# \#coffee **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/tag/coffee/103.md [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) --- ## [Tell me about your experience with brew bags](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-experience-with-brew-bags/1031501)
**Author:** [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [July 8, 2026, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-experience-with-brew-bags/1031501 "2026-07-08T20:00:15Z")
I bought a Cuisinart k-cup machine a few years ago. I live alone so I never need a pot of coffee, just single servings. I got tired of buying expensive k-cup pods and eventually switched to a JavaJig. A JavaJig s a plast… --- ## [Coffee as food?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coffee-as-food/1029897)
**Author:** [@fedman1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman1)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [May 14, 2026, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coffee-as-food/1029897 "2026-05-14T23:40:26Z")
I admit I’m a coffee fiend–I used to joke that if I didn’t have water available, I’d just snort the grounds (caffeine cocaine :zany\_face:). Haven’t said that, what about using coffee as something to consume outside of br… --- ## [Milk and sugar? Milk or sugar? Neither? {Now with working Polls}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milk-and-sugar-milk-or-sugar-neither-now-with-working-polls/1029878)
**Author:** [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Replies:** 58\ **Last updated:** [May 13, 2026, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milk-and-sugar-milk-or-sugar-neither-now-with-working-polls/1029878 "2026-05-13T09:28:34Z")
I drink my tea straight – no milk, no sugar. When I used to drink coffee, I needed both milk and sugar, though I weaned myself down to just milk before I quit coffee altogether. So, fellow Dopers, what’s your preference… --- ## [Coffee Sweetener](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coffee-sweetener/1028868)
**Author:** [@Ynnad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ynnad)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [March 30, 2026, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coffee-sweetener/1028868 "2026-03-30T13:44:37Z")
I put real maple syrup in my coffee this morning. It was pretty good. Am I Canadian now? --- ## [Talk to me about Café Bustelo](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-to-me-about-cafe-bustelo/1015583)
**Author:** [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [March 28, 2026, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-to-me-about-cafe-bustelo/1015583 "2026-03-28T16:06:26Z")
It’s “Espresso Dark” coffee. Insanely cheap. Now, I’m no coffee snob. My typical blend is half Folger’s decaf/ half Dunkin’ Medium. Bought ground, mixed well, made into cold brew. Nummy as hell. So- is Café Bustelo TH… --- ## [Keurig-type coffee pods for larger cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keurig-type-coffee-pods-for-larger-cups/1028714)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2026, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keurig-type-coffee-pods-for-larger-cups/1028714 "2026-03-24T13:51:14Z")
I have noticed that, generally, coffee pods are made for 6 to 8 ounce cups. Are there pods out there made for 10, 12 or even 16 ounce cups? --- ## [What could be more "Cafe Society" than Coffee, right?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-be-more-cafe-society-than-coffee-right/1018156)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 125\ **Last updated:** [March 5, 2026, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-be-more-cafe-society-than-coffee-right/1018156 "2026-03-05T13:35:36Z")
Small note: If you hate coffee, this obviously ain’t your thread. As I sit here sipping a cold-brew Kona with zero-sugar sweet creme creamer, I’ve got to ask-What is your coffee drink of choice? Caf or decaf? Light o… --- ## [Looking for input on Super Automatic Espresso Machines](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-input-on-super-automatic-espresso-machines/1023560)
**Author:** [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [January 26, 2026, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-input-on-super-automatic-espresso-machines/1023560 "2026-01-26T23:27:43Z")
I am considering getting a fancy new coffee maker that has loads of bells and whistles and I would love to get some input. Super Automatic Espresso Machines will grind the beans, fresh, and brew the coffee (or espresso… --- ## [1950s/1960s: What was it about coffee?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1950s-1960s-what-was-it-about-coffee/1026088)
**Author:** [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Replies:** 186\ **Last updated:** [January 15, 2026, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1950s-1960s-what-was-it-about-coffee/1026088 "2026-01-15T14:20:05Z")
I’m binge-watching “The Dick Van Dyke Show” from the 1960s, and one thing that is striking me is the characters seem to be always drinking coffee at what I would consider odd hours of the day. It’s late at night after a… --- ## [Coffee Cookies? "Just Say No"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coffee-cookies-just-say-no/1026023)
**Author:** [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [December 27, 2025, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coffee-cookies-just-say-no/1026023 "2025-12-27T19:49:08Z")
I was making a second tin of oatmeal cookies when I realized I was out of raisins. All of the ingredients prices are through the roof and the supermarket was hand-to-hand combat… so I tried to find something… anything… … --- ## [Black coffee and dark chocolate](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-coffee-and-dark-chocolate/1025053)
**Author:** [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Replies:** 77\ **Last updated:** [December 5, 2025, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-coffee-and-dark-chocolate/1025053 "2025-12-05T20:04:39Z")
Word is that black coffee and dark chocolate are good for your health while milk chocolate and coffee with cream lack those benefits. So here I am eating dark chocolate and drinking black coffee. What if next I drink a … --- ## [The great, ongoing COFFEE thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-coffee-thread/1024881)
**Author:** [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [November 23, 2025, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-ongoing-coffee-thread/1024881 "2025-11-23T11:09:01Z")
I haven’t found an ongoing thread concerning “all things coffee” … so here it is - let’s see if it sticks… My coffee journey started with the disire to leave the coffee-capsule world. My first (mis)step was a cheap fre… --- ## [Maxwell House coffee changes name to “Maxwell Apartment”](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maxwell-house-coffee-changes-name-to-maxwell-apartment/1023582)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [October 5, 2025, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maxwell-house-coffee-changes-name-to-maxwell-apartment/1023582 "2025-10-05T19:18:54Z")
It’s a temporary marketing thing, and you can also apparently order a year’s worth of coffee in order to save money. Is it a smart financial move? https://news.kraftheinzcompany.com/press-releases-details/2025/For-the-F… --- ## [Coffee Survey](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coffee-survey/1023234)
**Author:** [@sta3535](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sta3535)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2025, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coffee-survey/1023234 "2025-09-23T16:08:07Z")
How do you drink your coffee? Hot, Cold, Iced, Black, Creamer, Sugar/Sweetner? Do you make it at home or do you buy it on your way to work or out in public? Are you particular about the brand of coffee and where you get… --- ## [What are some good flavored coffees?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-good-flavored-coffees/1022661)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [September 8, 2025, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-good-flavored-coffees/1022661 "2025-09-08T00:54:27Z")
Not the ones that claim to be a certain flavor, but unless you look at the package you couldn’t begin to guess that it was flavored at all, let alone what specific flavor it is supposed to be. --- ## [Should I try drinking Yaupon?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-try-drinking-yaupon/1021631)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2025, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-try-drinking-yaupon/1021631 "2025-08-12T23:33:40Z")
I’d never heard of this drink before now, but tariffs may make coffee more expensive. Should I give it a shot? What’s the taste? --- ## [Mushroom Coffee?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mushroom-coffee/1021643)
**Author:** [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [August 3, 2025, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mushroom-coffee/1021643 "2025-08-03T09:40:02Z")
Oh, lawdy. We see more and more commercials for mushroom coffee. Anyone tasted this? WHY does it exist? How does one prepare it? And nooooo……this is not about “mushrooms, dooood”. This is about non-psychotropic mushro… --- ## [Coffee is literally Magic!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coffee-is-literally-magic/1014166)
**Author:** [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [February 18, 2025, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coffee-is-literally-magic/1014166 "2025-02-18T20:28:12Z")
You take a bean and heat it. Then you crush it into powder. You then filter hot water through the powder until there is a fluid unfused with the powder. You then extract out the used up powder. You drink the resulting li… --- ## [Share your pour-over coffee technique!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-pour-over-coffee-technique/1011508)
**Author:** [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Replies:** 63\ **Last updated:** [January 13, 2025, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-pour-over-coffee-technique/1011508 "2025-01-13T03:02:40Z")
We will be abandoning the Keurig soon (or more specifically, giving it to our college-aged daughter), and I have started doing pour-over coffee with a traditional porcelain coffee…device…whatever you call it…and paper fi… --- ## [Is there anyone else out there who hates coffee?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyone-else-out-there-who-hates-coffee/848515)
**Author:** [@dan39](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dan39)\ **Replies:** 158\ **Last updated:** [August 6, 2024, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyone-else-out-there-who-hates-coffee/848515 "2024-08-06T10:31:54Z")
I don’t know what it is about my taste buds, but I think I’m in a minority of people in the world who hate coffee. The last cup of coffee I ever had was in 1996, and it came from one of those urns at a reception. It wa… --- ## [Cioppino recommendations around Monterey please](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cioppino-recommendations-around-monterey-please/1004222)
**Author:** [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [July 15, 2024, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cioppino-recommendations-around-monterey-please/1004222 "2024-07-15T07:49:41Z")
Hi, eldest kidlet 20-something college graduate meeting friends in Monterey CA on a Saturday and then heading out the next morning for Pasadena. Would really like to find a commercial fishing dock with cafe open early fo… --- ## [Persuade me to try cold-brewed hot coffee (from a person who doesn't drink coffee)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/persuade-me-to-try-cold-brewed-hot-coffee-from-a-person-who-doesnt-drink-coffee/995356)
**Author:** [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Replies:** 41\ **Last updated:** [May 9, 2024, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/persuade-me-to-try-cold-brewed-hot-coffee-from-a-person-who-doesnt-drink-coffee/995356 "2024-05-09T15:14:52Z")
I have only tried coffee twice in my life, both times hot with milk and sugar, and I couldn’t stand it, nor understand the appeal. I guess it was the bitterness, I don’t really know. Both times were home brewed, not fro… --- ## [COVID Killed Our Local Coffeeshop, But](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-killed-our-local-coffeeshop-but/999100)
**Author:** [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2024, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-killed-our-local-coffeeshop-but/999100 "2024-03-31T21:45:19Z")
It’s a really nice place. Half of it is a coffeeshop, and in the back, there’s a stage and seating. They used to have Open Mic Nights on the last Thursday of the month, which would also appear on Channel 17 (Public Acces… --- ## [Brewing coffee: why cold water?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brewing-coffee-why-cold-water/998391)
**Author:** [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [March 6, 2024, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brewing-coffee-why-cold-water/998391 "2024-03-06T00:11:27Z")
I’ve been brewing coffee in percolators and drip coffee makers for nearly sixty years. Ever since I was a wee tyke of eleven, I have always started by filling the percolator or the water tank of the coffee maker with COL… --- ## [Decaffeinate Me](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decaffeinate-me/998468)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [March 5, 2024, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decaffeinate-me/998468 "2024-03-05T16:33:55Z")
I got a message this morning that my mother was in the hospital. She woke up very dizzy, with a blood pressure over 200. She was just getting over meningitus, so my sister took her in to the ER. Turned out to be Flu B … --- ## [Are You A Dunker?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-dunker/998362)
**Author:** [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [March 3, 2024, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-dunker/998362 "2024-03-03T11:49:37Z")
This morning, while fixing myself a cup of coffee, I found myself staring at the remnants of a loaf of french bread we had with dinner earlier this week. “Self,” I sez, “you need to do something with that bread before i… --- ## [So what are your caffeine intake habits?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-your-caffeine-intake-habits/994245)
**Author:** [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Replies:** 69\ **Last updated:** [February 28, 2024, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-your-caffeine-intake-habits/994245 "2024-02-28T02:41:15Z")
Inspired by a recent thread about supercharged caffeinated lemonade, I got curious about the caffeine habits of others. About how much caffeine do you consume regularly? In what form? What time of day? With what cons… --- ## [Coffee Quest: Drinking the worlds best coffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coffee-quest-drinking-the-worlds-best-coffee/995344)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [February 16, 2024, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coffee-quest-drinking-the-worlds-best-coffee/995344 "2024-02-16T17:58:04Z")
I mentioned in a few threads that I was going to do this but I have started to drink the worlds best coffee. My technique as kifed from James Hoffman: Fill a pyrex bowl with water. place my Hario 60 upside down in it … --- ## [Static electricity is ruining my coffee!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/static-electricity-is-ruining-my-coffee/754445)
**Author:** [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [December 11, 2023, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/static-electricity-is-ruining-my-coffee/754445 "2023-12-11T18:16:01Z")
Well, it’s annoying me a little bit. I grind the beans in a burr grinder, which imparts an electric charge to the grounds and makes them cling to the sides of the grinder receptacle. If I try to pour them into the espre… --- ## [Is my drink legally (and morally) okay?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-drink-legally-and-morally-okay/992378)
**Author:** [@kjwrites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kjwrites)\ **Replies:** 46\ **Last updated:** [November 1, 2023, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-drink-legally-and-morally-okay/992378 "2023-11-01T15:00:33Z")
My mixture is Black Label Brewed Coffee with ten shots of espresso and a bottle of red bull bottled into my largest glass (which is very, very large). As the question above states, is this drink going to have any severe … [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/tag/coffee/103.md?match_all_tags=true&page=1&tags%5B%5D=coffee)