL

 

[charlz]

Another thing that seems to have disappeared was the practice of drinking coffee from a saucer. My paternal grandfather was the last one I saw do that. People poured the hot coffee from the cup into the saucer, blew on it to cool it, then drank it from the saucer. It used to be so common that it resulted in a common saying that once something is "saucered and blowed" that meant it was ready.

Was the coffee kept on a woodstove? I know as a kid we would put our coffee cups on the wood stove to keep it warm.... not unusual to find your coffee boiling in the cup. Little too hot to drink when it is still boiling, so maybe that is where the saucer came in?

 

[Bird]

Was the coffee kept on a woodstove?

Nope, I know my grandparents were using a wood cookstove when I was born, and I guess my parents did, too, but by the time I was old enough to remember, my grandparents had a place in town with natural gas (althought they still owned the farm north of town) and my parents had a butane cookstove. We were really "up town" modern; even had electric lights in the house.:laughing:

 

[dmccarty]

Good coffee bad coffee.....

Some people LOVE Dunkin Donuts coffee. Pretty sure my granny did.

I love coffee. I make the best coffee for me. At work when I shared my coffee maker people asked me to stop making coffee because it was too strong. :laughing: I sure did not think so. The mentioned something about part of the spoon being missing after they swirled their sugar and milk in the coffee I made. :drool:

Now a days I just take my coffee to work in a thermos. Its beaten up pretty bad but it is 20 years old. :thumbsup:

Our water has some minerals in it. Every few months the coffee brewer will not suck up all of the water to make a pot and I have to start it a second time to finish the coffee. To fix the brewer I put some vinegar into the maker and run it to flush out the minerals.

Usually I then run a couple batches of clean water to flush out the vinegar....

One morning before worked I realized that I had forgotten to flush out the coffee maker with water after the vinegar treatment...

I was late to work....

Did not want to remake the pot and "waste" the coffee....

Figure how bad could a little vinegar be?

I went to work with the coffee with a bit of vinegar.

Completely forgot about the vinegar by the time I got to work. I took my first sip of coffee and I suddenly remembered the vinegar. :confused2:

It was not good. Figured I would mosey on down to the cafe and get some coffee. They used to have Starbucks, YUCK, but they had moved to Dunkin Donuts. :thumbsup: Figured if it was good for granny it would be good enough. :licking:

Spent a dollar or so on coffee. Fixed it up the way I like it. Took a sip... :ashamed:

Threw it out and went back and drank my vinegar coffee the rest of the day.

Later,
Dan

 

[Bird]

Dan, I remember going into a Dunkin' Donuts place once; can't remember just when but it had to be over 35 years ago and probably more like 45 years. And I've still never been in a Starbucks. What I've heard is that Starbucks is too high priced for an old country boy like me.

My wife cleans the coffee pot with vinegar, too, but even after flushing it a couple of times with plain water, the coffee may taste a bit different the first pot.:laughing:

My wife was 21 years old when I met her and she drank coffee from the time she got up in the morning until she went to bed at night, and 45 years later, she still does. But we have some friends in Baton Rouge, LA, who only drink one cup of coffee a day, but it's strong enough that I told them they get more caffeine from that one cup than we do for 10 to 20 cups.

 

[RoyJackson]

I used to be stationed with another Navy Chief who put six sugar cubes into a cup of coffee. We called him the "six-lump-chump.":laughing: His hobby was cake decorating, and he definitely had a sugar fixation. His cakes, however, were awesome!

I'm a Navy vet too (PO 1st Class). I've got to ask...what rate was this chief? A Yeoman?

 

[keegs]

My mother used to sip from the saucer and she used to take evaporated milk with her coffee.

 

[Marveltone]

I guess when it comes to coffee snobbery, I must be close to the top. My wife and I roast our coffee beans right before we go to bed. When we wake up the next morning, they've "breathed" just enough to grind and brew at their peak freshness. When I first tasted freshly roasted coffee, I was a bit surprised at the pleasant aftertaste I got while exhaling through my nose! Something I never get when drinking anything that has been commercially roasted and sitting on a store shelf for who knows how long.

Another nice thing about roasting our own beans is, we can use a lighter roast for regular drip coffee, which we drink with a shot of heavy cream (I get a slightly upset stomach without the dairy buffer), and a darker roast for the mocha pot, if we want to make lattes.

Oh yeah, did I mention that green coffee beans are about half the price of roasted?

Call me close-minded, but I can't imagine adding salt to a good cup of coffee.

 

[1950T]

i rodeo'ed quite a bit when i was younger grew acustomed to strong strong coffee. ive got a glass perculator from the 40s that i use in the shop on a hotplate or on the hearth of the coal forge and i put enough grounds in the basket that when its half empty pot i jjust fill it back up with water. if theres coffee left from the day before i jjust chane the grounds and add water to fill. as for brand i dont care. only criteria is hot and under 2 days old :laughing:

 

[jinman]

I'm a Navy vet too (PO 1st Class). I've got to ask...what rate was this chief? A Yeoman?

No Roy, he was a Missile Fire Control Chief (FTMC) just like me. We were both instructors at the Combat Systems Training Center in Mare Island, CA. Nobody would have noticed his excessive sugar use if he hadn't raised so much stink when we ran out of sugar one day at the coffee mess. His last name was Altenburg and the next day one of the other CPOs brought in a hamburger bun and put 6 lumps of sugar between the buns. He made a sign pointing to it that declared it to be an "Altenburger." We all had a good laugh at his expense that day. Whenever anyone wanted a special birthday cake for their kids, they got Chief Altenburg to make it. He did Disney characters and almost any other cartoon character. He was a good guy, but he sure liked his coffee sweet.

 

[Reg]

I'm not really clear about when that pinch of salt is added to your coffee. Was it added to the cup after the coffee was brewed, or was it added to the coffee grounds before brewing? We don't do it, but I can remember when my mother put a pinch of salt in the coffee grounds before brewing it in the old stove top percolator.

Good point.
It will raise the boiling point of the water, though perhaps only slightly.
I admit to liking it, but we are out of the salt/caffeine habit right now.

Gotta believe it speeds the absorption of caffeine into the blood......
Oh well, many things that taste so GOOD are so BAD for us, gotta die of SOMETHING one day.

 

[dave1949]

I can't imagine putting salt in coffee. People generally like the taste of salt, so it can be substituted for actual good coffee flavor, just like on food I suppose. Or it may cover the taste of the water the coffee was made with. When I eat in a restaurant and all the food is over-salted, I know they aren't doing a very good job of cooking :laughing:
Dave.

 

[user.69169]

Well now there Mr Bird I tell you this man has saucered himself a few hundred gallon of coffee in his time. Moma used to serve coffee so dang hot wasn't any human could drink, she said it kept the bugs from landing on top, and if they did they clumped up into a little ball you could flick off with your finger or blow off.

I think the world started going downhill fast when people stopped using saucers and went tojust setting mugs on the table or the counter. Shoot many a tablecloth been wrecked forever with a coffee stain for the want of a saucer. To this day my oldest sister Zee will not eat in any resturant that don't put a saucer under the coffee, she just flat out can't tolerate that lack of couth. No my little sister she don't much care, don't hardly drink coffee out anyplace less she brings her own.

Moma taught all her kids how to make a good pot of coffee, you get the pot down and swish it out with clean water, then you put in enough coffee and chicory and water and boil that pot for at least 15 minutes. then you let set a few minutes so the grounds settle and pour it off into the cups. If you know how to pour don't hardly any grounds get in the cup, and them that does you strain out with your front teeth.

Back when Me and Mush got them new road tractors bosses crashhappy boys thought they was getting we figured out how to mount us up a couple coffee boilers right there next to the exhaust. You can boil up a pretty decent pot going down the road, but you gotta drive careful and stuff spout of the pot with a ball of cottin. I seen a lot of fellows with strange looks early in the morning when that Detroit smelled more of coffee than it did of diesel. Funny as all getout when you lift up the hood and pour a good myg of hot steaming coffee and watch people staring, ain't none too sure how it being done and most too scared to ask.