/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.3124829]

How does /lit/ like to take their coffee? or tea, for that matter?

>god tier dark roast / french press / dab of cream reporting in

Used to enjoy filter coffee but a press is just so invigorating to use!

[Anonymous No.3124838]

>french press

Ishiggydiggy. It's called a cafetiere.

Anyway, I use one of these.

[Anonymous No.3124840]

Who the fuck cares

[Anonymous No.3124854]

>>3124829
Instant, black, three teaspoons to a cup. Tea cheap, bagged and black.

When I'm not depressed I make good coffee and tea instead.

[Anonymous No.3124855]

>>3124829
That's the most unhealthy way to drink coffee. Look it up.

[Anonymous No.3124858]

Generally dark french press black, but I'll drink whatever and not bitch about it. Always black though.

[Anonymous No.3124861]

coffe always black and tea always green

[Anonymous No.3124864]

>cream in or on anything

Are you fat, a child or a woman?

[Anonymous No.3124865]

I only ever used a filter.
Please explain how to use a press. Thanks.

[Anonymous No.3124866]

Coffee - usually black, but I rarely drink coffee.

Tea - iced and sweetened. If I'm drinking it hot, I may or may not sweeten it depending on what sort of tea it is.

[Anonymous No.3124867]

>>3124865
It's basically a pot that you put coarse-ground coffee in and let it steep; it has a wire-mesh filter attached to the lid of the French press and you just press it down after about 4 minutes of steeping/brewing. The pressing separates the grounds from the coffee itself to prevent over-brewing along with getting grounds in your cup.

[Anonymous No.3124876]

>>3124867
Thanks. I've only seen my dad use it when I was small but since then we have a machine

Is 4 minutes enough for strong flavour?

[Anonymous No.3124882]

Is this the thread for "classy" individuals on 4chan who drink coffee and wear fedoras?
If yes, get out.

[Anonymous No.3124883]

I like the iced coffee from McDonalds. It's surprisingly good.

[Anonymous No.3124889]

coffee -->black in moka
tea->assam with milk or some irish stuff with brandy(calvados)

[Anonymous No.3124891]

>>3124838
ah, i see. it's widely called a french or coffee press where i live. How are those?

>>3124861
absolutely

>>3124855
fascinating, i wouldn't have guessed no paper filter would raise LDL. thanks for the info!

>>3124882
>implying you don't drink coffee


anyway, just thought /lit/ would enjoy the discussion. At the moment i'm taking a break from a Frank O'Hara paper. He's wonderful- i highly recommend "Lunch Poems"

[Anonymous No.3124894]

>french press
>black

is there any other way?

[Anonymous No.3124895]

>>3124883
I've always been pleasantly surprised by McDonald's tea and coffee. I was glad when they did that renovation a few years ago as it makes it look like a cool hang spot a la starbucks instead of a child's pay area with burger van attached.

[Anonymous No.3124896]

>>3124838
Hell yeah, these are great. I've broken up with Mr. Coffee forever. Pain in the ass when you're trying to serve for company, but they like to stand around in the kitchen and watch.
And I take cream and sugar in my coffee, because that's how I like it, white and sweet. I prefer bitter food and sweet drinks, now that I think about it.

[Anonymous No.3124901]

>>3124896
How do use one of them? is it like a french press?

[Anonymous No.3124910]

>>3124901
The water goes in the bottom, and a filter sits inside it with the coffee. Up top is empty. Put on heat. Heat expands the water and pushes it up through the coffee into the pot. They come in different sizes but mine makes about two mugs, which is just right for my use.

[Anonymous No.3124911]

>>3124901
http://blogs.nature.com/nfanget/2010/11/why_i_was_late_for_work_the_other_day.html explains with a diagram and story I skimmed.

[Anonymous No.3124917]

full beans, cut them, then with a french press, add just a little milk

[Anonymous No.3124982]

Fortnum and Mason Earl Grey master race reporting in

[Franz !!8ZELb56UWUx No.3124985]

For my tea, I never use sugar. For black tea (and some other kinds of chais), I add almond mik. When I have a cold, I like to add honey.

I'm not a coffee drinker. I drink coffee very rarely, but when I do I take two creams and two sugars.

[Anonymous No.3124991]

>coffee
You people disgust me. Why drink that when there is tea available?

[Anonymous No.3125017]

>god tier
>dab of cream

you're just being edgy, you either drink good coffee straight black or you are demolishing the flavors

i can understand putting cream/sugar in gas-station coffee tho

[Anonymous No.3125027]

French press coffee is the only sort of coffee that has been linked to bad long-term side effects. Namely, carcinogens =3 death. Then of course, this is /lit/ and you guys have a Jonah Lehrer-esque connection to science.

[Anonymous No.3125034]

Black, hot and ugly.

[Anonymous No.3125040]

>French Press
Buy a machine you poor faggots

sage for not remotely related to /lit/

[Anonymous No.3125043]

(just visiting, actually.)
coffee - drip-brewed, black.
tea - w/no additives, but tastes best when as strong as possible so impatiently use a spoon to press the teabag to the side of the cup, when not loose-leaf.

[Anonymous No.3125046]

Coffee, black. I'm not a habitual coffee drinker and taking it black is how I determine whether it's worth drinking again for anything but caffeine. Greenwell Farms' Kona peaberry coffee tops my list, which isn't long.

Tea, I prefer mint with honey.

[Anonymous No.3125063]

>>3124991
Good coffee is a lot easier to get hold of than good tea

[Anonymous No.3125071]

I ground my coffee earlier using the bottom of a metal tablespoon and placed three heaps in the bottom of a pot containing a proportional level of water, which was then transported to the fireplace for 30 minutes, reaching only a slight simmer, because I live in New Jersey and my power was taken by a storm.

>>3124855
Die in a fucking hole, krout.
http://www.livestrong.com/article/303553-coffee-low-ldl/

>>3124889
Assam is a wonderful variety.

[Anonymous No.3125228]

For tea, I rarely take it with anything (except in the case of masala chai and dessert teas). I use loose leaf, and gravitate towards oolong and black. I like to sample all sorts though - I have some ripened pu-erh tuocha I'll be trying soon.

[Anonymous No.3125234]

ITT: pretentious fags who think that because they read Nietzsche they are more civilized than the rest of the horde

Seriously, you do not have true friends if you talk about the multifaceted ways of making ground up beans into a brew

[Anonymous No.3125238]

>>3125234
protip: it's a honeypot to keep them from posting in other threads

[Anonymous No.3125239]

>>3125234
I've never even read Nietzsche. I just like making good tea and drinking it. Mainly for health reasons.

why does that have to be a pretentious thing

[Anonymous No.3125245]

>>3125239
why are you posting about tea on a literature board?

[Anonymous No.3125246]

>>3125239
Tea is acceptable.

Tea is soothing and relaxing and tastes good.

COFFEE is what I drink when I need to take a shit after 3 days of being clogged up or when I need to be up RIGHT THEN to get work done.

It is black and it is shitty and it gets the job done. It is none of the things tea is and the ones who put dabs of moca and pumpkin spice and french vanilla creamer in it to make a nice warm hot coco to sip on while they nuzzle in their scarves even though they're inside are the ones i have a problem with

[Anonymous No.3125251]

dark roasted, 3 spoons a cup, splash of normal cold milk and no sugar

[Anonymous No.3125258]

>>3125245
Because I often like to pair my tea and literature together. Sometimes in a way that makes sense, like a Bai Mudan alongside classic Chinese lit. So they go together for me.

It's not like I'm not posting about lit in other threads too.

[Anonymous No.3125282]

Ahmad tea and milk.

When I'm not lazy I brew some of my blends, because I'm a pretentious arsehole and I enjoy tea.

[Anonymous No.3125305]

dirty american here,

what types of tea do you suggest i start with /lit/friends? Where do i go in the US? Do i just get a teapot and go? any advice?

or specific teas with lit like the Bai Mudan example?

[Anonymous No.3125307]

>>3125305
Start with English or Irish breakfast or Earl Gray or Lady Gray.

[Anonymous No.3125314]

>>3124829
Coffee moka pot black. In the mornings for "breakfast" with milk

[Anonymous No.3125393]

>>3124991
Why not both?

[Anonymous No.3125404]

>>3125393
Because my mouth is full of cocks.
—O.P.

[Anonymous No.3125408]

>>3125404
second poster here, i can confirm this.

the creamer is non-dairy too

[Anonymous No.3125429]

>medium roast
>freshly ground
>2 cups in french press
>pinch of salt
>croissant-based pastry, or quiche
>sliced Bosc pear
> Sparkling water
>followed closely by a strong V-cut cigar and JW Black

[Anonymous No.3125471]

Dark roast. Black.

Or green tea, occasionally with two slices of lemon for increased vitamin C absorption.

[Anonymous No.3125488]

God tier, reporting in.

>coffee when outside
Unsweetened espresso
>tea when at home
Unweetened loose leaf green tea / earl grey with milk

[Anonymous No.3125496]

they have good coffee and free refills. lately i've preferred pic related over starbucks. i usually go and sit down and read a book and drink a few cups. i take it with a pack a creme. as an out of work foreveralone the first sip is the highlight of my day.

[Anonymous No.3125516]

i like shitty burnt coffee with lots of sugar. no creme though. i got a large coffee from mcdonalds this morning and they tricked me good and loaded it with creme and got all the way home before i went to taste it and had to pour the shit out in the parking lot and go to dunkin doughnuts down the road.

[Anonymous No.3125517]

I'm not a bourgeoisie faggot like all of you, I get my kettle, stick in the teabags, two sugars and milk and have a nice cuppa'.

It must be fun forcing yourself to drink coffee to look cool.

[Lemony No.3125522]

can only drink tea at home that I make myself (milk with two sugars) and can only have coffee that I drink from someone else (preferably double double Tim Hortons). It's weird.

[Anonymous No.3125525]

>>3124829
Black as fuck!

[Anonymous No.3125532]

>>3125517

oi have a cuppa mate? enjoy your leaf water faggot.

[Anonymous No.3125565]

>>3125517
you put your teabags in your kettle? Your grandmum'll spew fruit loops.

[Anonymous No.3125581]

>>3124891
>fascinating, i wouldn't have guessed no paper filter would raise LDL. thanks for the info!
I use the Clever Coffee Dripper myself. It allows the coffee to steep, while offering the health benefits (and ease of use) of a filter. Pic related, it's something you might want to look into.

[Anonymous No.3125585]

>>3125581
I'm sorry, but I'm 100% Moka pot.

[Anonymous No.3125589]

>>3125234
>hurrr having culinary interests is for faggots

Enjoy being unable to into sophisticated hedonism. Also Nietzsche drank tea and disliked coffee.

[Anonymous No.3125594]

>>3125585
I used to be all about espresso and it's variants, but drip coffee has it's own specific benefits once you get into the nice stuff. Doesn't hurt to give it a shot, variety being the spice of life and all.

I've always found the Moka pot to be somewhat of an inbetweener though. It's not a proper espresso with the oily creme, and it doesn't have the clear flavours of drip either. I never quite know what to make of it. Not that it's bad, but I like one extreme or the other.

[Anonymous No.3125596]

>>3125594
Also, you might like this article:

http://www.ineedcoffee.com/03/mokaexpress/

It's about Moka pots and fascism. Makes for nice coffee trivia.

[Anonymous No.3125599]

>>3125594
My culture and environment don't support drips (heat + humidity factors).

[Anonymous No.3125601]

>>3124991
Whatever. Enjoy your anxiety attacks and yellow teeth fag

[Anonymous No.3125607]

take my tea with a little bit of milk, no sugar

[Anonymous No.3125608]

I use an atomic, black no sugar

[Anonymous No.3125609]

>>3125599
Interesting. Where are you from?

[Anonymous No.3125613]

>>3125609
Australia. Mould sucks.

[Anonymous No.3125619]

>>3125071
That article supports what I said. Why are you mad?

[Anonymous No.3125633]

>>3125429
>JW Black
>the price of a decent single malt with none of the virtues

Stay amateur.

[Anonymous No.3125639]

>>3125633
>Possessing taste and discrimination.

I'm sorry, but we can't all afford to volunteer to be the last capitalist hung with the guts of the last bureaucrat.

[Anonymous No.3125650]

Jeeze. Am I the only one making god-tier pourover?

[Anonymous No.3125655]

>>3125639
You can get better whisky than that for the same price. Also I'm the last cynic with the gut of a cyrenaic

[Anonymous No.3125657]

>>3125650

>pourover

What a fag.
The local bookstore put in a coffee stand with pourover coffee once it got trendy and yet no one buys the shit.

[Anonymous No.3125658]

>>3125655
Yes, and you can get tolerable whiskey at a fraction of the price.

[Anonymous No.3125677]

>>3124829
Roasted to the likings of Lucifer, 2%, enough to put down the acidity, and one sugar. and a large enough cup to let everyone know I will be there all day, showin off my table top notebook, pretending to be 3deep5u

[Anonymous No.3125729]

Although I own a French press, a moka pot, an espresso machine, and an MSR mug-mate, I usually just make it with my stadard-issue 'merican drip brewer. Not a single fuck given. I think this might be reactionary in some respect to the way that hipsters nowadays turn their noses at those machines, even though the coffee made by slow drip brewing is not worse than by the other methods, just different.

[Anonymous No.3125737]

Black, regardless of brew style.

Tea I'll take black iced and unsweetened. Hot tea is good as well, but not green. It's like water.

[Anonymous No.3125745]

>>3125729
Yes, I understand that "drip" is your traditional American culture. But have you tried more traditional american—direct extraction over a fire ala "Turkish" and have you tried "Turkish" itself? Get in touch with the roots. Fuck hipsters, drink good coffee.

[Anonymous No.3125748]

>>3125745
Damn, that's a really good point. Motherfucking frontiersman/cowboy coffee.

I was interested in trying it one time, and I suppose that I put it off after reading that I needed an ultra-fine grind using a dedicated Turkish coffee grinder (not to mention a brew pot), but I've never tried just doing it anyway with the finest grind I can achieve \ any old saucepan.

[Anonymous No.3125750]

>>3125737
What kind of green have you been having? More people compare it to drinking green vegetable juice than water.

[Anonymous No.3125755]

>>3125748
Over here in Australia you can get preground turkish from a store. Also you can just do it with finest grind you can and any milk saucepan. The more vertical the saucepan the better obviously.

Read turkish instructions online, its easy.

Then try coarse ground any old saucepan, that's the cowboy way—lazy as fuck.

[Anonymous No.3125757]

>>3125750

I couldn't even tell you. I haven't drank it in a long time.