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How strong is your STRONG Coffee?
« on: Feb 27th, 2008, 1:01am » |
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I'm getting things ready for my 2am hit and staarted thinking (usually a mistake) how strong is the strong coffee others here use? 
I use a drip coffee maker that makes 10 cups and I put a heaping 1/4 cup of grounds in the filter basket. How do you make a strong pot of coffee?
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Re: How strong is your STRONG Coffee?
« Reply #1 on: Feb 27th, 2008, 1:15am » |
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I fill the basket to my drip coffee maker almost completely to the top with grounds... then make 5 cups.
If my nipples don't spin after the first half cup... I know I made it too weak.
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Re: How strong is your STRONG Coffee?
« Reply #2 on: Feb 27th, 2008, 1:52am » |
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A scoop to a cup.
If the spoon doesn't dissolve, it isn't strong enough.
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Re: How strong is your STRONG Coffee?
« Reply #3 on: Feb 27th, 2008, 4:40am » |
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I'm with George--make as strong as you stomach will tolerate!
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Re: How strong is your STRONG Coffee?
« Reply #4 on: Feb 27th, 2008, 8:39am » |
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I grind my own.
Fill the grinder (spin type, haven't sprung for a bur grinder yet) as much as you can without binding the blades. Grind until just shy of power consistency. If you grind it too much it just clogs the filter and makes one hell of a mess 
I fill the tank with 10 cups of water.
This makes one strong cup-o-joe.
I make two full pots a day even though typically we only consume 4-5 cups. I put the rest in a glass lined carafe that keeps it hot for 18 hours or so. This way if I need a cup in the middle of the night it isn't ice cold.
My Dad used to do the same thing, he suffered from clusters too. Old George used to keep the coffee in a sauce pan on the stove so he could heat it quickly. That is until one morning when pouring his heated coffee into the cup out plopped a drown and nicely heated mouse  I'm pretty sure Ma threw the sauce pan away.
That's why I use a carafe.
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Re: How strong is your STRONG Coffee?
« Reply #5 on: Feb 27th, 2008, 9:17am » |
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My nuro has told me to stay off caffene because it can help trigger headaches, but if it helps with clusters I am willing to try a strong cup of joe.
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Re: How strong is your STRONG Coffee?
« Reply #6 on: Feb 27th, 2008, 10:25am » |
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For cluster headaches, caffeine can be a real help. I don't know how it affects tension or migrain headaches, but for us it's definitely beneficial. You also might want to try energy drinks, ones that contain both caffeine and taurine, the taurine "turbo charges" it and many can abort an attack by chugging one of those.
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Re: How strong is your STRONG Coffee?
« Reply #7 on: Feb 27th, 2008, 10:47am » |
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Rather than strength, perhaps you should be asking how much caffeine is in your coffee?
http://www.cybercoffee.com.au/faq.html
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Re: How strong is your STRONG Coffee?
« Reply #8 on: Feb 27th, 2008, 11:15am » |
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on Feb 27th, 2008, 9:17am, neetnut wrote:| My nuro has told me to stay off caffene because it can help trigger headaches, but if it helps with clusters I am willing to try a strong cup of joe. |
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Your neuro's a moron.
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Re: How strong is your STRONG Coffee?
« Reply #9 on: Feb 27th, 2008, 11:58am » |
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I fill the coffee grinder to the max and this usually almost fills up the filter. I put in 8 cups of water. This is pretty strong. I would make it even stronger but my wife complains now. Maybe a bit more would give me the spinning nipples syndrome. I'll drink to that.
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Re: How strong is your STRONG Coffee?
« Reply #10 on: Feb 27th, 2008, 12:51pm » |
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Coffee is my friend 
I've heard that the darker roasts may have less caffeine than the lighter roasts due to the longer roasting times. If your coffeemaker has the 1-3 cup option, using that setting on a full pot will make it drip slower and give you a stronger brew.
Also, for added caffeine or when I'm out of coffee and in a pinch, I will sometimes take a caffeine tablet, like No Doz.
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Re: How strong is your STRONG Coffee?
« Reply #11 on: Feb 27th, 2008, 12:58pm » |
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on Feb 27th, 2008, 1:15am, artonio7 wrote:| If my nipples don't spin after the first half cup... I know I made it too weak. |
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Damn it Tony, now my wife wants to see my nipples spin. 
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Re: How strong is your STRONG Coffee?
« Reply #12 on: Feb 29th, 2008, 1:03am » |
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How strong?
When folks come to my house knowing I made the coffee they either dont come or stay and talk till 3 am.
If you can handle the taste and have the stomach 3 heaping spoons of instant coffee in a cup can help. Simply for medicinal value.
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Re: How strong is your STRONG Coffee?
« Reply #13 on: Mar 1st, 2008, 3:48pm » |
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I use a Coffee press, and roast/grind my own beans. I use Sumatran beans, roast them sorta dark. About 2/3 of a cup of beans ground course. For my 24 Oz. Coffee press. I think it is somewhere in the neiborhood of 200 Mg of Caffiene per 6 Oz. cup.
It really helps with my CH. And I think even Tony would like it.
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Re: How strong is your STRONG Coffee?
« Reply #14 on: Mar 1st, 2008, 7:25pm » |
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Well, my "normal coffee" is Folgers, 1/2 cup of grounds to 10 cups water, drip machine. That's the wimpy stuff I drink when my husband is home or we have polite company.
When I'm alone, ahhh, what a different story. I prefer Guatemalan dark mixed with java monster-finely ground together. 1 cup of grounds to 10 cups of water.
I have also served this to my cluster friends.
In a total pinch I have been known to use 4 spoonfuls of instant to 1 cup of water. Nasty-but beats nothing.
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Re: How strong is your STRONG Coffee?
« Reply #15 on: Mar 2nd, 2008, 12:16pm » |
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The "traditional" Hungarian coffee is the Italian style espresso. 1/3 oz ground coffee for 2 fl oz water. Stong, black and bitter. Rank poison
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Re: How strong is your STRONG Coffee?
« Reply #16 on: Mar 6th, 2008, 6:29am » |
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Not sure if this is the right area to post this but, I just ordered one of those senseo pod coffee makers, I have been told it makes a strong cup of coffee very quickly, and for 15.00, figured it was worth a try to have just in case.
http://www.sharesenseo.com/index.jsp?q=e-saralee
it comes with the coffee pod system, a bag of pods coffee and some other stuff. Also found a website that tells you how to make your own pods so you don't have to spend so much for it later on refills.
http://www.rainbowpediatrics.net/horwitz/Senseo.html
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