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Just to piss off the coffee purists
teedubbya Offline
#1 Posted:
Joined: 08-14-2003
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I went through my phase of roasting beans, modifying coffee brewers to make them hotter etc, gaggia espresso machines, aeropress, various burr grinders etc.

When I was in Lisbon, the apartment we rented had a Nespresso machine. I drank reasonably decent espresso morning noon and night and didn’t have to focus on it.

I just bought one and am moving my other stuff to the basement. I may even start calling it expresso.

Eff it.
MACS Offline
#2 Posted:
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Never had it. If it passes the taste test, I would buy it.

My wife likes the instant coffee from Sam's club. I like the aeropress because it tastes better (to me) than drip brewed.

*shrug*
teedubbya Offline
#3 Posted:
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I’m prolly just getting lazy but I like it and it’s zero effort. It’s not gaggia good but zero muss zero fuss.

Never thought that could happen lol.
teedubbya Offline
#4 Posted:
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Oh and it wasn’t as good as the espresso we had out and about in Europe.

But it’s pretty good actually.
tailgater Offline
#5 Posted:
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Very interesting.

teedubbya Offline
#6 Posted:
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Certainly better than Starbucks but that’s not really my benchmark
Thunder.Gerbil Offline
#7 Posted:
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teedubbya wrote:
I may even start calling it expresso.




That's good, because expresso is a fast moving train while espresso is coffee.

frankj1 Offline
#8 Posted:
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no purists are pissed yet.
Mattie B Offline
#9 Posted:
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Frank....get ready to freak


I’m a Kcup Guy

The wife likes a light roast and flavors. Darker the better for me
delta1 Offline
#10 Posted:
Joined: 11-23-2011
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This may piss a purist...

I still use a Braun coffee grinder we got as a wedding gift 37 years ago. The Krups 10 cup brewer is about 15 years old...both work fine and I am happy with the coffee they produce every morning with little fuss and muss. I usually buy 2 - 3 lbs of beans and store them in an airtight container once the bag is opened, and grind enough beans to make my daily 16 oz for about 2 weeks. I store the ground coffee in a smaller airtight container.
teedubbya Offline
#11 Posted:
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Freak
burnem2 Offline
#12 Posted:
Joined: 12-23-2009
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Iced Vietnamese coffee is the kick I'm currently on in the afternoons! Good stuff but takes several minutes to make. Grind my own coffee for the morning and just put it through a drip maker.
Gene363 Online
#13 Posted:
Joined: 01-24-2003
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I do roast my own coffee and use a pretty nice coffee maker. I drink it hot and black. I know what coffee I like, but don't tell other people what to drink, it's their taste and their time and effort. I don't complain or comment about what friends like or serve though I may add cream and sugar if it's particularly vile.

I have had several folks ask me to roast coffee for them. I always decline but offer to show them how to roast, but so far only a couple of takers.
dstieger Offline
#14 Posted:
Joined: 06-22-2007
Posts: 10,889
Four scoops of generic Columbian and two scoops of Folgers vanilla....gourmet dripped through a $14 Black and Decker 12 cup....I drink a pot every day by noon....

I woulda been satisfied with freeze-dried Tasters Choice....You spring this gourmet ****' **** on us. What flavor.....
frankj1 Offline
#15 Posted:
Joined: 02-08-2007
Posts: 44,211
usually Dunkie's in a Mr Coffee
tailgater Offline
#16 Posted:
Joined: 06-01-2000
Posts: 26,185
I let the neighbors cat poop on my coffee so when I brag about drinking cat-sh1t coffee all the fellas at the spa will think I mean kopi luwak.


jjanecka Offline
#17 Posted:
Joined: 12-08-2015
Posts: 4,334
Whole bean Ethiopia Harrar medium roast, medium grind, steeped in a french press for 5 minutes. A seven minute rest from boil before steeping is preferred.
victor809 Offline
#18 Posted:
Joined: 10-14-2011
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I cannot claim to be a coffee purist...
I drink about 6 - 10 cups of swill at work. I start my morning with a couple cups of trader joe's coffee I just pour through a pour over maker... and I don't sit there and baby the pour like they do at the expensive "coffee by the cup" joints here (do you guys have these outside of california? They're popping up everywhere here... they'll make your single cup of regular coffee to order, by weighing out what looks like 2 beans, grinding them and pouring hot water over them... then charging 5$... not a big fan).

But, oddly, they also have a Nespresso coffee shop here in SF... It's a combination retail store (they have what almost would be a wine cellar, full of those dam nespresso pods of a million styles) and coffee shop. Got some nespresso espresso there once, pretty tasty... Then we ended up with nespresso in our hotel in mexico once... and I think in paris.... I enjoyed them. I can totally see someone buying one of those machines for convenience. But I am cheap when it comes to my coffee... I'm the only one who drinks it, tastes it, and I'm not doing it for enjoyment, just to get the caffeine in my system.
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