How do YOU play the coffee game?

21
Aug

How do YOU play the coffee game?

In the words of Andy Stumpf, about it “You don’t drink coffee?!?! And you call yourself a CrossFitter?!”
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I drink coffee.  Lots of it.  For the most part, I drink it black, although I like heavy cream from time to time.  I prefer my own coffee to anything store bought (but I like Peets – even in Raley’s – over Starbucks).
I feel like my home coffee game is pretty strong.  For years, I brewed in a coffee pot with a mesh, non-paper filter.  My pot was a metal carafe, as I don’t like the taste of coffee in the glass carafe as it sits on that hot plate.
Alison and I recently had out coffee game upgraded.  I picked up a Chemex Coffee maker, which uses a paper filter and gravity to make an excellent cup of coffee.  You will need a teapot, or a electric kettle, an Chemex maker, and a paper filter.  You place the grounds in the paper filter, pour just boiled water over the grounds until it can’t hold more water, and viola! You have a grewt cup of coffee.  This is very similar to the French Press method, but you don’t get the bitterness (which I kinda like) or the sediment (which I don’t) that you get with the French Press.
Alison likes Iced Coffee, and Adele got Alison a Cafe Toddy iced coffee maker.  You layer grinds and cold, filter water in the basket for 12 hours, and it creates a powerful, concentrated coffee.  You will need to add cold water to this (1:1 water to coffee is what we like).  Again, cold brew is stronger.  We tried this with hot water on our recent rafting trip.  We brought a thermos of concentrated coffee, and added boiling water.  BAM!  Gourmet coffee in the wilderness.

Workout of the Day
AMRAP 12
50 Doubleunders*
7 Burpees**
*Sub is 20 attempts
**Every round add 7 burpees.  2nd round is 14, 3rd round is 21, etc…
Rest 5
Run TL Davis Loop for time