Coffee

Anne_Marie_2

boliston wrote: »

Hasbean will ship roasted beans pretty much anywhere

https://www.hasbean.co.uk/pages/shipping

Thank you, will check it out.

nanny_beach

coffee wont give you energy it will give you a caffine hit, if you dont like coffee why drink it!Especially gettin a fancy machine. If you are using it to keept you awake on the night shift refrain! One of my colleagues did (highly qualified medic) ended up on the coronary unit, with severe palpitations, thinking it was a heart attack, it also makes you jittery.Use some slow release carbs at the beginning of a shift, take it from one who knows 25 years of working nights.

mardatha

Nannybeach, I did 30 years on nights, never had palpitations - although my hubby only needs one cup of coffee to give him them. I didn't ever drink enough to make me jittery, only a max of 2 cups a night. But I had bad ME, at the end I was like the walking dead lol so I think it would've taken a stick of dynamite to get me moving!

monnagran

I have never had to work night's so hav never used coffee to keep me awake.
On the other hand I adore coffee and have drunk it in prefence to tea for the last 60 years, ever since i went off to college.
At one time someone convinced me that I was addicted and that i would have dreadful withdrawal symptoms if I stopped. So I stopped and sure enough I had a bit of a headache the next day, but that was all. I stopped drinking coffee for two years but succumbed to the irresistible smell of of brewing coffee while out shopping.
I waited for the palpitations and edginess that had been predicted. Nothing. Just the annoyance that I had wasted all that time without my favourite drink.

Now I am well past my three score and ten years and drink coffee all the time. I enjoy it as much now as I ever did. If it is doing me irreparable harm, as I am told, I think it should have shown up before now.

Tough as old boots, me.

x

mardatha

One of the few joys of old age ... we are past bloody caring! lol

Anne_Marie_2

Totally agree Monnogran and Mardatha, who cares, there's a lot worse things that we could be taking than coffee.
I did only once suffer with increased heartbeat and dizziness, got quite a fright, but my friend who had made the coffee knew exactly what it was. Her morning coffee was extra strong, 16 tablespoons for two coffees! I treated her coffee like diluting juice after that, a little in the cup topped up with water from the kettle.

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I started drinking coffee after my husband died, just one morning cup a day and using a nespresso machine. I have bought the pods since then and still have dozens, then I got a reality check when I realised the price I was paying for a mediocre coffee. The pods and machine are tucked away for now but will come out for family gatherings and the pods will be used over time

I decided to treat myself to a burr grinder and a good coffee machine, they arrived two weeks ago and wow what a difference. I grind the beans when I want the coffee, it is just a matter of putting that round thingie under the grinder and pressing a button. I get the right amount of grinds, I tamp them down and make my coffee.

I am using beans from amazon, with fab reviews. Absolutely wonderful smooth low acidity and non bitter taste. They are called 360 rundum ehrlich

coffeehound

Drinking real coffee has been shown to offer multiple health benefits, so don't assume it's a guilty habit!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/17/coffee-health-benefits_n_4102133.html

This is talking about real coffee though, not instant. The more recently roasted and freshly ground, the better, as far as antioxidants goes at least. Plus it tastes better. The nice thing about buying coffee beans direct from an artisan roaster is that they will have been roasted just a day or two earlier and so are super-fresh.

mardatha

I got some ground from the Co-op yesterday - Hot Lava Java from some company in Harrogate. It's gorgeous, will get pods next to try as an experiment. It revived me this morning when I fainted after slamming my finger in the damn wardrobe door lol

Anne_Marie_2

Think that you're turning into a coffee addict Mardatha.

I hope that you won't be disappointed with the ESE pods, so advise you to buy a small quantity in a coffee that you already like to compare the difference in taste and freshness.
My machine is different to yours, but does have a basket for the ESE pods. In truth, I don't think that I will ever use it. I have in the past tried the pods, think it must have been free samples and wasn't too impressed, although it could well have been a terrible coffee in the first place. Suffice to say, it was enough to put me off, especially as they are more expensive than buying beans or ready ground. I find it quite cathartic to go through the grinding and making a fresh coffee (well 2 actually) every morning.

Thing is we are all different in our preferred tastes for coffee, as I was quite surprised there to see that you enjoyed Java, going by your initial posts. Years ago, I always had a preference for Old Brown Java from Braithewaite's, but in my recent testings, discovered that I preferred a very expensive Blue Mountain, Columbian and Mocha varieties, so can only assume that my tastes have changed over the years.Not that the Java was bad, I still enjoyed it, but not as much as the others.