The coffee maker’s heating element has been shut off and the coffee has cooled to room temperature. When there’s plenty of coffee left over, do you find a way to still enjoy it? What do you do with it?
In the summer, it would go into a pitcher in the fridge to be used for iced coffee.
In the winter, not so much, and I’ve actually switched to a french press, so there’s really no leftovers.
Microwave. Nothin’ wrong with that.
Mix it with cold heavy cream. This is pretty much the only way I drink coffee.
Microwave it. That’s how I drink most of my coffee, anyway. I’ll make about ten cups at a time, and I’ll drink my first cup fresh out of the coffeemaker. But I only drink one or two cups a day. So I’ll heat the remaining coffee in the microwave over the next three or four days.
What else is a microwave for?? But I’ll usually just drink it down cold (for the caffeine) after I’ve had my first hot cup. Seems wasteful to pour pricey coffee down the sink, and if I put it in the refrigerator, I can take a swig during the day when I need a caffeine hit.
Coffee is meant to be consumed scalding hot. Period.
If it is in a pot on a cold burner, and now cold, or if it is in a neglected cup and cools down, OUT it goes.
My mother ingrained me with a prejudice against improperly re-heated coffee. She used to say, “Boiled coffee tastes like horse pee.”
I asked her, “So what does horse pee taste like?”
She said (duh!), “Like boiled coffee!”
I will occasionally nuke a cup of coffee to reheat it, but I typically get it not hot enough, requiring a second nuke. Or I get it TOO hot and damn near kill myself trying to drink it.
Iced coffee? Blasphemy!
~VOW
Fresh brewed coffee gets served and the rest goes directly into a Stanley Stainless Thermos. It stays fresh & hot in the thermos at least 4 hours.
A friend of mine use to always take the opportunity at work to heat up heat up his coffee (via microwave) and take a pee break at the same time. One day his wife noticed that every time she used the microwave at home he had to go pee. The microwave’s beeps set off a Pavlovian response.
I rarely let coffee go cold, but when I do, I toss it, because I don’t have a microwave. I don’t like cold/iced coffee.
I don’t like microwaved coffee - the flavor changes. So I throw in some ice cubes and drink it iced.
I like my coffee the way I like my women: cold and bitter.
I drink it cold. To my tastes, it’s better than nuked coffee.
My mom always said, “When you have four kids, you learn to like cold coffee.”
I didn’t understand what that meant until I had four kids…I can drink coffee at any temp, but I’d rather drink it lukewarm thank heated up.
Now that it’s winter, I’ll microwave it. The rest of the year, any of the other options could happen, depending on mood.
Fresh hot coffee is best though, yum.
If you like iced coffee, make ice cubes from the leftover coffee. Then your coffee won’t get watered down like it does with plain ice cubes.
I’m just not that picky, but I’d rather drink it at room temperature than re-heat it. It’s never bothered me to just drink it after it’s cooled. But then, I drink instant at home if I’m too bothered to make the french pressed, organic, locally roasted that I pay through the nose for! I’m so weird.
Ice it, which is what I do anyway. I brew it the night before, and stick in in the fridge.
Got a coffee maker that has a thermal carafe. I’ve got a Cuisinart 12 cup size that keeps it hot for hours.
If the pot doesn’t get finished, the left-over gets refrigerated and used cold with a touch of milk.
Cold coffee goes in a tumbler with a splash of caramel creamer and some ice cubes.