A First-World Problem

[opabinia]

1. You make coffee.
2. After the coffee has percolated, you decide you would prefer iced coffee.
3. You re-purpose the hot coffee by adding ice cubes.

4. Oh no! Now the coffee is too watery!

Comments

Gchat

[lepidosiren.livejournal.com]

canongrrl:
make coffee stronger then add ice

me:
yeah, that's how i make iced coffee when it isn't a retrofit

Re: Gchat

[xenoglaux]

continue to boil coffee.

Re: Gchat

[lepidosiren.livejournal.com]

Concentrating the solution by evaporation would have been an excellent protocol revision. I was in a hurry to drink coffee, though, so making a new pot with more grounds per unit volume would have worked faster.

[industrialsteve.livejournal.com]

freeze some coffee into ice cube trays!!!

[lepidosiren.livejournal.com]

That is a fine idea, too, but the problem I'm describing is specific to the re-purposing case. If you know you're going to want cold coffee to begin with, the procedure differs from the get-go.

BTW, I found a 22.2mm seatpost with a press-fit Kalloy clamp -- a rare combination. It's shipping in from the friggin' UK. Now we'll just need to make a shim, to bring the OD up to ~24mm. :D

[sparkgrrl658.livejournal.com]

you stole my answer :)

actually, my real answer is: have an unusual aversion to coffee, despite growing up in rhode island.

[hellocatgirl.livejournal.com]

This is my answer! We do this at home. A local cafe in PVD (Seven Stars) gives you ice coffee ice cubes in your ice coffee. We thought it was an awesome idea so we stole it.

[bottleimp.livejournal.com]

I thought that Europe was the First or Old World, and then we were the New World, and the Third World was everybody else?

Just thinking out loud here.

Okay, not really thinking, more just like random electro-chemical neuron-firing crap going on.

If that's not right, then who's the Second World, and who's on First?

[lepidosiren.livejournal.com]

The expression "First-World Problem" may have been coined without thinking that through. Then again, maybe it's a self-aware, built-in semi-nonsense sort of funny.

[bottleimp.livejournal.com]

Oooh! What if next time, you add a ziplock bag full of ice cubes to the coffee? This would chill the coffee without adding liquid.

[lepidosiren.livejournal.com]

BY GEORGE SIR YOU ARE RIGHT

[bottleimp.livejournal.com]

-bows-

Or repurpose an old TEM roughing pump to decrease the atmospheric pressure above the liquid, causing it to boil off excess H2O at a much lower temperature, avoiding any heat degradation of the aromatic compounds!

[lepidosiren.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was concerned that mrzero's idea affect the flavor.

The roughing pump method is delightfully Goldbergian.