Can you refrigerate coffee for later use

[quote]So, can't I just keep the 12 cups and ration them out over the week?

Of course you can. I don't know why you would, however. I make pourover coffee. One cup at a time.

You could it would probably degrade a lot in taste. What you need to look into is cold brew coffee. Look it up online.

[quote]poo like a softserve ice cream machine.

Pics please.

No. It turns into poison.

[quote] pourover coffee

oh damn - this would've been the smart thing to do. I forgot that existed. This is what my mother used to serve guests, from the same folgers crystals jar for 20 years. I guess I had a subconscious negative association with it. (pourover = instant, right?)

Also, I wasn't sure if it would have the same "strength" in the laxative department.

You have such complicated problems OP. Maybe you should try instant since this coffee thing is so confusing and difficult for you.

No, pourover is not instant. google it.

Well who honestly drinks 12 cups of coffee in the house in the AM? And then they clean all the little parts inside and the pitcher thing every single day? Exhausting.

...can't you just add less water?

Anyway, you can reheat coffee though it won't taste the same. I'll make a french press drink it, put the unfinished carafe in the fridge and reheat the rest later. Never over a WEEK though. The next morning at the latest.

I could just make 1 cup, r9 but then I still have to clean up the whole thing. When I cook, I make more than 1 portion and just refrigerate or freeze the rest. I never dealt with coffee on my own but I decided the weight loss is going to slow and I work from home a lot now....so no office coffee machine

If I refrigerate coffee, it is forever iced coffee. I don't reheat it. Reheated coffee sucks.

"I just got a coffee maker for the first time."

Do you happen to be a recent Darfur immigrant?

I didn't grow up in a coffee drinking household (see r5) - then not allowed in HS, college had it in the dorm dining rooms, and work always had it in the break room. Then I lived in buildings that had it as an "amenity" outside the leasing office or by the big tv / movie room or whatever.

So, I thank you for your help, Daisy & Mrs. Patmore

I doubt it will kill you but it probably won't taste good. I agree with the guy that said to just drink it iced. Or buy a Keurig.

OP go buy a 2 cup coffee maker for 15 bucks if you like coffee makers. Christ on a cross you are are passive victim. 12 cups of coffee is going to bankrupt you, apparently, faster than the 15 bucks for an appropriate sized machine.

If you are poor, look at a local thrift shop. They have 1 or 2 cup machines in abundance.

you could get a plastic drip cone and some filters and make 1 cup with boiling water. I mean, how hopeless are you at your "hotplate".

I won't reheat it. Keurig's seemed too expensive + then all those plastic cups are extra... do you have to clean a keurig? I am just very averse to cleaning the kitchen. I throw everything in the dw.

I also forgot - I like coffee because in my weightlifting days it was the only way to get creatine to dissolve fully and not make me fart and burp for hours... and since it was piping hot, it also dissolved other supplements like Alpha Lipoic Acid. You can tell when it's not dissolved / absorbed, because when it IS absorbed, your pee smells like a sewer. It needs hot water.

So that's the reason I wanted to make it hot again. I am trying to get back into lifting weights, albeit not at the same rate as before probably... but it was the only way I could stay in shape. Cardio bores me to death and hurts my knees.

R15 - I already got the smallest one I could find w/o a ton of negative reviews. It was $40. I didn't even see any 2-cup ones. But then I'd have to clean it every time which is not for me. Oh, it's not on sale anymore - I got a good deal I guess.

Gurl I ain't poor - I am LAZY. There is a big difference. I do not want to clean or deal with kitchen devices more than I have to.

Alpha Lipoic Acid is destroyed by heat, dummy.

Then why does my pee smell when I have it w/ hot water and not when I don't?

The body is 98.6 ... the water isn't drastically hotter. 145-165 degrees is the temp of most coffee machines. If "by heat" you mean 300 degrees, ok maybe.

ALA does not get absorbed easily... but most people happily pay $1 / pill just to pee it down the toilet.

OP I hate to say this. But you're stupid, cheap and disgusting.

You don't need a coffee maker to make coffee. You get a coffee funnel, cone filters and coffee. You heat water and pour it over the coffee in the funnel. This is all your coffee maker does, it heats coffee and pours it over the coffee maker. It's how people made coffee before coffee makers. It's cheaper and doesn't take up a tone of space. There are pricy ceramic or glass funnels, but there are plastic ones for under $10. You can by them at Target.

I freeze demi cups of coffee and just microwave each morning, Sunday mornings I do up a dozen or so to get me through the week.

R23, it doesn't have to slowly be dripped through there? You can just pour it all in the funnel and it'll come out strong enough?

R25 it doesn't have to be super slow. You will need to let some drain before you pour a little in. I usually just do other stuff in the kitchen during this process. You don't have to be super precious about it. The super slow pours you get at places like Philz are a little better, but my method is as good as any coffee maker and better than the Keurig cups.

I bought an AeroPress several years ago. Before that I had a variety of coffee makers, including a french press which gave me gas. Takes me a minute to get ready the night before (yes, I know I should only use freshly ground beans... ) then in the morning pour hot water heated by a microwave or kettle into the press, press down on the plunger and you have your coffee (add hot water if you want to adjust the strength). To clean, just run under some water and you're done. OP unless expecting your bridge group, who love their coffee, to expect more than one cup at a time, give away your current coffee maker.

Pourover

Thank you

You can make 2 cups of coffee in a 12 cup machine, just add enough coffee for 2 cups, and water for 2 cups.

With a cone, the way I recall from my Melitta days in college is that you heat the water to the temperature just before it starts to boil, and then you "wet" the coffee grounds in the cone for a "burst of flavor," then you pour it slowly and carefully over the coffee so that the grounds are fully saturated.

Pour over, i.e. Mellitta, Kallita, Chemex, all better simpler ways. If you keep the water boiling, you'll extract more oils and flavour. Electric auto-drip never heats the water properly, IMHO! Glass & ceramic are much better choices than plastic OP. Goodluck young gayling on your coffee pursuits!

Just get the smallest French press from Bodum. Makes one cup, delicious coffee, easy to clean.

I have made French press coffee maybe five times in my life, and I didn't like it any of those times.

You are a crazy person r33. A french press definitely makes a better cup of coffee than some drip coffee machine.

I don't even consider drip coffee machines, r34 (you drip). I pour over.

Chemex is the answer to your dilemma OP. I just rinse mine out after use and wash it once a week.

Dishwasher, R36?

You don't need to hand wash the pitcher every damn day. When you're finished with the coffee, empty the pitcher, rinse briefly with fresh water and put it back.

Why didn't you research whether it was a dishwasher-safe pitcher before you bought it if that's such a deal breaker?

Read the replyby the previous poster who froze a week's worth of coffee in individual cups, OP, that's probably more your speed.

If OP lacks the patience to occasionally wash a coffee carafe I highly doubt he has enough to make a cup of pour over coffee properly every day.

Ok, I have a 12 cup coffee maker also. I only fill it to the 6 cup mark. That is really only 3 -4 cups of coffee to me (who still uses those old 6 ounce cups?)

If there is any left over, I have put it in the fridge for afternoon iced coffee, but that’s more likely in the summer.

You can also freeze the leftover coffee in ice cube trays for iced coffee later. Keeps it cold, no dilution.

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As for cleaning, I just rinse the glass carafe out & dump the grounds (or compost them). Wipe down the exterior of the machine real quick.

Once I week I clean it more thoroughly.

But if your just a one cup person, then pour-over, instant or Keurig is the way to go. I sometimes have a cup of pour-over coffee in the afternoon. But I’m too sleepy in the morning to do pour-over. I need coffee ASAP & a machine with a timer is essential.

Coffee enemas used to be a thing... but I don't think I want to self administer one.

I don’t know how anyone can drink microwaved coffee. It has a totally different taste. Coffee is meant to be brewed and the brewing process affects the taste. Reheating old coffee from refrigerator temp to piping hot is obviously going to affect the taste in a huge way.

Unless you’re the kind of coffee drinker who disguises the taste completely with cream and sugar and mayber eveb additional flavorings. I only drink it black so the taste needs to be good. Not some warmed-over shit that’s been absorbing refrigerator odors for 3 days before getting blasted in the microwave.

I make coffee for one with a 12-cup coffee maker and I have for decades. It’s not difficult, you just need to measure, which I can do just fine by eyeballing it. Fill the water to 2 cups (because 1 cup is like a teacup size), add two heaping teaspoons of ground coffee to the basket (A reusable filter), and brew. A perfectly sized, strong cup of fresh brewed coffee.

Why the fuck would anyone make 12 cups at once just for themselves?

[quote] Why the fuck would anyone make 12 cups at once just for themselves?

For the same reason a single person makes a recipe as 4 servings rather than dividing up everything by 4 and making 1 serving.

You can just put the rest in the fridge / freezer for later meals and you don't have to cook or clean again.

Freezing preserves quality, hell they even flash freeze fish, why the hell wouldn't we do it for coffee? ...it's nice if you have the luxury of time every morning, but some of us work long hours.

Pssst, OP. Go to Target or some other store, and buy a smaller coffee pot, 'K? when I'm just making coffee for me I love my French Press. Soo easy.

I guess you can save coffee for 24 hours or so in a fridge, but why bother? Just do it right the first time.

All of my coffee paraphernalia is dishwasher safe, too; filter basket, pitcher, the whole carafe and parts. Always has been. I have no idea what “contraption” OP has that can only be hand washed.

It's linked at R18... and it said "dishwasher safe" on the box and then the instruction manual said - "the filter, filter cup, and spoon are dishwasher safe - top rack only, with the spoon to be placed with the silverware" - nothing about the carafe.

[quote]For the same reason a single person makes a recipe as 4 servings rather than dividing up everything by 4 and making 1 serving.

Only some recipes freeze well. It makes sense to do this with casseroles or soups but not every meal can be frozen and reheated without affecting taste and quality.

Since that definitely applies to coffee, again: why would you drink reheated old coffee when fresh-brewed coffee tastes 100 times better? Do you just lack taste?

[quote]Freezing preserves quality, hell they even flash freeze fish, why the hell wouldn't we do it for coffee?

Do you flash freeze coffee? Or anything else, for that matter? Why are you bringing up industrial freezing methods in a thread about keeping homemade coffee in your freezer?

Why stop at coffee? Why not cook 2 dozen eggs and a pound of bacon and toast a whole loaf of bread? Then throw the extra eggs, bacon and toast (buttered of course! Gotta save those precious seconds every morning!) all in the freezer with your gallon of coffee. Let us know how breakfast is tomorrow.

R48 is the fucking carafe glass? Then wash the fucking carafe in the dishwasher, although how long would it take you to simply wash it by hand? Two minutes? Less? are you that busy or just that lazy? Because hunny, you are clueless in the extreme.

Is the carafe made of fine crystal with a gold leaf inlay? PUT IT IN THE FUCKING DISHWASHER YOU MARY.

JFC.

[quote]the instruction manual said - "the filter, filter cup, and spoon are dishwasher safe - top rack only, with the spoon to be placed with the silverware" - nothing about the carafe.

Because unlike the other items which are more delicate than a fucking carafe, everyone knows a coffee carafe is dishwasher safe. Every coffee carafe made since 1972 is probably dishwasher safe.

[quote]PUT IT IN THE FUCKING DISHWASHER YOU MARY.

R51 - I once had a drinking glass break in there that had been washed 100 times before - and there were shards of glass in everything which was a shitstorm - AND it fucked up my DW AND I am renting.

So calm down. There are reasons.

How long have you had an untreated anxiety disorder, OP?

How long have you been a cunt r54?

Fill ice trays with what is left in the carafe and freeze it.

When you want iced coffee, get a couple of iced coffee cubes and blend them with milk and some sugar.

I've got a 12 cup coffee maker. I just make the number of cups I want. Fresh coffee tastes best, but sometimes I'll pour leftover coffee where the water goes in and run it back through. It's a little strong, but tastes better than microwaving it.

[quote]Is the carafe made of fine crystal with a gold leaf inlay? PUT IT IN THE FUCKING DISHWASHER YOU MARY. JFC.

[quote] Because unlike the other items which are more delicate than a fucking carafe, everyone knows a coffee carafe is dishwasher safe. Every coffee carafe made since 1972 is probably dishwasher safe.

[quote]How long have you had an untreated anxiety disorder, OP?

I called Bialetti and it is not dishwasher safe....as I thought. So go fuck yourself. Of course you wouldn't have been responsible for the bill when the thing broke and glass got sucked into the drainage system of a $1000 Bosch dishwasher - so I had a bit more invested in the issue. Or, maybe you're just a cunt who enjoys for screeching bad advice to people on the internet. Anyway, feel free to confirm for yourself:

1-866-832-4843 model 35041

[quote]Freezing preserves quality

Of already-made coffee? No, it does not. But if you can't taste the difference, then make your coffee and freeze it. You don't need a thread like this. Just drink it however the fuck you want.

I've found forgotten cups of coffee in the back of the fridge and they grow a special kind of mold. Makes you wonder what we're really drinking.

I have never put a cup of coffee in the refrigerator.

I have never even heard of putting a cup of coffee in the refrigerator or the freezer until this very thread.

Lt. BOOKMAN: How about instant coffee? You don't have any instant coffee? Who doesn't have instant coffee? You buy a jar of Folger's Crystals, you put it in the cupboard, you forget about it. Then later on when you need it, it's there. It lasts forever. It's freeze-dried. Freeze-dried Crystals.

I would rather drink instant coffee than microwaved, several-days-old coffee.

R46, you remind me of someone whose initials are DSJ.

This is science folks. Oxidation. If you not brew our coffee it creates the conditions necessary for oxidation to occur. As a result the coffee will go "stale" which is basally the breaking down of oils and aromatics. This process will occur whether or not the coffee is in a sealed container. This is why microwaved coffee sucks. There is nothing unsafe about reheating coffee. so if the taste doesn't bother you no reason not to do it. I have a friend that makes a pot in the morning and reheats it all day long in the microwave. Of course he basically uses his coffee as a carrier for cream and sugar.

Cold brewed coffee stays fresh longer because oxidation doesn't occur.

I do it OP. But I’m not a coffee purist.

I wouldn't because the taste sucks. I have a 4 cup Black and Decker machine which I bought 3 years ago for $20. I make 2 cups in the morning and 2 in the afternoon. I rinse the pot after, no big deal.

Op, have you tried the Starbucks single packet instant coffee? Better than Folger's and no clean up required.

OP, even if your coffeemaker carafe were dishwasher-safe...would you run your dishwasher every damn day? With only one person living there?? Dumping the grounds and washing the carafe by hand takes 15 seconds. It's not like it's caked-on grease or anything.

Please don't get a Keurig. Those pods are terrible for the environment and I imagine they are costly and don't make very good coffee anyway.

Generally, I make about half to two-thirds of a pot. If I decide at some point I don't want any more of that day, then I throw the rest out. I rarely fully wash the carafe in the dishwasher, because the non-removable lid piece makes an awkward fit; instead I swish some hot water around, and put the pot back on the coffee maker (yes, I discarded the water).

That last bit OP-TMI.

This is what everyone does for ice coffee, so YES. One day max though.

Yes. I bought some restaurant packs of coffee and made them, 64 oz. total, and fridged the leftovers. I've kept it up to 5 days without problem.

I also make espresso in batches because I put a shot in my protein drink to cut the sweetness. The taste of leftover coffee isn't as good as fresh but it's okay.

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No you can’t, you FAT WHORE.

Starbucks makes instant coffee as well. It’s available at your local grocer.