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Exactly what I do! I get a lot of Starbucks gift cards, and that is pretty much the only time I go there. I must admit, though, that I do sometimes indulge in something yummy and unhealthy there
We've been known to have an occasional baked good, lol.
It seems that we always hear how Starbucks is overpriced but yet a large (Venti) brewed coffee is only $2.83. I think a lot of people fail to realize that just because you are at a Starbucks you don't have to order a Cappuccino or Latte and spend $5.
Very true. I only get a froo-froo drink on my birthday cause it's free. Other than that it's plain coffee for me.
Then again my brother-in-law manages a local SB so I do get some nice perks (free coffee at home, free froo-froo drinks from time to time, etc).
Highly doubt this will turn into any kind of retail, but.. Noticed that one of the older 60's style buildings in front of Greenville Tech, along Pleasantburg Dr was being demolished today. Figure that was probably a building they were using for administration or something, and likely will be replaced with the same.. Just.. Saw it and mentioning it
Also noticed that the space next to Sherwin Williams, basically at the corner of Augusta and Faris has one of those big industrial dumpsters out front, like they're rebuilding it to put something in there.
One of the reasons I go there or to Whole Foods is that I don't like weak dishpan water tasting coffee AND I don't like Benzene added to my coffee which you automatically get if you drink anything hot or acidic out of a styrofoam cup. Starbucks uses paper and they filter the water as well.
I bet you could almost reproduce the Clover method by grinding your coffee to the finest ground (Turkish) and then put your ground coffee in a cone shaped brown paper filter sitting on top of one of those plastic cone shaped filter holders designed to be placed on a coffee mug or pot. Then pour the boiling water thru. After it drips through, pick up the wet filter with wet grinds out of the filter holder and let it sit directly in
the coffee now in the mug... to extract more flavor for another 10-15 seconds.
I do everything but the last step and think I get enough flavor just grinding the coffee to the tiniest size grind but I might try the last step to see if I get even more flavor. Of course you'd have to hold the filter with wet grounds in your hand (or maybe you could fold it in thirds and fold the top over and keep it closed with a wooden clothes clip (for hanging wet laundry on a clothes line).
I have a french press too but I don't like having to use the bigger sized grind and getting sediment in the coffee even after it is supposedly strained. The paper filter gets rid of sediment.
I bet you could almost reproduce the Clover method by grinding your coffee to the finest ground (Turkish) and then put your ground coffee in a cone shaped brown paper filter sitting on top of one of those plastic cone shaped filter holders designed to be placed on a coffee mug or pot. Then pour the boiling water thru. After it drips through, pick up the wet filter with wet grinds out of the filter holder and let it sit directly in
the coffee now in the mug... to extract more flavor for another 10-15 seconds.
I do everything but the last step and think I get enough flavor just grinding the coffee to the tiniest size grind but I might try the last step to see if I get even more flavor. Of course you'd have to hold the filter with wet grounds in your hand (or maybe you could fold it in thirds and fold the top over and keep it closed with a wooden clothes clip (for hanging wet laundry on a clothes line).
I have a french press too but I don't like having to use the bigger sized grind and getting sediment in the coffee even after it is supposedly strained. The paper filter gets rid of sediment.
Have you ever tried the coffee at Pita House? It's AMAZING. I don't drink black coffee but at PH I do. It's a unique way of brewing (all the grinds are at the bottom - similar to French Press) but something about it is insanely good.
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