New coffee maker – disgusting taste!

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

No one's mentioned the great British love affair with Instant Coffee yet. What do the team think of instant coffee, especially decaffeinated or Camp…

[Mick B1Participant @mickb1]

Posted by Samsaranda on 14/02/2019 20:49:16:

…. Army tea has a unique taste difficult to describe or quantify,

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Dave W

…and from my memory of Army cooking, benefits greatly from a trace of Rangoon oil from a wipe with your rifle rag before pouring in!

[Mike PooleParticipant @mikepoole82104]

My sons office coffee machine allows you to customise your coffee with an app on your smart phone so you should get it made to your taste.

Mike

[HopperParticipant @hopper]

You haven't lived until you've tried Tibetan butter tea. Ingredients: Tea, hot water, yak butter and salt. Came across it in Nepal recently. It's different.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by SillyOldDuffer on 15/02/2019 14:28:00:

No one's mentioned the great British love affair with Instant Coffee yet. What do the team think of instant coffee, especially decaffeinated or Camp…

My mum only ever used to drink Nescafé made using only boiled milk. At home I make it using the microwave to heat the milk.

Camp is great for polishing army boots…

Neil

[Clive HartlandParticipant @clivehartland94829]

I had a friend who worked as a tea blender and he said that the tea in most cases was exactly the same whichever teapacket it was packed in. He also told me that they made a different flavour of tea but varying the bergamon oil spray on it. He then gave me a big bag of different tea bages individually packed for lots of different firms and restaraunts plus Harrods and places like that.

In Kenya you could go to the coffee bean roaster and have a choice of 7 different roasts, My choice was half and half of no 3 and no 5. No 7 was very strong. Being all freshly roasted it tasted much better than store bought.

You could see right through the works and see the workers dealing with the roasting beans.

Clive, percolated coffee.

[Clive IndiaParticipant @cliveindia]

Posted by SillyOldDuffer on 15/02/2019 14:28:00:

No one's mentioned the great British love affair with Instant Coffee yet. What do the team think of instant coffee, especially decaffeinated or Camp…

Camp is great having a label with a man with some Camp, which has a label with a man with some Camp, which has a label with a man with some Camp, which has a label with a man with some Camp, which has a label with a man with some Camp…….

Great for demonstrating infinity?

[Clive HartlandParticipant @clivehartland94829]

I worked at Leica for a few years and they had a contraxt coffee machine that dispensed a cardboard cup then water with coffee in it, plus white powder that simulated milk. This powder I found out is made from casien which is also used to make glue! For some time my stomach was sore and I then started black coffee and the stomach ache went away. I have never used whitener since!

[Mick B1Participant @mickb1]

Posted by Clive India on 16/02/2019 08:50:14:

Posted by SillyOldDuffer on 15/02/2019 14:28:00:

No one's mentioned the great British love affair with Instant Coffee yet. What do the team think of instant coffee, especially decaffeinated or Camp…

Camp is great having a label with a man with some Camp, which has a label with a man with some Camp, which has a label with a man with some Camp, which has a label with a man with some Camp, which has a label with a man with some Camp…….

Great for demonstrating infinity?

The roles of the turbanned Sikh and the kilted Scot in the picture have changed over time.

But it's not the only bottle useful for demonstrating fractal infinity – as a kid I used to gaze at the cat-and-bottle sequence on my parents' Dubonnet label:-

https://www.retrowallart.co.uk/image.php?img=2368

 

Edited By Mick B1 on 16/02/2019 09:55:34

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

It's amazing that Camp is still around in this fast moving world of brand names being bought, sold and adulterated. Does it still taste the same (I didn't like it 50 years ago and haven't tried since). HP source was Americanised about 30 years ago and has never been the same quality.

[SamsarandaParticipant @samsaranda]

Neil, I like your use of Camp coffee for polishing boots, I can tolerate most strange flavours but not Camp coffee, I found it was disgusting, you have proved that there is a use somewhere for most products. My pet hate was a drinks machine at one company that I worked for, it was the type that dispensed a multitude of hot drinks which included soup, consequently any drink dispensed seemed to be contaminated with traces of all the others that were available, unfortunately the soup was pretty pungent so no matter what you chose it always tasted strongly of the soup.

Dave W

[Mike PooleParticipant @mikepoole82104]

The London end of our private microlink was on the roof of Marathon Oil HQ on Marylebone Road, they got a new bean to cup free vend coffee machine which had a dial marked 1-25, my friend Pete assumed it was for strength and selected 25, the machine proceeded to dispense 25 cups of coffee

Mike

[Russell EberhardtParticipant @russelleberhardt48058]

Posted by Mick B1 on 16/02/2019 09:54:31:

But it's not the only bottle useful for demonstrating fractal infinity – as a kid I used to gaze at the cat-and-bottle sequence on my parents' Dubonnet label:-

Ah, Dubonnet – still made about 10 km from here: **LINK**

Russell

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by Rik Shaw on 15/02/2019 10:15:46:

They had stopped using bromide in service tea by the time I joined as a regular in 1964. I know it was never used in our cookhouse. The tea still tasted foul though because they used tinned evaporated milk instead of fresh milk – uuuccckkk !!

We often had to brew our own tea when away from the barracks and here I was introduced to Fussels condensed milk which had a much more acceptable taste in tea provided you could stomach the sweetness

I once visited an elderly lady whose house was straight out of the 40s/50s. She had no milk in so she made us tea with condensed milk and the experience was complete.

Neil

[not done it yetParticipant @notdoneityet]

Posted by Bazyle on 16/02/2019 10:15:03:

It's amazing that Camp is still around in this fast moving world of brand names being bought, sold and adulterated. Does it still taste the same (I didn't like it 50 years ago and haven't tried since). HP source was Americanised about 30 years ago and has never been the same quality.

Perhaps similar, but when they changed to plastic bottles they hiked the price by reducing the solids by quite a lot (near 25%?) with a corresponding increase in water content. I used to drink it, up until then. It was only of about 4% coffee content, before they spoilt it. It will no longer store as long, once the bottle is opened, I expect.

[Martin Hamilton 1Participant @martinhamilton1]

You will all be reminiscing about Smedleys tinned sausage rolls soon, who remembers them from the 1950's or 1960's. Where you opened the tin at both ends & pushed out 6 or 8 sausage rolls that were rolled together, separated them onto a baking tray & in the oven to cook. Came out the oven piping hot with a delicious flaky pastry, what a treat they were.

[duncan webster 1Participant @duncanwebster1]

Posted by Martin Hamilton 1 on 16/02/2019 13:39:40:

You will all be reminiscing about Smedleys tinned sausage rolls soon, who remembers them from the 1950's or 1960's. Where you opened the tin at both ends & pushed out 6 or 8 sausage rolls that were rolled together, separated them onto a baking tray & in the oven to cook. Came out the oven piping hot with a delicious flaky pastry, what a treat they were.

Fray Bentos tinned steak pies were a godsend to me as a teenager going off caving and railway volunteering, bung it in the oven, peel and boil some spuds can't go wrong! This period of my life led to the universal recipe, if it's meat fry it, if not boil it. Kept me going for years until I got married.

[WatfordParticipant @watford]

What ever happened to Lyons Individual Fruit Pies?

Square and singly boxed.

Mike

Edited By Watford on 16/02/2019 15:17:07

[Clive IndiaParticipant @cliveindia]

Posted by Watford on 16/02/2019 15:16:19:
What ever happened to Lyons Individual Fruit Pies?
Square and singly boxed. Mike

Have to confess Mike, I ate them all. What happened to Lyons anyway?

Posted by duncan webster on 16/02/2019 13:45:55:

Fray Bentos tinned steak pies were a godsend to me as a teenager going off caving and railway volunteering, bung it in the oven, peel and boil some spuds can't go wrong! This period of my life led to the universal recipe, if it's meat fry it, if not boil it. Kept me going for years until I got married.

You can still get them Duncan – but Mr/Mrs Trendy can't open them.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6275631/fray-bentos-pie-tins-change-cant-open/

You might have to scroll down a bit – not much chance of them becoming model engineers?

Edited By Clive India on 16/02/2019 15:39:47

[Mick B1Participant @mickb1]

Fray Bentos canned pies have been a disappointment just lately – just gravy and veg under a crust. I think someones done a cost-reduction exercise. Not bought any for a year or more now.

[Peter BellParticipant @peterbell11509]

Canned pies may be rubbish but the tins are really ace for putting nuts and bolts in when you dismantle anything!

Peter

[not done it yetParticipant @notdoneityet]

Are these youngsters, weak wimps or do they only buy can openers which are only non-descript chinese metal pressings held together with a pop rivet? My wife finds it difficult to wind the tin opener, but I’ve never had a FB version that would not open – some cheap trashy copies might be difficult.

Same as their corned beef. I cannot remember the last time I had any difficulty opening one of them. Sooo eeesy if you remove the label (or most of it) before winding the ‘key’.

[Martin Harris 9Participant @martinharris9]

Posted by SillyOldDuffer on 14/02/2019 21:49:51:Tea is sensitive to the type of water it's made from. Originally Yorkshire Tea was formulated to suit hard Yorkshire water, but now its sold in soft water areas as well. I'm not certain the Yorkshire Tea I buy in Somerset is identical to the Yorkshire Tea sold in Yorkshire! For the same reason, US Lipton may not be quite the same as UK Lipton.

I don't know which side of the Tees-Exe line you live and what your water is like but Yorkshire definitely doesn't have hard water – at least the bit where my sister lives – I tried to buy some de-scaler near Halifax and they'd never even heard of it!

It's all academic anyway – I can't stand tea – that flat, soft, time-wasting opium of the masses which Bond loathed and despised to quote Ian Fleming's Thunderball…the Brooke Bond 007 inspired adverts always gave me a wry smile…

I'm with Clive Hartland as a confirmed coffee drinker – in my case unsullied by milk or sugar.  Just one question Clive – when you blended half and half of no 3 and no 5, wouldn't it have been easier to buy a pack of no 4?

Edited By Martin Harris 9 on 16/02/2019 19:27:14

[Frances IoMParticipant @francesiom58905]

I drink Kenyan – can be a delicate taste – suspect the mix of roasts has just enough bite from the high roast not to overpower the more delicate low roast which might well be destroyed by a No 4 roast – the local roaster to me was lost years ago – now its either Sainsbury’s beans/grind or the somewhat higher roast Waitrose which IMO is not as good.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by duncan webster on 16/02/2019 13:45:55:

Posted by Martin Hamilton 1 on 16/02/2019 13:39:40:

You will all be reminiscing about Smedleys tinned sausage rolls soon, who remembers them from the 1950's or 1960's. Where you opened the tin at both ends & pushed out 6 or 8 sausage rolls that were rolled together, separated them onto a baking tray & in the oven to cook. Came out the oven piping hot with a delicious flaky pastry, what a treat they were.

Fray Bentos tinned steak pies were a godsend to me as a teenager going off caving and railway volunteering, bung it in the oven, peel and boil some spuds can't go wrong! This period of my life led to the universal recipe, if it's meat fry it, if not boil it. Kept me going for years until I got married.

My favourite camping food was a Vesta dried curry!

Neil

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