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Coffee with no cream/milk but a good deal of sugar is actually pretty based??? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I enjoy coffee many ways. I often drink it black, but I also have been known to have it with unsweetened soy milk and usually agave/maple syrup in addition to that. However, I noticed that using both soy and a sweetener makes it taste kinda "overwhelming." This morning, I put some agave in my coffee but I put no soy, and it tastes much better. Bottom line is that I can enjoy coffee either black or with sweetener OR milk/creamer, but I can't do both sweetener and milk/creamer. Now, that I can't get with.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you're using the filters afterwards as compost it's perfectly friendly. The entire thing is just unbleached paper and coffee grounds it'll make your garden shine

[+] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't have one but from my understanding, it's basically that but instead of having super boiling water dripping wherever in a pile of grounds and seeping through at an arbitrary rate, it's you choosing a proper lower temperature, wetting the grounds completely in a controlled manner and the coffee seeping through at a studied rate guaranteed by the shape of the design

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Sort of. But it involves a ton more control over every aspect letting you really bring out the flavor of the coffee. Also you tend to grind smaller so extraction takes more time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

the filters tend to be thicker, and you can control the brew temperature and process a lot more than with a drip machine, so with technique you can get more control over the strength, flavor, etc of the coffee that comes out. But its a difference of quality not of kind really, IMO.

At-home drip machines don't produce great coffee in my experience, and I think that's largely due to uneven spreading of the water over the grounds, potential over-extraction, and often too low or too high of water temperature.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Basically, yeah. But there's no heating element constantly cooking the coffee like in the average drip machine.