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What brands and kinds of coffee do you drink?

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I found an unopened big of dark cocoa power from nuts.com in my pantry from two or three years ago that I forgotten about. Anyway I put a small teaspoon in my coffee and it now tastes fairly decent. I'm drinking a cup of dark of dark cocoa right now.
 
Lately, I've been ordering from Freshroastedcoffee.com - usually light/med roasts, single origin, or Blackbeard's Revenge. Grind it fresh each morning.
 
whm1974 said:
OK I'm thinking of drinking coffee in the morning to help me avoid soda, and I'm taking about buying a bag or can at the store not going to 7-11 and such. But haven't brought coffee from the store in awhile and don't remember the brands and types I liked.

So I'm asking for help here. What are your favorite brand and types of coffee? Which ones to avoid, as I had the cheap no name brands before and they tasted horrible.
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Years ago I loved 8 o'clock french roast whole bean. I would grind it the second before I would make it.. totally into it. Now I drink folgers or sometimes a coffee from HEB 🙂 texas pecan. Delish. Good luck.
 
Well I just went over to Walgreen and brought a 12oz bag of Gevalia Kaffe House Blend medium roast, and the taste difference between Robusta and Arabica beans is like night and day.

Well it looks like only Arabica for me for now on.🙂
 
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It's around $12 or so at Costco. My go to coffee for the past couple years. Medium roast and easy to drink.
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I haven't seen this at my Costco, ffs, otherwise I would have tried it. The bulk beans, of whatever bag is most reasonably priced, at Costco is usually my go-to for about a month or more.

Also, I actually kinda dig the ground, brick Ikea coffee. I think it's like $4 a brick, and really isn't all that bad for the price. TJ's Pinon is rather excellent, but can be weak.

Currently, I like Lavazza. Whatever they call the dark roast is actually really smooth and very chocolatey.

I pretty much just use my Aeropress these days, until I get a newer, higher volume pour-over.
 
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Well I found some websites and YouTube videos that mention adding some butter to coffee and so I decided to check it out. I just made a cup of coffee, dark cocoa, stevia, and butter. It certainly taste different and creamer.
 
whm1974 said:
OK I'm thinking of drinking coffee in the morning to help me avoid soda, and I'm taking about buying a bag or can at the store not going to 7-11 and such. But haven't brought coffee from the store in awhile and don't remember the brands and types I liked.

So I'm asking for help here. What are your favorite brand and types of coffee? Which ones to avoid, as I had the cheap no name brands before and they tasted horrible.
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Number one: Buy organic coffee, accept no substitutes.

"According to the CS Monitor, up to 250 pounds of chemical fertilizers are sprayed per acre of non-organic coffee. When you sip your conventional coffee, you are ingesting the pesticide residues, which contribute to many health problems including cancer and miscarriages in pregnant women.Oct 11, 2013"

I buy my organic coffee at Costco. It costs me between $5 and $6 a pound. I get whole bean in 2 or 3 pound bags, grind them in my blender, around 1.5 pounds at a time. I grind it fairly fine and brew in a stove top "espresso" coffee maker.
 
Muse said:
Number one: Buy organic coffee, accept no substitutes.

"According to the CS Monitor, up to 250 pounds of chemical fertilizers are sprayed per acre of non-organic coffee. When you sip your conventional coffee, you are ingesting the pesticide residues, which contribute to many health problems including cancer and miscarriages in pregnant women.Oct 11, 2013"

I buy my organic coffee at Costco. It costs me between $5 and $6 a pound. I get whole bean in 2 or 3 pound bags, grind them in my blender, around 1.5 pounds at a time. I grind it fairly fine and brew in a stove top "espresso" coffee maker.
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As a scientist, articles like this bother me.

1) organic products still use fertilizers and pesticides. Organic products are not inherently safer than conventionally grown products that used synthetics

2) how much residue? The dose makes the poison. We've gotten really good at detecting really tiny amounts (ppb). Those tiny amounts often amount to nothing. If you ingest a negligible amount, nothing is going to happen - your liver and kidneys do a fine job filtering. Which brings us to point 3

3) Do they have evidence for their claims for the list of health issues? I'm highly skeptical. Just because it's on an IARC list doesn't mean that the product on the market will give you cancer (anyway, those IARC lists are garbage since they do not include how much you need to be exposed to to see a real increase in risk of getting cancer).
 
Brainonska511 said:
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As a scientist, articles like this bother me.

1) organic products still use fertilizers and pesticides. Organic products are not inherently safer than conventionally grown products that used synthetics

2) how much residue? The dose makes the poison. We've gotten really good at detecting really tiny amounts (ppb). Those tiny amounts often amount to nothing. If you ingest a negligible amount, nothing is going to happen - your liver and kidneys do a fine job filtering. Which brings us to point 3

3) Do they have evidence for their claims for the list of health issues? I'm highly skeptical. Just because it's on an IARC list doesn't mean that the product on the market will give you cancer (anyway, those IARC lists are garbage since they do not include how much you need to be exposed to to see a real increase in risk of getting cancer).
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A friend of mine told me 23 years ago to only drink organic coffee because of the fact that the pesticides used on conventional coffee plantations are particularly onerous. This guy wasn't stupid. I've ever since bought organic coffee. I've gradually increased my organic versus conventional in terms of what I buy and lately I'm mostly organic, especially in terms of fresh produce.

Pesticides and carcinogenesis is not just a fairy tale. Organic certification does rule out at least some pesticides, maybe not all, but some, obviously. Most likely the synthetic ones.

You say: "Organic products are not inherently safer than conventionally grown products that used synthetics." I have to wonder if you are biased. I've been concerned ever since reading an eye & mind opening article entitled "Food Pollution" almost 50 years ago. The ideas in there have spread into pretty common knowledge since. Pesticides, additives, all the mumbo jumbo (the things that don't make sense to you) that you may see on the labels of processed foods you see these days. Of course, you don't see pesticides on those labels, but they are apt to be in the food you eat, at least more so if you are not buying "pesticide free," or better yet, "organic" (which is supposed to include "pesticide free" but also stipulates that chemical fertilizers are not used, as I understand it).
 
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Muse said:
A friend of mine told me 23 years ago to only drink organic coffee because of the fact that the pesticides used on conventional coffee plantations are particularly onerous. This guy wasn't stupid. I've ever since bought organic coffee. I've gradually increased my organic versus conventional in terms of what I buy and lately I'm mostly organic, especially in terms of fresh produce.

Pesticides and carcinogenesis is not just a fairy tale. Organic certification does rule out at least some pesticides, maybe not all, but some, obviously. Most likely the synthetic ones.

You say "Organic products are not inherently safer than conventionally grown products that used synthetics." I have to wonder if you are biased.
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I have two thoughts on that. I somewhat prefer organic products due to many of them coming from small producers, and I prefer to support small producers. I also think it's better to consume fewer petrochemicals. BUT, everything is chemicals of some kind, and people are living longer than ever despite industrial farming. Occupational exposure warnings on a datasheet aren't the same as trace amounts found in a finished product.

I buy organic sometimes, but it has more to do the company than the organicness of the product. I'll take a conventional product from my neighbor before buying an organic from a conglomerate. It simply isn't worth worrying about. I get more chemicals from driving a day than I do eating for a month.
 
lxskllr said:
I get more chemicals from driving a day than I do eating for a month.
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How do you make that calculation?

You figure that would be from breathing motor vehicle exhaust and maybe toxins in the air from crops grown in the area and general air pollution?
 
If I could really trust the organic label and knew the source, I would pay more and buy. But pretty much everything is labeled organic these days. So I don't pay more to buy organic unless it's something I already buy. But I have switched to buying only free range eggs. There's big difference in yolk of free range eggs vs regular/cage free. Cage free is marketing scam and there's no difference so I won't pay extra.
 
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