Today I learned

[cjsmith]

...not to let French-press coffee sit on the grounds an extra minute. Oh my dear sweet ghods, people.

Comments

[hitchhiker]

heh :) i've done it and not noticed that much difference but i'm guessing your palate is a lot more sensitive to these things

[cjsmith]

Hah! Yeah, I think we're pretty different on that score. At least where coffee bitterness is concerned.

[siliconshaman]

Depends on what you're making with it..if you are. Sometimes you need the extra bitterness to offset the sweetness.

[cjsmith]

Maybe? The only thing I know how to make with it is tiramisu, and the recipe I use is calibrated for coffee rather than for coffee-made-even-more-bitter.

Ah well. Lesson learned, at least!

[wcg]

Yeah, it can get pretty intense.

[cjsmith]

I learned a short while back that I'm a bitter supertaster in multiple ways, so this kind of intense is not a great idea for me! :-) :-)

[weofodthignen]

That's the way I like it (for "an extra minute", read "squeeze after I do a couple of chores and remember I haven't had my coffee yet")—but then I like truck-stop coffee.

[minoanmiss]

Coffee you can chew, huh? :)

[pauamma]

A friend of mine and I used to joke about scary sentient coffee: unless it growls when you reach for the pot and lunges for your throat when you pour it, it's not strong enough.

[cjsmith]

hah! I'll have alcoholic drinks described on that scale, but the bitter compounds in coffee are something I'm still very tentatively habituating myself to.

[cjsmith]

[makes small terrified noises in bitter supertaster] :)

[cjsmith]

wow, suuupersteeped! I'm still gently accustoming myself to coffee at all. :)

[noelfigart]

I sympathize about being Princess and the Pea about coffee. I totally am and I often wonder if I'm shooting myself in the foot with that.

[cjsmith]

Shooting yourself in the foot how? I mean... you like it the way you like it, right?, and I hope there's nothing wrong with that!