[SOC] Is it designed to do this ?

Thu Dec 9 22:40:01 EST 2021

Dave,
Just curious if you are Air Force. I was Army and retired in 1992 after 22 years. Anyway, REFORGER of '86 I was in a C5-A that landed in Tulee or Maine. Can't remember. I do know that one of the engines was on fire. I never had no luck in a C5. Got many jumps from a 141. Nice meeting you. I don't care much for the fancy coffee. Hihi!

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  On Thu, Dec 9, 2021 at 18:24, Gwen Patton<ardrhi at gmail.com> wrote:   I've got a cone-style pour-over brewer with a mug valve. You set it on the
table to fill with a paper filter and ground coffee, then pour in your
water. You can let it steep if you want, nothing will come out until you
pick it up and set it on your mug. Then it will drip out the bottom into
your cup. Simple, easy, good coffee. A also have an Aerobie Aeropress. I
use the inverted brew method with it, and it comes out wonderful. I have
one French press. It is also a stainless-steel Thermos container, so once
pressed, the coffee stays nice and hot until you have time to drink it all.

Then comes my Moka pots. I have two, the standard octagonal one, and one
designed for camp use that fits into a standard water bottle pocket on a
backpack and has its own cup on top as a lid. The cup has an insulating
band so you don't burn yourself on it or have to use a towel or something
to hold it. The key with a Moka pot is to fill it to just below the valve
with HOT water, not cold. That way, the grounds don't have to sit in the
filter cone and get hot and have their volatiles boiled out. The water is
heated to boiling much faster over whatever heat source you're using:
stove, grill, coals. After it siphons into the upper pot, pour your cups,
then immerse the bottom pot in a container of room-temperature water to
cool it down. The wait time to remove the lower part, dump the spent
grounds, and clean everything is half or less that way.

At home, I stopped buying Keurig-brand brewers the day they came out with
their execrable Keurig 2.0 models with the built-in DRM to keep you from
using 3rd party pods. I went with Rogers Family Coffee because THEY came up
with the "Freedom Clip", a small orange plastic tab that would clip onto a
Keurig 2.0 machine and declaw it so you could use any pod you wanted. The
way that DRM worked was that a sensor looked for a particular color of
orange around the rim of the upper label. No matching orange rim, no
brewey. With the clip, it ALWAYS saw that color of orange. They gave the
clips away in packages of their OneCup pods, and the coffee was very good.
(And I'm a coffee snob.) They even had a very nice blend of Jamaican Blue
Mountain (two blends, actually, one for the San Francisco Bay line, and a
different blend for their Organic Coffee Co. line). They have the SF Bay
JBM blend every so often, but it's very expensive comparatively speaking.
But even with that, I didn't buy a new Keurig brand brewer for many years.
Instead, I bought the Mr. Coffee brand of K-cup compatible brewer. When
Keurig discontinued the use of DRM on their pods, I bought a Keurig brewer
again.

If I have a need for hot water, while I have a kettle I can put on the
stove, I also have a 4-liter countertop boiler. These were popularized in
Japan, I believe, since they use a LOT of hot water in the kitchen. I can
use it for tea, coffee, ramen, what have you, and the hot water is always
available. (If we keep it filled. It can run dry, and shut itself off.) I
have a commercial descaler compound I use in both the pot and the boiler
that I use periodically to remove lime scale. It works very well and
doesn't make my kitchen smell like I dropped a jar of pickles like vinegar
does.

I'm also finicky about tea. I will drink Lipton or similar if that's all I
have. But I like a black tea I get direct from Sri Lanka every so often,
and if not that, English PG Tips is my favorite supermarket tea. It's an
English Breakfast variety. I used to like Captain Picard's "Earl Grey,
hot", but I got tired of bergamot after a while. Once in a while, a green,
white, or Darjeeling tea is a nice change of pace. I tried a Rooibos, but
frankly, it tastes like mud so I threw it out. I can't drink birch-twig tea
like some who like outbacking can. That's entirely due to getting so
overpowered with wintergreen scent while working as a dorm janitor in
college that I simply can't touch anything with wintergreen, especially
birch beer or twig tea.

Rich, if you properly clean and maintain your Keurig, it shouldn't be a
problem. Washing the tank and the waste drip tray with soap and hot water
is a big help, as is cleaning the pod compartment and the needles. Running
vinegar or descaler through it will kill what the hot water can't on its
own, since it only usually gets to 195-205F, and some few germs will not be
killed without going all the way to boiling, and some must be boiled for at
least a minute or more to be sure they're dead. But chemical action from
vinegar or descaler will take care of that. Just be sure to run a few
cycles of fresh water through the machine to clean that out. I run descaler
through both my machines regularly, so I know their internal mechanisms are
clean, and the tank gets washed regularly. I clean the boiler's tank when I
descale it. With good maintenance, a Keurig is no more of a concern than a
Mr. Coffee or other pump-based brewer.

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73,
Gwen, NG3P

On Thu, Dec 9, 2021 at 8:11 PM Jeff Logullo <jeff at logullo.com> wrote:

> Coffee, eh?
>
> Keurig coffee pods... I just can’t find a “great” one. But you can’t beat
> convenience. So I split the difference:
>
> https://www.perfectpod.com <https://www.perfectpod.com/>
>
> Your coffee. Their filter. Into the Keurig. Fast, tastes great, quick and
> easy clean-up.
>
> 3D print this scoop to make the process just that much simpler:
>
> https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:673872
>
> If you have a little more time (and can spare the grounds), consider the
> Aeropress:
>
> https://aeropress.com <https://aeropress.com/>
>
> And of course, I must mention my source for coffee roasting supplies and
> green coffee beans:
>
> https://burmancoffee.com <https://burmancoffee.com/>
>
> Jeff N0̸MII
>
>
>
>
> > On Dec 9, 2021, at 5:24 PM, Jim Larsen <jimlarsen2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Gwen, this Presto item looks very nice.  I have put it in my shopping
> list
> > on Amazon.  Good price and great functionality.
> >
> > Do you have any strong suggestions for a good quality coffee in a K-cup.
> > And yes, I know tastes vary from person to person but I am still looking
> > for the perfect cup.
> >
> > Thank you for sharing.
> >
> > 73, Jim
> > Jim Larsen, AL7FS
> > SOC Nr003
> > http://www.AL7Fs.us/
> > 1-907-223-3548
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 9, 2021 at 12:08 PM Gwen Patton <ardrhi at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I found, and now have, a _manual_ K-cup brewer. If you can boil water,
> you
> >> can use your K-cups to make coffee. It's made by Presto. I take it to
> >> conventions where I'm not sure of the coffee.
> >>
> >
> >
> >> Presto 02835 MyJo Single Cup Coffee Maker, Black
> >>
> >>
> https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HIXSAXQ/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_VE58B31MD6PWVG8YXKTB?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
> >>
> >> 73,
> >> Gwen, NG3P
> >>
> >>
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