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When Consumer Reports magazine compared coffee from mega-chain Starbucks with java from three fast-food restaurants, the surprising winner was – McDonald’s.

The magazine had trained tasters sample a medium cup of black coffee from McDonald’s, Burger King, Dunkin’ Donuts and Starbucks, and found the best cup of joe under the golden arches.

McDonald’s coffee "beat the rest,” according to Consumer Reports. It was "decent and moderately strong. Although it lacked the subtle top notes needed to make it rise and shine, it had no flaws.”

Starbucks coffee is bitter, burnt, diarrhea-inducing trash.

Anybody that wants a good cup of coffee is welcome to drop by my house.

for the most part they are right on the money... They will slip up every now and then

McDonalds does have good coffee, but NOT better than Dunkin Donuts!!!

Excellent Coffee is easy. Buy Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee. You can get it for about $10-12/lb if you get it 10lbs at a time on eBay or about $20-25/lb at your local gourmet shop.

Yeah, that's expensive for Coffee but a pound of it makes 50 or so cups of coffee, right?

Screw paying $2-3 at Starbucks, you can brew the best Coffee money can buy all by yourself for 50c/cup max!

And, money aside, it's generally considered to be the finest Coffee on the planet.

I'll need an expert to confirm this, but it seems to me that percolated coffee tasted better than the drip kind.

Anybody have an opinion?

I'll need an expert to confirm this, but it seems to me that percolated coffee tasted better than the drip kind.

Anybody have an opinion?

The first thing I do after buying a new perculator is to take the guts out and throw them as far as I can. The best tasting coffee in the world is brewed in an enamel pot over a campfire on a remote fishing trip in Alaska. You dip the water out of the stream. You pour out the excess until it just reaches the holes near the spout. You add the coffee at the rate of one spoon/cup. Just about any brand of coffee will do. Put the pot on the fire until it boils up into the spout. Take it off the fire and pour about a half cup of cold water into the spout. Let the grounds settle for about a minute or so. Enjoy while picturing a twenty pound Rainbow trout on the end of your line in your mind! The city slickers among you are forever damned from this experience.

Starbucks burns their beans.

Jamaican Blue Mountain is hands-down the best coffee variety I've ever tasted.

The most interesting preparation method I've run into is for Turkish coffee. Uses a small pot custom made for the purpose. Heat water over a fire. Add two or three teaspoons of sugar. Grind beans of your choice into the finest powder you can manage. Stir 5 or so teaspoons of coffee powder into the water. Let it come to a boil and immediately remove it from the fire until the oily, creamy head settles back down. Repeat until you no longer get a head. Remove from fire, let powder grounds settle for a couple of minutes, pour into itty bitty cups, sip, and praise Allah.