Coffee

if you like coffee and u dont have one of these i dont know what to say

coffee preparation methods looking more and more like meth production

no explosions. yet

except for the explosion of FLAVOR in your MOUTH

HOT LIQUID DOWN YOUR THROAT!!! GIVING YOU STIMULATION!!!!!

Can you get fine grounds with a hand grinder? Can anyone recommend one?

I'm so happy with my aeropress. Since getting it is the first time I've regularly drunk coffee tbh. Strength + easy cleaning = finally something to rival tea.

Uh wait electric ones are much cheaper than I thought, maybe I should go for that

The wikipedia page for the aeropress says that the inverted method results in more oils extracted. This seems like bs though, how does that work?

http://www.sweetmarias.com/sweetmarias/index.php/grinders/manual-grinders.html

I have a hario hand-grinder, it's better than an electric blade grinder but not as good as a electric burr grinder

I think zassenhaus are the most recommended of the manual hand grinders, but they are expensive and big and heavy

thankyou the hario slim looks very nice

I use the Capresso Infinity conical burr grinder and they still sell for around $85-90. I find it to be perfectly good.

I don't want to lay down too much money till I know coffee is not a fad for me

Seriously though I find my aeropress americano as good as coffee-chain coffee (in the UK)

i got an aeropress because of this thread, best thing ive ever bought because of ilx. chemex and bialetti going into storage.

I overscooped into the aeropress this weekend while half asleep, made an incredibly strong but so smooth cappuccino.

i just thought i totally fucked up a cup and it turned out to still taste great--is it even possible to make bad coffee with this thing?

think I'm gonna buy one too

i've been thinking about getting a french press. this is better?

waaaaaay better

i like my french press. how much coffee can you make at one time in the aeropress? i need to make about 30 oz at a time.

i guess i can google that

yah the other reason I never really use my aeropress is because it only makes like 2 ounces at a time. I like making a big cup and just sitting there and drinking that cup. even if the caffeine content or w/e ends up being the same.

Got some "New Orleans" brew from Albertson's that had a big label "WITH CHICORY!!!" whatever tf that is. Anyways, read yer labels: I get home and supposedly chicory is supposed to be great thing because it drastically reduces caffeine content.

ffs i don't drink coffee because i enjoy it, i would've gone to starbucks

now i have to drink 6cups before leaving the house just to get a buzz

also, it tastes like plants

yah the other reason I never really use my aeropress is because it only makes like 2 ounces at a time. I like making a big cup and just sitting there and drinking that cup. even if the caffeine content or w/e ends up being the same.

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you can make americanos dogg

i like the americanos i make w/ the aeropress and my bialetti more than the concentrated "espresso"

americanos don't have the same mouthfeel imo

ugh i hate that word

otm

aahhhh, tastes like teen spirit

haha

you would also be drinking an 'americano' xp

handtaste

xpost Chicory coffee sucks. IIRC, chicory coffee was historically simply a poor man's method of extending coffee grounds, akin to watering down milk.

Personally, I love my Chemex, and have yet to have a home brew equal to what I get out of it. As intriguing as the penis-pump looking Aeropress may be.

lol that's the first thing I thought of when I watched the video

penis pump b/w scalding hot coffee

tell me how my mouth feel

What's y'alls coffee intake regimen? How can I consistently get my buzz on?

one cup in the morning on an empty stomach, black.

^this

I eat a thermosfull everyday - I am die-dard for Cafe Bustelo - cheap and black - hot and stacked

Went all y'day without any coffee due to sick hangover and by this morning I had a crashingly bad headache. One strong stovetop espresso later and I'm 100%. DAMN U CAFFEEN.

coffee makes everything all better

Sweet sweet coffee numbs the pain

I now dumb an expresso into my normal coffee in the morning and then I usually have another one before eleven. Than it's like 2 more before lunch.

Probably not healthy all things considered.

I'm headed down that route myself. 3-5 a day.

but it might prevent prostate cancer!
http://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/fitness/article_bb0a8000-c84b-5fdc-9707-f4174ff05f37.html

too bad I read that it might also be a carcinogen somewhere else. ¯\(º o)/¯

california?

it IS healthy dammit!!!!!!!

had been thinking about picking up a crank grinder (Hario mini slim) and Aeropress for work, for quite a while now and finally did. I just had my first cup. I rarely have afternoon coffee, but damn... it was delicious and I am significantly more awake at 3pm than I usually am. Aeropress was easy as hell to use, too.

i've been given a nespresso machine and now i can't sleep so good

So the place I've worked the last few months has a keurig, which makes pretty crap coffee (bad enough that I started drinking flavored with milk and sugar because I couldn't take the taste of the regular). I was fortunate enough, however, to discover that another associate and a paralegal here are both coffee snobs like me, and we went in on a hario hand-crank burr grinder, a hario single-cup ceramic pour-over dripper, some paper filters and an electric kettle, all told a $90 investment split three ways. We're taking turns bringing in bags of coffee.

I have to admit, the pour-over coffee is nice. I do the whole deal where you wet the filter/warm the cup first, then pour in small batches through the center. I usually rearrange the grinds with a coffee stirrer after each pour. You can't really get a perfect pour with the electric kettle but I think it's good enough.

One of my favorite things about it, actually, is that the mug itself gets super warm from the process, and that makes the drinking experience much nicer.

The downside is that people in the office look at us a little funny, including partners. I guess being "an attorney" now I can sort of get away with it more than if I were just office drone #7 though. Ah, privilege.

I bought a Hario hand-crank with an Aeropress, and end up having a conversation every morning about it. I guess I'm the "coffee guy" in the office now. Do you guys draw straws to decide who gets stuck with the grinder? Not that it's super strenuous or anything, but I grind mine pretty fine (more taste with less beans), and it takes me about two and a half minutes of pretty intense grinding. I'd hate to have to do it for three cups.