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'Bux is far too bitter for me. I've always had a sweet tooth. I'm apparently one of those people cursed with genes that make bitter stuff taste extra bitter.

Thanks to this thread I actually spelunked through a bunch of stuff to find my Holy Grail of coffee cups!

What a great cup!


O.S.....(father 6 kids - 4 of 'em daughters!🙂

My daughter was so tickled to give this too me. I bet the whole time she was crafting it, she had an evil smile on her face.

You want me to join another forum--in the same year?

The mug was done on a wheel. The handle was hand built.

My daughter will be pleased that her creation could be an inspiration to your wife. She, too, has gotten into ceramics. It has been a way to share her imagination.

It would work for coffee too...

Can I interest you in a cup of coffee? How about 1 & 1/3 cups?

as long as you don't measure in fluid ounces or pints etc

Good thought. Go bigger.

Perfect if you are actually measuring out doses of coffee, though.

Awww yeah.

That's not, :gulp: coffe, is it?

Okay, you got me. It's tea.

El Jefe, I would say you have a plethora of tea.

Or maybe a surfeit of tea.

(Are you sure it isn't gravy?)

Thank you for the memory of this line:

You think we're all gonna jump out of bed in the morning and have a big, hot, steaming cup of pig fat?

It might have been gravy.

Great ... now we're going to wind up with a "Favorite Gravy Boat" thread.

Who else was thinking this?

I must be easily amused. Can't stop laughing after I saw "gravy boat".🤣 It really shouldn't be funny cause my late mother in law was into ceramics and my wife has plenty of them stashed away in the garage.😳

"This time we DIDN'T forget the gravy ..."

Ugh - tea bags with string. I just don't get it. You still have to use a teaspoon to squish them before removing, so what's the point?

Ahem. https://finestenglishtea.com/should-you-squeeze-tea-bags/

I'm a non-squeezer myself.

So tea drips on the floor while you take it to the trashcan?

What kind of heathen do you think I am? We keep this lovely glazed ceramic dish next to the tea-making area. It's actually a shallow shaving bowl that I didn't end up liking very much (as a shaving bowl), so it found a new life being a teabag receptacle.

I'm sure next you'll be examining the tea bags. It's Thompson's Irish Breakfast tea.

Approved.

Yeah, squeezing is a no go for me as well. I prefer loose tea, so the strainer will sit in the saucer after brewing, but some types I like come only in bags. This nice little ceramic saucer collects them until I deem it right to dispose of them.

Also, my favorite mug, a gift from my daughter who spent a semester several years ago at University of Nottingham. It's a depiction of the Fortnum & Mason storefront in London. My other favorite is a small mug that my grandson uses for tea with grandpa when he's visiting.

Cheers,

Bob

Nespresso alert! jimc you thought tea bags with strings were an issue?

Let's talk capsules.

They're fine - Nespresso will recycle them. And the coffee is just fine.

What? No dash of salt?


*powers down phone

Guilty as charged. I definitely think there are better ways to make coffee that deliver better coffee taste -- but I just can't be arsed.

How many people do you think actually return the pods to Nestle for recycling?

.01%. Most just throw them in the blue recycle cart. The city I work for considers those a contaminant and they complicate the sorting process. They wind up in a landfill no matter the good intentions.

Nah, once I finish the tea in the cup I'll suck the marrow out of the bag.

I'm a dripper. Let it drip naturally from the bag... the way God intended!

I ordered aluminum cups from alusipper for my little bar. They've quickly become my favorite cups for everything. I actually ended up taking two of them home with me, and I've been using them non-stop ever since.

They're perfect for my morning brew, but I use them throughout the day for everything from water to soup because they're super easy to clean. And durable as heck. I've dropped them more times than I care to admit, and they've come out intact every single time.

I know it's been several months, but I wanted to return to this point that Shebalba made. And depending on what the specific objection was, it might be a fair point. If the objection is about recycling the capsules, then I do have a pretty good solution.

I bought this simple gadget from Amazon to make it easier to recycle the capsules through normal municipal recycling. It wasn't very expensive, though I suppose one could cobble something together pretty easily, it's not a very complicated device.

You put a capsule over the hole, you press down with the lid / plunger (which has a central "finger" that pushes down on the capsule) and it collects the grounds in the bucket below. You can then rinse the aluminum shells (or not) and recycle them. The grounds can go in the bin, down the sink, or (in my case) into the compost bin.

A little work, but much more likely to get recycled than the ship-it-back-to-Nespresso solution.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B1556NN9

Neato! On my wish-list for the UK. Thanks for the heads-up.

I do the same with a butter knife. Just cut off the top foil and scoop out the grounds. I stack them together and throw them in recycling. Not sure what happens after it gets to the facility but hopefully they end up in the right place. Five or six of them twice a week only takes a minute..