A coder's guide to coffee (cheap, easy, and delicious)

Re:A coder's guide to coffee (cheap, easy, and delicious) by damon on Tuesday December 11, 2007 @10:05AM (#88237)

I really wish I liked coffee. I've tried time after time to get hooked on coffee but couldn't manage to stomach it - even loaded with cream and sugar. It smells great, has ample caffeine, can be bought cheap, all the makings of a perfect drink.

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Re:A coder's guide to coffee (cheap, easy, and delicious) by ashu on Tuesday December 11, 2007 @11:43AM (#88265)

I used to hate coffee most of the time but gulped it down since it kept me awake.

And then I visited Barcelona. The coffee I had in the small cafes in the town was the most awesome, fresh and tasty beverage I have ever had. Interestingly, Barcelona's airport had the same stale, tasteless coffee that Starbucks sells!

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Re:A coder's guide to coffee (cheap, easy, and delicious) by edu on Tuesday December 11, 2007 @12:23PM (#88276)

Hey, hello from Barcelona. Well it's curious here in Barcelona I always used to drink "cortados" or "tallats", an espresso with a little bit of milk. Until I visited Roma, where I tasted the best coffee!

I think you should visit the Italian capital ;)

And yes, Barcelona's airport food/coffee is awful.

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Re:A coder's guide to coffee (cheap, easy, and delicious) by ardit33 on Tuesday December 11, 2007 @01:26PM (#88318)

Albania has some great coffee too. I think it is the Mediterranean thing, when people are more calmed down, go out with friends every day, sit down for a coffee, talk and enjoy life.

Coffee to go, or in a paper cup is a very foreign concept. Impossible to find actually.

When I visited Instabul, I was really suprised that people didn't drink coffee at all, but mostly tea after meals.

Figure it out. The people that introduced coffee to europe, don't really drink it. So, the phase "Turkish coffee", is pretty inacurate. Should probably be called "Ottoman coffee".

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Re:A coder's guide to coffee (cheap, easy, and delicious) by marcus on Tuesday December 11, 2007 @10:44AM (#88242)

You are doing it wrong, you are not supposed to cover the taste of coffee with crap like sugar and cream.

It's like trying to fall in love with a girl by putting more clothes on her, our biology works in exactly the opposite way.

A good double espresso sugarless and cream-less is the way to go.

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Re:A coder's guide to coffee (cheap, easy, and delicious) by hhm on Tuesday December 11, 2007 @10:06PM (#88538)

I don't like (neither drink) coffee either. It's a problem specifically in business meetings: "do you want some coffee?", "no, please bring me some water instead" (?). That's a bad start.

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