Hitting the Full-Speed Coffee

Q: Which flavor of coffee do you prefer? A: The kind with the most caffeine.

When it comes to coffee, the caffeine is the key. Drinking decaf is like drinking non-alcoholic beer. What's the point? With this in mind, the best coffee is the strongest coffee. And right now, the French Roast wins hands-down. It does not matter the brand; it does not matter if it's beans or ground. The French Roast is consistently the strongest that I've come across.

The Kirkland house blend we tried before didn't cut it. So, we moved on to the Safeway Select French Roast beans. It's good, it gets the job done, it's not great. We are moving on once again...

In the cabinet, we have a Costco-sized bag of San Francisco coffee. I'm looking forward to it. The SFWeekly wrote it up in their Best-of series: Best Coffee Bean Roasters. The article does not appear to be dated (which I believe is a huge Ooops, kind of like putting your pants on your head, even toddlers know that's an Ooops), so who knows if the article is recent or not. I'll let you know how that coffee is in future posts. Stay tuned.

The daily routine of grinding beans has lead my wife to refine her technique. Where I like to put six tbls into the grinder all at once, she likes to do three and three. She claims the beans grind finer that way with less beans in the grinder. That's fine in theory, so that's how we do it. And plus, the toddlers really like the Whrrr, Whrrr, Whrrr, noise. They like to put their hand on the dome while the beans are ground up. It's great fun.