What do you add to coffee?

[Clutchy]

Recently I added some golden syrup one night when I got home from work and wow, it was the best drink I have ever tasted! Not sure how much I put in but we will get to that...

Next morning I went to do it again, guessed how much to put in, went to drink it and spat it out! Tasted horrible.

I NEED to know how much to put in! Anyone done this before? What's the correct amount?


Also, for discussion, what have you added to your home made coffee's etc?
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[The Wobbly Orange]

I added water...it's frightfully dry if I don't.
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[pinkyfloyd]

I add more coffee and a couple of sugars then squeeze a cows udder into it.
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[Islander]

Milk or cream.

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[Ariel Badger]

water, nought else. Use decent beans and water at 97C.
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[Louise]

coffee, im an addict.... my boss banned me from stupid ammounts ( 3 cups a day was my limit for her) Stupid boss left me alone in the kitchen, to not watch me.... On an Ave day I will do 15 cups of coffee alone at work... If I buy the perculated stuff, Ill fill the bowl up twice.
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[recman]

No coffee, just tea.

[metalangel]

[carlosthejack...]

Just milk. Nowt else. First drink of the day is always tea, then coffee for the rest of the morning, maybe two or three mugs, then water all afternoon.

Obviously, all this is dependent on whether I'm at work or not, if I'm out on the pushbike for a morning ride, it's electrolyte drinks. If I'm out on the Hornet and we stop anywhere, it's back to tea again, any time of the day.

I suppose that comes down to ritual and necessity. No sugar in tea or coffee. If anyone else makes one and sugars it by mistake, it's like being poisoned...
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[Rogerborg]

Rum. It's the only way to drink either substance.
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[Kradmelder]

Just milk and a bit of sugar. Just 1 or 2 cups a day. Never have more.

But I don't like that chicory blended stuff. It is still around and bitter. It started during apartheid when sanctions made real coffee very expensive so it was blended. There are a few coffee plantations here but nowhere near enough.

Petrol rationing and regular army call ups may be gone, but the chicory shit is here to stay. We have it at work to curb the coffew addicts. It works. I rarely drink coffee during the day
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[DrDonnyBrago]

If you like richer flavours, try using dark treacle or honey instead.

That said,

When I first started drinking coffee, I used the lab's uber accurate balance to decide what concentration of coffee I liked for each brand of instant coffee in the coffee room. Then cut down universals (a plastic tube) to carry the correct quantity when levelled and wrote on the side which brand it is for.

Next up sugar, same again. Ideally you'd want a grid so each coffee g/ml could be sampled with each sugar g/ml combination. I.e. 5 coffee combinations and 5 sugar combinations = 5^2 = 25 cups.

If you drink it with milk, same again, only this time it is 5^3 = 125 cups. If you replace the sugar with golden syrup/honey/treacle and wish to test each of them, this would be a mere 500 cups to coffee perfection... until you change brand.



As I am not a geek, I don't often have milk in my coffee, so I stopped at 75 cups (3 brands x 25 cups). I did however buy a cafetiere for home use, which has added many variables and wasted a number of weekends. I've also been banned from using the gas chromatography machine for non work related activities.

[Hetzer]

Holy crap.

Coffee is poison, sugar is BAD POISON. Drink lots now and ensure a messed up body when you hit middle age. Go on, you know it makes sense.

This has been a compassionate health warning.
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[arry]

Decent beans, freshly ground, water and nothing else whatsoever. Coffee should never be ruined with milk or sugar let alone cinammon or vanilla - bleeurgghh

[base]

adding condensed milk instead of milk or cream makes a nice change,

[mjn51]

I find a shot of Drambiue is all you need in coffee, or Kahula, if you like it milky go for baileys

[shereen]

Coffee with Bailleys Irish cream. Or coffee, 1 sugar and milk.
Rather boring but I do have an impressive collecton of Tea!
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[EazyDuz]

Vodka, fires you up for the day
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[chris-red]

Just coffee and water have 2-3 cups a day Monday - Friday
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[MadCatLady]

Usually just add water. On an evening off work, a splash of Baileys, Tia Maria or brandy is nice.
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[Kradmelder]

I see the Irish have found this thread: pouring all sorts of booze into coffee
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