Morning Java: It's not for amateurs

[Sea Hunt]

These are all nice.........but what do you do for cannoli ?

When (hopefully soon) I purchase my Cape Dory 25D one of my many dreams is to have Italian espresso (Medaglia D'Oro is my favorite) and Sicilian cannoli for breakfast (served around 1000 hours ). I am fortunate to have an Italian bakery nearby and they make cannoli the way my Sicilian grandmother (Isnello, Sicilia) used to make them.

I will drink American coffee but my favorite is espresso served with a lemon twist. Evening espresso will be served "blessed" (that is, with a touch or more of Anisette)

[Ron M.]

Well Sea Hunt, 'D'Oro is also preferred and the brand my grandmother always used,(she was from Canicattini Bagni, in the hills near Siricusa).In the evening she as well 'blessed' her's. I can hear her asking if I would like a little 'blacka' coffee as she called it.......good stuff and wonderful memories. I'm more of a cappaccino guy these days and those finger sized cannoli are easier on the belt.
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[Carter Brey]

Now that's interesting! And I have a birthday coming up.

We've been using the Bellman CX25 for a few years now. It's a stovetop espresso maker that makes fantastic microfoam.

http://www.koffeeklatsch.com/product_15 ... Maker.html

This price seems a little high, we found ours online for about $50. It's a very well made stainless unit.

We also use the Coleman drip coffee maker mentioned above and have been happy with it. For home use we are also Rancilio Silvia users.

Randy

[mike ritenour]

It wasn't long ago when I offered to make coffee while underway, crew would disappear or jump overboard. Something about spoons standing up in the cup......don't know exactly what them meant but I didn't have to make coffee very often.

Now don't get me wrong, I love a good cuppa....nurtured by my Navy years and supported by 35 years diving on the rigs, I'm clearly a coffee addict. However I could never get it right and hated not being able to produce a decent cuppa for my crew's taste.

One day, while surfing the web I came across french presses and then, the product mentioned below.

After due diligence I purchased three one cup individual french presses from Liquid Solutions, their "Frosty Chugg Travel Mugg" was just the ticket.

Don't let the name fool you, its a dynamite one cup stainless steel french press, which doubles very well for your iced G & T's later in the day.

With three onboard we are able to custom brew each crew members coffee. They have great non-skid bottoms, good handles, tight lids and keep the brew hot for a very long time.

With the ability to custom brew, I'm now a happy camper watching my spoon stand up in my own brew, while my crew contentedly sips away.

One store where they can be found is: http://www.buzzmug.com/cart/shopdisplayproducts.asp?, tid=24&cat=Liquid+Solution

Scroll down to the near bottom of the page.

Fair Beans!
Rit

[Cathy Monaghan]

We use a stainless steel coffee press/thermos by Nissan. It's vacuum insulated and keeps the coffee hot.



Good old-fashioned manual drip coffee pots like the one below are great too.



It's amazing how a message thread started in 2005 can be reactivated in 2010 and have so much interest.

By the way, use a kettle rather than a pot or sauce pan to heat the water for your coffee. The spout and the handle make it much easier to handle and you're less likely so spill boiling water all over youself. And always pour over the sink. OXO makes a nice stainless steel tea kettle.

Cathy
CD32 Realization, #3
Rahway, NJ
Raritan Bay

[Oswego John]

Coffee, Schmoffee

Joe, Java, Juice, Eye Opener, Belly Wash, Mud, Grizzly Snot, call it what you want. The end product all boils down (PUN?) to be the elixir of the gods.

Through the years, in unimaginable places, I drank the poorest excuses for what one would have the audacity to call coffee. But hey, that gives one an appreciation for a really good cuppa cuppa.

To this day, I still have fond appreciation of the coffee I was weaned on. Every morning, without fail, I woke to the wonderful aroma of the coffee my mother would brew on the combination gas/wood burning stove that also warmed the downstairs in cold weather.

We purchased our coffee and other groceries in the local A&P store. We usually used 8 O'clock brand. They would grind the beans any way you preferred, right in the store.

In those days there weren't too many fancy schmancy ways to brew a brisk pot of coffee. We used an aluminum pot that had the traditional spout. It had an aluminum top that had a clear glass dome in the center. When the coffee was percolating, the boiling water was drawn up through a tube which reached the bottom of the pot. You could watch the water bubble up and hear it go blip blop as it washed down on the coffee grounds that sat in a perforated basket on the tube. No paper filters to be had.

I guess that we were brought up in a simpler time than is now. That early coffee is still the gold standard of comparison for me to this day. I still remember the early morning chorus that went, "Hey ma, is the coffee ready yet?"

Fond memories from
O J

[Cathy Monaghan]

Hey OJ,

That old-fashioned drip coffee pot pictured in my posting (immediately above yours) is just like the one my mom used to brew my dad's coffee when I was a kid. So that old drip pot is to me, what that old percolator is to you -- ahh, sweet memories. My mom also got her beans from the A&P.

By the way, in 2004, A&P sold their Eight O'Clock Coffee division but they continue to sell it. The closest supermarket to our house is an A&P, so guess where we shop! Oh, and you'll be glad to know that 8 O'Clock Coffee is the #1 selling whole bean coffee in America and you'll find it in most supermarkets, not just the A&P, so you can continue that old family tradition.

Cathy
CD32 Realization, #3
Rahway, NJ
Raritan Bay

[gates_cliff]

My house was the same, that the first thing I smelled in the morning was the coffee my Mom would put on. I remember her telling me that her father-in-law (my grandgather, whom I never met), an itenerant oil field worker, taught her to brew coffee in a percolator and that he said you had to watch the bubbles to judge how dark they were to get it just right.

Someone mentioned egg shells, I recall some of the best coffee I ever had was made by a family friend who added a dash of salt and pepper. The husband was a WWII vet of the Army who literally walked across Euopre, my father was Navy. Anyway, I recall being at their house late one evening and she brewed him a pot of coffe so he "could relax" and evidently she forgot the salt or pepper and he could taste it missing and asked her if she had added it, so low and behold she opened the pot and put in the dash, saying it wasn't as good as adding it before it percolated and that she must be tired to have forgotten it.

Ahhh, nostalgia.

[rghinson]

I perk my coffee. To me it tastes better and the aroma is amazing. Plus you can turn the burner all the way down and it stays hot!!

Reid Hinson
CD33 First Star
Oriental, NC

[moctrams]

Three of us sailed to Bar Harbor last year and it was great waking up to “On the boatsâ€

[Steve Darwin]

You see, I live near Seattle, home of Starbucks. We practically invented coffee here.

! Ha ! Right after moving to New Orleans 40 years ago, I fell in love with coffee+chicory, aka New Orleans Blend, specifically the CDM brand (yellow bag). Hand drip (slowly) through a Melitta filter. Nothing like it. Some New Orleans establishments have been serving coffee since before there was a Seattle. There are a few Starbucks's in the Crescent City, but they're mainly patronized by tourists who don't know any better.

On the boat, though, well, to tell the truth, I usually drink tea...

[Tod Mills]

A Bodum Columbia coffee press and a Zassenhaus knee mill.

I generally use Dunkin Donuts coffee, but mix it up from time to time.

[Tod Mills]

This thread is so old I forgot I had already posted to it!

And what do you know, I'm still using the SAME coffee gear.

[Oswego John]

Yes, the thread goes way back. Back so far that when you posted, the rules were less stringent about giving your real name.

Now, I'm not going to mention any real names to protect the guilty, but there were some people who enjoyed ringing peoples chimes and snapping their garters when they posted.

For example, go back to page 1 and reread posts #2 and #8.

Best regards,
Bubba and Guest

[tartansailor]

This thread is so old I forgot I had already posted to it!

And what do you know, I'm still using the SAME coffee gear.

Not at all!
It was your post that led me to a brand of press that we've been looking for.
Many thanks.
Dick