# Best Place to Buy Fresh-Roasted Coffee

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-place-to-buy-fresh-roasted-coffee/506368>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** coffee\
**Created:** [August 14, 2009, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-place-to-buy-fresh-roasted-coffee/506368 "2009-08-14T01:46:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Airk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Airk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airk)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-place-to-buy-fresh-roasted-coffee/506368/21 "2009-08-19T19:40:04Z")

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> [@hobscrk777](#):
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> I can’t remember where I read that tip, but the idea is that cheap drip coffeemakers can’t get the water up to the appropriate temperature (~190 - 200 F) in one go, and that running the water through once will preheat it. Although, I can’t say that I’ve ever measured the temperature of the water. It would be an easy test to do, and I’d be interested in seeing exactly what the temperatures are in each case.

And I guess they tell you to fill your coffeemaker with cold water to avoid getting whatever extra minerals would come with hot then?

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**Author:** ![Jimson\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@Jimson\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimson_Jim)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2009, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-place-to-buy-fresh-roasted-coffee/506368/22 "2009-08-20T16:26:51Z")

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> [@hobscrk777](#):
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> I have briefly considered roasting my own, but I think that’s more work than I want to get into right now. For now, I’ll try the sealed bags of Eight O’ Clock Coffee. I’ll keep an eye out for local, non-chain coffee shops, but those kinds of places always slip right past my line of sight.

You don’t want just some local shop. God knows where they got their coffee or how old it is. Go to a coffee roaster. Here in Cincinnati I go to [Mt. Lookout Joe’s](http://www.lookoutjoe.com/about%20us.htm). They roast coffee everyday. It’s never more than 2-3 days old.

Drip coffee makers don’t get water hot enough. Go with the French press and freshly boiled, filtered water. If you’re going to stick with the drip maker for convenience get one of those “gold” filters. paper filters absorb the oils in coffee that give it that good coffee flavor.

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