Are You A Pre-Pour Or Post-Pour Person

You ever discover a tiny daily habit you thought was universal and then realize you might be the odd one? That’s where we start today, with coffee. I’m making my cup the way I always do, sugar packets first, then the pour, and someone beside me says she does it the opposite way. That one comment opens up a surprisingly fun question: does coffee taste different when you add condiments before pouring versus after, or are we just loyal to our own routine?

We talk through the two main coffee preparation styles: pre-pour prep (sweetener first, maybe cream) and post-pour mixing (coffee first, then sugar, then stir). We get into why the hot pour can help dissolve sugar faster, how stirring changes the experience, and how the same idea applies to tea with lemon, honey, or mix packets. If you like simple kitchen experiments, you’ll leave with an easy taste test to try tomorrow and a great conversation starter for your next family get-together.

Then we shift into real life beyond the mug: summer break is around the corner, I’m starting a new job, and that familiar double-edged sword shows up fast. I want to be reliable at work, but I’m a mom first, and I want to actually join the fun, not just sit on the sidelines working. We also touch on goals for the summer, from keeping skills fresh with a page-a-day workbook plan to checking in on vision boards and what we’ve already accomplished.

If this made you think about your own routines, subscribe, share the episode, and leave a review. And tell us, are you a condiments-first person or a pour-first person, and what made you do it that way?

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Transcript

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Hey guys, welcome back to Coffee with a Twist. You're here with Madame Balou. Hope you all had a nice long weekend and looking forward to your week. Hopefully, it will go nice and fast with having Monday off. I am drinking my coffee, which is what made me get on here. I won't be on here long. I just thought this was kind of funny and I never thought about it. Sorry, my throat still I told you guys last time how I was like fighting a cough and sore throat. It's much better. But sometimes in the morning, um, I don't know, my throat is still like scratchy, so I'm getting acclimated. Um, so I'm doing this episode before I get into work, but it'll be quick. But I just thought it was kind of funny, and this is this truly happened to me. And um so we were at a hotel recently, and there are people making their coffee, and I was making my coffee, and I, you know, for me, the way I do my coffee, which I thought everyone did their coffee this way, but I learned that they do not. I prep my coffee first, so I put all my condiments in beforehand, especially the sugar. I can wait on the half and half, but the sugar, my three packets, I typically put that at the bottom. Sometimes I put the cream in as well, sometimes I wait after I pour. So the lady next to me, she was like, Oh, so you prep your coffee before you pour your coffee. And I'm like, Yeah, doesn't everyone do that? She's like, No, I pour my coffee, then I put my condiments in it. And I'm like, really? But she's like, but I can get why you prep it first, because when you pour the hot, you know, coffee into the cup, it makes it like move around to really get in there. And I'm like, yeah, that's kind of how I thought everyone does it. So it was hilarious to me. So said let me do this quick episode because I'm curious, how do you make your coffee or even your tea, anything that's like that takes condiments in it? How do you prepare it? Do you put the condiments first or the mix packet or lemon juice? Um, you know, how do you how do you do it? Or do you pour, then prepare it? I was like, I don't like preparing it after it. It tastes different to me. So I thought that was freaking hilarious because this whole time I thought people were preparing it the same way. There's ants. I hate, shouldn't say I hate ants. I don't hate ants. They're just annoying and they're just everywhere. I'm in my office and they're just I'm like, so it's you know, no food, no nothing. It's just they're just here, but whatever. But yeah, so think about this, and you know, maybe this weekend or something when you're with family or friends, ask them how do they make their coffee and why, or their hot tea and why, or whatever it is, and then ask yourself why do you do it the way you do it, and maybe test yourself and try it. If you are a person who put your condiments in first, then pour your coffee, try it the other way. Pour your coffee, then put your condiments in and see if it tastes different, and vice versa. If you're a person who normally pours your coffee, did I say that? Pour yep, pours your coffee, puts the stuff in, then you try it the other way of putting everything in first, then pouring your coffee, steered, what have you, and see if you if it's different to you. To me, because I tried it, it tastes different to me if I put the condiments in after pouring. So that's just me. I thought it was a good

Morning Check In And Quick Story

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quick little five-minute conversation to have with you guys, a quick little topic that you can share and do a little tally and see who makes their coffee, tea, what have you, how they make it, and then maybe find out the why they make it that way. Like, what made you make it that way? Is that the way you taught were taught, and you just kept it? Do you do it for convenience? Sometimes you're in a rush, so it's like, all right, let me just pour my coffee. Um, I got my condiments back at the desk, or you know what I mean? I'll just take those with me and put them in later, you know. So it maybe just depends on the situation, too. Or some people don't care either way, they just never even thought about it. So I thought this would be kind of cool to discuss amongst friends and family just to see, and feel free to fan mail me their input um and like what you found. I think that would be awesome, really, really awesome. So, yes, that's all really I had to say today. Um, my son only has uh today and tomorrow left

Sugar First Or After The Pour

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of school. So summer break is about to start. So uh it's gonna be a little busy, it's gonna be a little bit of a different schedule, but it's okay. I mean, he's pretty self-reliant. Um, you know, this is when that mom guilt kind of comes in, you know. Um, I started working a new job, and you know, you wanna be able to perform at work, especially with it being new, you want them to know that you're reliable and stuff, but you also at summer break and want to make sure that your child, you know, is having fun and get to enjoy their break as well. So it's one of those double-edged swords, you know. If it's a job I've been on a while, you can they know your work ethic and things like that. So if you took some time off and you know, all the things, you know, it's different. So trying to balance that, and I will balance it. Um, we do have, and luckily I can kind of work from wherever, and luckily as well, like the way we have our house set up and the way we've been doing our house, you know, he'll get to have some fun out in the backyard on the deck, um, bouncy houses and different things like that. So I have made a way for him to be able to have some fun, but I want to be able to join in the fun with him, you know what I mean? I want to be present there with him, not just sitting on the sidelines working. So um, I'm definitely gonna make sure I take some breaks and things like that. I took a little bit of time off that I had told them about even during the interview, so that's coming up, but um, yeah, so summer's coming, and um the weekends will be packed because I'll be trying to make up for the whole week with him, you know, during that time, and you know, of course, when I get off. So I'm sure other parents are potentially, you know, going through the same thing, you know, or have that same uh experience

Run The Taste Test With Friends

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going on. But it's alright, you know, it it it it works. Um, I'm thankful to have a job, uh, especially in this job market. So, you know, you want to really make sure things work out. But I'm a mom first. Um, that's I'm you know, I told them that. So, you know, if it gets too hectic, you do what you gotta do, but I think it will be fine. I don't think it will come to where, you know. He's seven, you know, he he's able to have fun and you know, have have cousins and things like that over to entertain and stuff. So it should be a really good summer. I'm looking forward to it. Um, not looking forward to him going into second grade, just like guy, where where did the time go? So I'm really hoping um this summer, fingers crossed, um, that I can get him to work on a couple of workbooks, like just a page a day. Um, I would be happy um to help keep skills and things up, handwriting, spelling, and all of that. So that is my prayer. Pray for that for me, guys, because when he's home, he does not like to do any learning with us, like none. He does not want to do any learning with us, and that's a challenge because it's like I have so much to teach you and offer you, but he doesn't want it, so yeah. But, anyways, um yeah, it's just uh hopefully I can at least accomplish that. I've um when I did my vision board, he did one too, and I if I thought about it, I should have put on his vision board, you know, work with mommy and daddy's um with schoolwork, but um most of everything on his vision board I think is completed already, so I think that's kind of cool. I'm gonna double back at mine and see where mine is at and um see what goals I might have put on there for him and see what we've uh accomplished and worked towards. But yeah, we had some on there, and um he's uh accomplished, I think, everything on his list. So I'm really excited, but anyways, uh go ask about coffee and teas and how people prepare it. Hope you're enjoying your week thus thus far and looking

New Job Summer Break Mom Guilt

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forward to the weekend. I'm gonna end it here. Thanks for joining, Madam Belou, Coffee with a Twist.