/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>implying

because theres no froth on that at all, and the white would atleast lend your pond water some depth.

What is a good coffee to drink black? I usually jsut drink whatever black

>>5155602

Light roasts.

but I do OP, all of them time

>>5155624
muh nigga

Because I have tried and enjoyed black coffee and feel no need to assert my masculinity using a caffenated beverage when I prefer a little milk and sugar to smooth out the edges of a nicely balanced roast of coffee

>>5155703

If it has rough edges to smooth out, you're either getting shit beans, a shit roast or are brewing it wrong.

>>5155709
>you're either getting shit beans
>a shit roast
>are brewing it wrong.

This.

I drink black coffee to clear all the horrible shit out of me.

Once clear of all things shit, I am able to absorb nothing but the best music.

>>5155718
OH shit, I thought I was on /mu/.

Replace music with food.

Because I'm not a child playing Daddy.

I do.

I don't particularly enjoy coffee, and I dislike sweets --same reasoning I have with alcohol. Therefore I drink it black when I need a caffeine boost.

>>5155716
good beans go bad eventually as well

>>5155721
get out.

If the coffee itself is good enough, and it's brewed well enough, black is the way to go. If it's Folgers in a Mr. Coffee, I'll put milk/sugar in it.

I drink my coffee both black and with milk and sugar, depending on what I'm in the mood for at the time. Don't really see what's wrong with that.

I have espresso black sometimes. That's the only coffee I drink.

I sometimes do.
But fuck me, those flavored creamers are delicious.

Why aren't you boss enough for canned coffee, /ck/?

>>5156109
Because the only place that sells that stuff around here is 99centsonly, it's waaay out of my way to get there, and they don't even refrigerate the stuff.

Plus, I have a coffeemaker and a thermos.

>>5156109
I feel like the cashier would be judging me, and I buy way too much other stuff to use the self checkout.

>>5156111
Judging you for buying rainbow-colored coffee in a can?

>>5156110
>>5156115
http://global.rakuten.com/en/store/nakae/item/4901777151161/

30 cans for $30.

>>5156116
What about shipping?
How much does that case weigh?
Why does it have to come from japan?
They can never get confectionery products right.

>>5156116
>¥8,200 for shipping to the US
Fuck, that's like $3.65 a can, and that's not even including taxes.

Because I'm racist.

I like ti with milk.

What's /ck/'s favorite time to drink coffee?

I usually drink at around noon or after work (when I had a job), but staying up until 4 or 5 AM is getting boring.

>>5156168
Whenever I start to get a headache I take a pain killer and have a can of coffee.

>>5156168

Before 10'o clock in the morning. Preferably 1 hour after breakfast.

>tfw when i enjoy the taste of black coffee but it makes me anxious when i drink it

>looks up from coffee cup
Hm? Oh, because calling this swill coffee is an insult to coffee. The beans cost less than the water they were brewed in, the pot has been burnt to hell and back, and I watched the waitress spit into the mug tableside. I'm adding milk because it's the only thing that makes this drinkable. Real coffee, though, made from beans of at least reasonable quality, and made within the last half hour or so? I wouldn't want milk.

>>5156109
How sweet is this Coffee? Considering ordering it but I don't drink my Coffee black regularly.

>>5156233
It's not as sweet as fancy drinks from most coffee shops, but it is sweetened. I probably should have chosen a different canned coffee to post in this thread.

>>5156237
I'm just considering because I spend close to 5 USD a day, 5 days a week when I go to my classes, If I could restrict myself to a can a day I could save 90 a month. I'd just like to choose something a little sweeter than straight black espresso.

>>5156239
It sounds like it would be a good fit for you, then. I've tried quite a few different canned coffees and it's one of my favourites. I'm also fond of pic related. It's one of the original brands.

>>5156243
For canned coffee it is good. I haven't had it warm. But for the price(about a dollar and change sometimes less) it is better than the starbucks stuff.

I do
doesn't bother me that other people don't, or that they make my coffee white without asking though. it's just a nice tasting drink.

>>5155624
This

>>5156243
I think I'll buy a case of the Rainbow and see how it goes, it would save me a ton of money, if it doesn't quite fit my tastes, evidently Cafe Au Lait by BOSS is sweeter so I'll find my spot, thanks for finding me a new brand to stick with /ck/

>>5155556
I recently started drinking just so I don't have to worry about having milk in the house at all times. Tastes good man.

I don't drink coffee at all. The taste is too strong. Also, I like to avoid a caffeine tolerance so I can juice myself with a cup when I really need a jolt.

But goddamn, that smell. Nothing like the smell of roast coffee to wake me up.

I learnt that Americans consider coffee without sugar and dairy to be black while we consider coffee with sugar but without dairy to be black.
By our definition, I drink coffee black from time to time.
By your definition, I seldom take coffee black.

Why don't I drink coffee without sugar? Because I don't like it much without sugar.

>>5156183

Try decaf.

It'll just cost you a lot more for the same quality coffee...

>>5156183
drink it more often

I get mad nausea and jitters after my first cup, but once it becomes daily I feel great

>>5155602
I drink dark roasts because I enjoy that strong bitter flavor. Why does /ck/ hate dark roasts?

I've been trying "Bulletproof Coffee" (beans tested to be free of mold + grass-fed unsalted butter + MCT oil) but it's way too rich for me, gotta keep fucking around with the recipe and just getting used to it.

Black coffee is the greatest

Any tips for brewing with an aeropress? How long do you guy steep? How much beans? I've been doing 20 grams steeped for ~4 minutes using the upside-down method

>>5156802

Dark roasts were advertised to hell and back so as to be able to sell sub-par beans to consumers who don't know better by burning them past the point of being able to tell the quality of the beans.

Try steeping a coarsely ground light roast for 3 minutes in a French press with a high coffee-water ratio. It'll come out almost a golden brown and has an amazingly smooth flavour to it. Even people who don't like coffee like it.

>>5156811
But I like strong flavors
That's the whole reason I jumped to black coffee, because tea wasn't dark enough
Also, aren't light roasts more acidic?

>>5156816

I didn't say it was a weaker flavour, I said it was a smoother one.

If I want a really bitter beverage, I'll have a chinotto or something.

Honey in coffee?

You better fuckin' believe it.

I usually do, but it's not because I think I'm cool. I'm just really cheap and don't want to waste precious caffeine space for something oridinary like cream.

If I'm at home I usually use sugar, milk and rum

>>5156866

Try it with a squeeze of lemon juice too if it's a stronger coffee. It makes no sense but it tastes great

I don't usually drink coffee because I don't need it

When I do I get a small black at tims because I have no idea what else there is to order

>>5156873
It makes perfect sense, a lot of good coffees have a citrus like acidity.

>>5156878
>I don't usually drink coffee because I don't need it
but it tastes good
and is very very good for you, even beyond just the buzz

>>5156930
Coffee is far from "very very" good for you.

I drink it black if it's good
Bad coffee is made so much better with some cream

>>5156490
>Americans consider coffee without sugar and dairy to be black
That's not true
Or at least, not entirely true. Around here black coffee is coffee without dairy, but it says nothing about how much sugar you want in it. If you wanted to order a coffee without dairy but with sugar, you'd have to say "one black coffee, two sugars". I won't say you're totally wrong because I don't know how it is in other parts of the country, but it isn't how you said where I live.

>>5156805
I just got one recently. I've tried a lot of different variables but I haven't been able to fuck it up yet. It's very forgiving, I find. That said, the best cup I made so far was like this:
>four scoops of coffee (kind of a waste though)
>fill it with 185 degree water to the brim
>stir it around just long enough to get everything soaked
>let it sit just long enough to get the filter set up and attached
>press and put in desired amount of hot water afterwards
I think the key part here was using a lot of coffee. Like I said, that's a lot of coffee for just one cup, so it's kind of a waste, but it's a treat now and again.

>>5156969
coffee is good for you. the only reason people think it's bad is because of misguided puritanism which assumes anything enjoyable must be bad for you.

>>5157071
>coffee is good for you
>implying

The blacker the coffee, the more of a headache I get from it.

Kind of like with people.

>>5157382
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/270202.php

>>5157071
>the only reason people think it's bad is because...

The OTHER reason is people who won't drink it black. They add a shit load of creamer or milk with over 9000g of sugar/dextrose/shit.

I do when I'm trying to lose weight.

People are wrong though. Sugar is not an acquired taste.

>>5157408
>there are people that think sugar is an acquired taste
wat
isn't that impossible, from a survival perspective

>>5157420
there actually are

go any place on the internet where people talk about tea, and you'll see it posted at least 1000 times

>>5156239
Dude, if you have some space, just cold brew coffee and bring it in water bottles or something.

Would save a ton and you can make it taste exactly how you want.

>>5157423
That's just die hards and autists getting uppity about destroying the natural flavor of the tea, not people who haven't acquired the taste for sugar

>>5156802

Dark roasts aren't coffee so much as they're char. The flavor you're drinking is essentially tar with some lingering coffee tannin. Though that's not to say nobody likes that sort of thing, because drinks that are specifically tar-flavored actually exist.

It doesn't really matter what variety of bean is used in the roast when you go dark because all of its unique characteristics have been destroyed.

The big chain coffee shops love this and push it onto consumers because it means they can use the cheapest, most tasteless beans they want and it'll all be the same in the end when they turn it into charcoal.

>>5156802
Dark roasts shouldn't even be bitter unless it's practically charcoal. They should be really smokey and sweet.

>>5157450

One of the reasons you need to use a dark roast in an espresso machine is because it has few acids and bitter compounds left intact for the high pressure process to force out of the grounds, so the resulting shot isn't overwhelmingly bitter.

If you keep roasting to french roast darkness and beyond though, you start creating a lot of phenols and terpenes which are a different kind of bitter than the natural acids and tannins in the bean that you destroyed getting to an espresso roast.

I drink it differently depending on my mood and what I'm working with.