Poll: Flavored coffee?

[MikeMike]

just buy better beans...

 

[lxskllr]

If you like: Buy some vanilla beans (1 whole bean for a couple cups of sugar). Slice the bean in half, scrape the insides into an airtight jar and toss the husk in there too. Fill with granulated sugar and let it sit for a couple weeks.


Now you don't have to pay for "French Vanilla" coffee. And you can use the vanilla~sugar for other things, like deserts and breakfast.

Thanks for that. I'll try it for my daughter's cappuccino, and chai latte. I got some maple sugar for her, but that's not the best for coffee imo. The vanilla will go better with coffee.

 

[Kirby]

I hardly ever use flavoring, but if I do it's whiskey or rum.

 

[ShawnD1]

You appear to know about coffee as much as you do cars.

It's strange how every person in the entire world agrees with me on almost everything and the anandtech forum is in this alternate universe where everything is the exact opposite. Example: I said it was most efficient to run in the highest gear possible. Car manufacturers agree with me by making their automatic transmissions always run in the highest gear possible and only change gears when the driver wants to accelerate faster.
I said cars accelerate fastest on bad road conditions by applying torque near the threshold of slip for the tire with the most traction. Audi, Acura, and Subaru agree with me and that's why their active traction control systems distribute power to the wheels with the most traction.
I said people should buy tires to match the road conditions. Quebec, Sweden, and Finland agree with me and have mandated that all vehicles must have winter tires when driving in winter conditions. Anandtech forum thinks the correct solution is to keep driving on summer tires and kill innocent pedestrians when the car doesn't stop properly. This doesn't really come as a shock since the internet is known as a breeding ground for psychopaths who don't care when people die.



So in this thread I've made the bold claim that plants contain oils. These plant oils often have a bitter taste to them because they are organic bases. I said cream masks the bitter taste of coffee because organic bases dissolve in fat. As usual, people who don't know their head from their ass then claim that caffeine is not what makes things taste bitter, even though caffeine pills mysteriously have that exact same bitter taste. If you manage to make coffee that doesn't taste bitter, that just means you didn't make it properly. Oils in the coffee bean are what taste bitter. No bitter taste = you didn't extract any of the oil and you're just drinking colored water.

 

[nageov3t]

If you like: Buy some vanilla beans (1 whole bean for a couple cups of sugar). Slice the bean in half, scrape the insides into an airtight jar and toss the husk in there too. Fill with granulated sugar and let it sit for a couple weeks.


Now you don't have to pay for "French Vanilla" coffee. And you can use the vanilla~sugar for other things, like deserts and breakfast.

I don't so much pay for french vanilla as choose 1 k-cup over another at work

they tend to stock like 20 different flavored k-cups and 2 boxes of unflavored (donut shop + breakfast blend)... if they're out of unflavored and the office manager wasn't on the ball with ordering that week, I'd take french vanilla over the other flavors.

I actively dislike hazelnut and would sooner not drink coffee at all than drink hazelnut (or, more likely, walk across the street and pay for a cup of regular coffee at Dunkins)

 

[Ns1]

If you manage to make coffee that doesn't taste bitter, that just means you didn't make it properly. Oils in the coffee bean are what taste bitter. No bitter taste = you didn't extract any of the oil and you're just drinking colored water.

see: cold brewed coffee

 

[mb]

Caffeine naturally has a very bitter taste. Tasting like shit is one of the properties of coffee. Much of it is masked by dissolving those chemicals in cream...

So in this thread I've made the bold claim that plants contain oils. These plant oils often have a bitter taste to them because they are organic bases. I said cream masks the bitter taste of coffee because organic bases dissolve in fat. As usual, people who don't know their head from their ass then claim that caffeine is not what makes things taste bitter, even though caffeine pills mysteriously have that exact same bitter taste. If you manage to make coffee that doesn't taste bitter, that just means you didn't make it properly. Oils in the coffee bean are what taste bitter. No bitter taste = you didn't extract any of the oil and you're just drinking colored water.

Not to revisit all your mistakes about cars (or touch on your other points), but my point was you post like you know exactly what you are talking about, and yet aren't entirely correct. Yes, caffeine is bitter. But, bitter coffee is not bitter just because of caffeine. Caffeine has very little to do with the bitterness of coffee.

So in this thread I've made the bold claim that plants contain oils.

Ok, I will respond to another point because this one makes me lol. Before that sentence, where on earth did you make the 'bold' claim that plants contain oils?

 

[davmat787]

Anyone else use a French Press (actually they are from Italy, but whatev) for making their coffee? Used to have a drip machine, but after buying a press I will never turn back. It is easier, quicker, and provides a tastier more full bodied brew from the same amount of beans. Next up is a decent burr grinder.

 

[AstroManLuca]

Anyone else use a French Press (actually they are from Italy, but whatev) for making their coffee? Used to have a drip machine, but after buying a press I will never turn back. It is easier, quicker, and provides a tastier more full bodied brew from the same amount of beans. Next up is a decent burr grinder.

Yeah, I love mine.

 

[HAL9000]

Tea.

 

[gimmewhitecastles]

i had flavored coffee few times but it was pretty meh.

the only thing that might make it better is if you add some kahlua or baileys.

 

[Sentrosi2121]

Highlander Grog > *
Haven't had a good grog since I went back to Wisconsin.

 

[JulesMaximus]

I prefer coffee flavored coffee.

 

[torpid]

I like adding homemade syrups to a latte instead of straight-up sugar. I don't generally appreciate coffeemate flavorings or flavorings added during the roasting process.

 

[bobdole369]

Horrific

 

[bobdole369]

Next up is a decent burr grinder.

Doesn't even have to be "decent" Just burr.

The $40 Cuisinart has served me well nigh on 2 years now.

 

[darkxshade]

I only drink cockroach flavored coffee

 

[GrumpyMan]

We have one software programmer at work that likes to make the Vanilla stuff. As soon as he serves himself the first cup and goes back to his cubicle, one of us sneaks in the lunch room to turn off the pot. It literally stinks up the whole area within minutes of being brewed.

 

[Crono]

I like Pumpkin Spice in the fall.

Other than that, I rarely drink flavored coffee.