Coffee

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oh wow this is the 3rd thread this week where i've written what i wrote 6 years ago and been shocked! now i LOVE turkish coffee and real coffee without lots of syrups and crap in it!

i like this essay. bring on the 1,3,7-trimethylxanthine.

that is good. she never quite says it, but i like the idea of coffee as being partially responsible for the enlightenment.

It is difficult, at best, to get a good cup of coffee in San Francisco. Why this is, I have no idea.

Hypercoffee

So far, the Clover is still something of a cult object, with just over 200 machines scattered around the world. But it might soon become a common sight: Starbucks has just bought two.

Designed by three Stanford graduates, it lets the user program every feature of the brewing process, including temperature, water dose and extraction time. (It even has an Ethernet connection that can feed a complete record of its configurations to a Web database.) Not only is each cup brewed to order, but the way each cup is brewed can be tailored to a particular bean — light or dark roast, acidic or sweet, and so on.

The Clover works something like an inverted French press: coffee grounds go into a brew chamber, hot water shoots in and a powerful piston slowly lifts and plunges a filter, forcing the coffee out through a nozzle in the front. The final step, when a cake of spent grounds rises majestically to the top, is so titillating to coffee fanatics that one of them posted a clip of it on YouTube.

“There is some gee-whizness to it,” said Doug Zell, a founder of Intelligentsia. “But hopefully the focus goes back to the cup of coffee.”

In the grand tradition of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_room_coffee_pot";>Trojan Room coffee pot</a>.

In the meantime, coffee? Yes please!

this shit is not good for you

but it's the future! of shit that's not good for you

(It even has an Ethernet connection that can feed a complete record of its configurations to a Web database.)

Oh ffs.

this shit is not good for you

They can take my coffee away...when they pry my cold dead fingers off the cup.

Hahaha the last sentence on the first para made me think somehow the last automatic step the machine did was upload a video of itself to Youtube.

http://www.discostyle.com/discochart/191-200/192b.jpg

http://www.discostyle.com/discochart/191-200/192.jpg

^^^^^^great album

Oh, man, I would pay nearly anything for a coffeemaker that was constantly uploading pictures of itself to its MySpace page and stuff

"got wasteed with the toaster last nite, LOL, i was still makin irish coffee in the morning . man im so bord now, why is the water hear so HARD"

BREWMACHINE'S BLOG

MADE COFFEE

Category: Dining
Current mood: Silly

I made the coffee. I made it. I shot the water into it. Now it is coffee. This was 121º F. It is coffee now. I made the coffee. See my Flicker account.

<link to video>

How do I shot water

Okay, I'm DESPERATE. I want a proper cappuccino/caffe latte maker. So I need a cappuccino machine, right? Anyone have any ideas on which one to get? I don't want one which uses Nespresso (fuck that). Pads are alright but a bonus, not the main thing.

*sigh*

Yes, I crossposted this shit. And YES I know I said that it's bad for my migraine. but fuck it, I'm craving for lattes. BIG TIME.

It really depends how high your standards are. Do you want really good quality espresso or is it more just that you want your caffiene with some frothy milk.

If the former is really important to you, you're going to have to lay out hundreds of dollars. The cheapest non-pod machines that meet espresso snob standards are the La Pavoni Europiccola and the Rancilio Silvia, and they both run in the $500-700 range. And the Pavoni is STILL not easy to froth milk with, although you can learn to do it (don't know how the Silvia is).

The Nespresso machines are actually considered very good and much cheaper so you might want to re-think it - although otoh the coffee pods are much more expensive than buying your own coffee so it's kind of like the printer/ink thing in the long run. You'll get a more consistent result (and less work and mess) without having to grind and tamp yourself. I'd re-consider it unless you have some kind of ethical problem with the Nestle corporation.

Espresso drinks are not easy to do right, but they are a wonderful thing. This site is a pretty good comprehensive guide:

http://coffeegeek.com/

I have an 8-cup Pavoni. I can't quite get a pro-style cappuccino out of it, let alone three or four, and I've been told that it's because the little thing just doesn't produce the amount of steam you need. The drinks I make are just as tasty and satisfying though, just not as impressive-looking.

Those machines you see in Grumpy or Joe or wherever often cost anywhere from $8000-$15000.

A waaaaaay cheaper option:
I really love my bialetti stovetop espresso maker. it is not up to fancy espresso machine standards, but it makes lovely lattes for me. and they now have a model (Brikka) that supposedly forms a real crema.
http://www.bialettishop.com/index.html

I really love my bialetti stovetop espresso maker
that's all ya need

Bah, those are American products righht? I live in shitty Belgium. Still, maybe I'll get that Nespresso machine. I noticed a very nice DeLonghi machine. Hmm....

http://www.vandenborre.be/WEB/images/products/300/252174_0.jpg

*drool*

I'm sure Italian espresso makers are available in Belgium.

Stovetop machines are a totally different animal. However, they do not froth milk so you can't make a cappucino or latte with one.

a *real* espresso machine forces the water through a very tightly packed coffee *cake* at very high pressure, and thus it extracts the oils differently. You can't get that effect with a stovetop machine, however you can still get coffee that's quite tasty in its own way.

oh, I think there are also separate milk frothing devices if you want to make a cap with a stovetop espresso machine. Might be a cheaper way to go, although I can't vouch for the effectiveness of those frothers.

i need to make another batch of cold brew.

How do I founding frothers?

maybe here:

http://www.wholelattelove.com

er, nevermind that. Here are a few, anyway:

http://www.espressozone.com/milk-frothers.html?gclid=CLS8qZiRi5ICFRIrHgodpnLd9Q

Has anybody used the stovetop machines with extra little valves? I think the idea is to increase the pressure of the steam enough to come closer to real espresso (though its still going to be a more bitter if the temperature is higher, no?). I gave up on the stovetop a few years in favor of a press, but might be interested if you can really get something closer to cheap home espresso without the foolishness of expensive home machines.

I'll probably get that Delonghi one which works with Nespresso. Can't be bothered with learning all the different things. It makes lattes. It makes cappuccinos. Fine with me. Alas it'll be in a couple of months, cause I don't want my mommy milk drinking baby to wake up at 5 am ready for a scream cause of all that caffeine I pumped into her stomach. (Not that she doesn't do that now, but it's not cause of caffeine...)

yeah, sounds like your best bet.

the stovetop frothers work pretty well and it is a good morning workout for the forearms

pavoni is the business

Yay aeropress!

Yay Aeropress as in you've used it and it's great? Because I'll buy one right now with a little encouragement.

hmm, maybe I'll get one of those. I kind of want a simple one-cup method of making a regular cup of coffee when I don't feel like an espresso-based drink

I love that it's made by the same company who makes Aerobie

the aeropress, which i have only just seen now for the first time, is one of those things in the world that makes me react in a way that to causes me to worry about whether the levels of cynical douchebag in my system have reached critical and what to do abt that

wait is aerobie a frisbee?

levels rising

wait what do you mean robyn?

yeah aerobie is a magical flying ring that flies really fucking far

they were popular when I was around middle school age. They're actually a lot less fun than frisbees because they go so far.

i always almost cut my palms on those things! on the off chance that i am throwing those things around

i like frisbee
i don't like the organized frisbee game
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hahaha bless you my son

My own personal Coffee Saga involves a time when I was in college, and back home on a break. I had gone out the previous night to meet up with some friends, whereupon I smoked a LOT of suspect weed, which sent me reeling. I was still in a weird space the next morning, going from euphoria to dark depression in seconds, and back again. I thought that a cuppa would soothe my nerves, so I set up a full pot in the coffee maker and did something else while it brewed. When I returned I realized that I hadn't placed the glass carafe back in the coffee maker, so all 12 cups had just spewed out onto the counter. It went behind the counter itself and filled the junk drawer below, then into the base cabinets. The stuff kept seeping downward, thru the floorboards and into the basement. The laundry room was directly below the kitchen, and all this coffee was dripping onto my dad's white dress shirts, which were freshly laundered and hanging on a rack. It was crazy, like the acid in Alien that kept eating through the floors and ceilings of the Nostromo.

yikes @ these coffee stories

lmao those are great

My coffee story is about when my parents finally divorced and separated. I was in my early twenties, fresh out of uni and just starting work.
I went to visit my mum at her new house and (with some trepidation) her new partner. When I arrived, I'd barely got in the door, I mentioned to mum that I'd been listening to an album that we used to listen when I was young.
As we were speaking, my mum's partner piped up, interrupting me: "Do you think you could make your mum a coffee?"
A bit put-out, and slightly confused by this man's request (was he ordering me about already, like some sort of mean step-father?), but not wanting to rock any boats on this occasion, I went to the kitchen, started getting the Nescafe out, found and boiled the kettle. Popped my head back in the living room: "I can't remember if you take milk?"
Mum looks at me confused... "Sorry?"
"Mike said you would like a coffee?"
"A coffee?"
"Yes, he said can I make you a coffee"

Turns out he'd kindly been asked if I could make my mum a "copy" - as in a copy of the album I had been listening to - NOT ordering me about like some sort of teaboy... So. Awkward misunderstanding averted.

"he'd kindly been asking me"

lololol

jesus christ these stories are all time

great job everyone

hahahah Henry that's sitcom level shit

yeah full Mr Bean hours there, incredible

watching me make a pot and he goes "uhhh aren't you gonna use a coffee filter??"

I think a lot of traditional Turkish/Middle Eastern coffee was made this way... just pour the grounds in boiling water and hope that most of the grounds sink to the bottom
I have this copper Turkish little pitcher thing and it's angled so that you can avoid most of the grounds going in your cup

They also used to use egg whites to help congeal the grounds at the bottom

So you were making 'traditional' coffee though you didn't know it

this recipe looks kinda interesting

https://www.thespruceeats.com/egg-coffee-2952648

one of my friends had a Turkish roommate for a while and goddamn he made THE best turkish coffee, we were all kinda sad when he moved out like “…but…the coffee…”

Wow, these stories. I don't have any disaster stories on that scale. I often do the inverted Aeropress method, and once I knocked it over and sent the hot water mixed with coffee grounds all over the counter.

I have had a few Aeropress stories like that, but bar has been raised too high for those

Amazing how many of the funniest stories must have been nightmares to live through (henry's)

I was very popular in my college co-op because I had a drip coffee maker in my room, so people would come by and have a cup and smoke cigs and chill. Once I was making a big pot while a bunch of my stoner music composition pals were all hanging out, listening to Bach (seriously lol), and I set the half full pot back down on the plate a little too hard and it shattered in my hands! Coffee splooshed everywhere, but luckily the horrible cheap wall to wall carpeting in the room soaked it all up. I had to order a new pot.

yikes!!

xp I was able to scramble into Winston Wolf mode and acquit myself of most of the damage, except for a few shirts and the family phone book, which lived in the junk drawer and was swimming in hot coffee. Anything written in pencil was essentially lost to history.