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Have Some Coffee
Two to three (to four to five to six) cups of it, every day, and you could be 20% less depressed. Or it could be that slightly happier people tend to drink more coffee anyway. In any case, the correlation is there, and "Taken together, these results reassure coffee drinkers that there seem to exist no glaringly deleterious health consequences to coffee consumption." So, drink up. Unless you ground your coffee wrong at Trader Joe's last weekend, and had it on the "auto-drip" setting instead of "fine" for home-brewing, and the sign said not to regrind, so now you have this can full of coffee gravel. What do you do, throw it away?
Best morning news post ever…hello my delicious coffee.
Oh! try infusing the coffee in water, instead of hot brewing it. Strain it really well, like use cheesecloth and paper towels, and then use the resulting brew for ice coffee. Or…infuse it in vodka, and use it in everything.
@Awesomely Nonfunctional !!! Thank you!!
@Edith Zimmerman
Start cold brewing and never look back!
If you make it really strong, you can also use it for hot coffee.
Pour a little bit of coffee concentrate in the bottom of your mug, add boiling water.
@akapocalypse I tried cold brewing once, and I hated it. It just didn't have the same flavor as regular coffee, and while it would have been fine for iced coffee I guess, I am a hot coffee person, and that coffee concentrate with boiling water thing just made brown hot water that looked but did not smell or taste like coffee (and I made it very strong).
@thebestjasmine
I got into cold brewing for the lowered acidity but I love the taste. It's more mellow and chocolate-y than regular coffee. I started out with grounds in a mason jar but ended up buying a Toddy brewing system. The ratio they recommend is 16 oz. ground coffee to 9 cups water, steeped for 12 hours. and then a 1:4 ratio of coffee concentrate to boiling water (I think I use less)
ACK! Don't throw away that liquid gold! I'd probably just mortar and pestle the hell out of it.
@kayjay You'd be surprised how many things "just mortar and pestle the hell out of it" is my answer for.
The beans stay fresher longer if you only grind when you're going to use it with your own grinder at home anyway.
@Megan Patterson@facebook
Metaphorical.
Bought a $20 Capresso coffee grinder from BB&B about 5 years ago and it's still going strong. I signed up just so I could sing the praises of using freshly-ground coffee.
Mmm.. coffee.
@giraffe Giraffes don't drink coffee!!!
Glaringly deleterious? Did Lina Lamont write this statement?
@melis I love you.
@Katie Scarlett You love the land, Katie Scarlett – or you will. It'll come to you, this love of the land. There's no getting away from it if you're Irish.
@melis Did Lina Lamont write this statement?
"I kin't stind 'im!"
@melis Oh, Paw!
@Katie Scarlett Just like Paw…Just like Paw! Bonnie, no!
I heard this on the news last night and thought, "well, if you're drinking that much of anything, you're not even giving yourself time to be depressed!" But yes to coffee!
@LastMinuteLulu There's always time.
I think you're supposed to use bigger grinds with a french press? So, yeah, get a french press. I think.
JUST DON'T THROW IT AWAY
@jacqueline I was thinking the same thing: french press + coffee gravel = delicious.
@jacqueline I'm pretty sure you can use whatever grind you want with a french press, but the size of the grind determines the strength of the brew. Like, fine grind = espresso. I only know this because of Good Eats and because I live with a coffee snob.
@Megan Patterson@facebook I. Love. Good. Eats.
Marry me, Alton Brown. And teach me useful food trivia!!
@jacqueline I juuuuust this morning finally had the brains to bring my little french press to my office so I can make my own coffee instead of suffering through our kitchen coffee or buying some on my way in. Only took me 3 years to figure that out!
@Megan Patterson@facebook You CAN use whatever size coffee you want in your French Press, but I use the bigger grinds in mine, because there is more sediment when I use finer ground coffee.
@Megan Patterson@facebook No, you should use coarser ground coffee in a french press, because otherwise you get a lot of coffee grinds in your coffee.
As a Trader Joe's employee I'm going to suggest you never, ever use our grinders. The blades are sharpened once or twice a year at best. Man up and buy one of these
http://www.amazon.com/Bodum-Bistro-Electric-Coffee-Grinder/dp/B0043095WW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1317132343&sr=8-1
And hooray for coffee!
@Tim Tracy Or get one of these! http://www.amazon.com/Krups-GX4100-Electric-Coffee-Grinder/dp/B0007Y6BQQ/ref=sr_1_2?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1317132968&sr=1-2
You can use it to grind spices, too, so your coffee can taste like curry and your curry can taste like coffee. Who wouldn't want that.
"Tim Tracy to the manager's office, Tim Tracy to the manager's office right away, please."
@melis More like. "10 bells!!! Tim Tracy, to the plank with you!"
@Tim Tracy Ignorant people, that's who.
@annepersand I have two grinders for just that reason!!
@josiah Well if you're going to be all bourgeois about it….
I used to love coffee. Then I stopped drinking it b/c it makes me jittery and ADD. I'd love to know what it is about coffee that delivers these mentioned health boosts. Is it the caffeine, or is it another element that I could enjoy through savoring say, DECAF?
@curlysue I'm sure most of any touted benefits are due to the antioxidant content, which you could get from tea or wine. Whether or not decaffinating affects that I don't know.
@curlysue I quit coffee to see if it had an impact on my acne and my skin did clear up. I do love coffee, but the jitters, the anxiety and inevitable slump make it an untenable relationship, even withouth the acne factor.
A really good decaff would be amazing! Any UK 'Pinners know of any?
@curlysue If you read the article at the link, the benefits regarding depression were specifically from the high level of caffeine, and it talks about the relationship between caffeine and dopamine.
@rararuby It's so expensive that I hesitate to mention it, but Illy decaf (you know, the kind in the tin) is amazing stuff. The decaf has a green stripe.
Grind it in your blender! Also works as a dance song.
Grind it in your blender, grind it in your blender
@Casey@twitter And the club remix: Blend it on your Grindr.
Put the coffee in a freezer bag and whale on it with a hammer.
It might not work but it would be fun.
@Melusina My stepdad taught me to do that with ice for stiff drinks. Hammering shit + whiskey = double therapy
Yuck, I hate coffee! But I'm incredibly peppy anyway, plus a morning person. This makes me think I'm doing the world a favor by not drinking the stuff.
@I AM DIAPHENA I'm just here to say that I LOVE your username.
@I AM DIAPHENA … peppy + morning person + username ARE YOU ACTUALLY LESLIE KNOPE FOR ACTUAL.
@annepersand holy moley I'm wondering THE SAME THING
@I AM DIAPHENA Seconding the username/icon love! Aiiie! If you hate coffee why do you always drink it with sugar and whipped cream, Leslie Knope?
@Lady Pennyface High-five! It'll have to do until they come up with liquid waffles.
@I AM DIAPHENA Truth. I spent over $1000 on waffles at J.J.'s diner last year.
Oh yep! I get totally different answers out of the DSM depending on how much coffee I've had that day. The five minutes I spend walking to the train in the morning, mug in hand, is pretty much the best part of my life.
@josiah: I sometimes feel sad in the afternoon because I can't have any more coffee until the next morning.
@laurel "Sometimes I get so excited thinking about my morning coffee," Mr. Söderblad said, "I can't fall asleep at night." (This actually happens to meeeee….)
@josiah: Aaaaaaa, I'd completely forgotten that, and the sense of recognition I felt when I read it. Yes.
My coffee grinder is in another state, so I went to Trader Joe's last night and managed to cover half of my upper body in coarse grinds. Should have listened to @Tim Tracy…
If all else fails, it makes a nice potpourri.
Keep a small container of the dry coffee grounds in a watertight container in your shower. Mix it 50/50 with liquid body soap (or shampoo) to create a rad morning exfoliator!
@thundertheft …and then call your landlord when it clogs your shower.
Go buy yourself a french press!!!!!
@whyhellothere When I inevitably have to explain our bell system to the customers I like to do so as follows: "One bell requires we open another register, two summons assistance from the staff for go backs, wine boxes, etc., three means we need managerial assistance, four and above is most likely a little shit with an absent parent too busy stuffing his or her face with food they can't even pay for before they purchase it." I'm 9/10 on the laughs. The remainder is either old or had a personality exorcism some time ago.
I like the idea of the French press – plus, it looks cool – but they're too much work first thing in the morning when I need the caffeine just to function like a normal person. I even have to prep my regular drip maker the night before so all I have to do is press a button in the morning. How do you do all of those steps without caffeine in your system?