Comments on: The Quest for the Perfect Cup of Coffee

By: John Burgess

John Burgess — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:39:37 +0000

Oh, I get it. And I avoid it like the plague! I truly have to hold my nose going down the aisle of my market where they have all that ~~crap~~ stuff.

I can drink it black, but I prefer it white. I really do like 'Arabic' coffee with the cardamom or Turkish/Greek without. Those, of course, have to drunk black.

By: Anderson

Anderson — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:52:49 +0000

I’m curious, though, what a ‘perfumed’ coffee might be. Sorry, didn't mean to be interesting inadvertently. My father-in-law calls "perfumed" any coffee w/ hazelnut, vanilla, etc. -- I married into a family of black-coffee drinkers (hey, now THERE is an example of why the hyphen matters!), and only started drinking the stuff myself after we had a baby & I started getting 4 hours of sleep per night. So I'm not anywhere near y'all's station on the Coffee Wheel of Karma. Just ordered the Melitta Dark for my wife, though -- anything I can do to get her off that burned Starbucks brew ...

By: John Burgess

John Burgess — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:07:25 +0000

I'll defer to others' views on the sugar front. I rarely use sugar in coffee and when I do it's just an off-the-shelf Demararra or other raw-ish sugar. Occasionally, the slight caramel taste appeals, particularly in iced coffee. I'm curious, though, what a 'perfumed' coffee might be. To my mind, that suggests something like the Arab addition of cardamom or the Yemeni addition of ginger. Do you mean something else?

By: Richard Gardner

Richard Gardner — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:32:20 +0000

A bit late to the discussion, but as an ex-Nordic lands dweller, I've missed the sugar crystals made just for coffee that you find in Northern Europe, so that your cup gets sweeter as you drink it. Or the coffee sugar crystal swizzle sticks. When you can find these crystals, they are at a crazy price, like this one at Amazon for a pound for $11. This one at Amazon is much better at under $3/lb if you buy 10 lbs of coffee sugar. In Europe this type sugar is about the same price as granular sugar.

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By: Anderson

Anderson — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 02:38:11 +0000

I appreciate the post, though I am myself fond of what my father in law calls "perfumed" coffee. My wife is much more serious, & devoted to Starbucks' French Roast. Perhaps the Melitta will please her.

By: Steve Verdon

Steve Verdon — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:04:44 +0000

The link to the coffee doesn't appear to be working.

Fixed. - jhj

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:27:39 +0000

Im aware, too, that Ive put myself outside the pale because I dont roast and grind my own coffee.

No, that would just make you a liberal elitist LA snob. But using a "French Presse" with European style coffie, well that's just down right American. Cheers.