It did not taste as good as it smelled. At least not out of my sister-in-law’s horrible percolator. In fact it put me off coffee for more than a decade.
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They say that Louis XIV had the inscription Ultima Ratio Regum cast into all the cannon of the French Army. It means “The Ultimate Argument of Kings,” and that always struck me as one of the most honest and up-front things any ruler or would-be ruler ever said. “We can dress it up prettier than this, but when it comes down to the unvarnished truth this is what it’s about: You’ll do as I say or I’ll send my goons to kill you.”
I thought about that for a long time. If there’s an ultimate argument, it seems only logical that there must be an ultimate answer. For years I thought the ultimate answer must be the bullets in my rifle, but it never seemed quite right. I’ve got bullets – he’s got frigging Cannon Balls. I mean, if there were three hundred million rifles throwing bullets at him, then maybe. But we all know that’s not going to happen. So if there’s an ultimate answer to his ultimate argument, it sure as hell ain’t bullets.
It finally came to me – and that’s when I abandoned the city and most of my stuff, and gave all that was behind me a good stiff Randian Shrug.
The ultimate answer to kings is not a bullet, but a belly laugh.
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Percolators are pretty much the worst way to make coffee. A French press or Aeropress is probably the best reasonably priced method ($20 – $30 for the press).
Coffee never tastes as good as it smells! It’s like tobacco in that regard. I prefer drip. Even a Mr. Coffee will do. Or a Keurig.
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Like your beer and wine preference, the type of coffee you prefer is a very individual thing. I would need to be desperate to drink that bitter stuff that Starbucks sells, although I understand perfectly that millions of addicted Starbucks customers would beg to disagree with me.
I bought a “French Press” thing. Made terrible cofffee. Left tons of grounds in it and a lot of gunk. I much prefer a drip coffee maker, with the cone filter being the best. I don’t like the “Mr. Coffee.” The pots drip and dribble all over the place. 🙂
But yes, coffee is just as much a matter of taste, custom, upbringing as most other things. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. My mother loved her perculator. I thought I hated coffee, until I got some made a better way after I was married.
Aeropress. No grounds, you can get a metal filter to use instead of the paper ones so that coffee and water are the only consumables. It makes it easy to play with the variables – water temp, grind size, gring quantity, steep time.
Advice on drinking instant coffee from a 30-year-old C ration box or a 17-year-ol MRE. Don’t.