3w ago

How many have I added?

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To be fair, you gotta be brain damaged to be brewing Folger's 🤮
- I was in military for over 23 years and coffee is coffee to me. Yes, some are tastier than others but at end of day I am just looking for the caffeine. Taste is an after thought when you get woken up at 2am for operations. I also drink it black.
  
  Folger's tastes like jail coffee, which tracks with the "coffee is coffee" philosophy 😂
  
  Army coffee is special. Part of its effectiveness in waking you up is the shockingly bad taste, which you maximize by drinking it black. It's better when it's bad, because you're gonna drink it anyway.
  You want wimpy good-tasting coffee, go join the Air Force.
  
  Its what I drank for 20 years until I got some amazing coffee for my birthday one year. I just couldnt go back. If you've retired from military life and have the time to enjoy instead of rushing for ops it might be time to treat yourself.
  Also, weigh it. Volumes change with different beans and grinds. Weights dont. Kitchen scales are cheap and easy.
- The office buys it, so I drink it.
  Pro tip: A tablespoon to measure is stupid. Use a 1\4 cup measuring cup. 1\4 cup = 4 tablespoons, so 2 1\2 scoops is your 10 cup carafe, and one rounded scoop is a half pot (5).
  
  I buy my own because my job offers nothing, so I get Dunkin original blend and caramel/french vanilla creamer!
- Meh, it's cheap and it's good enough. I like coffee but not enough to spend money on "the good stuff" for daily consumption. And there's no way in hell I'm grinding beans at 6am.
  
  If there's a Winco near you, they have good-might-be-stretch-but-significantly-better-than-Folgers coffee in their bulk section that you can grind in store. It's fairly cheap - no idea if it's a better or worse deal than Folgers. Decent variety of strengths and flavors.
  If you don't have a Winco nearby, you might have something similar- on a scale of [normal grocery store] to [Costco], Winco is kind of right in the middle; I'm guessing it's not the only chain that's like that, and that similar stores will have a similar inventory.
  
  there's no way in hell I'm grinding beans at 6am.
  You act like you have to go outside and break boulder-sized beans apart with a pickaxe, lol. It's the exact same number of scoops, you just put whole beans in your grinder first, then your coffee maker. Literally takes about 5 seconds longer.
  To be clear, there's nothing wrong with liking cheaper coffee, and I don't think the majority of us need or could tell the difference from using the absolute best beans and equipment to enjoy it... BUT, grinding your beans fresh gives a huge improvement to aroma and taste, such that I'm still amazed at the coffee I'm sipping out of my thermos late in the day. And it goes without saying that it improves every morning for me, personally. Most people discover a giant improvement, even using the exact same brand and type of coffee, only whole-bean. Very little experimentation is required to make amazing coffee that tastes perfect to you. Good luck if you try it...
  
  Looking online, it's up to around 50 cents an ounce, personally I'm drinking cafe El Morro, it was around 2.50 for a 10 oz brick, but it's a lot cheaper if you order direct now with price increases. Also it's pretty good coffee.

I have this problem with measuring 3 measley cups of rice for the rice cooker. Even if I count out loud, there's a small chance I have to start over. It's like my brain gets lost in a 5-second time loop between "2" and "3". I suddenly have the attention span of a squirrel.
- I had to make 6 cups of rice a while ago, fairly certain now that I only put in 5 and filled the water up to 6.
  
  You should check out the finger method. You'll never have to worry about having the correct ratios again.

I have a balance on the kitchen table all times and weigh everything. Coffee? 15gm don't need to count shit.
- I need to use mine more, but I always want to only use one vessel, so if I'm going to make something I start throwing in an item and then move to the next item and forget where I'm at. Then I'm like shoot I never weighed the vessel, so I haven't a clue how to figure it out short of pouring it all into another vessel I've measured. So I just take my best guess at how many units I've added
  
  Put the vessel on the balance and tare every time you finish including an ingredient. Always start on zero, don't bother with the math.

My old work had it posted that we were to use four scoops per pot of coffee.
They did not say level scoops.
Requirements unclear, scoop mountain.

Get a 1/3 cup measuring cup from your local dollar store. Two scoops will land you at almost exactly 10 tbsp.
No one should be expected to count all the way to 10 during that shitty period between waking and caffeine!! 2 is much more manageable.
- I use a 1\4 cup just because my brain likes knowing it's exactly 4 tablespoons.
  1\4 cup = 4 tablespoons, so 2 1\2 scoops is your 10 cup carafe, and one rounded scoop is a half pot (5).

That's why you gotta learn how to eyeball it.

You are done when the filter is level full.
- I mean if you want bitter coffee.
  
  More like if you want coffee flavored coffee. Coffee is bitter.
  
  It is the only way to be sure you have enough.

My in-laws always use a half scoop per cup, no thank you. Cardboard flavoured water.
To be fair though I'm spoiled with single origin, roasted to order beans

Step 1) If you are never sure... add just one more Step 2) And then if you forget that... add just one more Step 3) Repeat Step 2.
- I spent a lot of time on places where the coffee is normally brewed a bit stronger (Italy, Turkey, North Africa etc).
  I tend just fill up the filter paper to around to 2/3rds.
  I have also been banned from making coffee at a few offices I have worked since. Their shrill cries of "Who made the coffee!!!!?" were quite fun however.

No offense to anyone who drinks Folgers, but Folgers isn’t very good coffee.
I’m no coffee snob, but it’s definitely something worth spending a little extra money to get better quality stuff. You don’t have to go nuts and get whole bean Jamaican blue mountain whatever, but don’t buy the plastic jug of pre-ground Folgers swill either. Treat yo self.
- I buy the metal can of Hill Bros High Yield because I'm worth it

Folgers has ground cockroaches
- The best part of waking up…
  
  Is Folgers in the trash!
- i wish they'd get rid of the roaches

🎶One, you got to one, you got to one! Two, you got to two, you got to two! Three, you got to three, you got to three! Four, you got to...🎶 Fuck!

I have no idea how many scoops I use everyday. It's always just until it looks right, and close enough to the usual level. Works every time!

Get yourself a tally counter (click counter, hand counter, whatever). As an added bonus, it's also a great fidget toy!
- Just don't fidget while you're counting your scoops. "Wait was that really 3 scoops or did I just get bored and start clicking for fun? Nah surely I couldn't have been THAT ADHD. No. I'd remember if I did that right? Maybe I'd better try to remember how many scoops to be sure, now, how many scoops was that?"

Your at 4. Thank me later
- I can only count to four!

the trick: start to count with 11

kitchen scale is like 15 bucks
- And it makes everything take twice as long. Just leave the right size scoop in the can (don't drink coffee, so idk how much, maybe 1/4 cup?) and you don't need to find anything, just do the one or two scoops.

No fucking way that's my exact same coffee machine that's silver crest

dude i'm a musician and an accountant and i haven't been able to count for thirty years
yeah i play percussion why

Up to the max line on the coffee grinder.

As a non americano, what’s the name of that dirt you brew and drink?
- Tea

Stop daydreaming. Concentrate on what you're doing. It'll save your life eventually.
- no
- "Just concentrate"
  Wow, why didn't I think of that?
  
  If your like me, because you forgot.
  When I was younger and would run I would lose track of everything around me. Hop on a sidewalk and go and daydream, realize I'm 3 miles away and turn around, oops
- Coffee is needed to concentrate. Concentration is needed to acquire coffee. This sounds like a scam.

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