The Food Thread

[O Really]

Speaking of coffee makers. Has anyone else tries an AeroPress. Makes 1 or 2 cups of the cleanest coffee you will ever try. Small, cheap and easy to clean.

Buying a 1-2 cup coffee maker seems to be as bad as buying a 2-pack of beer.

[billy.pilgrim]

Speaking of coffee makers. Has anyone else tries an AeroPress. Makes 1 or 2 cups of the cleanest coffee you will ever try. Small, cheap and easy to clean.

Buying a 1-2 cup coffee maker seems to be as bad as buying a 2-pack of beer.

I said the same before I hit one as a gift. The 10 cup pot is now in the garage and the French Press (still used occasionally) is in the cabinet.

[O Really]

Seems like a bit of work. Do you grind your own beans? And then have to heat the water, pour, stir, press. But does it really make espresso-like coffee? That might make it worth having around for special occasions.

[billy.pilgrim]

Seems like a bit of work. Do you grind your own beans? And then have to heat the water, pour, stir, press. But does it really make espresso-like coffee? That might make it worth having around for special occasions.

I do grind beans, but usually enough for the day and I do have what you would consider to be a "space hog" thermostat controlled water pitcher, so water is always hot.

[billy.pilgrim]

This is bad. I may never have another Apalachicola oyster. A five year halt to all harvesting may repair the beds, but damn, what will the people do for work. Not so much so in Apalachicola, but everyone in Eastpoint works in the oyster business.

And for me - no more hanging out at Lynn's from lunch to dinner.

https://apnews.com/article/tallahassee- ... 1423ddd3f0

[neoplacebo]

Terrible. I sometimes get an urge for fried oysters and beer and fries in spite of my knowledge of how much shit the US Navy dumps into the ocean on a daily basis....not to mention what other nations do.

[O Really]

That is bad - those are some of the best oysters anywhere.

[GoCubsGo]

Seems like a bit of work. Do you grind your own beans? And then have to heat the water, pour, stir, press. But does it really make espresso-like coffee? That might make it worth having around for special occasions.

French press is hands down the best way of brewing coffee. It's not an espresso, it actually the opposite, a slow extraction. What it does do is draw out the oils better than any other process giving you a more full bodied and flavorful cup.

[billy.pilgrim]

Seems like a bit of work. Do you grind your own beans? And then have to heat the water, pour, stir, press. But does it really make espresso-like coffee? That might make it worth having around for special occasions.

French press is hands down the best way of brewing coffee. It's not an espresso, it actually the opposite, a slow extraction. What it does do is draw out the oils better than any other process giving you a more full bodied and flavorful cup.

I was using a French Press when the kid showed me the areopress. It's almost the same, but completely clean. They don’t cost much - try it.

[billy.pilgrim]

https://youtu.be/9c14DxfVOY4

The aeropress from the inventor

[O Really]

Seems like a bit of work. Do you grind your own beans? And then have to heat the water, pour, stir, press. But does it really make espresso-like coffee? That might make it worth having around for special occasions.

French press is hands down the best way of brewing coffee. It's not an espresso, it actually the opposite, a slow extraction. What it does do is draw out the oils better than any other process giving you a more full bodied and flavorful cup.

Ummm, about those oils...
https://www.eatthis.com/the-most-danger ... o-science/

The French press isn't the only form of unfiltered coffee, of course. There are also Greek and Turkish coffees, which are produced by boiling powdered coffee with water that never passes through a filter. All of these types of filter-less coffees "contain higher amounts of cafestol and kahweol—chemicals found in oil droplets floating in the coffee and also in the sediment," Lisa Drayer, RD, told CNN. "Studies have shown that these substances can raise triglyceride levels and LDL cholesterol levels. So stick with filtered coffee, such as a paper filter that you would use in a drip-brewed coffee, which can help to trap these chemicals."

[GoCubsGo]

Meh, I don't do it daily. Too many other thing to worry about besides this not to mention too many other ways to go.

[O Really]

Meh, I don't do it daily. Too many other thing to worry about besides this not to mention too many other ways to go.

Agreed - I don't have to deny the validity of a study like that in order to ignore it.

[billy.pilgrim]

Aeropress is the cleanest coffee I've ever seen. The last sip in the cup tastes and looks exactly like the first.

Do y'all brew cold coffee? I use a 2 quart jar with a metal strainer insert for a 24 hour soak, then run it through a paper filter and into the frig. Works just as well without the metal filter, but it was a gift, it works and makes the paper filtering a little easier.
Through years of experimenting, I offer you my best method

Heat water to 160
In a 1 quart jar, add 1 v. lrg. cup of regular grind coffee
Pour in 160° degree water - leave room to stir
Stir throughly and add more water to fill
Cover or screw on top
Allow to brew for 24 hours
Strain 1 or 2 times with a paper filter (I use another jar and 3 binder clips to hold the filter. Quicker and easier to strain into 2 jars)
Refrigerate

To serve
Mix 1•1 with milk or water or whatever
I also like it straight - like whiskey, a drop or two at a time just for the flavor can be enough. I can nurse a 1 oz shot for an hour.

[Ulysses]

I've been using a Keurig coffee maker for the past few years. Have a backlog of K-cups. Also have a variety of grinders and other more traditional coffee makers awaiting rejuvenation once the K-cup supply runs out.

It's all good.

[Vrede too]

... leave room to stir ...

You must be messy, and have a very long spoon.

[GoCubsGo]

Cold extraction method is happening. Good stuff.

[O Really]

Damn, I feel like a coffee neanderthal with my Cuisinart dripper.

[Vrede too]

Animal Rights Activist Punks Maria Bartiromo By Posing As Meat Company CEO

David Moye·Reporter, HuffPost
Wed, December 23, 2020, 1:49 PM EST·2 min read

Fox News host Maria Bartiromo was apparently out-foxed by an animal rights activist who posed as a meat company CEO.

On Wednesday’s episode of “Mornings With Maria,” Bartiromo featured an interview she said was with Dennis Organ, the new CEO and president of pork industry giant Smithfield Foods.

However, the interview was actually with Matt Johnson, an activist for the animal rights network Direct Action Everywhere.

While posing as Organ, Johnson told viewers that factory farms like the ones operated by Smithfield are likely breeding grounds for future pandemics.

When Bartiromo asked about Smithfield’s processing plant in South Dakota ― the site of a major COVID-19 outbreak earlier this year ― Johnson posing as Organ told her that the company farms are “petri dishes for new diseases” and noted that hog farming also “causes immense damage to our air and waterways.” ...

[Vrede too]

I've shopped Publix for decades....

... Wegman's, Publix, Harris-Teeter never let you down.

... Jersey Mike's, Jimmy John's, and Publix subs are all decent enough in my book....

Where lies and treason are a pleasure.

‘The last straw’: the US families ending love affair with grocery chain after Capitol riot

Wendy Mize’s family grew up on Publix ...

But now the decades-long love affair is over. After a member of Publix’s founding family donated $300,000 to the Donald Trump rally that preceded January’s deadly Capitol riots, Mize is pulling out of what she says has become “an abusive, dysfunctional relationship”, and joining others in a boycott of the Florida-based grocery chain that operates more than 1,200 stores across seven south-eastern states.

“It was the last straw,” said Mize, 57, an advertising copywriter from Orlando whose youngest twin daughters are now 19. “Insurrection at the Capitol, images of the police officer with his head being crushed, individuals dressed as Vikings on the floor of the Senate… we’re not going to call this normal. [Publix] are a private company and it is their business how they want to contribute their money, but it’s also my right to decide where I want to spend my dollars.”

... the company and its founders have donated often and generously to partisan, conservative causes, including more than $2m alone by Publix heiress Julie Jenkins Fancelli, daughter of the late company founder George Jenkins, to the Republican National Committee and Trump’s failed re-election campaign.

In a brief statement on 30 January, to date the company’s only comment about Fancelli, Publix attempted to distance itself from her. Yet her funding of the Trump gathering that formed the insurrection’s opening act, and revealed by the Wall Street Journal to have been channelled through the rightwing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, was just the latest in a series of controversies and missteps that left some shoppers holding their noses as they filled their carts, or others like Mize pulling out altogether.

Three years ago, in the aftermath of the high school shooting in Parkland, Florida, that killed 17, Publix temporarily halted political donations after an outcry over its bankrolling of Adam Putnam, a self-confessed “proud National Rifle Association sellout”, for state governor.

Parkland survivors, led by the activist David Hogg, and their supporters staged “die-ins” at Publix supermarkets in several locations, protesting the company’s donation of $670,000, through its political action committee, to Putnam’s campaign. Putnam, as Florida’s commissioner of agriculture, had strongly opposed stricter gun laws following the shooting....

Earlier this year, Publix donated donated $100,000 to a political action committee looking to secure DeSantis’s re-election in 2022. Soon after, the governor awarded Publix a lucrative and exclusive contract to distribute Covid-19 vaccines in numerous stores....

Others point to the juxtaposition of Publix being at the forefront of vaccine distribution in Florida while failing to enforce in-store mask wearing in some areas of the state, and defending a damaging wrongful death lawsuit from the family of an employee in Miami who died of Covid complications after being told not to wear a mask.

A judge in Tampa last week threw out the company’s demand to reduce the lawsuit to a worker’s compensation claim after the company asked for 70-year-old deli worker Gerardo Gutierrez’s death last April to be classified as a workplace accident.

Gutierrez’s family insists he contracted the infection from a colleague after employees were banned from wearing masks by workplace regulations later reversed....

Mize, and her family, meanwhile, are working through their Publix break-up with a mixture of grief and relief.

“This time I just thought, ‘Enough. It’s not going to be business as normal’.”