Foo - The Inadequacy of Coffee Stirrers

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Why are coffee stirrers designed so short and flimsy?

In a normal cup you can barely reach the bottom without dipping your fingers in hot coffee. In a larger cup like a mug they don't work at all.

Why can't they make them a little stiffer so that you can stir and feel like your actually moving the coffee around instead of the just watching the stirrer bend?
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For those who are just going to come in and say "drink your coffee black".....I was making coffee in a steep cup and just trying to stir the grounds around in the water better.

But you were going to put milk & sugar in it, weren't you? :)

Use a spork! Do I have to tell you everything? :rolleyes:

Harden up KT. Use a finger you girly man.

Well, before you ruined it with an explanation, I was going to say put the cream and sugar in first. No need to stir.

For those who are just going to come in and say "drink your coffee black".....I was making coffee in a steep cup and just trying to stir the grounds around in the water better.

I use a french press every day. I have a few chopsticks shamelessly stolen from the pseudo-americanized-pan-asian place across the street. they make excellent devices for stirring the brew.

Well, before you ruined it with an explanation, I was going to say put the cream and sugar in first. No need to stir.

I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.

Step 1: Put cream or milk or 1/2 & 1/2 into desired coffee mug.

Step 2: Pour in coffee

Step 3: Enjoy beverage.

No need for a stirring stick. They are a waste.

Reading is a virtue Cylowe. just sayin.

Reading is a virtue Cylowe. just sayin.

Reading is simple, comprehension, well, that's another story. :)

excellent point

I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.

Hey.... I don't do cream or sugar.....

Reading is a virtue Cylowe. just sayin.

Why would I read the epilogue to his post? The rant had ended as indicated by the </rant>

Hey.... I don't do cream or sugar.....

Yeah? Well, then hows come you know about that kind of stuff then?

You're not one of those interlopers, are you? :eek:

I use a french press every day. I have a few chopsticks shamelessly stolen from the pseudo-americanized-pan-asian place across the street. they make excellent devices for stirring the brew.

That's my method too and I usually take it with me into the break room where the hot water is. I had just forgot it today.

do ya'll eat your pot stickers with coffee stirrers?

Were you like this about coffee before you got to Seattle, KT?

Were you like this about coffee before you got to Seattle, KT?

Yes...the hope of good coffee was part of the draw. :D

Before this gets too out of control, here's something to balance the conversation that truly does need to be stirred....

http://www.foodservicedirect.com/productimages/sankaInss.jpg

MwwHAAAAHHHAAAAAAA!!!! Your coffee thread has been sullied by Sanka!!!!

Ewwwwwwww!!!!!!!!


http://www.billtowne.com/Images/Quarters/Horse-Yuck-copy.jpg

I did some hard time at Maxwell House.

Yeah. Almost as scary and annoying as the ubiquitous coffee commercial these days, "I keep about A MILLION pounds of Dunkin' Donuts coffee on hand during the holidays!"

http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/75310631.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=17A4AD9FDB9CF193550E821156FDE6120A34D4B78B8D79B0284831B75F48EF45

I need to find some Intelligentia....

Switch to sweet morning nectar

http://mellonheadphoto.smugmug.com/photos/30638110-M.jpg

My suggestion is:

Because most people know how much sugar and dry creamer they take in their coffee, only fill the cup half way when adding the sugar and dry creamer. These are the item that are the hardest to mix and dissolved. Then use two or three stirrers if the plastic type and if using the wooden type use only one. After the sugar and what ever else is dissolved top it off. If you’re like me and don’t use dry creamer’s then poor in the cream or milk and one quick swizzle. You’re ready to drink. There you go. :D

Coffee stirrers work perfectly fine in my Folgers. Just sayin...

KT, you might want to edit your OP and bold the 4th line.

Good lord. Drink it black, the way God intended.

One of the advantages of working in a hospital is that we have access to boxes of tongue depressors. Long and hard, just the way i like my coffee stirrers. ;)

One of the advantages of working in a hospital is that we have access to boxes of tongue depressors. Long and hard, just the way i like my coffee stirrers. ;)

Unfortunately I work in a recycling plant for ****** nozzles..

KT, you might want to edit your OP and bold the 4th line.

Done. People apparently can't be bothered to read past the first line or two. *I* never do that.

Coffee stirrers work perfectly fine in my Folgers. Just sayin...

Touchè T-Man. :p

What is a steep cup, anyway?

For those who are just going to come in and say "drink your coffee black".....I was making coffee in a steep cup and just trying to stir the grounds around in the water better.

This sounds unappealing.

What is a steep cup, anyway?

If you have to ask, you can't afford it.

Unfortunately I work in a recycling plant for ****** nozzles..

That explains a lot. :)

If you have to ask, you can't afford it.

Oh, I don't want to afford it. I'm happy making my cheap ass Folgers in my cheap ass Mr. Coffee. :p

What is a steep cup, anyway?


This sounds unappealing.


It makes a much better cup of coffee than drip. It's essentially a small (16 oz) cup that effectively does the same thing a french press does.

It's designed for tea, but can be used for coffee just as well.
http://www.teavana.com/Teavana+Perfect+Tea+Maker+16+oz/cid=56/page_no=1/edp_no=3970/shop.axd/ProductDetails
http://www.teavana.com/images/catalog/268-191/53619.jpg

It has a cup with a mesh wire filter on the bottom. There is kind of a "press plate" on the bottom of the cup that lets the liquid drain through filter and out the bottom of the cup. So you steep the coffee and water for a few minutes and then set it on top of your mug (activating the press plate) so it drains into your mug.

Ewwwwwwww!!!!!!!!


http://www.billtowne.com/Images/Quarters/Horse-Yuck-copy.jpg

Stacey..you need to come clean up my monitor and keyboard now since you posted that. :p

Okay, be there in a minute or two. Just gotta put my shoes on.

Yeah. Almost as scary and annoying as the ubiquitous coffee commercial these days, "I keep about A MILLION pounds of Dunkin' Donuts coffee on hand during the holidays!"

http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/75310631.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=17A4AD9FDB9CF193550E821156FDE6120A34D4B78B8D79B0284831B75F48EF45

I need to find some Intelligentia....


Completely off-topic but what's the deal with DD coffee? The DD they put out here went out of business quickly. I try their coffee every time I go East and I don't get it... I keep thinking it's going to taste great like everyone I know east of the Mississippi reports, but it tastes like the interior cardboard of a Cracker Jack box (ass basically).

Back on-topic: As for the stirrer. I think the wooden ones are a tad more useful than the completely useless plastic straw ones. But they don't work well enough for me to add cream and sugar. I've given up hope on any solution to this problem during my lifetime so I just went to black. I drink it black at home too so I won't be distraught when I go to a coffee shop. :p

Completely off-topic but what's the deal with DD coffee? The DD they put out here went out of business quickly. I try their coffee every time I go East and I don't get it... I keep thinking it's going to taste great like everyone I know east of the Mississippi reports, but it tastes like the interior cardboard of a Cracker Jack box (ass basically).

Back on-topic: As for the stirrer. I think the wooden ones are a tad more useful than the completely useless plastic straw ones. But they don't work well enough for me to add cream and sugar. I've given up hope on any solution to this problem during my lifetime so I just went to black. I drink it black at home too so I won't be distraught when I go to a coffee shop. :p

heh! Not all of us east coasters like DD coffee ya know! Some of us actually have some taste. But their eclairs are pretty good.

I use a french press every day. I have a few chopsticks shamelessly stolen from the pseudo-americanized-pan-asian place across the street. they make excellent devices for stirring the brew.

I was about to suggest this very thing. The plastic stirrers get thrown away, so why not make them out of wood? I would replace the coffee stirrers with the little bamboo skewers without the points.

Completely off-topic but what's the deal with DD coffee? The DD they put out here went out of business quickly. I try their coffee every time I go East and I don't get it... I keep thinking it's going to taste great like everyone I know east of the Mississippi reports, but it tastes like the interior cardboard of a Cracker Jack box (ass basically).

Back on-topic: As for the stirrer. I think the wooden ones are a tad more useful than the completely useless plastic straw ones. But they don't work well enough for me to add cream and sugar. I've given up hope on any solution to this problem during my lifetime so I just went to black. I drink it black at home too so I won't be distraught when I go to a coffee shop. :p
I'd heard for years how great DD coffee was. I finally tried it and wasn't sure what the fuss was about. I liked Mcdonalds coffee better than DD. I tried again in case it was a bad cup....same thing.

BK Turbo rocks it for me. :)


And a triple Stacker w/ extra sauce. :D

BK Turbo rocks it for me. :)


And a triple Stacker w/ extra sauce. :D

I said I liked their coffee.....that doesn't mean I'll get anywhere near their food. Yuck! Eewwwww.

OT, but that shrew Rachel Ray has gotten *thick* lately.

Hasn't she just!?!?

OT, but that shrew Rachel Ray has gotten *thick* lately.

She makes comfort food for a living. Think about it.



Never trust a skinny chef or cook.