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(Message started by: DragonSlayer on Feb 27^th, 2008, 1:01am)

Title: How strong is your STRONG Coffee?
Post by DragonSlayer on Feb 27^th, 2008, 1:01am

I'm getting things ready for my 2am hit and staarted thinking (usually a mistake) how strong is the strong coffee others here use? [smiley=confused.gif]

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?

Title: Re: How strong is your STRONG Coffee?
Post by artonio7 on Feb 27^th, 2008, 1:15am

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.

with warm regards,
Tony

Title: Re: How strong is your STRONG Coffee?
Post by George_J on Feb 27^th, 2008, 1:52am

A scoop to a cup.

If the spoon doesn't dissolve, it isn't strong enough.

Best,

George

Title: Re: How strong is your STRONG Coffee?
Post by Bob_Johnson on Feb 27^th, 2008, 4:40am

I'm with George--make as strong as you stomach will tolerate!

Title: Re: How strong is your STRONG Coffee?
Post by DennisM1045 on Feb 27^th, 2008, 8:39am

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 :o

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 ;;D I'm pretty sure Ma threw the sauce pan away.

That's why I use a carafe.

-Dennis-

Title: Re: How strong is your STRONG Coffee?
Post by neetnut on Feb 27^th, 2008, 9:17am

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.

Title: Re: How strong is your STRONG Coffee?
Post by Guiseppi on Feb 27^th, 2008, 10:25am

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.

Guiseppi

Edited 2x cuz i can't spell!

Title: Re: How strong is your STRONG Coffee?
Post by LeeS on Feb 27^th, 2008, 10:47am

Rather than strength, perhaps you should be asking how much caffeine is in your coffee?

http://www.cybercoffee.com.au/faq.html

-Lee

Title: Re: How strong is your STRONG Coffee?
Post by brewcrew on Feb 27^th, 2008, 11:15am

on 02/27/08 at 09:17:08, 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.

Your neuro's a moron.

Title: Re: How strong is your STRONG Coffee?
Post by Stinger on Feb 27^th, 2008, 11:58am

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.

Title: Re: How strong is your STRONG Coffee?
Post by pattik on Feb 27^th, 2008, 12:51pm

Coffee is my friend [smiley=grin2.gif]
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.

Happy brewing.
-Pat

Title: Re: How strong is your STRONG Coffee?
Post by DennisM1045 on Feb 27^th, 2008, 12:58pm

on 02/27/08 at 01:15:43, artonio7 wrote:

If my nipples don't spin after the first half cup... I know I made it too weak.

Damn it Tony, now my wife wants to see my nipples spin. ::)

-Dennis-

Title: Re: How strong is your STRONG Coffee?
Post by MJ on Feb 29^th, 2008, 1:03am

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.

Title: Re: How strong is your STRONG Coffee?
Post by Kirk on Mar 1^st, 2008, 3:48pm

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.

[smiley=smokin.gif]

Title: Re: How strong is your STRONG Coffee?
Post by kcopelin on Mar 1^st, 2008, 7:25pm

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.

Well, gotta go washthe outside of the house, paint the car and iron all the clothes.......

Hammy...I mean, Kathy
;;D
edited to add smiley...

Title: Re: How strong is your STRONG Coffee?
Post by totka2 on Mar 2^nd, 2008, 12:16pm

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 ;;D

Title: Re: How strong is your STRONG Coffee?
Post by jace77 on Mar 6^th, 2008, 6:29am

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