Coffee or Tea?

[Eutycus]

Distant relative maybe ?

 

[Gene L]

Coffee for me, no tea unless it's iced. Tea (hot tea) does nothing to stimulate my taste buds. Hot tea is like playing a joke on your mouth. I like strong dark roast coffee.

 

[Homesteader]

I tried that whole chickory and dandelion root thing years ago, and decided I could do with a drink of cold water in the morning.

 

[Eutycus]

I never did the chicory thing. But I've never heard it praised. It was always in negative terms. I have yet to hear anything good about this product.

 

[SDSmlf]

For breakfast have drank Red Rose tea since the 1960s. Moved to the Carolinas in 1994 and had to import it for a few years, but it is now available locally. During the day I am hooked on dark Italian or French roast coffee. Have a ‘Myjo’ single shot manual coffee maker that uses K cups. All you need (other than K cup) is hot water. No power at hunting cabin and the boys were tired of the boiled coffee this past hunting season. Got offered $5 for a cup. Guessing they were used to Starbucks pricing. After a little jerking around everyone that wanted coffee got it. WallyWorld’s brand Dark French Rosast K cups are onlyv$0.25 or do a cup.

 

[tenngun]

I never did the chicory thing. But I've never heard it praised. It was always in negative terms. I have yet to hear anything good about this product.

Grew up with some family friends near by that were frequent guest in our home and vis a versa. And older women and her daughter who was a care giver as her mother was partially disabled. They were old south, from Baton Rouge. And coffee with chicory was their regular drink. We kept it in our house. It has to be an acquired taste. I’ve drank a few gallons of us over the years, can’t say I’ve acquired the taste.

 

[Carbon 6]

I never did the chicory thing. But I've never heard it praised. It was always in negative terms. I have yet to hear anything good about this product.

Sanka brand non-caffeinated coffee is made from chicory. been around for a 100 years.

 

[Eutycus]

Well now i guess I cant say " never"on chicory, It seems I did try it several times and didnt even know it. But really what is the point in de-caf? Warm flavored water!

 

[Nyckname]

Well now i guess I cant say " never"on chicory, It seems I did try it several times and didnt even know it. But really what is the point in de-caf? Warm flavored water!

Depends on how bad the local what tastes, and whether or not the chicory covers it up.

 

[Grenadier1758]

When you are in New Orleans and having beignets at Cafe du Monde', you need coffee with a bit of the bitter chickory to tame down the sweetness of the beignets.

 

[nhmoose]

Sanka has always tasted like some kind of waste product for over 50 years IMHO

Only thing worse was Postum.

 

[tenngun]

For ‘experiencing history’’s sake I tried burnt toast coffee once. It looks like coffee and has that burnt flavor that underneath tasted of postum
Celestial seasonings sold a coffee substitute that was not bad tasting .

 

[Carbon 6]

Roasted barley, and roasted corn both make brown water that tastes like coffee. much like real coffee the flavor and the secret is in the roasting and brewing.
Some people think roasting is just burning, and that's what it tastes like. Good roasting is all about time and temp. I've made dandelion coffee that was very good, even chocolaty, Next batch was less than desirable.

 

[Eutycus]

I had a receipe for Acorn coffee substitute from another forum.I'm no fan of caffeineless coffee but I wanted to see what Southern soldiers in the Civil War experienced. Okra was suggested too. I waited too long, the acorns are gone. I'll try it next year, maybe.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

My point exactly, you did buy that( the grounds I mean). So you may as well get the most out of them.

Well you're certainly getting the "most" out of them. FYI the old percolation method is slightly more thorough than yours, and both are getting the most caffeine from the grounds. Unlike public "wisdom", espresso actually has moderate caffeine, and low caffeine compared to percolation or "cowboy boiling" of the coffee.

HEY since you want to get the most out of the coffee grounds, and I don't blame you,..., IF you have azalea bushes, toss the spent grounds under the azaleas at the base of the plants. Azaleas like acidic soil. Coffee grounds help them, especially if the bushes are located next to your house and your house is painted. (water from rain coming off exterior home surfaces tends to be "base" in pH. Used coffee grounds helps to counteract this.)

LD

 

[Eutycus]

I've heard that about how coffee grounds can alter the PH factor.Not just azaleas but any acid loving plants. My soil is just a tad under 7 and dont really need much adjusting for what I do grow. I'm more of a veggie grower than ornamentals.I do compose and grounds , filter and all, all go into the pile.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Cool...but again IF you have acid soil loving plants near your house, the soil there might be over 7 pH, while your yard might test at under 7. Just a good tidbit to remember..., might be good to pass on to neighbors if they have troubles with the plants. I know that one tip, or rather one of two tips...the other is if your tomatoes go black at the bottom of the fruits just as they ripen to red, they need calcium added to their soil.

LD

 

[tenngun]

When I moved to Arkansas in ‘82, I put in a big garden, and pretty much lived off of what I raised.
Lordy did I fiddle with ph. I raised rabbits and had sixty does plus chickens and had lots of good fertilizer. Aghhhhh. Do make you appreciate what settlers went through feeding them selfs.

 

[Eutycus]

My secret ingrediant for calcium is Magnesium Sulfate. Fancy way of saying Epsom Salt. That and an eggshell or two takes care of the calcium needs so my tomatos wont get blossom end rot.

 

[Nyckname]

If you like mushrooms, there's a type that grows in a pail of coffee grounds. You can order a kit from fungi.com .