jade3•10d ago

Spent 3 days trying to fix bitter cheap coffee before I found the real issue

I've been buying this $5 bag of Folgers for months and it always came out tasting like burnt dirt. I tried adding salt, cinnamon, even a pinch of baking soda, nothing worked. After 3 days of messing around I finally realized my Mr. Coffee brewer was heating water to like 210 degrees instead of the right temp. Has anyone else dealt with a coffee maker that just cooks your grounds instead of brewing them?

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nathan_barnes9d ago

But is it really the same thing though? Cheap coffee is still cheap coffee, and a broken brewer just makes it worse. If you put Folgers in a perfect machine at the right temp, you're still gonna get Folgers.

wesleyburns10d ago

You hit on something real with that "cooking your grounds instead of brewing them" thing. It's funny how we always blame the cheap stuff first before looking at the tool or process that's actually broken. Kind of makes you wonder how many other things in life we're doing the same with.