Thoughts - Cold coffee

[jack]

There are many foods which are *better* hot. And many that, while weird cold, have their place -- cf. compscis and pizza. And there are iced coffees, or otherwise intentional cold caffeine drinks, which are great.

Apparently, chilling counteracts flavour to a certain extent -- some people are very snobbish about chilling wines and beers, since it seems to imply it's bad. Though one can overcompensate -- when dechilling red wine on a radiator, if it's warm to the touch you've probably overdone it, though it's unusual, not unpleasant. Mulled wine is positively gorgeous.

Iced tea is worshipped. Depending on my mood I drink water chilled, room temp, hot, and occasionally slightly warm, though the experience of body temp coffee is very weird, as you can feel it, but get no sensation of taste, so it's like a ghost!

Just now I put my lips to coffee, and everloving crap was it awful. Warm coffee is ok, though not great. But cooled completely, especially unexpectedly, it's hard not to gag, and spew the ichorous beverage over a variety of expensive electronic equipment and week's work...

WHY?

Comments

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

I actually rather like cold coffee...tastes less bitter. (I developed this habit after having to abandon coffee partway through in order to go to lectures, and finishing it off when I got back to my room later that day.)

And I often drink water so hot it's just off the boil. My mum got me into the habit. It's quite nice really.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Admittedly I start with instant-coffee-with-milk, so my perceptions may be skewed. But... ick. I'm not judging, but I don't think I could. I've *tried*, but failed.

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I like iced coffee, but I don't know about cold stuff.

Microwave it?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Well, that would work[1]. My puzzle wasn't so much what to *do* -- I normally make fresh, since it's normally instant, and if I didn't want to there's normally half of it[2], so topping up with boiling water would make it just acceptable. But why it's such an exception.

[1] Isn't re-microwaving water a recipe[3] for superheating scalding disasters, or something?
[2] What does puzzle me is a friend who always drinks half a cup of coffee. Or half of however much he's poured. Why that, too??
[3] Pun intended.

[edith-the-hutt.livejournal.com]

Mead is best drunk warm I find.