The Maillard Reaction
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Coffee... big cup - little cup?
Every morning I have my pot of French press Cuban style Columbian coffee.
Sometime my favorite mug is dirty and I just use a coffee cup... so it seems like I drink twice as much.
Which is better?
1 Big mug? or 3 Small cups?
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Re:Coffee... big cup - little cup?
2011/02/04 07:51:59
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There is no such thing as a dirty coffee cup. The drippings in the bottom just add flavor to the next cup. Many years ago, in a radio contest, I won a "bottomless coffee cup" from a local radio station. The deal was, all the coffee you wanted, when you wanted it, for a whole year, at a certain convenient store chain. I also discovered that other chains would honor the cup as long as you were buying something else. I kept that cup in my truck...on the dashboard. I don't think it ever got washed. But every morning, on the way to work, I'd hit the corner store and fill-ur-up. Even now.... I rinse, shake it out, and set it beside the coffee maker, ready to go at a moments notice when the urge for a fresh pot hits me. As far as the question... One big or 3 smalls..... don't compromise.... 3 bigs of course.
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Re:Coffee... big cup - little cup?
2011/02/04 07:52:37
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1 Big mug? or 3 Small cups?
Back to moobs? i was gonna update a previous thread, as we are now using a Lavazza a Modo Mio coffee machine, oh boy, seriously good coffee and no mess! and i'd prefer a large one, Mike.
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Re:Coffee... big cup - little cup?
2011/02/04 07:54:14
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Re:Coffee... big cup - little cup?
2011/02/04 08:34:19
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Huge Texas Mug here....for decaf.... 
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Re:Coffee... big cup - little cup?
2011/02/04 08:40:22
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I prefer a large ceramic cup. there's something different about drinking coffee from a large ceramic cup than drinking it from a cardboard "to go" cup or a plastic reusable one.  I do drink out of all of the "mediums" - but my favorite is always a slow large cup in ceramic. ahhh
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Re:Coffee... big cup - little cup?
2011/02/04 08:40:44
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Tea or Coffee. If I'm making it has to be a standard mug sized mug.
You cannot mess with all sorts of weird capacities when correct proportions are paramount.
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Re:Coffee... big cup - little cup?
2011/02/04 08:44:53
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Jonbouy
Tea or Coffee. If I'm making it has to be a standard mug sized mug.
Same here, even when pouring from a thermos, got to be into a china mug.
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Re:Coffee... big cup - little cup?
2011/02/04 09:00:24
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Jonbouy
Tea or Coffee. If I'm making it has to be a standard mug sized mug.
You cannot mess with all sorts of weird capacities when correct proportions are paramount.
You are so right.... My wife and I have totally different ideas of what 3-1/2 heaping tablespoons of Cuban style Columbian Coffee look like. You should see me add spice to a curry... I do it like a drummer.... rat a tat a tat ba duhm... "oh that looks just about right"!
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Re:Coffee... big cup - little cup?
2011/02/04 09:52:34
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trimph1
Huge Texas Mug here....for decaf....
Trimph1 ol buddy! We agree on a lot and I highly value your input here at the forums. We've stood together through thick and thin against any storm we dove into... But decaffeinated coffee??! That's a sin, man... I thought you Canadians respected your coffee! Decaf: Eeeeeeeewwwwww....!!!! just kidding of course... Or am I? BTW, I just realized I've passed 1000 posts. It only took me 7 years!
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Re:Coffee... big cup - little cup?
2011/02/04 10:02:17
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I have a drip coffee maker. I use the big glass cup that came with it. So 1 big for me. 
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Re:Coffee... big cup - little cup?
2011/02/04 10:32:07
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Big cup. Fewer times getting up to go to the coffeemaker.
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Re:Coffee... big cup - little cup?
2011/02/04 10:36:14
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I knew someone was going to bring up the exercise factor.
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Re:Coffee... big cup - little cup?
2011/02/04 10:42:24
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When the cup is so big that the coffee gets cold before I can finish it, then the cup is too big. Whatever size that is.
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The Maillard Reaction
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Re:Coffee... big cup - little cup?
2011/02/04 10:50:29
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Now we are getting somewhere.
I actually enjoy cold coffee... and often throw and ice cube in it.
Maybe that's why I like my big cup.
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Re:Coffee... big cup - little cup?
2011/02/04 10:53:07
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Re:Coffee... big cup - little cup?
2011/02/04 10:55:52
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Yeah, and you look like the exercise of getting up and getting the 2nd and 3rd cup is working for ya.
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Re:Coffee... big cup - little cup?
2011/02/04 12:11:08
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Here's the definitive answer on why No to the small cups......
You know when you get that perfect mix of cream and sugar in the coffee and you want it to go on forever even when it gets cold?
Well, that can happen on your first cup and then the other two are just weak attempts at salvaging the experience. You've ruined it.
ONE BIG CUP and you hope it gets cold because if you run out it's even sadder. :)
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Re:Coffee... big cup - little cup?
2011/02/04 12:29:06
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I miss coffee. Can only drink tea now. It stimulates the Vasus Nerve in my heart and makes me pass out. That happened a few times before the doctors figured it out. Stopped drinking, no more dizzy spells and wooziness.
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Re:Coffee... big cup - little cup?
2011/02/04 12:47:02
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I have my favorite big cup that reads "I see dumb people" @ middleman I always drank coffee, until i turned 25...i had a episode of super anxiety and palpitations in my heart. for the next 7 years if i even touched it, i would have a nasty panic attack that landed me in the hospital twice. they thought i was on cocaine. funny thing - i could drink coke, mt dew, t-bag tea, no ill effect. one day just this past year, i tried a small cup in the morning, nothing bad happened. slowly weaned my way back to half a pot in the morning. still no trouble...no anxiety / panic attacks, no heart jumping out of my chest. and no explanation.
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Re:Coffee... big cup - little cup?
2011/02/04 12:53:11
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Middleman
I miss coffee. Can only drink tea now. It stimulates the Vasus Nerve in my heart and makes me pass out. That happened a few times before the doctors figured it out. Stopped drinking, no more dizzy spells and wooziness.
That sucks Middleman. Sheesh. I switched to unleaded for a while because regular would make my heart race. My wife accidentally made me a pot of leaded one night and it didn't do anything so I switched back. Don't know what that was all about, but it was scary. My favorite cup is a big one I got while at the visitors center at Pikes Peak. :) It's ceramic, but made to look like one of those old green metal agate ones the miners used. It's short and wide. When I make a pot of coffee I usually make 6 cups and I fill the cup 2 1/2 times. Best coffee imo is still the 8 o'clock Bean Regular, and 8 o'clock Bean Hazlenut whole Bean, unground. Got a coffee pot with a whole bean grinder built in on sale at Wal-Mart for $40 bucks one time. Love it! Edit: Forgot to say, another thing I like to do is take fresh ground coffee and sprinkle on ice cream. omg. :)
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Re:Coffee... big cup - little cup?
2011/02/04 13:14:02
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I have 2 of these when I get up in the morning as I have since I got the cup in 80'
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Re:Coffee... big cup - little cup?
2011/02/04 14:01:54
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"BTW, I just realized I've passed 1000 posts. It only took me 7 years!"
You mean there are things to do outside of posting on the forums? Wow!
Not a coffee drinker here....does too many bad things to me. I always have iced tea something similar with me though. In my cool Starbucks cup usually. :-)
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Re:Coffee... big cup - little cup?
2011/02/04 14:05:16
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Does that mean I have 3 1/2 years to go? 
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Re:Coffee... big cup - little cup?
2011/02/04 15:15:11
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BTW, I just realized I've passed 1000 posts. It only took me 7 years!
Congrats! It only took me 3 months. Pathetic ain't I? :) btw ... love your avatar. Who is that?
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Re:Coffee... big cup - little cup?
2011/02/04 15:38:15
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Large ceramic mug here, and I drink my coffee black mostly, so no problems with leaving room for anything, except more coffee maybe. For some reason when I'm travelling, I'll tend to put in a huge amount of sugar and also some milk, especially if I just got off a plane.
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Re:Coffee... big cup - little cup?
2011/02/04 18:39:20
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I have a .5L ceramic mug that started life as an Oktoberfest beer mug. It holds the coffee's temperature at the perfect level for a long time. On a busy day I can easily have 3 fills.
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Re:Coffee... big cup - little cup?
2011/02/04 19:20:01
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Large ceramic cup at home, big plastic mug at work. I also don't wash it, just rinse it...gives it body. I make coffee at work for the brave few who like it bold. $5.00 will get you hopped up for a week
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Re:Coffee... big cup - little cup?
2011/02/04 19:20:05
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"BTW, I just realized I've passed 1000 posts. It only took me 7 years!"
You mean there are things to do outside of posting on the forums? Wow!
I have no idea, is it? Would like to post more and participate in important things to greater extent;)
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Re:Coffee... big cup - little cup?
2011/02/04 19:23:04
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If you want to participate in important things, there might be better places than here. lol
But it's usually fun and sometimes educational. :-)
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