Having spent 2 years in Naples, I developed a taste for good coffee. So, my Christmas present was one of these beauties linked to a gaggia burr grinder. http://www.coffeeitalia.co.uk/proddetail.php?prod=H-P I used to enjoy a trip to the local coffee shop - but I now find I can produce better coffee at home.
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TonyEnjoyD
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Sounds like the perfect LatteNooooo!
Get a coffee grinder and grind beans so that you are drinking the freshest coffee with no loss of the volatiles. The next bit is simply to pass boiling water through the ground coffee as slowly as possible, for which one of these does a perfect job:
Boil up half a mug of milk, mix and enjoy. Simples.
ushills
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Wait till you start getting disappointed with the coffee you get in coffee shops.
Today I was almost tempted to take over control of the machine the Barrista was using. Coffee too short, milk overheated and a crap cappucino.
I can always make better at home and relish the days when I can find someone who does one as good. It now becomes a conversation with good Barristas and they get thanked like a good chef.
Today I was almost tempted to take over control of the machine the Barrista was using. Coffee too short, milk overheated and a crap cappucino.
I can always make better at home and relish the days when I can find someone who does one as good. It now becomes a conversation with good Barristas and they get thanked like a good chef.
Fab Foodie
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That's the jobbie, Coffee Hit are good suppliers.
Well, this is the one I ordered and the plan was to use it at work so I don't have to drink the vile tar that stews in the shared filter jug all day. It's only got 350 filters included after all...
Use the Hasbeans methodology and espresso fine ground coffee and you'll have a fun time!
lordloveaduck
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Your all barbarians. 4tsp of Nescafe and half a cup of hot water.....it's like heaven dancing in your mouth.
I don't want to appear one of those people who come on to a thread to state how much they hate the subject but may I put forward something about coffee drinking from a different perspective? Me, I've never drank coffee and can't understand the rigmarole around it. I discovered quite by chance that I am caffeine intolerant and even trace amounts will trigger the full aura-based migraines so I can't even enter a coffee shop or I'll come out with a migraine in the post. So it mystifies me how there is a whole litany of coffee-adulation surrounding this stuff. It amazes me to see people think they need coffee to wake them up or jolt them out of a stupor. Is this real or an affectation people think makes them somehow 'cool'? If it's true that it does 'wake people up', how is it that they can drink coffee at night and still drop off to sleep normally? Would I be wrong to declare coffee illegal in my kingdom?
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- Essex
Thought the taste of instant was horrible and with the coffee machine,loads of varieties of coffee but if you left it a little while in the jug it would get stewed.
Then we bought the sensoe about five years and imo it makes great coffee.
I never use milk only coffeemate and it come up nice and frothy.
I get my pods from lidl,nice flavours,brazilian,columbian and kenyan.
Fab Foodie
hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
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- Kirton, Devon.
One could say much the same about the adulation of bicycles, beer, art whatever ....
Sorry you can't experience the real-thing, but a decent coffee like a decent ale is worth the effort compared over Nescafe instant or keg John Smiths/Stella for example. It need be no more rigmarole to make a decent coffee than it is to make a decent cuppa in a tea pot. But, at the end of the day you either like the stuff or you don't and (if you do like it) I'd hope you'd recognise the differences in qualities, but if (like Mrs FF) instant floats your boat, that's OK too.
On the effects of caffiene, there's no doubt it gives you a jolt awake, but it depends on context. Certainly different Teas/coffees have differeing amounts of caffiene, and the more we have the greater our reaction to it, much like other drugs and stimulants. The first coffee of the day has a notable hit, successive ones less effect. If you suddenly stop taking caffiene you do get withdrawal syptoms too, usually headaces and cravings. Audaxers often forgo Caffiene products the weeks before a really long ride so that the effect of a coffeee in the middle of the night is a very significant hit.
But if one drinks a lot of coffee during the day, then a late night coffee has minimal effect. I often have strong coffee or tea and rarely suffer insomnia because of it (though occasionally it does happen if it's the only coffee I've had since brekkie). Other factors also come into play though, I have sweet tea/coffee and the soporific sugar rush probably negates any caffiene effect.
Any how, IMO, good coffee like good beer, wine, sex, food, music and art are worth savouring!
hoopdriver
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- East Sussex
I've got quite a collection of offee making things, from cafetieres to Turkish ibriks. While I love Turkish coffee I seldom go to all the trouble, partly because I often just want a quick fix and partly because Mrs Hoopdriver doesn't like it. So very often it is the cafetiere. We both like Ethiopian coffee beans and in fact Sainsbury's finest Ethiopian Sidamo is a favourite. I like Yemen coffee beans - ground at home - when I can find them but that is really ard. There was a specialist coffee shop n London that used to stock Yemen Matari but they tell me they can't get it any more.
wilko
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Same as that.
