is 45! I think that’s a record!
As longtime readers know, the official coffee of TUAK is…
Trader Joe’s House Blend. Whole bean, of course, because come on. If I were a real coffee snob I’d insist on roasting my own green beans, but you can’t even pretend to brush the fringe of coffee snobdom if you don’t grind it at point of use. It’s a principal reason the Lair has electricity*.
As you may suspect, the Secret Lair is a long, long way from the nearest Trader Joe’s. I don’t actually know the location of the nearest Trader Joe’s. Landlady trucks this stuff in for me, because she’s just that awesome. In return I dig her trenches and kill her snakes.
But like all essential commodities it is consumable, and consumables inevitably get consumed. So since there’s no way to prevent consumption short of going without coffee (HA!) it’s incumbent on me to track the rate of consumption. I do that with all sorts of things: Flour, matches, cooking oil, paper towels…when I open a package, I note the date.
My coffee consumption has gone down in the past couple of years; these days too much upsets my stomach, which kind of defeats the purpose. But I still love my coffee enough to keep a rotating stock of the good stuff and a Plan B stock of the not-so-good stuff in sealed cans which, please god, will remain sealed until after my own expiration date.
At present, 45 days per can without rationing.
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* Yes of course there’s a Plan B. 🙂
When I was in the Marines, I was very fond of the coffee on Navy ships. I don’t think they ever cleaned the pot and you could just about stand a spoon up in your cup it was so thick. These days, in my old age, I drink milder stuff but I’d die without it. I keep cases down in the lower level supply room.
I remember how the protagonist in “Alas Babylon” had to root around town trying to find out who “was holding coffee” to trade for it.
“Alas, Babylon” . . . one of, if not THE best of its kind.
JMHO
Ah coffee the elixir of life.
I guess you could say that I’m a coffee snob. I like good, strong, fresh coffee and I’m willing to go the extra distance for it, so to heck with your opinions. :^)
When we retired my wife and I gave up a lot of frivolous spending i.e. one car not two, no home phone, no cable TV etc. but on one thing we were agreed upon, death before bad coffee. Every two weeks we get a pound of Costa Rican and a pound of Brazilian fresh roasted coffee. The place we get it from roasts the coffee right there. On average the coffee beans (never ground) have been roasted within a day or less before we buy them and the taste is amazing. So don’t judge me I’m a coffee addict.
We are no too snobby since we drink Costco Columbian ground here. We are off grid and do vans some solar now but we have had no problem with a hand grinder from the beginning!