My grandma drank her coffee nearly that hot. I asked her if I could try it once, and she let me. If you live somewhere where there’s an Aldi store, it was the in-house Beaumont brand, brewed in a percolator, heated up to near the boiling point. After I got over the initial shock of having my mouth scalded, I thought people had to be insane to drink coffee. And the in-house brand is way better than it used to be, so if you’ve had it recently and thought it was horrible, it used to be worse.
Discourse and Chrome don’t seem to talk to each other nicely enough to let me Control-F for something, but regarding the salt thing: when I have beans that have been sitting around too long, and I know the pot is going to be on for a while, I’ll put a pinch of salt in the filter (I’m strictly on a drip brew maker budget) and maybe a peppercorn or two. Yes, I salt and pepper my coffee. And it’s FABULOUS.
