Comments on: Does Your Coffee Cup Affect the Taste? http://www.talkaboutcoffee.com/does-coffee-cup-affect-the-taste.html Talk About Coffee is a must visit site for all the coffee lovers out there :)) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:10:37 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Andrew http://www.talkaboutcoffee.com/does-coffee-cup-affect-the-taste.html/comment-page-1#comment-3342 Andrew Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:29:17 +0000 http://www.talkaboutcoffee.com/does-your-coffee-cup-affect-the-taste.html#comment-3342 Sylvia, I hope you're joking about the Tasters Choice :P Sylvia,
I hope you’re joking about the Tasters Choice :P

]]> By: Sami http://www.talkaboutcoffee.com/does-coffee-cup-affect-the-taste.html/comment-page-1#comment-3183 Sami Sun, 02 Aug 2009 01:49:54 +0000 http://www.talkaboutcoffee.com/does-your-coffee-cup-affect-the-taste.html#comment-3183 Hmmm, well I swear if I don't wash my travel mug (IDK what exactly it's made of, but some kind of metal) after every use then the taste of old coffee gets stuck in there. But it might be mind over matter, I mean I like to use the plastic cups you get iced coffee in from Starbucks at home for my coffee because I think it tastes best. But it's probably just because I like to sip from a Starbucks cup with a straw so I think it tastes better. I tend to think all drinks taste better when in a clear cup, no matter what they're made of. I think my thermos is made from steel though, tastes like it. Hmmm, well I swear if I don’t wash my travel mug (IDK what exactly it’s made of, but some kind of metal) after every use then the taste of old coffee gets stuck in there.
But it might be mind over matter, I mean I like to use the plastic cups you get iced coffee in from Starbucks at home for my coffee because I think it tastes best.
But it’s probably just because I like to sip from a Starbucks cup with a straw so I think it tastes better.

I tend to think all drinks taste better when in a clear cup, no matter what they’re made of.

I think my thermos is made from steel though, tastes like it.

]]> By: Isaiah Hekhuis http://www.talkaboutcoffee.com/does-coffee-cup-affect-the-taste.html/comment-page-1#comment-3154 Isaiah Hekhuis Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:18:11 +0000 http://www.talkaboutcoffee.com/does-your-coffee-cup-affect-the-taste.html#comment-3154 I dunno, I swear there's a metallic flavor in any steel container no matter how it's been treated. Best bet is those glass or silver lined travel cups imho I dunno, I swear there’s a metallic flavor in any steel container no matter how it’s been treated. Best bet is those glass or silver lined travel cups imho

]]> By: Sylvia http://www.talkaboutcoffee.com/does-coffee-cup-affect-the-taste.html/comment-page-1#comment-3049 Sylvia Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:19:32 +0000 http://www.talkaboutcoffee.com/does-your-coffee-cup-affect-the-taste.html#comment-3049 OOPSIE, I goofed, I did mean Porcelain mug...sorry.......:(( OOPSIE, I goofed, I did mean Porcelain mug…sorry…….:((

]]> By: Sylvia http://www.talkaboutcoffee.com/does-coffee-cup-affect-the-taste.html/comment-page-1#comment-3048 Sylvia Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:01:20 +0000 http://www.talkaboutcoffee.com/does-your-coffee-cup-affect-the-taste.html#comment-3048 Difinately Ceramic is the best...But not only the cup can change the taste of Tasters Choice coffee, but also the WATER you use to make the cup of coffee...Suggest you have your Water district check your sink water for additives, however its best to buy distilled clear water for coffee...Water does make all the difference in the world. P.S. IF youv'e just brushed your teeth it will make a differece in taste also. buttttt I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE MY TASTERS CHOICE and wouldn't drink any other!!!.. Difinately Ceramic is the best…But not only the cup can change the taste of Tasters Choice coffee, but also the WATER you use to make the cup of coffee…Suggest you have your Water district check your sink water for additives, however its best to buy distilled clear water for coffee…Water does make all the difference in the world.
P.S. IF youv’e just brushed your teeth it will make a differece in taste also. buttttt I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE MY TASTERS CHOICE and wouldn’t drink any other!!!..

]]> By: Business Conferences Pamper Attendees by Going Green | Sustainability Is Sexy Blog http://www.talkaboutcoffee.com/does-coffee-cup-affect-the-taste.html/comment-page-1#comment-2802 Business Conferences Pamper Attendees by Going Green | Sustainability Is Sexy Blog Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:25:44 +0000 http://www.talkaboutcoffee.com/does-your-coffee-cup-affect-the-taste.html#comment-2802 [...] coffee is more enjoyable from a durable mug than from a paper one. Talk About Coffee published a thorough article a year ago, detailing how paper cups can negatively affect the taste of coffee. The basic gist is [...] [...] coffee is more enjoyable from a durable mug than from a paper one. Talk About Coffee published a thorough article a year ago, detailing how paper cups can negatively affect the taste of coffee. The basic gist is [...]

]]> By: Tanto http://www.talkaboutcoffee.com/does-coffee-cup-affect-the-taste.html/comment-page-1#comment-2039 Tanto Mon, 27 Oct 2008 06:40:59 +0000 http://www.talkaboutcoffee.com/does-your-coffee-cup-affect-the-taste.html#comment-2039 I've been drinking coffee since 15 or 16, and regularly since 20, at least 2 cups / mugs a day, I am 50 now. As long as I can remember, porcelain mug is the best so far. But lately, I bought a stainless mug (cup) with a cap. I can't say it tastes "a lot better" than porcelain mug, but it's different, and good, very good indeed. Remember cowboys used to drink from "can" or steel mug by the campfire ? It does look good ! I’ve been drinking coffee since 15 or 16, and regularly since 20, at least 2 cups / mugs a day, I am 50 now. As long as I can remember, porcelain mug is the best so far. But lately, I bought a stainless mug (cup) with a cap. I can’t say it tastes “a lot better” than porcelain mug, but it’s different, and good, very good indeed. Remember cowboys used to drink from “can” or steel mug by the campfire ? It does look good !

]]> By: Christopher Rushlau http://www.talkaboutcoffee.com/does-coffee-cup-affect-the-taste.html/comment-page-1#comment-1808 Christopher Rushlau Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:59:21 +0000 http://www.talkaboutcoffee.com/does-your-coffee-cup-affect-the-taste.html#comment-1808 I got my medical degree from "House" on Fox, which is way better than Johns Hopkins, so I suggest you check if you both, or all of you, have exactly the same bad taste, and then consider if there is something wrong with your tongues. I run out of sodium sometimes and my body tells me this by giving me a salt taste on my tongue. I can have that taste on my tongue even though the food I eat in that low-sodium (flushed out by too much sweating, water, caffeine, fatigue,??? and unreplaced due to too little sodium intake) state tastes flat, another way of my body telling me to eat salt which contradicts, seemingly, the evidence of the salt taste in my mouth. But chemical taste is way worse than salt taste. They say in thriller novels that adrenaline has a metallic taste. Or is yours a carbon tetrachloride, dry-cleaners' fluid, make-your-hair-fall-out, sort of taste? Maybe there's something in your living quarters that you only detect in drinking coffee made there. Try drinking coffee there you made somewhere else and try taking your home-brew coffee somewhere else to drink. It is the great principle of modern faith that, if you eliminate all the impossible explanations, the remaining theory, no matter how unlikely, will explain the thing. Although, in practice, you don't go through your set of theories one by one. You go through your sanities one by one until they all expire and you find a new one. But that's why we drink coffee, to enjoy the journey. I got my medical degree from “House” on Fox, which is way better than Johns Hopkins, so I suggest you check if you both, or all of you, have exactly the same bad taste, and then consider if there is something wrong with your tongues.
I run out of sodium sometimes and my body tells me this by giving me a salt taste on my tongue. I can have that taste on my tongue even though the food I eat in that low-sodium (flushed out by too much sweating, water, caffeine, fatigue,??? and unreplaced due to too little sodium intake) state tastes flat, another way of my body telling me to eat salt which contradicts, seemingly, the evidence of the salt taste in my mouth.
But chemical taste is way worse than salt taste. They say in thriller novels that adrenaline has a metallic taste. Or is yours a carbon tetrachloride, dry-cleaners’ fluid, make-your-hair-fall-out, sort of taste?
Maybe there’s something in your living quarters that you only detect in drinking coffee made there. Try drinking coffee there you made somewhere else and try taking your home-brew coffee somewhere else to drink.
It is the great principle of modern faith that, if you eliminate all the impossible explanations, the remaining theory, no matter how unlikely, will explain the thing. Although, in practice, you don’t go through your set of theories one by one. You go through your sanities one by one until they all expire and you find a new one. But that’s why we drink coffee, to enjoy the journey.

]]> By: Fern http://www.talkaboutcoffee.com/does-coffee-cup-affect-the-taste.html/comment-page-1#comment-1708 Fern Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:25:19 +0000 http://www.talkaboutcoffee.com/does-your-coffee-cup-affect-the-taste.html#comment-1708 Bad chemical taste....new pot, older pot, new coffee, older coffee, bottled water, refrigerator water or water from the tap, paper filter or permanent filter. Driving us nuts....changed cups, changed EVERYTHING! WHAT CAN THE MATTER BE??? Bad chemical taste….new pot, older pot, new coffee, older coffee, bottled water, refrigerator water or water from the tap, paper filter or permanent filter. Driving us nuts….changed cups, changed EVERYTHING! WHAT CAN THE MATTER BE???

]]> By: Christopher Rushlau http://www.talkaboutcoffee.com/does-coffee-cup-affect-the-taste.html/comment-page-1#comment-679 Christopher Rushlau Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:44:26 +0000 http://www.talkaboutcoffee.com/does-your-coffee-cup-affect-the-taste.html#comment-679 Firstly, it may be that most US coffee drinkers are not "awake to smell the coffee"--despite all the frivolity about double lattes with a shot, etc. Either they might not know what coffee itself tastes like or not like its taste. I'll guess most beer drinkers dislike the taste of beer, likewise tequila drinkers, rye whiskey drinkers, their respective drinks. They don't savor it, don't know how. As for ceramic and heat, Ali, it may be because ceramic is a better insulator, meaning it doesn't heat up so much in the presence of the hot liquid, whereas steel heats up enough to become a driving force for chemical changes in the coffee mixture, maybe. Firstly, it may be that most US coffee drinkers are not “awake to smell the coffee”–despite all the frivolity about double lattes with a shot, etc. Either they might not know what coffee itself tastes like or not like its taste. I’ll guess most beer drinkers dislike the taste of beer, likewise tequila drinkers, rye whiskey drinkers, their respective drinks.
They don’t savor it, don’t know how.
As for ceramic and heat, Ali, it may be because ceramic is a better insulator, meaning it doesn’t heat up so much in the presence of the hot liquid, whereas steel heats up enough to become a driving force for chemical changes in the coffee mixture, maybe.

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