i quit coffee about 7 months ago and i am still fighting strong cravings for the taste. some days i just want to drink it for the sheer novelty of DOING it simply because its been so long! i was into it hardcore for two years, i only had two 12 oz cups a day and sometimes i would make a latte or a cappa. i roasted my own and got VERY good at that aspect of it to the point that i would say i was an expert master roaster of sorts…ok, just in my general area, i was the best fresh bean connoisseur in town exerpt for one small cafe. i would order green coffee off the net from almost everywhere and stick it in an old (70s) popcorn popper called the WestBend Poppery I, which was controlled by hand with a variac for the heating element and one for the fan pressure. i would monitor the temperature of the bean mass and make changes according to spikes in heat cause by first and second "crack"-the beans will pop like popcorn twice during a dark roast or just once for a light roast-and then i would let them "rest" for a few days in an air tight jar, after that i would grind every bean fresh just seconds before brewing. i even made my own two boiler espresso machine and used a very high quality hand grinder to get an extremely fine yet consistent grind and tamp it into the "porta-filter" of the espresso machine with the same pressure every time. and everything else technical and scientific to do with the entire process of making the finest coffee i could. and i mean really good coffee, ambrosia! especially shots, they were general very smooth and much less bitter than anywhere else i could find the stuff-sometimes quite sweet. and i didn’t even have very good machines and i was able to "pull" that kind of shot!

you get the picture. i was into coffee for every other reason than for the caffeine…. i REALLY wish i had only been into it for the "buzz". but the fact is coffee actually made me have less energy, but it was way worth it for the pleasure of taste. so now im faced with what looks like a life of suffering lol cuz i cant stop wanting coffee!!

i broke today and had a cup of ‘nasty’ coffee at work from the vender. i would have never even thought of drinking that swill 7 months ago, but after so long i have sort of forgotten the taste of the "super coffee" i use to make, i think mentally i have tried to push out that sensory memory as i have been trying really hard not to drink it again. i was hoping to be free of a lot longer than 7 months, and one would think that’s not too hard. but im just really weak when it comes to "harmless pleasures". but at the same time i really don’t like the idea of being tied to something anymore, i want to be able to go though life ready for whatever happens without having to say "oh my god, where am i going to find a good cup of of coffee in this town?!!"
yea, i quit for health reasons, and by the way, the health benefits are far outweighed by the toxifying effect this highly acidic beverage has on the body. coffee has a ph of 4! thats only slightly better than soda. a normal blood ph is about 7.3. but yes, i think im willing to possibly drink it once or twice a week. but its also a moral issue. i would respect myself a little less for not having the self control to avoid something this small and menial, what am i if i cant even control a simple craving?! im very weak thats what. hard on myself?? maybe. but i dont know. another major thing is that drinking coffee is a direct contradiction to my resent drastic change in diet. i am 90% vegan and about 30% raw.(also for health reasons only, not for animal rights) so this means that the majority of what i eat is whole, fresh, living, organic, alkalizing, detoxifying food. long list hu? and coffee is the opposite of all this. not that it would make my efforts to eat cleaner that much less va

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