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    Default Make your own iced coffee the best way

    You guys are getting ripped off buying fancy iced coffee drinks. Starbucks is way overpriced, not real iced coffee, and the coffee is bad to boot. Make your own coffee syrup with a Toddy Maker. I use one bag of ground coffee, fill with cold water, let sit overnight, then drain through the filter and repeat all the above. You have thicker coffee syrup without all the acids and crappy additives from Starbucks. You get about one gallon for the $11 bag of real coffee, mix it about half and half with whole milk, and a dash of water over ice....you will be hooked in 30 minutes. Rinse out the filter and put machine away for a couple of weeks till the fix is needed again. Most coffee shops server cold crappy coffee and call it iced. Not the read deal. You know it is real when 6 oz with milk and water gets you shaking a bit. I judge the mixture by the shakes.

    http://www.amazon.com/Toddy-Coffee-M...y+coffee+maker

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    Quote Originally Posted by rotab View Post
    You guys are getting ripped off buying fancy iced coffee drinks. Starbucks is way overpriced, not real iced coffee, and the coffee is bad to boot. Make your own coffee syrup with a Toddy Maker. I use one bag of ground coffee, fill with cold water, let sit overnight, then drain through the filter and repeat all the above. You have thicker coffee syrup without all the acids and crappy additives from Starbucks. You get about one gallon for the $11 bag of real coffee, mix it about half and half with whole milk, and a dash of water over ice....you will be hooked in 30 minutes. Rinse out the filter and put machine away for a couple of weeks till the fix is needed again. Most coffee shops server cold crappy coffee and call it iced. Not the read deal. You know it is real when 6 oz with milk and water gets you shaking a bit. I judge the mixture by the shakes.

    http://www.amazon.com/Toddy-Coffee-M...y+coffee+maker
    Hey so if you let it sit in cold water than filter, wouldn't any filter work? I am not wanting to spend the $$ if I can do the same with a filter.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rotab View Post
    You guys are getting ripped off buying fancy iced coffee drinks. Starbucks is way overpriced, not real iced coffee, and the coffee is bad to boot. Make your own coffee syrup with a Toddy Maker. I use one bag of ground coffee, fill with cold water, let sit overnight, then drain through the filter and repeat all the above. You have thicker coffee syrup without all the acids and crappy additives from Starbucks. You get about one gallon for the $11 bag of real coffee, mix it about half and half with whole milk, and a dash of water over ice....you will be hooked in 30 minutes. Rinse out the filter and put machine away for a couple of weeks till the fix is needed again. Most coffee shops server cold crappy coffee and call it iced. Not the read deal. You know it is real when 6 oz with milk and water gets you shaking a bit. I judge the mixture by the shakes.

    http://www.amazon.com/Toddy-Coffee-M...y+coffee+maker
    Hmmm. I just brew regular old coffee (whatever we find at the discount dented can store) and throw it in the fridge. I brew it pretty strong. Haven't actually figured the math, but gotta be cents per cup. I don't notice anything better with the occasional Starbucks (I don't buy them, pharm reps bring them to me sometimes), but I'm just a cheap old caveman.

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    I bet there are more Starbucks addicts on here than care to admit.
    Triple Venti Mocha please

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sparky View Post
    I bet there are more Starbucks addicts on here than care to admit.
    Triple Venti Mocha please
    O I used to do "Iced vente vanilla latte's" 400 cals a pop! No way jose anymore!

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