To be fair, you gotta be brain damaged to be brewing Folger’s 🤮
I was in military for over 23 years and coffee is coffee to me. Yes, some are tastier than others but at end of day I am just looking for the caffeine. Taste is an after thought when you get woken up at 2am for operations. I also drink it black.
Its what I drank for 20 years until I got some amazing coffee for my birthday one year. I just couldnt go back. If you’ve retired from military life and have the time to enjoy instead of rushing for ops it might be time to treat yourself.
Also, weigh it. Volumes change with different beans and grinds. Weights dont. Kitchen scales are cheap and easy.
Folger’s tastes like jail coffee, which tracks with the “coffee is coffee” philosophy 😂
Meh, it’s cheap and it’s good enough. I like coffee but not enough to spend money on “the good stuff” for daily consumption. And there’s no way in hell I’m grinding beans at 6am.
If there’s a Winco near you, they have good-might-be-stretch-but-significantly-better-than-Folgers coffee in their bulk section that you can grind in store. It’s fairly cheap - no idea if it’s a better or worse deal than Folgers. Decent variety of strengths and flavors.
If you don’t have a Winco nearby, you might have something similar- on a scale of [normal grocery store] to [Costco], Winco is kind of right in the middle; I’m guessing it’s not the only chain that’s like that, and that similar stores will have a similar inventory.
Winco is far and away the best grocery store ive shopped at.
Wish there was one near where i live, so damn cheap compared to the competition.
second best for us. we got a damn fine locally owned gourmet chain called Nugget where we buy our fancy dinner ingredients, but Winco is our employee owned everything else grocer
Yeah, we used to live right next to one and it was fantastic. Then we moved and now it’s about 20 min away, so I now go to Costco and the grocery store since there both a mile or two away.
there’s no way in hell I’m grinding beans at 6am.
You act like you have to go outside and break boulder-sized beans apart with a pickaxe, lol. It’s the exact same number of scoops, you just put whole beans in your grinder first, then your coffee maker. Literally takes about 5 seconds longer.
To be clear, there’s nothing wrong with liking cheaper coffee, and I don’t think the majority of us need or could tell the difference from using the absolute best beans and equipment to enjoy it… BUT, grinding your beans fresh gives a huge improvement to aroma and taste, such that I’m still amazed at the coffee I’m sipping out of my thermos late in the day. And it goes without saying that it improves every morning for me, personally. Most people discover a giant improvement, even using the exact same brand and type of coffee, only whole-bean. Very little experimentation is required to make amazing coffee that tastes perfect to you. Good luck if you try it…
I was a big coffee guy for awhile for the taste, now I’m really just in it for the caffeine. Aeropress + whatever’s on sale is good enough for me
Looking online, it’s up to around 50 cents an ounce, personally I’m drinking cafe El Morro, it was around 2.50 for a 10 oz brick, but it’s a lot cheaper if you order direct now with price increases. Also it’s pretty good coffee.
My old work had it posted that we were to use four scoops per pot of coffee.
They did not say level scoops.
Requirements unclear, scoop mountain.
No offense to anyone who drinks Folgers, but Folgers isn’t very good coffee.
I’m no coffee snob, but it’s definitely something worth spending a little extra money to get better quality stuff. You don’t have to go nuts and get whole bean Jamaican blue mountain whatever, but don’t buy the plastic jug of pre-ground Folgers swill either. Treat yo self.
I buy the metal can of Hill Bros High Yield because I’m worth it
I have this problem with measuring 3 measley cups of rice for the rice cooker. Even if I count out loud, there’s a small chance I have to start over. It’s like my brain gets lost in a 5-second time loop between “2” and “3”. I suddenly have the attention span of a squirrel.
My in-laws always use a half scoop per cup, no thank you. Cardboard flavoured water.
To be fair though I’m spoiled with single origin, roasted to order beans
Get a 1/3 cup measuring cup from your local dollar store. Two scoops will land you at almost exactly 10 tbsp.
No one should be expected to count all the way to 10 during that shitty period between waking and caffeine!! 2 is much more manageable.
🎶One, you got to one, you got to one! Two, you got to two, you got to two! Three, you got to three, you got to three! Four, you got to…🎶 Fuck!
Folgers has ground cockroaches
The best part of waking up…
Is Folgers in the trash!
i wish they’d get rid of the roaches
You are done when the filter is level full.
I mean if you want bitter coffee.
More like if you want coffee flavored coffee. Coffee is bitter.
good coffee isnt really bitter though (shade grown coffee for the win!)
There are ways to influence the bitterness of the coffee, I personally prefer cold brew, but there is an inherent bitterness to coffee regardless when made with decent strength. Some people be making some watery-ass coffee
So true. I just saw an opportunity to enlighten people with the shade grown beans being way better. It removes this disgusting bitter taste of coffee but it of course stays bitter tasting, if you get what I mean hahaha.
Always been interested in cold brew though but didn’t do the time sink (yet)
It is the only way to be sure you have enough.
dude i’m a musician and an accountant and i haven’t been able to count for thirty years
yeah i play percussion why
Get yourself a tally counter (click counter, hand counter, whatever). As an added bonus, it’s also a great fidget toy!
Just don’t fidget while you’re counting your scoops. “Wait was that really 3 scoops or did I just get bored and start clicking for fun? Nah surely I couldn’t have been THAT ADHD. No. I’d remember if I did that right? Maybe I’d better try to remember how many scoops to be sure, now, how many scoops was that?”
kitchen scale is like 15 bucks
And it makes everything take twice as long. Just leave the right size scoop in the can (don’t drink coffee, so idk how much, maybe 1/4 cup?) and you don’t need to find anything, just do the one or two scoops.
Your at 4. Thank me later
Up to the max line on the coffee grinder.
