hey cawfee drinkers

[zim]

i have a keurig but the cawfee always ends up tasting like water. how do i make cawfee that doesn't taste watery and has more cawfee flavor?

i really like those girly white mocha / iced coffees you get at starbucks and what not, those are full of ice and somehow don't taste watery

i'm tired of asking the computer for help, someone school me

[Grudge]

For the last 3 years, I have made my cawfee in a Bunn machine. I use ground cawfee that you add in a filter paper that gets hots water poured on it through the machine. I do end up pouring over hot water over the cawfee in the filter as well because the water from the machine doesn't hit all the cawfee so I'd be missing out on all the essence. I've never felt that my cawfee "tastes like water". Are you drinking decaf or something?

[Methuselah Honeysuckle]

i have a keurig but the abzu's beverage always ends up tasting like water. how do i make abzu's beverage that doesn't taste watery and has more abzu's beverage flavor?

i really like those girly white mocha / iced coffees you get at starbucks and what not, those are full of ice and somehow don't taste watery

i'm tired of asking the computer for help, someone school me

Those little cups don't hold a ton of cawfee. So once youve poured a cawfee cups worth of liquid you get a fairly weak brew. However, some of those machines have a setting to change the strength of your beverage. So, unless there's a setting you can change on there you will continue to receive bitch level strength drinks.

Iced cawfee is generally done with a more concentrated brew so when the ice does melt its not watering anything down. You'll lose your mind trying to get a quality iced cawfee out of that machine.

Just kick that thing to the curb and invent in a regular cawfee pot or a french press setup if you are feeling fancy. That's gonna let you really dial in the way you prefer it

[jawn galliano]

i have a pretty elaborate setup, i mostly do pour-overs the last year+. occasionally aeropress or french press, but pour-overs get me the best and most consistent results with the least effort

my kit:

https://www.hario-usa.com/collections/d ... 02-classic

https://fellowproducts.com/products/sta ... 5548721267

https://baratza.com/grinder/encore/

then you just need a kitchen scale, preferably one sensitive enough to measure out to a tenth of a gram. you can definitely get by with a much cheaper kettle, but the stagg is great since it can do precise temp control (cheaper ones typically have set values you can select). ditto on the grinder but that is the last place to skimp IMO, but a burr grinder is a must, skip the cheapo blade grinders, they do not produce a consistent enough grind size. the difference in brew quality compared to a drip machine or a keurig is truly night and day, if you love cawfee it's 100% worth the investment in learning better concocting techniques.

pour-over technique is a whole rabbithole unto itself, i use the kasuya method and it's by far the best in my experience. your brew is divided into two phases, split 40/60. your 40% is in turn split into two pours which controls the sweetness/acidity - in a 300g brew, i do a 40g bloom (15:1 water:cawfee ratio, so 2x the weight of the cawfee) and then 80g; this produces a sweeter flavor that really brings out the fruit notes. the 60% controls the strength of the cawfee, the standard approach is to do 3 equal pours for that phase, if you want something a little weaker you'd instead do 2, or for stronger you can bump it up to 4. so for mine, i do 40-80-60-60-60, and that should take 3 minutes.

[Grudge]

So consensus seems to be, ditch the Keurig and either get a regular machine or pour over, that way you can control how much cawfee goes into your brew.

[Grudge]

The ChatGPT response is:


Q: I use a Keurig machine to brew my cawfee. However, this cawfee always ends up tasting like water. How do I make cawfee that doesn't taste watery and has more cawfee flavor?

A: There are a few things you can do to make your Keurig-brewed cawfee taste less watery and have more cawfee flavor:

• Use less water: Most Keurig machines have different cup size options, so choose a smaller cup size to make your cawfee stronger and more concentrated.
  
  Use a darker roast cawfee: Darker roasts generally have a stronger and bolder flavor than lighter roasts, so try using a darker roast cawfee pod to get more flavor.
  
  Brew on the strongest setting: If your Keurig machine has a "strong" or "bold" setting, use it to get a more robust cawfee flavor.
  
  Use two cawfee pods: If one pod is not enough, try using two cawfee pods for a stronger brew. You can either use two pods of the same flavor or mix and match different flavors to create your own unique blend.
  
  Clean your machine: Over time, mineral buildup can affect the taste of your cawfee. So, make sure to regularly descale and clean your Keurig machine according to the manufacturer's instructions.

By implementing these tips, you should be able to make cawfee that has a stronger, bolder flavor and doesn't taste watery.

[Grudge]

I think the humans in this thread understand the context of your question a little better, due to our more personalized approach from years of interactions.

[zim]

i specifically stated that i was tired of asking the computer for help

[User]

just try before you buy. there are 10000 ways to make different cawfee and 1000 kits with which to do it

i err between moka pot, french press, espresso machine and pour over, depending on the morning. and i mix up the beans, 1kg at a time. i have a few favourites i go back to every now and then

[Grudge]

Well you've got 3 humans saying ditch the Keurig.

[Grudge]

Just keep it simple, get some ground cawfee, throw it on some filter paper, put that in a funnel, pour hot water over it and have that pour into a pot. Use either a machine to do that, or buy a pour-over kit. Don't get into analysis paralysis.

[Mesarthim]

Yeah don’t fuck with those pods, incredibly wasteful and makes for weak cawfee. I just use a regular old 12cup drip cawfee maker and get the ground cawfee of my choice - can make as much and as strong as I like.

[User]

the pods are a blight on humanity

[Grudge]

What's the update Zim

[agony bagony]

get the fuck rid of the stupid keurig, that's step one

[User]

consensus in this period

[agony bagony]

[jawn galliano]

zim did you step your game up yet or what

[Methuselah Honeysuckle]

He probably just drinks sanka now

[jawn galliano]

sanka ::::::::::::

[agony bagony]

i have ein french press that i like quite well, it and i have been friends for many years now

my wife recently got herself a fancy-pants setup on advice from a near-expert fellating lover of ours so i am interested to note the differences

[vO)))id]

[User]

i found a new favourite cawfee from a cafe but it is a bit expensive, us $3 a cup. adds up over a day if i have three. it adds up









to $9

[vO)))id]

grindin' my own cawfee in a moment

[vO)))id]

mabb grindy grind

[User]

how were those burrrrrrs vahmpy

[vO)))id]

They wurrrrrr durrrrrrr .... eeeeeeeeeeee

[User]

i woke up with a mystery pain in my hand

what happened

[vO)))id]

a mystery happened

[Methuselah Honeysuckle]

i woke up with a mystery pain in my hand

what happened

A cramp from shelling out $3 for a cawfee

[vO)))id]

Ah yes. That is the right answer.

Home made brews save a lot of money as well.

[User]

yeah but i am in this weird situation where i can only make progress on this book when i am in a cafe, when i am at home i always get sucked into my day job

[vO)))id]

sounds to me you need a little cup of discipline

[Methuselah Honeysuckle]

yeah but i am in this weird situation where i can only make progress on this book when i am in a cafe, when i am at home i always get sucked into my day job

Take a cawfee with you. Problem solved.

[User]

sounds to me you need a little cup of discipline

discipline is not my strong suit

[agony bagony]

a big cup then

[deckard]

only at weekends

[zim]

i settled on not drinking cawfee, thanks

[Methuselah Honeysuckle]

Pizza cawfee