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Cooking & Baking

Warpy

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10. Their blend uses a lot of French roast, which is the darkest roast

Reply to TygrBright (Reply #9)

Wed May 3, 2023, 03:48 PM

May 2023

Supposedly the longer roasting time brings out the sweetness in the beans, but most Americans think it just tastes burnt. They still buy and guzzle the stuff. Salt might help a little, but what really helps is turning into candy with all the crap they put into the fancy ones.

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People Are Adding Salt to Their Morning Coffee For a Rather Bizarre Reason [View all] Warpy May 2023 OP

My wife told me about that years ago for bitter coffee underpants May 2023 #1

I imagine it was common years ago Warpy May 2023 #3

My grandmother taught me that. I was about ten. ggma May 2023 #5

Salt is good in damn near everything Hugh_Lebowski May 2023 #2

salt will over ride the bitter in grapefruit, lemons and limes yellowdogintexas May 2023 #14

cinnamon is a better choice iMO mucifer May 2023 #4

My hubby adds a bit of both! Saviolo May 2023 #13

in the navy we always added salt littlewolf May 2023 #6

Loved the coffee in Spain. They drink it round the clock too yellowdogintexas May 2023 #15

Been doing that for 8 or so years. alittlelark May 2023 #7

I started putting about a teaspoon of salted butter. It really tastes delicious. Maraya1969 May 2023 #8

Starbucks over-roasts their beans. Maybe salt would help...? n/t TygrBright May 2023 #9

Their blend uses a lot of French roast, which is the darkest roast Warpy May 2023 #10

ugh... not a fan of hot coffee milkshake variations. n/t TygrBright May 2023 #11

I don't like any of it Warpy May 2023 #12