Coffee

lol fuck a keurig

― y kant max read (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, December 29, 2014 4:35 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yea i hate these things

i kind of swear by my bialetti moka express, those stovetop espresso things. it makes a good cup - stronger than a regular coffee but not quite espresso. it's good.

! that's awful! how did the sloshing happen?

― ♪♫_\o/_♫♪ (Karl Malone), Tuesday, December 30, 2014 4:12 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Trying to balance the thingy over a cup that was a little too big while I pushed the plunger and the whole thing tipped over somehow, so it was pretty much entirely my fault but I have to live with myself everyday whereas the Aeropress can sit in a cabinet until I'm done being angry with/scared of it, so I'm projecting.

Honestly, I've never quite figured out the right amount of grounds to put in the thing, either, nor have I ever seemed to get the amount of water right. I don't know. I may just be constitutionally incapable of operating the dang thing.

i've never made a satisfactory cup of coffee from a french press. i know a lot of people swear by them but everytime i try it's either watery or muddy

the aeropress would be much more popular if it featured iphone-style packaging instead of a hexagon cardboard box with testimonials like "I used Aeropress last week and I liked it ok!" plastered all over the side

As noted, Jeff successfully uses the French press every day, but whenever I use it, I end up with a mouth full of coffee grounds.

I'm starting to get depressed about this.

one scoop coffee, fill to the "1"

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

i do find that it's pretty important to have the right grind though. not the super-fine genuine espresso grind (at which point the thing is unpressable), but the grind used by illy, lavazza, costa etc for their espresso coffees is fine. if i'm getting it ground in the shop i ask for it ground for aeropress, or if they don't know what that is (rare these days) i ask for "something between espresso and filter" grind.

I didn't like the aeropress because of the danger mentioned by Carl, and also the need for filters. I don't need something else to keep in stock just to make coffee.

i have a wire mesh filter ($3 at korean grocery store) that i use to make pour over. if i want it stronger i let it steep. so easy.

carl did you throw away the Aeropress scopo?

french press tips

- make sure you use coarsely ground beans, not fine.
- only fill it up 1/3 of the way for the first minute. slosh it around (but not on your hand!) a little.
- after one minute, fill it up the rest of the way.
- push it down after 5 minutes, never before. pushing it down a little bit late is a lot better than pushing it down a little early.

No! I still have everything except the octagonal box. xp

oh, and

- tie a little hand towel around the carafe. it looks nice

have temporarily switched from french press to instant espresso

-- the stuff i'm using is decent, but i am sure there is better ... recommendations?

one scoop coffee, fill to the "1"

But that makes like, four ounces of coffee. I'd go through a pound of coffee in three days.

it's an espresso strength shot!! pour however much hot water you want into your mug afterwards to get it the right volume/strength

aero and FP all seem like way more work (and things to clean) than my little plastic dohicky that holds a cone filter for pourover. Used coffee/filter goes into the compost bin, plastic dohicky gets a quick rinse. I dunno about pour over babystitting; I just fill the thing to the top with water from an electric kettle and a mugful comes out.

When travelling, I take Starbuck's Via italian roast instant for drinkable hotel room coffee.

So yes I drank Starbucks in north korea.

Sarahell, which instant espresso are you using? My favorite so far is Ferraro, Caffe D'vita second, Mediglia D'oro third.

xp FP is easy, just dump grounds in trashcan, rinse pot and the plunger/filter in sink. Takes about 20 seconds.

i kind of swear by my bialetti moka express, those stovetop espresso things. it makes a good cup - stronger than a regular coffee but not quite espresso. it's good.

― marcos, Tuesday, December 30, 2014 10:20 AM (14 minutes ago)

I completely forgot that I have one of these.

But that makes like, four ounces of coffee. I'd go through a pound of coffee in three days.

― carl agatha, Tuesday, December 30, 2014 11:27 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

This is by design

Another option would be to use the AP as a de facto pourover - do one scoop (or one and a half) and fill it to the brim with water and let it drip down

No plunging means no chance of burning

I use Mediglia D'oro

I've settled on the Hario woodneck as some sort of purity / essence of coffee ideal that's not expresso

http://i.imgur.com/xmqNhyr.jpg

Cloth filter means nothing to keep in stock

No paper nothing to throw out

Only bad thing is how long it takes (you have to do two fills to get a nice 8-12 oz)

But very zen

coffee not so zen tbh

Pro tip: Most germophobes recommend keeping the cloth sock in a little jar w/ water in the fridge

But just wash it and leave it out to dry

I've been doing that for 4 months and it just smells like coffee, no mold

Keeping it in water (even in the fridge) seems like you're asking for funkiness imo

Inspired by anecdotes of coffee drinkers in SA who keep their coffee socks hanging on the wall

Used coffee/filter goes into the compost bin, plastic dohicky gets a quick rinse.

this is exactly the AP process so i think it's a tie in this regard. however you do get a satisfying little "thunk" when the puck of compressed coffee comes out the end of the AP, i could never give that up.

FP is easy, just dump grounds in trashcan, rinse pot and the plunger/filter in sink.

come on now, if that's true how come every FP ever spends 95% of its life with spent grounds in the bottom of it, just stewing

FPs certainly lead to stewing that's for sure

Ferraro is a darker roast than either D'oro or D'vita and doesn't have any crema. It seems more chocolatey to me.

however you do get a satisfying little "thunk" when the puck of compressed coffee comes out the end of the AP

That is completely OTM. I do love the puck of compressed coffee.

wait Tracer with the aeropress you have to, y'know, *press*! Pourover is just gravity, man.

i like to chew up a coffee puck and spread the resultant paste between two intact coffee pucks.

part of the draw to the chemex was that it was similar to french press but without all the gunk getting into your coffee. it is indeed slow, but I'm planning on using it mostly on weekends when I'm not in as much of a rush.

Pourover is just gravity, man.

right, i have to wait for it! waiting makes me antsy!! i'm in a hurry, man.

Protip: have a cup of tea while you wait.

come on now, if that's true how come every FP ever spends 95% of its life with spent grounds in the bottom of it, just stewing

#NotAllFP

If yr in a rush

Do an impromptu redeye each morning

buy an automatic espresso machine

Churn that first thing

Whiel you wait for yr pourover

ive had an aeropress which i use every weekend for about a year but i'm still not entirely clear on HOW to brew w it. ive read conflicting shit all over the internet which just leaves me even more confused. how do yall brew with yours? shit that makes me confused: inverted method, stopping when you hear air going through the grounds, should i be adding more water afterwards?

Think there is no right way

Don't be a prescriptive presser

Do what feels right and good my man

(note that slopping hot water and coffee grounds over your hand feels neither right nor good.)

Exactly. Preferred method is whatever gets coffee in the cup w/o damage.

yeah, you want to add water to your cup unless you just want a shot

supposedly pushing the air through the grounds extracts more of the bitter oils, but i find aeropressed coffee exceptionally smooth to begin with so i want as much of that as i can get. plus sometimes that last push creates an amount of pleasing froth on top

heh ew?

That's crema

ty, tracer

i went to the store and forgot to buy coffee and i am out and it is 0º out : /

Fuck it, making a cup

Extracting dark roasted beans with Everclear right now for the ultimate cold brew.