Running Bear's February 2025 Coffee Shop

[Bruette]

This is an interesting layout in the round.

Eine sehr clevere, einzigartige Idee!

Are you settling into your new house? Don't work too hard. I worry for you. My health has never recovered from our move in late 2017, but it has stabilized. I tried to do too much too fast. I should add my health was already compromised in several ways before the move. I only worsened everything.

 

[Boris]

I can more easily afford $2k for dentures than I can $30-$50k for implants. The joys of working for probably 85% of corporate america.

True!

 

[Boris]

You can see how it works by the below photo.

I did look into such an arrangement for myself before opting for partials..Easier to keep clean also.

 

[NorthBrit]

I am looking for a strong tea. I have done "English Breakfast tea" and earl grey. They seem a little weak. I am looking for a tea that says "I am Tea". I assume as an Englishperson, you should know your teas.

Tea

Yorkshire Tea.
Milk in first. Sugar if you use. Then Tea. Add boiling water. Three minutes should be strong enough.

 

[JimKrol]

Tea

Yorkshire Tea.
Milk in first. Sugar if you use. Then Tea. Add boiling water. Three minutes should be strong enough.

I'm looking for Keurig pods. I am too lazy to boil water. I don't use milk either. I guess, us 'Mericans are to unsophisticated to appreciate, the finer points of English culture.

 

[Len Turner]

Willie: Photos of TNMRC layout pretty cool, but reminded me that there are NO Whataburgers in Wyoming...
Still got most of my teeth except wisdom teeth. Had them out about 20 years ago. Top ones came out ok but both bottoms had to hammered and chiseled out. Had general anesthesia; took me a couple of months to get over it, but never realized how much pain they caused until they were out and didn't hurt any more. No dentures or implants yet.

 

[NorthBrit]

I am too lazy to boil water.

?????

Sorry, Jim. Not boiling water equals lousy tea. If you have made English Breakfast and Earl Grey that way no wonder it's not strong.

 

[Bruette]

The English are very particular about their tea.

One of my ex-girlfriends was from Bristol. I still remember her method for making tea.

Bring fresh water to a boil, wait 10 seconds, no longer after removing the kettle from the stove.
Pour a small amount of hot water into the teapot to warm it, then discard the water.
Use 1 heaping teaspoon of loose tea leaves per cup of water.
Place the loose tea leaves directly into the teapot.
Pour the hot water over the tea leaves.
Let it steep for 5 minutes, no more, no less!
Slowly pour the tea so that the leaves remain in the pot.
No sugar, no milk, just strong tea!

By the time she had her first cup of tea I was on my second cup of instant coffee. With sugar and cream, thank you.

She was a beautiful lady, but she had too much shit with her for me! When I ended our relationship, she said, "I hope your Christmas Tree burns down" She knew how to cut me to the quick. She was as bitter as the tea she drank.

 

[Boris]

I'm looking for Keurig pods. I am too lazy to boil water.

Bigelow Earl Grey in a teabag, put in cup, and fill hot water from Keurig maker, let sit 3" remove bag. If you must add sugar, do so then. Otherwise enjoy straight. i do! Note I occasionally add a shot of Christian Bros. Brandy for Flavor....

 

[jmupton2000]

Earl Grey? Yuck.... One of the very few teas I just won't touch.

Yorkshire Tea is good, some of the Indian teas such as Assam even better, worth getting decent tea rather than supermarket own brand stuff and yes, water must be boiling hot!!

My family drink so much tea that whenever one of them dies, shares in tea manufacturers plummet....

 

[Bruette]

When I make my iced tea, I use one gallon size Luzerne tea bag in my Mr. Coffee. I run four pots of water through the Mr. Coffee. It makes two one-gallon pitchers of tea. I add 1/2 cup of Stevia and it's good to go!

 

[kbkchooch]

I'm looking for Keurig pods. I am too lazy to boil water. I don't use milk either. I guess, us 'Mericans are too unsophisticated to appreciate, the finer points of English culture.

I must be unsophisticated too, because the only tea that I drink is either sweet iced tea or twisted tea.

 

[NorthBrit]

The English are very particular about their tea.

One of my ex-girlfriends was from Bristol. I still remember her method for making tea.

Bring fresh water to a boil, wait 10 seconds, no longer after removing the kettle from the stove.
Pour a small amount of hot water into the teapot to warm it, then discard the water.
Use 1 heaping teaspoon of loose tea leaves per cup of water.
Place the loose tea leaves directly into the teapot.
Pour the hot water over the tea leaves.
Let it steep for 5 minutes, no more, no less!
Slowly pour the tea so that the leaves remain in the pot.
No sugar, no milk, just strong tea!

By the time she had her first cup of tea I was on my second cup of instant coffee. With sugar and cream, thank you.

She was a beautiful lady, but she had too much shit with her for me! When I ended our relationship, she said, "I hope your Christmas Tree burns down" She knew how to cut me to the quick. She was as bitter as the tea she drank.

She made a good cup of tea though.

 

[NorthBrit]

Tea
Lapsang Souchong
Assam
Darjeeling
Orange Pekoe
Russian Caravan

All the family know make a good cup of tea.

 

[troyphoto]

I'm looking for Keurig pods. I am too lazy to boil water. I don't use milk either. I guess, us 'Mericans are to unsophisticated to appreciate, the finer points of English culture.

Just remember that it was the WW2 GIs in the UK that got the Brits hooked on "instant" freeze dried coffee. They're trying to prevent you from the same mistake with that Kurig.

On a similar note, get yourself an electric kettle. The gooseneck ones are what I have. It REALLY does make a difference on tea flavor. And I still use tea bags. Because, you know, Muricah!

 

[troyphoto]

On a modelling note, I find that I've gotten too many "little" toy soldiers piling up again. And I'm supposed to be running the "slow-grow league" at the game store. I'm gonna have to build fast to get up to next month's points in time.

Here's the current project:

It's not complete. Only about half built.

I'll finish the build tomorrow.

 

[bnsf971]

Tea
Lapsang Souchong
Assam
Darjeeling
Orange Pekoe
Russian Caravan

All the family know make a good cup of tea.

I like black tea, and orange pekoe. My wife introduced me to green tea. I still occasionally drink it, but not often.
I do make tea using the Keurig and tea bags. I put the teabag where the pod should go, run the cup of hot water through the bag in that spot, then when it's done, pull out the bag and put it in the cup to let it finish steeping.
While it's not perfect, I can get one appliance to do the work of two, and it takes up less of my severely limited kitchen space.

 

[AuburnCentral]

I’ve used a French press for making loose tea. A strong one I had was gunpowder tea

 

[bnsf971]

Good evening. It's mostly clear and 67.
I have a tentative appointment the 26th to have a consult about my dental options, such as they are, and it was a fun day at work playing dodgebus.

 

[Boris]

Good evening. It's mostly clear and 67.
I have a tentative appointment the 26th to have a consult about my dental options, such as they are, and it was a fun day at work playing dodgebus.

That's a start...You can then make the appropriate decision. Equally undesirable, the 26th is the day I do the consult with the Hernia surgeon.