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Outclass the Competition
by Harold Almon baesoe.com
Be at Ease School of Etiquette Austin
Black coffee. Get a classic coffee maker that shuts off automatically. You can get a grinder for coffee beans. You may use it for pulse chopping nuts. Get a coffee serving pot, a large thermos, or a carafe to serve coffee.
Learn to make a good cup of coffee. The Almon protocol is nine teaspoons of coffee per each eight cup pot. When alone, you can adjust weaken this to your liking. At home, for me, I use five teaspoons, per six cups. I drink a lot of coffee. The global protocol is one tablespoon of coffee grounds per three ounces of cold water. Do this only when you have wonderful pots like those used in Star (Str) coffee spots. On more than one occasion an espresso machine has been used to warm water for flavored instant coffee. For company you may get French Vanilla coffee or a French Roast. You could make or have it made with a French Press, or serve it as ice coffee.
You can preheat the serving pot, thermos, carafe, dispenser, or a cup by pouring hot water in it, letting it sit, and then pouring it out. Indoors avoid serving coffee out a dispenser without an adjoining serving pot.
Ceramic teacups and saucers or informally mugs can be provided, handles pointed to four o’clock, and used to hold black coffee. Informally, a personal size Sippy-glass may be used, with the lid removed indoors. Remember when it was a thermos, and it had its own cup with a handle? Real Sippy cups (for children) still have handles. Now you get coffee in a paper glass: the new way you were taught to drink it, with a wrap around coaster, unless you ask for a (cup of) coffee “for here,” (and get a ceramic cup and a saucer.) You can omit the saucer when coffee is served in a mug. I serve coffee in a 12oz stemmed iced tea/claret glass; hold it by the stem, does not spill when you walk, beats the hell out of cardboard or Styrofoam, but still its drinking coffee from a glass. Remember where refills can be had for free or for little money. Here is where you tip (when you can).
You may get an espresso in a demitasse cup with a demitasse saucer, and demitasse spoon. Here there is less wiggle room, except, when you drink coffee black you may omit the spoon. Use the cup by the handle; pinch it.
The most important person in a company or community could well be the coffee baron. That is the person in charge of the coffee fund who ensures that coffee is always ready. You might practice on friends. Pick a day, and time of day, and tell them to stop by for coffee. They will come, and you will be their Baron. Clean the pot, at least once a month. Know the discounts and coupons offered at each of your outside coffee spots. In public you can join a club, or buy your treat with a coupon, gift card, or a receipt.
You might even have your coffee black or have your caffeine to match your Military skill level:
9 skill level: Black
7 skill level: Black, lots of sugar
5 skill level: Black lots sugar, tons of milk and toppings.
3 skill level: Cola: lots of sugar, looks like black coffee in a mug.
You can ask for or serve
French pressed coffee, decaffeinated, and or ice coffee.
What to do:
Pour left over coffee into recycled 1.5 liter wine jars and screw back the cap. You may even make coffee ice cubes.
Drinking coffee, you can lose water. Once you get past 300 milligrams (about six cups) of caffeine, a diuretic effect kicks in – on well, so much for retaining water.
Later you can learn to make a cappuccino cooler:
What to do: combine coffee, chocolate ice cream, chocolate syrup and whipped cream. This is not really coffee per se. It could be something your guest could use.