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Coffee and Cholesterol

RecoveringYuppy said:
She was simply quoting your use of the phrase in post 9. Unless you were talking about your own lack of understanding, she wasn't either.
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Exactly right. Thanks.
I get frustrated when people try to pick on me for something I didn't say. Once I compared something to "the urban myth that aspartame was developed as an ant poison," and I got an angry e-mail saying "Aspartame was NOT developed as an ant poison!" Well, duh! Wasn't that exactly what I said?
 
Okay, it is time to get to brass tacks... this weekend at band camp my kid was voted as most "caffeinated"! Does this mean he is doomed to have high cholesterol?

Or does he take his chances with the genetic dice?

His mom (me) has high cholesterol... but with a high HDL (70+), she must watch what she eats. His dad has incredibly low cholesterol despite being from a family whose (Dutch) family recipes start with "melt a half kilogram of butter). So he now complains that the cheese he buys (Edam, brie, Gouda, and others) now gets moldy because someone (me) is not eating it anymore.

Is my kid doomed because he drinks the equivalent of about two whole cups a coffee a day.
 
EHLO said:
What on earth do the Scandinavians do to their coffee?
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They boil it. Boiling was once a common method in the US. See the recipe from Fannie Farmer's cookbook at http://www.bartleby.com/87/r0008.html

I bet cowboy coffee was even worse: the recipe was to put a lot of coffee in with a little river water, boil the hell out of it, and pitch in a horseshoe: if the horseshoe sinks, add more coffee. :)
 
The SkepDoc said:
They boil it. Boiling was once a common method in the US. See the recipe from Fannie Farmer's cookbook at http://www.bartleby.com/87/r0008.html

I bet cowboy coffee was even worse: the recipe was to put a lot of coffee in with a little river water, boil the hell out of it, and pitch in a horseshoe: if the horseshoe sinks, add more coffee. :)
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Egg? In coffee? Sounds blasphemous.

And as a Scandinavian, I should mention that I filter my coffee.

(In other news, the fisherman's way of making coffee in Norway goes a little like this:
- put a coin in the bottom of a cup
- pour coffee in the cup until the coin can no longer be seen
- pour vodka in the cup until the coin is visible again
)
 
Not being an english expert, I'd like to hear what filtering entails.

By filtering, you're meant to use one of these paper thingies? ->
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And not one of these? ->
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EHLO said:
What on earth do the Scandinavians do to their coffee?

As for cholesterol, I'll take the flavour of Espresso or Plunger (French Press) over Instant/Filtered any day. To hell with the consequences!
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You can also get a widget called an aeropress which - if you can get past its uncanny resemblence to a penis enlarger - does make very tasty filtered coffee.

plindboe - yep, filtered coffee goes through one of those paper things (you can also get metal mesh filters - but those appear to leave in all the oils...)
 
plindboe, the glass and metal thing is also called a 'French press'; see earlier in this thread. Sometimes also known as a 'cafetiere'. It's filtered, but not paper-filtered.

Being from Denmark, you are probably familiar with the favored means of producing coffee:
1. filter it through a percolator. 2. leave it to stand on the warming plate for the rest of the day. 3. drink progressively more and more concentrated, blacker and blacker coffee as the day goes by. 4. Go to the dentist for a teeth cleaning.

No complaints from me though... I lived in Copenhagen for years and grew to love the coffee. Coffee anywhere else just never seems scorched enough now.
 
I won't even mention tea!

Tea is supposed to be good for you. But someone said (and see this is that mysterious "someone") that coffee is just as good, only not as many studies.

So perhaps it will raise your cholesterol, yet will protect you from cancer! You have to pick your disease I guess.

I have high cholesterol and never drink coffee. My doctor points out the family history and did some more blood tests to see if I needed medication or not. Watching what I eat helps, but in no way will ever make me cholesterol at a really good low level.

Now take the Algonquin Indians. They make their coffee with 3 eggs, a ground up rib eye steak, AND a stick of butter. Sure it is good, and sure they never die of cancer (they drink at least a quart of this stuff a day), but their cholesterol is off the charts. I'm sure it is the coffee that is causing it. If they filtered it, they would be fine. And boy that stick of butter is really what gives it that special flavor.
 
oh it should be noted my crazy genetic mutant neighbor uses a french press for his endless coffee (between endless beers).

He smokes heavily ( as in I've never seen hiim without a cigarette). He likes to cut his grass with a beer in one hand and a cigarette in the other. He steers with his knees (a riding lawn mower). His weight has to be about 285 or higher (my husband laughed and said "320! Has to be")

His diet is meat, eggs and dairy.

His cholesterol is so LOW. His blood pressure is so low he has to take medication to make it higher (he would faint). His parents are both HUGE and smoke and drink like demons, and are still alive in their 80's.

If you luck out in the genetic gene pool, you can pretty muchh get away with anything.
 
The SkepDoc said:
They boil it. Boiling was once a common method in the US. See the recipe from Fannie Farmer's cookbook at http://www.bartleby.com/87/r0008.html

I bet cowboy coffee was even worse: the recipe was to put a lot of coffee in with a little river water, boil the hell out of it, and pitch in a horseshoe: if the horseshoe sinks, add more coffee. :)
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Sorry, I got to "Fannie Farmer" and couldn't stop giggling...
 
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