Night Sailor wrote:We stopped using a French press method when several clinical studies showed that coffee brewed with the press method was seriously detrimental to one's health, especially if arterial or heart disease was in one's background. It's not the caffeine, it's the other compounds I don't recall a the moment.
Very strange - I've never heard of any such thing! Do you have any reference to those health issues, or does anyone else?
For what its worth:
Ive heard that using an aluminum perculator (or aluminum cookware, pots, utensils, etc.) causes mental problems.
Sorry, no references on hand, other than kitchen gossip Ive overheard
The best coffee taste is brewed in the old fashioned perculator
i cant imagine the difference, other than possibly getting a few grounds in your cup. Hot water+ground beans. I can't imagine the coffee cares the extraction method. But what do I know.
heck, everything in life is bad for you. Got to live on the edge sometime!
here is further review
indicating that filtering may play a part, butit is by an exclusive argument, that is not scientifically stand alone by itself anyway.
SO yes, to my initial review of the test methods..... French press is less healthy, But I must admit, I had suspicions before, looking at the oily residue was my first clue.
Some studies have found that drinking large amounts of coffee made by the French press method increases LDL ("bad") cholesterol levels, while drinking filtered or drip coffee does not [1]. The French press method allows certain Diterpenes, such as Cafestol and Kahweol, to remain in the coffee while other brewing methods either remove or limit these chemicals. In fact, men and women who drank six or more cups of coffee a day for up to 20 years had a slightly lower relative risk of developing coronary artery disease than men who consumed a cup or less a day (P for trend= 0.41 for men and 0.08 for women) according to a study in the April 25 issue of Circulation, Journal of the American Heart Association. ........................
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And he said the findings apply to standard percolator or drip coffee, not to high intakes of unfiltered coffee such as the increasingly popular "French press" coffee, which produces a dark, strong cup. He said published studies have "consistently shown that drinking a lot of French press coffee increases LDL."
French Press (US) = Cafeterie (UK) = coffee Plunger (Oz)
And indeed, Plunger is our current Mac coffee method.
We did have a stovetop espresso (picture below), but it was made of aluminium and the inside of it didn't seem to like the sea air. I've found a stainless steel Italian model, but over $100!
My answer to coffee on the boat----------> STARBUCKS - - - then heat it up on the stove in the galley when applicable - - - and always have fresh 1/2 and 1/2 in the refrigerator.
Hello,
We searched the thrift stores and came up with a stainless percolator. We use filters in the grounds cup. Lynn grinds up a couple of weeks worth of beans before we head out. We just perk the old fashion way on the stove. Kapukapukpuk like the commercial from years ago.
I did a careful analysis of the French press coffee vs drip and concluded that indeed the compounds in the FP were much worse...then my Cuban burnt my fingers, causing me to drop my cell phone and irradiate my cajones with RF, just as I was slamming into the back of a flaming Crown Victoria police cruiser, getting rear ended by a runaway Audi, and sideswiped by a rolling Suzuki Samurai. We all ended up piling into a British car which was broken down on the side of the road (lucas electrics of course)
The whole mess slid into my towed mac, ruining my sailing season, causing my brother (who was hoping I would not show up at his house for christmas) to go postal at a mall and start chasing loaded school buses filled with immigrant children with a shovel, while street punks were robbing the little old ladies watching the carnage. The police were called, but on strike, and the nantional guard was unavailable since they had been deployed to Iraq. The only people who could help (since the states good citizens are being disarmed by proposed new weapons legislation) was the unemployed security guards from the jerry springer show who quicky separated the thugs from their victims, without disturbing their cameras and microphones clipped to their back waistbands. All of the viewers of the commotion overloaded the cell phone tower, and delaying congress' real time front row seat of the destruction, which distracted them from their regular job of delaying funding and accountability for flood victims around the nation.
Recognizing that funds were not available to prevent further loss of life, Reverends sharpton and jackson announced that henceforth the only floods and rain in the country would be on caucasian property, since the poor in New Orleans who lost their homes are more deserving than the poor in Ohio, florida, washington, oregon, pennsylvania. PITA chimed in and noted that more animals were killed than people, so most of the funding should go to habitat restoration. The military industrial complex could not identify a way to make money off of this unless they had a single noncompetitively bid contractor named by the government to handle all the reconstruction contracts, congressional investigations, and developement of the new asbestos lined cohiba holders, which will now contain RF shielding, so that when they are dropped, the cajones will be protected, and the insurance industry will not have to duke it out with swarms of cell tower chasing lawyers, infront of judges that should be retired or disbarred.
Couldn't help but follow the smoke-link, where I also found this amusing tidbit...
"As he stared at her ample bosom, he daydreamed of the dual Stromberg carburetors in his vintage Triumph Spitfire, highly functional yet pleasingly formed, perched prominently on top of the intake manifold, aching for experienced hands, the small knurled caps of the oil dampeners begging to be inspected and adjusted as described in chapter seven of the shop manual."
KayakDan wrote:...but a Moggie +8 in BRG and Biscuit with Chrome Dunlop 60's still makes my heart race. I can't help it.
You should go visit the factory in Greater Malvern... I've been there twice... it's a hoot... like stepping back in time 100 years!
OK, experts... so how many of you know the reason why all of a sudden in the late 60's all of the non-British Motor Corporation (BMC) cars, like Triumph, Jaguar, Sunbeam, etc., dropped the S.U. brand and started using Stromberg’s (with their *horrible* diaphragm system)?
