Airline coffee

Derg said:
You know what's hilarious, is that I only drink coffee westbound trans-Atlantic. Otherwise I get to the layover and won't nap correctly.
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Oh, I nap juuuuust fine, but while you're westbound at noon, we're the idiots going the other way for a threefer (sunrise, sunset, sunrise in the same duty period). Coffee, coffee! :)
 
Bunch of ladies on this board! Come on, man up. A little E-coli wont kill you, every time. :D

Seriously though, I am sure the water pots are in rough shape, but then again, some of the most delicious food you can have is made in questionable environments. A Philly cheese steak made at Pats or Genos with hot peppers from the self serve bar, so many things that could be considered "gross". Chinese food? Having seen the back side of a few in nicer areas, I can only imagine what some of the lower rent ones look like. Sure, it may cause a few forced evacuations, but damn is it good going down! Taco bell at 2 am...come on, you really think the high school kid is washing his hands after dropping a duece to come back and serve you a Doritos Locos?
 
There's a big difference between finding the best food in questionable places and crap coffee. Good food starts with good ingredients and technique - you don't need sterilized spaces for that. Good coffee starts with very clean water, freshly-roasted and ground beans, clean equipment, plus good technique. No airline is going to really get any of those four right. Hell... most restaurants can't get it right. Tap water, 6-month old ground coffee dirt in a foil pouch, calcium and old coffee-scaled equipment... yeah. Not good.

Who am I kidding... most COFFEE shops have a hard time getting two out of four of those things right.
 
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SteveCostello said:
There's a big difference between finding the best food in questionable places and crap coffee. Good food starts with good ingredients and technique - you don't need sterilized spaces for that. Good coffee starts with very clean water, freshly-roasted and ground beans, clean equipment, plus good technique. No airline is going to really get any of those four right. Hell... most restaurants can't get it right. Tap water, 6-month old ground coffee dirt in a foil pouch, calcium and old coffee-scaled equipment... yeah. Not good.

Who am I kidding... most COFFEE shops have a hard time getting two out of four of those things right.
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Airplane coffee is swill, but it's not about having a good cup; it's about being able to land without breaking stuff. :)
 
ChasenSFO said:
Or ya hippies can just drink a dad gum Mountian Dew. As JordanD calls it, "nectar of the rednecks". But really, that's usually how I get through the day. Spermcount be damned.
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Mountain Dew? What are y'all, 14?

Cactus Cooler, bishes!
 
dasleben said:
Oh, I nap juuuuust fine, but while you're westbound at noon, we're the idiots going the other way for a threefer (sunrise, sunset, sunrise in the same duty period). Coffee, coffee! :)
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True. Sitting fat dumb and happy on the tracks and then WHOOOOOSH! "Where the hell is THAT guy going?!"
 
FWIW, on the Q400, the FA's use bottled water for the coffee, otherwise they have to walk a coffee pot from the back to the lav to fill it up... so no rusty water tanks for that. Ours is grey water anyways... not for consumtion. Coffee is not better though
 
ATN_Pilot said:
That's why I drink Coke Zero. No sugar, no calories, but enough caffeine to keep me alert in the morning after being up all night on a stand-up.
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I'll check it out. Not a fan of aspartame, but I guess I'm also not a fan of E. Coli. Of course, we only have 7 airplanes in the 767 fleet, and I've had coffee on all of them; not dead yet. :)
 
dasleben said:
I'll check it out. Not a fan of aspartame, but I guess I'm also not a fan of E. Coli. Of course, we only have 7 airplanes in the 767 fleet, and I've had coffee on all of them; not dead yet. :)
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Aspartame is naaaaaaaaaaaaasty.

I'd rather eat red onion. And those smell like body odor.
 
We serve Starbucks Via on our flights. It's great, but we just need more variety now (we have the Columbian and the Italian decaf, but Verona is my fave).

Decent coffee on airlines is often hard to find. I find it watered down or too weak. With the Vias, I tell the FAs that I'll make my own so I can make it exactly how I like it. Good coffee= happy pilot!
 
ozziecat35 said:
Does Jet Blue still serve Dunkin Donuts coffee?

That was legit.
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They do. The last time i had it, it tasted like crap...very watered down. I am flying them again tonight, I will have to give it a second chance. Lord knows I will need it in order to survive this red eye.
 
Most of our DL -painted EMB's are capable of brewing fresh coffee (if they're not MEL'd), which tastes delicious and makes things all homey and comfy early in the morning after a reduced rest overnight. Plus, nothing smells better (or covers up the rancid lav-juice odor better) than freshly brewed coffee. I'll drink a whole pot of that stuff!

Hey, great idea about the thermos. I'm gonna start doing that!

On our Frontier code share, we get Caribou coffee - which is also extremely tasty. By far, my worst airplane coffee experience is the stuff the American code share fills our hot jugs with. That stuff tastes like its been filtered through a dirty diaper!!
 
Hawaiian Airlines has good coffee. Then again I just think Hawaiian Airlines has been and always will be awesome.
 
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