The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #147785   Message #3427129
Posted By: Jeri
27-Oct-12 - 10:38 PM
Thread Name: OK How do you make the perfect cup of coffee?
Subject: RE: OK How do you make the perfect cup of coffee?
Half Peet's French Roast, and (because the taste is "rounder"), half House Blend - one heaping teaspoon of each. Tap water (although it does taste better if I use water with reduced iron content, it's not a load better). Hit the switch on my 4 cup (2 mug) Melita coffee maker. I got it for something like $3 at a yard sale 10 or so years ago, and it doesn't cook coffee, even if I don't drink it right away.

In Korea, I lived for a whole year on Kona coffe made by pouring hot water through the coffee held in a styrofoam cup with holes poked in it. The next time I was in Korea (for another year), I'd upgraded to one of those plastic things that held the filter with the coffee you pour hot water through.

Instant coffee is better than it was, but not as good as the real stuff. It also has (according to what I can find on the web) has about 1/3 the caffeine. The way I make coffee, it may be closer to 1/4 the caffeine.