Tea vs Coffee

[Tobra]

I lean towards coffee, but like both, hot or cold. Have been told you should drink green tea, and I do, am now, but don't think I could not drink coffee, as has been suggested to me by more than one physician I know.

They had a washing machine and a coffee maker they chipped in to get in the space where I worked when I got to the ship. Was sort of strange, standard issue Maytag, out of the way, by the hull, chained to the deck. Drained into the bilges, engineering space, so the hull is right there if you lift up the deck plates. Only hooked up to cold water, if you wanted warm, you dump in a bucket of hot water. Very handy to wash some clothes underway. Clothes line up above the boiler. Hot AF up there, stuff dried in about 5 minutes.

Coffee maker was a stainless steel, two and half feet tall, foot and a half in diameter, sight glass in the front so you can see how full it is, attached to table with wing nuts. You used about 3/4 cup of grounds for that thing, made enough for a dozen guys to go a whole shift wthout needing to make more

What do you think, is it that big a deal, coffee or tea, given moderation of course

[jcommin]

Like them both. I drink coffee morning only using a 1-liter French press. I do switch to tea at times. I have a carafe of iced tea sitting in my refrigerator too.

I do like expresso and occasionally will have one if I'm dining out.

[LWJ]

I'm sipping a mug of green tea currently. Waiting for my espresso machine to warm up.

While I absolutely LOVE coffee/espresso, tea makes me happy every single time.

There is a reason tea is the number one beverage in the world (not counting water!).

[GH85Carrera]

I drink two cups of black coffee in the morning. Not at any other time.

I will have iced tea with lunch if I am at a restaurant. I am not a big fan of hot tea. I use no milk, sugar or sweetener in either.

[Paul T]

I'm a fan of both....hot coffee in winter, cold brew in summer. Always black, no sugar or cream. Tea sporadically.

[Evans, Marv]

I'm a fan of neither. As a kid in H.S. when I'd go with friends, I'd order hot chocolate when they ordered coffee. I've never liked the flavors and really don't taste anything in coffee except for a bitter taste with a ghost of a coffee taste. That beng said, I do have a cup of coffee with my wife in the mornings. I put sweetener and heavy cream in it for flavor. My wife makes me a pitcher of a mixture of green tea and "Good Earth Sweet and Spicy" tea she puts in the fridge for me to drink when I'm thursty. Both are just something to drink. If I didn't have them, I'd just drink straight water. For that matter, I've never liked the flavor of milk since I was a kid.

[flipper35]

Like my coffee black unless I am having it for dessert. Iced tea has to be unsweetened but hot tea has to be sweetened.

If I have a dessert coffee I use heavy cream and Torani syrup. Not the sugar free, but the real cane sugar. Sugar free is bad for you.

The "creamers" are bad for you too if they are the ones with carrageenan. Unless you are constipated, then they work like they should!

[oldE]

Tastes change over the decades. When the wife gets up I grind some medium roast beans in our old cast iron burr grinder and make a liter of coffee in a French press thermos carafe. Mid morning she will have hot water and honey while I have a mug of green tea. By mid day we are over to a mixture of medium roast and decaffeinated. By supper time de-caf only maybe more green tea in the evening.
The only time we put any milk or cream in a hot beverage is when it's not fit to drink otherwise. I want to savor the flavor of the coffee.

Best
Les

[matthewb0051]

Every morning I have an espresso. Then on my drive to office I have tea (PG tips from England).

[fanaudical]

I like both, but have moved recently to drinking coffee on days where I don't go to work and mint tea on days that I do. I am finding the caffeine in coffee is making me more irritable / agitated in the morning at work (or maybe it's just work). Anybody else have that issue?

Preferred coffee prep is French press - nothing better...

[Superman]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

I drink two cups of black coffee in the morning. Not at any other time....

Same here. It is delicious but I drink it for more than the taste. It lifts the morning fog. Two cups is the right dose. Coffee is brought to us by Angels sent from God.

Originally Posted by fanaudical

.... I am finding the caffeine in coffee is making me more irritable / agitated in the morning at work (or maybe it's just work). Anybody else have that issue?

This is well-known, and the reason some of my friends do not drink coffee. Coffee is Evil.

Originally Posted by fanaudical

Preferred coffee prep is French press - nothing better...

French press was my method until I bought a Nespresso Pixie, which gives us European-style coffee. About 4 ounces per 'cup.' Strong. Delicious. Splash of cream. Takes about 40 seconds from the moment I walk up to it at 5:00 am. Using one hand.

We are doing a Dry January right now, and I am drinking a fair bit of tea. Earl Grey. I won't be going back to cigarettes. Done with that, finally. Alcohol yes, but I find it's also pretty easy to do without.

[craigster59]

I drink one cup of Folger's coffee, black, in a Contigo travel mug every morning. If it's hot tea I'll sometimes have some Sleepytime tea before bed. Ice tea is regular, unsweetened.

[Baz]

https://forums.pelicanparts.com/off-topic-discussions/1124773-iced-tea-fans-here-what-your-preference.html

[Tobra]

I found one of those Contigo mugs walking the dogs, I love that thing.

Supes, the cancer sticks are the most addictive thing that exists, good luck.

[Rot 911]

I’m probably the opposite of a coffee snob. When I get up in the morning, I pop a donut shop pod in the Keurig and make a cup.

[wildthing]

I'm a bandwagon coffee and tea drinker.

I go to Starbucks or Peet's or Blue Bottle and I order a mocha. Last time I had black coffee was probably in my 20s. And it's decaf most of the time. Half-caf if I'm at work.

I drink boba green tea from a local boba place. Filled with sugar of course. Sometimes when I'm sick I get their hot honey lemon green tea.

I have a kettle that I hardly use, and some bags of tea somewhere in the pantry that are probably expired.

I just can't be bothered to prepare my own.

[Zeke]

One cup of FP Starbucks House Blend with a teaspoon of 1/2 and half when I get up. And a cookie or something for the coffee to hang onto in my stomach.

I went on a green tea spree once and had a whole gallon of sun made tea. Once cooled, after 3 glasses over 3 hours it was like speed. I should do that again. If liking speed is good for me, let's do it!

[HardDrive]

I live on coffee. I have a french press and a nespresso machine. Probably 6-8 cups a day. Yes, every year my doctor raises her eye brown when she comes across that on the clip board.

[Dixie]

I drink coffee because I need it, and wine because I deserve it.

[zakthor]

For me its three or four double espressos every morning. But if I can't get beans that I like then I'll just go without.