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Date: 22 Jul 2006 00:31:59
From: Ol' Bab
Subject: Way OT: Tell me about McDonald's Smooth coffee
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Maybe not OT?
Looking for someone who has tasted MickyDee's Smooth coffee
(NOT the Bold, that's ghastly), and can tell me how to
approximate that flavor using my $20 coffee brewer and
supermarket coffee. Beans OK, got a grinder.
Severely constrained monetarily, I CANNOT buy a pound of
everything and try them all out. Actually probably can't go
for the extra cost of more than one of whatever I might find,
but maybe, hey, there's hope.
Currently using Maxwell House Master Blend (cheapest coffee at
BJ's), but this McDonald stuff is wow six! times better.
Stop laughing! I'm serious! Not trolling, honest.
I Googled on McDonald's, coffee. Found that their new Bold
item is "pure Aricibo". Couldn't find anything on their
Smooth, not the slightest mention. I know it's also new, it
tastes nothing like the stuff they were selling last year.
At your mercy,
Ol' Bab
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Date: 22 Jul 2006 13:04:08
From: North Sullivan
Subject: Re: Way OT: Tell me about McDonald's Smooth coffee
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>Currently using Maxwell House Master Blend (cheapest coffee at
>BJ's), but this McDonald stuff is wow six! times better.
>
>
Learn to roast your own and brew in a melitta cone using just-off boil
water that you heat in a pan.
Cheap and exponentially better than the McDonald stuff.
North Sullivan
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Date: 22 Jul 2006 22:15:26
From: Ol' Bab
Subject: Re: Way OT: Tell me about McDonald's Smooth coffee
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North Sullivan wrote:
>Ol' Bab wrote
>> Currently using Maxwell House Master Blend (cheapest coffee at
>> BJ's), but this McDonald stuff is wow six! times better.
>>
> Learn to roast your own and brew in a melitta cone using just-off boil
> water that you heat in a pan.
>
> Cheap and exponentially better than the McDonald stuff.
>
> North Sullivan
>
Sounds like $dollars to me. I am Broke -but have a little for
coffee. Not equipment. Been lurking, and it looks obvious
that roasting requires more than a hot oven and a fine sense
of timing!
How about a clue as to where to start looking: Colombian,
Jamaican, Brazilian, Qatar, whatever. It can't be too exotic
or McDonald's couldn't sell it for a dollar and change, or
get it in the huge quantities it needs. And they sure as hell
aren't roasting and grinding on-premise!
Surely someone here has tried their (NOT bold) coffee, on a
lark say, or a dare, and can steer me aright....
Ol' Bab
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Date: 22 Jul 2006 18:26:49
From: Alice Faber
Subject: Re: Way OT: Tell me about McDonald's Smooth coffee
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In article <2sxwg.6325$1Z5.1767@twister.nyroc.rr.com >,
Ol' Bab <olbabnospam@rochester.rr.com > wrote:
> North Sullivan wrote:
> >Ol' Bab wrote
>
> >> Currently using Maxwell House Master Blend (cheapest coffee at
> >> BJ's), but this McDonald stuff is wow six! times better.
> >>
> > Learn to roast your own and brew in a melitta cone using just-off boil
> > water that you heat in a pan.
> >
> > Cheap and exponentially better than the McDonald stuff.
> >
> > North Sullivan
> >
>
> Sounds like $dollars to me. I am Broke -but have a little for
> coffee. Not equipment. Been lurking, and it looks obvious
> that roasting requires more than a hot oven and a fine sense
> of timing!
Not really. People have found forced-air popcorn poppers in thrift shops
for a dollar or two. If you have to actually buy one, Target has them
for under $20. High quality green coffee beans typically run c. $5/lb.
You'd pay at least $10 for typical high quality roasted beans, so, even
allowing for moisture loss (one pound of green might yield, at a guess,
.8 lb roasted). So there's a savings right there. Filter cones of the
sort we're talking about are available for something like $10.
>
> How about a clue as to where to start looking: Colombian,
> Jamaican, Brazilian, Qatar, whatever. It can't be too exotic
> or McDonald's couldn't sell it for a dollar and change, or
> get it in the huge quantities it needs. And they sure as hell
> aren't roasting and grinding on-premise!
A. They buy in large quantities.
B. The coffee probably is circulated to the shops in packages sealed to
maintain freshness.
C. It's entirely possible that they're not making money on the coffee
and that they don't care. If it gets enough people who wouldn't normally
patronize McDonalds in the door, and spending money on other products,
that might be enough.
--
AF
"Non Sequitur U has a really, really lousy debate team."
--artyw raises the bar on rec.sport.baseball
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