Coffee Thread

rsvmark

After getting fed up with pods, and the environmental impact, I am thinking about a Sage Oracle jet or similar. While it’s not fully diving down the rabbit hole, there is decent coffee to be had

FX_Munkee

I like coffee. I dislike fannying around trying to make good coffee. I don't need another hobby. I bought a DeLonghi bean to cup machine many years ago. The coffee is acceptable, occasionally good if I try harder.

NorthernStomps said:

In Italy, instant coffee is called 'sporco', which means dirty.

Let's have no more discussion of it.

No really, I think this needs to be discussed more...

RaymondLin

How deep a rabbit hole do you want to go?

I guess if OP started this thread he is into it more than instant.

I still drink instant at work from time to time but I also roast my own beans.

manicguitarist

This is surprisingly good.
1.5 desert spoons per mug sized serving in a cafetière .
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Amazon-Brand-Decaffeinated-Ground-Decaffeinato/dp/B07CTPCL9H/

Col_Decker

My favourite coffee gizmo is one of those Coffee Needle distributor thingys. I mean come on, you could just a fork or the handle of a tea spoon and get the same effect, but where's the fun in that? This one is just more organic and it plays like butter.

thecolourbox

Inspired by this thread, I decided to not have my traditional "first tea of the day" and instead make a moka pot + velvetiser double latte instead. The big mug was retrieved. I thought, I'm going to take on the world this morning.

However sadly my inbox is dead this morning so I'm just day dreaming about writing the book I dreamt about the other night as an antidote to that reform bloke who has my name and lost the Gorton election's book. (my book is about the sudden decline of Ribena from their recipe change in spring of 2018, you'd find it in the currant affairs section)

NickBotfield

Sporky said:

I used to have a 6-cup moka pot every morning. With two sugars and condensed milk. Then I found out that most of my travel anxiety was actually caffeine overload.

Now I have a hot chocolate instead. 

Fucking hell!  How long did it take for you to cotton on?

froglord

I use an Armageddon Whiplash Zero/Zero grinder tuned to F# that guarantees perfect alignment of the coffee molecules with my shakras.

The ground coffee is then transferred using the oxygen-free method, via a hyperbaric chamber set at 4.7 bar.

The espresso machine is Krakatoa Mk4 by Leonardo Rialto & Sons (which, of course, requires your house to have three-phase mains and an activated carbon water filter).

Everything needs to be cleaned after each brew, but I've managed to get this down to 45 minutes.

The coffee beans are the Papua New Guinea single origin from Lunar Brew, so I know they have spent at least two weeks in zero gravity on the International Space Station.

The resulting espresso (really more of a ristretto) is the thickest and most intense I have ever encountered.

I serve the coffee with a single madeleine, which always gives me flashbacks.

Can anyone suggest a way to get the coffee out of the cup and into my mouth without diluting it?

Sporky

NickBotfield said:

Sporky said:

I used to have a 6-cup moka pot every morning. With two sugars and condensed milk. Then I found out that most of my travel anxiety was actually caffeine overload.

Now I have a hot chocolate instead. 

Fucking hell!  How long did it take for you to cotton on?

A bit too long!

Though I'd worked up to that level, but once the travel anxiety hit the caffeine was making it far worse. Dropping to hit chocolate meant I still didn't like trains (or, rather, all the people on them) but I didn't want to bite them and run away. 

thecolourbox

I have one of these, which is also supposedly a 6 espresso pot. It doesn't change my wish to avoid people whether i drink coffee from it or not though

https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/pezzetti-stove-top-epresso-maker-induction-6-cup

JerkMoans

IMHO, instant coffee is fit only for chopping into lines and snorting, to keep you going until you can score a cup of the decent stuff.

Dontgiveupyourdayjob

I use my trusty old small sized Bodum cafetiere and grind beans in a small grinder/chopper. Been tempted to get a nice coffee machine in the past, but given I'm the only person in the house who drinks coffee it seems a bit silly.

Given that I generally only make one cup at a time I've often thought about getting an Aeropress to replace the battered old cafetiere. All other things being equal,is there much noticeable difference in taste between an Aeropress cup and a cafetiere?

RaymondLin

Dontgiveupyourdayjob said:

I use my trusty old small sized Bodum cafetiere and grind beans in a small grinder/chopper. Been tempted to get a nice coffee machine in the past, but given I'm the only person in the house who drinks coffee it seems a bit silly.

Given that I generally only make one cup at a time I've often thought about getting an Aeropress to replace the battered old cafetiere. All other things being equal,is there much noticeable difference in taste between an Aeropress cup and a cafetiere?

cleaner cup, not bits at the bottom is the main thing and with that it gives a different mouth feel.

NickBotfield

RaymondLin said:

Dontgiveupyourdayjob said:

I use my trusty old small sized Bodum cafetiere and grind beans in a small grinder/chopper. Been tempted to get a nice coffee machine in the past, but given I'm the only person in the house who drinks coffee it seems a bit silly.

Given that I generally only make one cup at a time I've often thought about getting an Aeropress to replace the battered old cafetiere. All other things being equal,is there much noticeable difference in taste between an Aeropress cup and a cafetiere?

cleaner cup, not bits at the bottom is the main thing and with that it gives a different mouth feel.

Agreed.  Not much of a taste difference all things considered but you can tell in other ways.  There difference is less stark if you get a metal filter for the Aeropress as that leaves a bit more particulate in there which I quite like.

Littlejonny

Yes, coffee = life. 

Our local Waitrose has about half an aisle of coffee. I wish they sold it in small bags so you could try them out on a smaller scale. A bag of ground lasts me about a month.

im currently on their Brazilian one, which is supposed to be chocolatey and nutty but I think it’s just a bit bitter.

one of my faves is definitely good old Taylor’s of Harrogate!

Dontgiveupyourdayjob

NickBotfield said:

RaymondLin said:

Dontgiveupyourdayjob said:

I use my trusty old small sized Bodum cafetiere and grind beans in a small grinder/chopper. Been tempted to get a nice coffee machine in the past, but given I'm the only person in the house who drinks coffee it seems a bit silly.

Given that I generally only make one cup at a time I've often thought about getting an Aeropress to replace the battered old cafetiere. All other things being equal,is there much noticeable difference in taste between an Aeropress cup and a cafetiere?

cleaner cup, not bits at the bottom is the main thing and with that it gives a different mouth feel.

Agreed.  Not much of a taste difference all things considered but you can tell in other ways.  There difference is less stark if you get a metal filter for the Aeropress as that leaves a bit more particulate in there which I quite like.

Intersting. I would probably want to use a metal filter, as I don't like the wastefulness of disposable filters.

Does anyone know if the cheaper knock-off versions of the metal Aeropress filters are any good? Seen a few on Amazon that get decent reviews but significantly cheaper than the 'real' one. 

RaymondLin

Dontgiveupyourdayjob said:

NickBotfield said:

RaymondLin said:

Dontgiveupyourdayjob said:

I use my trusty old small sized Bodum cafetiere and grind beans in a small grinder/chopper. Been tempted to get a nice coffee machine in the past, but given I'm the only person in the house who drinks coffee it seems a bit silly.

Given that I generally only make one cup at a time I've often thought about getting an Aeropress to replace the battered old cafetiere. All other things being equal,is there much noticeable difference in taste between an Aeropress cup and a cafetiere?

cleaner cup, not bits at the bottom is the main thing and with that it gives a different mouth feel.

Agreed.  Not much of a taste difference all things considered but you can tell in other ways.  There difference is less stark if you get a metal filter for the Aeropress as that leaves a bit more particulate in there which I quite like.

Intersting. I would probably want to use a metal filter, as I don't like the wastefulness of disposable filters.

Does anyone know if the cheaper knock-off versions of the metal Aeropress filters are any good? Seen a few on Amazon that get decent reviews but significantly cheaper than the 'real' one. 

This is what I use.  The Superfine.  

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07BM52C76?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_4&th=1

digitalkettle

JerkMoans said:

IMHO, instant coffee is fit only for chopping into lines and snorting, to keep you going until you can score a cup of the decent stuff.

That's pretty much what happened to a jar of instant I had back in uni: maths student housemate was panicking over his finals and pulled a caffeine-assisted all-nighter for cramming...didn't have enough time to boil the kettle

NickBotfield

Dontgiveupyourdayjob said:

NickBotfield said:

RaymondLin said:

Dontgiveupyourdayjob said:

I use my trusty old small sized Bodum cafetiere and grind beans in a small grinder/chopper. Been tempted to get a nice coffee machine in the past, but given I'm the only person in the house who drinks coffee it seems a bit silly.

Given that I generally only make one cup at a time I've often thought about getting an Aeropress to replace the battered old cafetiere. All other things being equal,is there much noticeable difference in taste between an Aeropress cup and a cafetiere?

cleaner cup, not bits at the bottom is the main thing and with that it gives a different mouth feel.

Agreed.  Not much of a taste difference all things considered but you can tell in other ways.  There difference is less stark if you get a metal filter for the Aeropress as that leaves a bit more particulate in there which I quite like.

Intersting. I would probably want to use a metal filter, as I don't like the wastefulness of disposable filters.

Does anyone know if the cheaper knock-off versions of the metal Aeropress filters are any good? Seen a few on Amazon that get decent reviews but significantly cheaper than the 'real' one. 

This is the one I use.

Iamnobody

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