the worst coffee?

beanflying

Can I change my vote after going to the local bakery. Single basket to make a 12 oz takeaway, no tamp used and resteamed super foamy milkshake bubbles for extra crappuchino effect 😛

mycuppa

beanflying wrote:

Can I change my vote after going to the local bakery. Single basket to make a 12 oz takeaway, no tamp used and resteamed super foamy milkshake bubbles for extra crappuchino effect 😛

Timbo - I sometimes wonder why you do this to yourself............ perhaps you prefer a rollercoaster to a bike ;D

shape_shifter

Jeff thank you for that insight into PODs, I never knew anyone did anything like that locally, maybe they aren't all bad 🙂 I think the peculator gets my vote.

beanflying

mycuppa wrote:

Timbo - I sometimes wonder why you do this to yourself............ perhaps you prefer a rollercoaster to a bike ;D

Trust me I wasn't the one buying the "coffee", just observing. I was buying the Sourdough Rye and some milk to go make my own 🙂

beanflying

AngerManagement wrote:

Sounds like that medical condition that my mate has.... OR was that a hypothetical ? Just admit it Tim, we have all been caught 😉

Trust me I don't do 12oz and as they only got a grinder 18 months ago after spooning their preground for many years I hadn't been caught for a very long time .... 🙂

Muscles

For me it's he super-auto coffee you get with a buffet breakfast in a hotel. I have stayed in thousands of hotels around Australia and haven't had a good coffee with my breakfast yet. I've been known to enjoy a couple of PODS in a cup with a dash of milk, they're not all bad...

hazchem

if I had to pick a method I'd say Pods or probably 70's percolator coffee. Coffee ground weeks or at best days ago or coffee that has had boiling water passed through it repeatedly? No thanks. Life's too short. But really, any method, executed by uncaring hands is the worst one.

UNM

I've got a stovetop that makes the most appalling coffee, due to the design of the upper chamber - it guarantees the coffee will be burnt just because of the shape and size. There are some better stovetops around though. I think the percolator just wins because it makes it so easy to abuse the coffee. I suspect any method requiring Sourdough Rye and milk would also be dodgy though 😉 As to breakfast coffee in a hotel - that reminded me of my recent trip to Britain. First morning in a hotel near Heathrow there was a Costa coffee franchise in the hotel (more common in UK than McCafe). Had a short black and it was actually quite pleasant. Equally interesting was that several other people were drinking short blacks - around here it is rare to see anyone order a drink without milk and those are nearly always long blacks. There was also an option to eat at the hotel buffet which had a super auto, but cost was almost the same (free refills though). Didn't see anyone going back for seconds.

Intense_Coffee

I tried Costa's coffee in the UK, and found that they really know how to mess up Milk style coffees. They give you those huge cups which turns everything wishy washy, so I reverted to their Short Blacks, and found them at least drinkable. (After having to explain what a straight espresso was. I did not venture into asking for a "Short Black"). Anyway that could be the reason everyone was drinking them? 😉 Graham

RichardM

Worst coffee I've had has been out of a plunger - it seems whenever I see plunger coffee at someone's house, I think it will be a good idea (hey, it's got to be better than instant, right???) and ask for it. I then sit there and watch them pour the BOILING water over the coffee. At that point, I know I'm going to spend the next ten minutes trying to pretend I'm waiting for it to cool before deciding to take the plunge into the ashy goodness that is burnt coffee.

Dizzy

*Waves - Hi Ash* My original thinking behind the article was:- 1. Stovetop Otto (or similar) made with freshly ground recently roasted coffee; or 2. George Clooney Endorsed Pod Coffee Maker bought from Woolies for $60.00. No competition, in my books. HOWEVER, I have to say, I'm probably giving the article writer more credit than is warranted in this case! 😃 Cheers Di

Meg

My memory of the worst coffee is when we were visiting relatives in Germany back in 1996 and went to visit a kitchen sales shop. The cousin's partner (who was the salesman) made us a coffee from a commercial automatic machine. The coffee was so thick, I still remember how bad it was and never drank another coffee for the rest of our visit. Klaus tried to get us to add condensed milk to it! I am sure that the spoon would have stood up in what he proudly served to us.