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More about coffee

Pat

2006-10-06, 3:25 am

I am building a new, old coffee pot and I was wonder what the correct
materials are. Should it be brass or copper or just chromed pot metal.
The neighbors like copper because it adds to their value but my
mother-in-law likes chrome. However, I think a 8 cup coffee pot is
enough but my architect says that 12 cups is standard. Please help me
please everyone. I don't care because I drink tea.

Okay, enough of busting on Sasquatch. So this may be slightly
off-topic, but at least it is a break from you-know who....

A while ago we were talking about coffee. I think it was Kris Krieger
who said he likes an old perc machine. Yuck. Well my trusty old
Philips died. I'm upset. Seems like a decent coffee pot should last a
while. This was only about 15 years old -- hardly broken in. Anyway,
I had to replace the machine and I found that JC Penny has percolators
in-stock in their stores. Who'd have thunk?

http://www4.jcpenney.com/jcp/Produc...22ff70xMnVNoVza
GWxMnVNoVzaGo200B450BCBC06290D425EA3C9D5AE468CA2D0627904&CmCatId=SearchResults|SearchDepartment|SearchProducts|25439&FromBanners=N&S4DeptID=25439&S4PageNum=1&S4PageSize=100&S2HighLight=False&Dep=housewares
http://www4.jcpenney.com/jcp/Produc...22ff70xMnVNoVza
GWxMnVNoVzaGo200B450BCBC06290D425EA3C9D5AE468CA2D0627904&CmCatId=SearchResults|SearchDepartment|SearchProducts|25439&FromBanners=N&S4DeptID=25439&S4PageNum=1&S4PageSize=100&S2HighLight=False&Dep=housewares

I also found the coolest think I've seen in a long time. I would be
great for someone living in a small space like a dorm (or maybe an
office break area).
http://www4.jcpenney.com/jcp/Produc...22ff70xMnVNoVza
GWxMnVNoVzaGo200B450BCBC06290D425EA3C9D5AE468CA2D0627904&CmCatId=SearchResults|SearchDepartment|SearchProducts|25439&FromBanners=N&S4DeptID=25439&S4PageNum=1&S4PageSize=100&S2HighLight=False&Dep=housewares

Don

2006-10-06, 9:25 am

"Pat"> wrote
>I am building a new, old coffee pot and I was wonder what the correct
> materials are. Should it be brass or copper or just chromed pot metal.

Glass. Mr Coffee got it right.
Glass adds nothing to the mix, the other stuff does.

I recently purchased a 1 cup coffee maker and that has to be one of the
rarest animals in the forest.
At least an economical one.
Lots in the $100 range but I'm not married to coffee so I wanted to spend
about $30 or less.
Black & Decker to the rescue.
It does the job but you have to use regular coffee cups cause they fit into
an alcove in the front while the brew is well, brewing.

I normally drink my mud out of about a 20oz Tervis Tumbler cause I don't
like to hold a hot cup, or burn my lipz.

Kris Krieger

2006-10-06, 5:25 pm

"Pat" <groups@artisticphotography.us> wrote in
news:1160107730.226613.27390@c28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:

> I am building a new, old coffee pot and I was wonder what the correct
> materials are. Should it be brass or copper or just chromed pot
> metal.
> The neighbors like copper because it adds to their value but my
> mother-in-law likes chrome. However, I think a 8 cup coffee pot is
> enough but my architect says that 12 cups is standard. Please help me
> please everyone. I don't care because I drink tea.

It's my understanding that copper leeches into the liquid - so "copper"
pots are not pure copper, usually copper plated or copper "clad".

>
> Okay, enough of busting on Sasquatch. So this may be slightly
> off-topic, but at least it is a break from you-know who....
>
> A while ago we were talking about coffee. I think it was Kris Krieger
> who said he likes an old perc machine.

Yup!

> Yuck.

Hey, de gustibus ;) I used to make good coffee (meaning, that suited my
own tastes) in that old thing.

> Well my trusty old
> Philips died. I'm upset. Seems like a decent coffee pot should last
> a while. This was only about 15 years old -- hardly broken in.
> Anyway, I had to replace the machine and I found that JC Penny has
> percolators in-stock in their stores. Who'd have thunk?

[ IRLs snipped...]

That's not "old school", tho' - I mean the things you can put on the
stove (or, in the event of a power outage, on your Rocket Stove or
propane burner). Electrics are 'cheating" <G!>

From Kris Krieger's Encyclopedia and Theory of Everything:

"good coffee" - you can stand a spoon up in it
"great coffee" - dissolves the spoon

<LOL!> Just kidding, actually.

>
> I also found the coolest thing I've seen in a long time. I would be
> great for someone living in a small space like a dorm (or maybe an
> office break area).

Great for a small space, I knwo someone who actually could use
that...sending the URL ;)

gruhn@rararchitects.com

2006-10-12, 3:25 am

> 8 ... 12

Architects are notorious coffee drinkers. If an architect tells you
"normal" is 12 then _normal_ is 3.

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