Coffee on the road
If any of you roast your own beans, do you roast in camp or put up with preroasted coffee?
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ppine wrote:
I remember a story about coffee that puts things in perspective for me. It has a lot to do with context. A few friends were helping to herd cattle in North Dakota during fall round-up. The cow hunt started at 0400. They had instant coffee in styroam cups. Compared to no coffee, it was perfect. One of the hands took at sip and announced "that mister is a good cup of coffee."
At the ranch we always put egg shells in with the grounds to neutralize the acid of non=Arabica beans. I made coffee in a pot on the kitchen stove at home for 25 years the same way.
I think you hit on it when you mentioned perspective. When I "lived" on coffee on the job, I'd get coffee in many stages; from coffee to carbon remover. Now that I drink it at my leisure, I can either make it "my" way, or take it however it's made. It's just coffee.;)
