Had to google canned coffee.
Speaking of coffee...what about the foil liner?
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Dave Hicks
Friend of Leo's
Not a problem.
D.H.
D.H.
Rustbucket
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We don’t buy canned coffee, but my wife likes to leave the interior foil seal half opened on other things, like a tub of yogurt or a can of mixed nuts for example. I think she follows the broken seal must keep it fresher philosophy.
It makes no sense to me. I don’t say anything about it, but I remove them the next time I open the container.
It makes no sense to me. I don’t say anything about it, but I remove them the next time I open the container.
2HBStrat
Friend of Leo's
I think it makes sense to leave it on, too. I bought a new can of coffee for work. I opened the can, leaving the foil attached, and made coffee. The next day someone else made coffee and tore off the foil. I wasn't happy. The foil still being on there has to at least make SOME difference in freshness long term, in my opinion.
trapdoor2
Friend of Leo's
I hate the little nib that's left when you snap off the key. After I open the can, I take it out to the workshop and grind it off smooth...
Nogoodnamesleft
Tele-Afflicted
I've been experimenting lately with Turkish coffee. I don't think it's available pre-ground that fine.
Hand grinder (mortar and pestle here lately - I find crushing things in it and reducing them to dust kind of therapeutic).
Hand grinder (mortar and pestle here lately - I find crushing things in it and reducing them to dust kind of therapeutic).
Buckaroo65
Tele-Afflicted
Is coffee the new tonewood?
billy logan
Tele-Afflicted
I prefer an honest pre-ground coffee from a can to the usual Starbuck's black coffee.
I've been trying various mail-order whole bean coffee, including Peet's. All have bean better than both of the above, but not as great as I remember the old school Peet's. And kind of expensive.
One time only, Victor Allen coffee's Organic Peruvian whole bean was great, and way le$$ than 1/2 the price of any comparable. But it disappeared from their offerings
Btw it's not that my taste buds are losing discernment with age! --- I can really appreciate even unbuttered toast.
(Maybe it's the single bite of kimchee I precede the toast with. jk)
Inner seals, throw 'em out. Yogurt inner seal, throw it out. However: the heavy plastic lids on round-container raisins and on Hershey's baker's chocolate cut-off oval-shaped containers don't seem really airtight. I always intend to, but never do, seek out a gasket-like little sheet of slightly-compressible material better to seal between the container and the lid. Just for ur info! haha
I've been trying various mail-order whole bean coffee, including Peet's. All have bean better than both of the above, but not as great as I remember the old school Peet's. And kind of expensive.
One time only, Victor Allen coffee's Organic Peruvian whole bean was great, and way le$$ than 1/2 the price of any comparable. But it disappeared from their offerings
Btw it's not that my taste buds are losing discernment with age! --- I can really appreciate even unbuttered toast.
(Maybe it's the single bite of kimchee I precede the toast with. jk)
Inner seals, throw 'em out. Yogurt inner seal, throw it out. However: the heavy plastic lids on round-container raisins and on Hershey's baker's chocolate cut-off oval-shaped containers don't seem really airtight. I always intend to, but never do, seek out a gasket-like little sheet of slightly-compressible material better to seal between the container and the lid. Just for ur info! haha
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@2HBStrat
You actually make your coffee from ground stuff in a can? Nobody that truly loves coffee does it like that. You foolish, uneducated person.
>>> NOTE >>> I do not actually feel this way; I am simply summarizing about half the responses above.
So yeah: remove the foil and keep your grounds in a tightly-sealed container in the refrigerator.
You actually make your coffee from ground stuff in a can? Nobody that truly loves coffee does it like that. You foolish, uneducated person.
>>> NOTE >>> I do not actually feel this way; I am simply summarizing about half the responses above.
So yeah: remove the foil and keep your grounds in a tightly-sealed container in the refrigerator.
imwjl
Doctor of Teleocity
My wife is younger, better looking, tall, fit and strong so I'd be in bad hurt if a can of coffee were present in her kitchen. She's found a few brands of instant that taste better than basic canned stuff so that can occur when we travel.
Brent Hutto
Tele-Afflicted
I'd prefer sucking on a leftover mango rind to drinking any of Starbuck's coffee. Just the burned smell of it if I'm standing near someone drinking it is enough to put me off my feed.
Timbresmith1
Friend of Leo's
The Illy brand vacuum sealed stuff in cans beats the snot out of many bagged beans, imo.
billy logan
Tele-Afflicted
imwjl - plz name names of your travel instant coffees? I haven't had instant for a long time.
Brent Hutto - Leftover mango rind, if there's any flesh left. And it was a perfectly ripe mango? ... mwah
Brent Hutto - Leftover mango rind, if there's any flesh left. And it was a perfectly ripe mango? ... mwah
Nogoodnamesleft
Tele-Afflicted
Hey, a good friend of mine (who's also a barista) and I even drink instant sometimes. Some of it is really quite good.
As with any kind of cork sniffing, opinions differ greatly.
2HBStrat
Friend of Leo's
Our local Starbucks closed.
Your wife likes instant coffee better than she likes coffee in a can?
Funny you mention that. I use Illy in my moka pot.
And whenever I make bacon, I save the grease and use it in small amounts when making eggs, biscuits, etc. The container is a repurposed Illy can that lives in the fridge.
I also used an Illy can as the guard on my homebrew current-limiting "dim bulb" device I use when powering up a new or repaired amplifier.
imwjl
Doctor of Teleocity
There are two specific ones she will get for convenience or desperation. One is a Starbucks product I'll also carry as better than your 2-3 star hotel stuff in the rooms.
IMO a fresh can or pre-ground can be okay but not for long but above all I have 30+ years of very little argument or disagreement with an amazing women with incredible skills in the kitchen. Also, my own mother takes her side. I pick might battles!
Brent Hutto
Tele-Afflicted
I don't know about "cork sniffing" or being able to distinguish a hint of peppercorns vs. a soupcon of turnipseed in my Upper Mongolian Aribica but I'll cop to being a coffee snob. Which pretty much means I brew it myself or get it at my one favorite coffee shop. I only allow myself one large cup with breakfast and one small cup a couple hours later then I'm done for the day. So I don't waste it on bad or even halfway-decent coffee.
