No Life Before Coffee!!!!

**Blknight.aus** · 13th December 2006, 08:40 PM

I have to say I only drink NATO

Big and Bad
instant
white (usually not milk but sweetened condensed from a tube)
2 sugars
served at body temperature so that when the shooting starts I can skull it before making the mad dash to the pit/crawling up into the turret/moving the vehicle.

for the perfect nato..

get a cups canteen, some almost hot water, cold water and a 24hr ration pack

put 3 sachets of coffee and 3 sachets of sugar into the cups canteen and fill with hotish water to the bottom of the first rivit that holds the handle on.squeeze in a random quantity of condensed milk, swill the cups canteen around or stir with the coffee sachet, if you drop it in it doesnt matter you wont notice. add cold water to the top of the second rivit.

For the yuppie version, sit your sweetend condensed milk on the engine bay sponson just under the exhaust manifold of an M113 for about a week or the exhaust shield of a 110/mog/mack for the same amount of time.. IT make a nice caramel coffee...

the best bit of it is the treacle thick stuff that sits in the bottom of the cups canteen. That bit of it you could inject into whales that have had heart attacks and they'd come round.

**EchiDna** · 13th December 2006, 09:57 PM

Originally Posted by solmanic

....Probably 90% of all the coffee people drink in cafes is incorrectly made....

easy to see you don't live in Melbourne!

I've got a rancilio silvia espresso machine and rancilio rocky grinder...
http://www.coffeegeek.com/reviews/co...ancilio_silvia

I'd love a La Pavoni fully manual, but I'll stick with the rancilio for the foreseeable future...

hanging out for my roaster thats coming for Christmas

http://www.hottop.com.tw/p4.html

and just for fun... kopi luwak - you know you want some

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_Luwak

**MacMan** · 14th December 2006, 07:08 AM

Our routine is that the first up (usually me) sleepwalks to the kitchen, grinds some beans and stokes up the stovetop espresso coffee thingo (one of the two piece allow italian jobs). By trial and error we got it right. Because of the heat involved it works best if there is just a smidgen of water in the bottom of the filter. This avoids the bitter brew maiking steam blast that happens if you don't fill it enough. Big mugs, slightly more than half filled with full fat milk in the microwave to warm, coffee off heat the SECOND it purges all the water and starts to steam, add to milk.

Enjoy the second half of the mug after the first half woke you up properly and then ponder the outcome of the day.

Instant kills me but it gets the kick going.

I used to get bad migraines until I started drinking coffee. I normally only have one coffee a day, but if I haven't had one by lunchtime I have a shocking headache all day. The life of an addict I guess...

**markyc** · 14th December 2006, 07:09 AM

My ritual doesn't involve coffee, just the four esses...
Sh*t, shave, shower & self-abuse, in any order you like!!!

**solmanic** · 14th December 2006, 08:52 AM

Originally Posted by EchiDna

easy to see you don't live in Melbourne!

I've got a rancilio silvia espresso machine and rancilio rocky grinder...
http://www.coffeegeek.com/reviews/co...ancilio_silvia

I'd love a La Pavoni fully manual, but I'll stick with the rancilio for the foreseeable future...

hanging out for my roaster thats coming for Christmas

http://www.hottop.com.tw/p4.html

and just for fun... kopi luwak - you know you want some

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_Luwak

OK - you win. You are by far the more geeky coffee snob here. But I have to say, even in Melbourne there are just as many clue-less baristas. They are just diluted a bit by the number of decent ones.

Now in Italy...

**Vandermorph** · 14th December 2006, 11:45 AM

Originally Posted by Mud_Bogger6

Right you remember that

Okay ill remember it

**EchiDna** · 14th December 2006, 12:58 PM

Originally Posted by solmanic

OK - you win. You are by far the more geeky coffee snob here. But I have to say, even in Melbourne there are just as many clue-less baristas. They are just diluted a bit by the number of decent ones.

Now in Italy...

yeah the clueless ones are plentiful... but so is good coffee (mainly from Italian operated cafes I must admit)

to be honest I'm not a crazy coffee geek, but there is just so little good coffee here that I had to 'invest' in my own gear if I wanted something decent in the morning...

**cornerofthegalaxy** · 14th December 2006, 02:51 PM

Originally Posted by DEFENDERZOOK

....just dont ask me to taste the stuff.......
i hate it.....
hate....
hate....
hate.....
yuk.......
spew....!!

Couldn't have put it better myself, DEFENDERZOOK!!!

The smell of coffee reminds me of poison.

I get really nervous when i am asked to make someone one at work.

I don't really drink or eat anything before I am AWAKE (probably because I am always running late, always!!!), maybe just a glass of water. A shower is the only necessity in my mornings!!! Breakky comes later - about 2-3 hous later. Green Tea or some Rooibus (spelling???) is then the go.

**Bigbjorn** · 14th December 2006, 05:01 PM

Engine room coffee, made in ships engine rooms and sugar mills, and no doubt anywhere else live steam is available. Take a large enamel or stainless steel coffee pot with pouring spout large enough for the numbers partaking. Add as many handfulls of coarse ground coffee beans as necessary for the numbers, fill with clean water, stick the steam spigot into the water and give it a hit of 600 degree live steam for a couple of seconds not at such velocity to blow thge contents all over you or anyone else standing near, allow to stop boiling and the grounds to settle then serve in large enamel mugs. Girls, pooves, and deckies add sugar and milk, black gang drinks it as it comes.

Mud_Bogger6 · 3rd January 2007, 09:01 PM

My morning ritual is a very strange one indeed, for all info go to

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/showthread.php't=33404

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