How best to make coffee? (Tassimo content)

[potsy]

Never have, never will! You soon get used to the free ones

Cheapskate!!

 

[MichaelW2]

For a short while, i worked as a data techie in a Soho movie special effects studio. We has runners to fetch and carry and make us any kind of coffee. It was too cool for school and for me.

 

[KneesUp]

For a short while, i worked as a data techie in a Soho movie special effects studio. We has runners to fetch and carry and make us any kind of coffee. It was too cool for school and for me.

A solution - go and work in Soho

 

[I like Skol]

I love it! My comments drive you to take a picture and post it on the thread to disprove my points. I can almost feel the indignation from here

I also love the fact that you have cyclechat up on a second screen in the background behind your work computer. That barcode scanner looks familiar, I don't work with you do I?

 

[I like Skol]

Here's a little game for you, can it read this;

 

[nickyboy]

If you want something to stay at an acceptable temperature for longer you have to get the things you use as hot as possible and then minimise the rate of heat loss

So it's a combination of @Cubist advice to heat stuff up...the cup, the milk, anything.....and then @jefmcg advice to use a thermal mug to reduce the rate of heat loss

I have a Dolce Gusto every morning and I always pour freshly boiled water into the cup first to get the cup as hot as possible

 

[Cycleops]

Forget about those hipster tacky tassi machines the only way to make decent coffee is in one of these:

 

[jefmcg]

Forget about those hipster tacky tassi machines the only way to make decent coffee is in one of these:
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Please tell me that is tea in the photo. If not, that is a terrible pot of coffee.

Oh, and hipsters do not use Tassimos. They use (at the least) Gaggias.

(edited for spelling)

 

[Chromatic]

How best to make coffee??

This:

 

[Cubist]

Please tell me that is tea in the photo. If not, that is a terrible pot of coffee.

Oh, and hipsters do not use Tassios. They use (at the least) Gaggias.

It's about the grind too, so an iberital doser as a minimum standard.

 

[KneesUp]

Here's a little game for you, can it read this;

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[Yellow Saddle]

Here may be the root of the problem. If you mess around with small, designer coffee cups then the temperature soon falls off. A proper mug will hold enough heat to allow the brew to be fully enjoyed over a decent period of minutes.

One of these...
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NOT one of these...
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Harsh, Moi?

No no no. It is all about heat capacity, not heat retention or shunning of tradition. Heat retention is moot because the heat escapes most from the top, which cannot be stopped unless you put your coffee in a sippy cup.

The heat capacity of a large mug is far to high and will sap half the coffee's temperature within seconds. Of course, if you do as @Cubist suggests, then heat capacity works in your favour. But then you have to heat the cups before making coffee. Also, in that case, the latter designer cup will work better because it has thick walls and a very high heat capacity and small surface area. Also, The Tassimo type machines only brew about 70ml at most, so a large cup is an extra burden on the little bit of heat contained in that volume of water.

C'mon guys, coffee is religion, stop messing around.

 

[Yellow Saddle]

Please tell me that is tea in the photo. If not, that is a terrible pot of coffee.

Oh, and hipsters do not use Tassios. They use (at the least) Gaggias.

Organic apricot tea, I think. Gluten free too.

 

[KneesUp]

I have considered all of the advice I have been offered and can confirm that I am now heating a stone font in the oven.

In a few hours I will fill it with coffee, and then replace the lid.

The question is - milk in before the coffee or after?

 

[bruce1530]

The question is - milk in before the coffee or after?

Doesn’t actually matter - but it’s got to be unpasteurised yak’s milk..