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Jan 2019
1:08pm, 12 Jan 2019
70,237 posts
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Hanneke
Decorum  when I go off coffee, and I did, when I got ill last month, there is usually something not right, health wise...
OM, absolutely! Grumpy mule is ace.
I have been to Tanzania over the Xmas and NY period and one of the things on the programme of this cycling safari trip was a visit to a coffee community project. People each own small plots of land, adjacent to each other, and grow coffee (arabica and robusta, cropping alternate years) and bananas. We tasted raw beans: did you know they are encased in a sweet layer underneath their peels? De-hulled them, roasted them and ground them then drank the coffee. It was very good, so I have bought two bags of beans at $10 each! They also gave me the surplus ground coffee we produced, as I was obviously the keenest coffee bum out there and I have been drinking it. It is very finely ground and as such seems to slow/block my DeLonghi machine, so now experimenting with all other different methods at hand, apart from my french press, as it is too finely ground.
They make their coffee by putting a tablespoon per cup in a pot of boiling water. Once it has boiled for 4 minutes, they take it off the fire, let the grounds sink and pour the coffee. Worked very well and needs nothing! So from now on, this is how I will make my campo coffee when out bike packing.
I must get an aeropress, seems to be the way forwards to good coffee everywhere. I tend to gift coffee too, to people I know won't otherwise be able to provide me with good coffee but turning up with something 'travel' to actually make good coffee is an excellent idea! It would also have meant being able to make proper coffee in hotels/rooms woth a kettle and I could have made proper coffee out on our treks too, as we were provided with kettles of hot water for drinks several times a day...
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Jan 2019
4:17pm, 12 Jan 2019
3,439 posts
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decorum
Hanne ~ I have issues processing, absorbing and storing nutrients, I think my body has just intuitively recognised that I need to process food better over a desire to drink coffee and 'flicked a switch', so to speak
And aeropress are brilliant. But I found that some coffees I'd written off as not to my palate when brewed in my aeropress were actually fantastic when made with a different maker type. So, brilliant but not necessarily the best or only answer to brewing all coffees
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Jan 2019
4:30pm, 12 Jan 2019
70,239 posts
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Hanneke
Caffeine doesn't help with a lot of things... I had severely haemoglobin levels and went off coffee. The body's absorbtion of nutrients needed to restore/make red blood cells are being inhibited by caffeine. I knew my levels where climbing up again when I got my desire for coffee back again. Listen to your body, it tends to know best.
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Jan 2019
4:30pm, 12 Jan 2019
70,240 posts
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Hanneke
severely LOW haemoglobin levels that should read.
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Jan 2019
11:22pm, 12 Jan 2019
3,440 posts
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decorum
I seem to have gotten quite good at listening to my body and, fortunately, I don't tend to crave/desire the foods which cause me issues
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Feb 2019
12:47pm, 3 Feb 2019
16,469 posts
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Carpathius
I have never been able to like coffee and didn't know this thread existed until V'rap pointed out that something I put in the Meaningless Product Descriptions thread might be appreciated here.
So, for your delectation;
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Feb 2019
10:47pm, 3 Feb 2019
70,273 posts
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Hanneke
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Feb 2019
9:29am, 4 Feb 2019
13,389 posts
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RichHL
Coffee tasting notes should read "rips your face off, leaving your twitching corpse with your still-beating heart running for a couple of weeks. Do not drink before operating heavy machinery. Nice with a biscuit."
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Feb 2019
9:51am, 4 Feb 2019
28,949 posts
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Derby Tup
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Feb 2019
10:42am, 4 Feb 2019
4,668 posts
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Wine Legs
I wonder how they know what kiwi tastes like, given that they're a protected species.
I suspect they mean kiwifruit.
It's a bit like calling a grapefruit a grape...(except that they are both types of fruit unlike the kiwi & kiwifruit).
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