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Kellan Meig'h Administrator
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Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2018 11:17 pm Post subject: Coffee Consumption |
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(Brought on by a comment made by a co-worker)
Question; If you make a pot of coffee, are you obligated to finish the pot, not throwing out some small or other amount at the end of the day? Discuss. _________________ "Старый боевой конь, Кeллан" |
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ScottyDM Registered User
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Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2018 2:55 am Post subject: |
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Let's say that everyone must leave suddenly. Someone sets off the fire alarm on a Friday afternoon, or whatever. Then on Monday morning you discover the coffee with an island of mold floating in it. Yep. toss that slime out!
With community coffee when someone notices the pot is empty (or empties the last bit) they really should make another pot. I knew a guy who loved the caffeine jolt of fresh coffee--which is not someone you want making your next pot. He'd start the brew process and as soon as the water started to come through the filter he'd snatch the pot away and hold his Styrofoam cup under the filter. When his cup was full he'd switch the pot for the cup. What filled the pot looked more like tea than coffee. Seems the first 80% of the coffee comes out with the first 20% of the water. Anyway, next person in the break room would toss the pot out and make another.
I'll save my other coffee story for later. _________________
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Kellan Meig'h Administrator
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Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2018 5:34 am Post subject: |
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ScottyDM wrote: | Let's say that everyone must leave suddenly. Someone sets off the fire alarm on a Friday afternoon, or whatever. Then on Monday morning you discover the coffee with an island of mold floating in it. Yep. toss that slime out!
With community coffee when someone notices the pot is empty (or empties the last bit) they really should make another pot. I knew a guy who loved the caffeine jolt of fresh coffee--which is not someone you want making your next pot. He'd start the brew process and as soon as the water started to come through the filter he'd snatch the pot away and hold his Styrofoam cup under the filter. When his cup was full he'd switch the pot for the cup. What filled the pot looked more like tea than coffee. Seems the first 80% of the coffee comes out with the first 20% of the water. Anyway, next person in the break room would toss the pot out and make another.
I'll save my other coffee story for later. |
That "First Brew" is exactly why I don't allow my brother to make coffee. He swipes that first flow of "Magic Elixir", wondering why nobody touched the rest of the pot. _________________ "Старый боевой конь, Кeллан" |
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ScottyDM Registered User
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Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2018 6:36 pm Post subject: |
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Years ago a friend of mine was stationed in Thailand. The baht is their currency, and they have a food item called a baht bug, because they sell for 1 baht each. A baht bug is a giant water beetle. The baht bug can be fried, roasted on a stick over a fire, or boiled. It is said the body tastes a bit like scrambled eggs, the head a bit like crab, and with an overall licorice flavor.
The Americans would come into the office (where my friend worked) at 8 or 9 in the morning and someone would make a pot of coffee. They noticed the coffee tasted off, but no one knew why. Then one day someone came in early and found one of the Thai night-shift fixing breakfast in the coffee pot--he was boiling baht bugs. Mystery solved.
Anyway, American management was not pleased and a sign appeared above the coffee maker later that day: "Anyone caught boiling baht bugs in the coffee pot will be fired." _________________
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Kellan Meig'h Administrator
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Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2018 11:19 pm Post subject: |
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ScottyDM wrote: | Years ago a friend of mine was stationed in Thailand. The baht is their currency, and they have a food item called a baht bug, because they sell for 1 baht each. A baht bug is a giant water beetle. The baht bug can be fried, roasted on a stick over a fire, or boiled. It is said the body tastes a bit like scrambled eggs, the head a bit like crab, and with an overall licorice flavor.
The Americans would come into the office (where my friend worked) at 8 or 9 in the morning and someone would make a pot of coffee. They noticed the coffee tasted off, but no one knew why. Then one day someone came in early and found one of the Thai night-shift fixing breakfast in the coffee pot--he was boiling baht bugs. Mystery solved.
Anyway, American management was not pleased and a sign appeared above the coffee maker later that day: "Anyone caught boiling baht bugs in the coffee pot will be fired." |
So, I was stationed TDY at Korat RTAFB, Thailand with the 474th TFW, F4-D Phantoms. The baht bug is a big bug, indeed Also not adept at taking off or flying. The wind would pick up, the bugs would beat their wings and hey, they're flying. Sort of.
At night, on the flightline we would use a light-all, a contraption about the size of a smart car. It had a generator inside that powered two mercury vapor floodlights on top. The lights could be cranked up in the air to give a wider pool of light. Seems the bugs would commit suicide into the lights for some reason which made it dangerous to have the lights close to the jet you were working on. You ended up with the light-all far enough away to be safe, but not so much light at that point. The bugs had plenty of kinetic energy, enough to hurt you if they hit you, like leave a bruise hit you. Enough energy from a big one that it knocked a base employed Thai National off his bike while he was riding it down the flightline road.
Had a fried baht bug. Not so good in a queasy stomach sort of way. The abdomen has a -slimy- sort of texture to it. _________________ "Старый боевой конь, Кeллан" |
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Cookie Registered User
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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2018 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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Never. Waste. Coffee.
Especially considering how close we are to it going extinct. _________________ AKA Skoon
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ScottyDM Registered User
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Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2018 3:29 pm Post subject: |
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Cookie wrote: | Especially considering how close we are to it going extinct. |
Whut? _________________
Kantaro wrote: | Almost real enough to be considered non-fiction, if it weren't made up. |
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Cookie Registered User
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Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2018 11:57 pm Post subject: |
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ScottyDM wrote: | Cookie wrote: | Especially considering how close we are to it going extinct. |
Whut? |
Oh yeah. Climate change is threatening coffee as a species. It already grows in a very limited region of Earth, and it's an extremely sensitive plant.
It's a real problem we may face in the future.
A simple google search on the subject will net you a plethora of results from various outlets, some reliable some iffy but all roughly the same story. _________________ AKA Skoon
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Kellan Meig'h Administrator
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Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2018 2:50 am Post subject: |
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If coffee goes extinct, I'm not sure what I'll do. Mebbe start hoarding it now, vacuum packed in the freezer?
What a delimma . . . _________________ "Старый боевой конь, Кeллан" |
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ScottyDM Registered User
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Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2018 3:45 am Post subject: |
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Cookie wrote: | Oh yeah. Climate change is threatening coffee as a species.... |
Hoo ha!
And while we're here, ghost coffee: _________________
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Cookie Registered User
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Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2018 12:27 pm Post subject: |
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ScottyDM wrote: | Cookie wrote: | Oh yeah. Climate change is threatening coffee as a species.... |
Hoo ha! |
I mean, you can dismiss it all you want, it won't stop it from happening. _________________ AKA Skoon
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ScottyDM Registered User
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Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2018 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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Not being dismissive, Cookie.
What will probably happen to coffee is that it will be pushed into other regions and the people who traditionally raised it won't be able to any more. An economic disruption. The growing area for coffee will most likely shrink as well. Which will put more environmental pressure on the few regions where coffee can be grown.
Hoo ha! Indeed. _________________
Kantaro wrote: | Almost real enough to be considered non-fiction, if it weren't made up. |
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Cookie Registered User
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Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2018 6:18 pm Post subject: |
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ScottyDM wrote: | Not being dismissive, Cookie.
What will probably happen to coffee is that it will be pushed into other regions and the people who traditionally raised it won't be able to any more. An economic disruption. The growing area for coffee will most likely shrink as well. Which will put more environmental pressure on the few regions where coffee can be grown.
Hoo ha! Indeed. |
Only problem is the plant's sensitivity to soil make-up is even greater than grape vines. _________________ AKA Skoon
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ScottyDM Registered User
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Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2018 10:05 pm Post subject: |
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Volcanic soil, right? _________________
Kantaro wrote: | Almost real enough to be considered non-fiction, if it weren't made up. |
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