No wonder we have an obesity problem in this country, no where else in Europe do you get a pint of coffee. I always order a Cortado because it’s a sensible sized cup of coffee. Not a bucket full.
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No wonder we have an obesity problem in this country, no where else in Europe do you get a pint of coffee. I always order a Cortado because it’s a sensible sized cup of coffee. Not a bucket full.
Get a grip, it's not even a full pint of milk due to the steam. It's like 3/4 pint.
It's not many more calories than a can of pop. Less if semi skimmed is used.
I don’t drink cans of pop
Happy for you. You don't drink large lattes either. Your point is?
The popularity of a large coffee is hardly the cause of the obesity crisis.
Doesn’t help though, some of the sugary rubbish Costa sell, they should be ashamed of themselves.
Rusty Nails
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It's not just a coffee in Costa... it's a coffee flavoured drink with the syrup/chocolate/cinnamon/foam cream/marshmallow that people slap on it to "enhance" its flavour.
My sage machine tells me when it needs cleaning once in a while which I think is to stop it furring up like a kettle. If you have ever had a cup of tea from a kettle full of lime you would appreciate that you wouldn’t want that happening in your coffee machine.
At our previous house the coffee machine sat on the kitchen worktop underneath the cupboards. Which had lights underneath, this seemed to create a situation in the water tank similar to a tropic fish tank. I.e. it started developing green fungus.😱
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Ex barista here.
Yes, the coffee machine heads, gaskets and filters must be cleaned every day at end of service.
Methods vary according to the machine: chemicals must be back flashed into the filters and the water dispensing pipes, but never into the milk wand.
The system must then be back flashed with clean water a few times, accessories also rinsed.
On multi dispensing machines his is called "taking a head off".
Next day, before service, a couple of coffee shots from each head must be wasted in case of lingering aftertaste from the chemical.
Depends what kind of machine you have got, some home appliances do not need their internals cleaned, especially if you have soft water.
Rusty Nails
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Thanks for the info. My two coffee machines over the years (or three if you count the one I bought a couple of monthsa ago) have only been around the £100 mark so nothing special. I must have been lucky, and I know we are a soft water area and never have trouble with kettle elements furring up.
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theyll be prone to the same wild yeast/bacteria infections as pipes/lines in a pub, albeit exposed to boiling water alot probably help keeps them more in check, but Id say for any commercial operation yes you should absolutely clean everything you can to keep it going well daily.
For home, well thats a choice really, mine flashes a light at me when to do it and I pop a tablet in the water press a button and it does its "cleaning" routine, and thats it, I dont spend hours of my time cleaning it.
if people choose to add those things, thats entirely their choice imo, I cant stand oat milk but people seem to drink it, and like it.
and whats wrong with drinka pinta milka day
mjr
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Costa has been owned by Coca-Cola since 2019, who have plenty of prior experience in profitting from putting abysmal drinks everywhere. Previously owned since 1995 by Whitbread pubs/hotels, a less successful but still very profitable spreader of poor drinks (with the brewing mostly sold to InBev in 2001). Quality not needed, you see?
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
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- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Are you sure? Costa is now in 38 countries, many European, and I'm sure will generally sell massive coffees there too, if there's no law stopping them.
Tim Hortons is (was?) also in Spain (as well as the UK and its native Canada) and sells even sweeter massive coffees, as well as a more Spanish-sized menu.
DCLane
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It's also currently up for sale: https://pe-insights.com/competition-brews-in-2bn-costa-coffee-sale-as-bain-capital-places-bid/