Coffee

kinda gone back to breakfast tea lately tbh

I decalcified The Machine today.
I still drink Italian espresso house blend from the place down the street. And yet there's so much opportunity here to branch out. But it's good! My excuse is obstinance+frugality :/

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iced christ

Chriced (TM)

my Machine broke so i just replaced it by a cheap melitta pourover thing. whatever.

ive been buying coffee from these people https://risingstarcoffee.com and it is the best coffee. one of their shops is walking distace from my job and they are opening another one close to where i live. they are a little pricey but ive been granting myself this luxury

u deserve it bro

thank u

i think i do

I got a thermos recently. It's like a miracle -- hot coffee throughout the day. So much better than standard travel mugs.

I dont even understand how it works.

nothin like a reliable thermos to keep yr cof hot

"How do it know?"

The sticker on the front says something about a vacuum seal

if dray doesnt connect with some clippers beans tonight we will have been cheated

rong thread, apologies

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the heat thief gnomes use molecules to steal heat, so you surround the liquid with an area that has no molecules in it... fiendishly clever

Not following. Need this explained in a ted talk format that connects to my day to day life

You know how there's no sound in space, because there's no transmission mechanism? It's like that, coffee needs an esophagus to travel through

Add a dash of Thomas Friedman and it will click. I'm on the verge of grasping how vacuums help in insulation

I have to drive 20-25 minutes to get freshly roasted coffee, so this looked interesting as a stopgap when I run out until I went to the price part and realized that my usual Chemex pot of iced coffee would be $7(or maybe even $14, I use 40g of coffee)
https://bluebottlecoffee.com/perfectlyground

Blue Bottle's Three Africas blend is so good.

Just got a Bonavita BV1800 drip coffee maker. For some reason it makes really good coffee, despite its simplicity.

i think one of the big reasons is that it brews at a higher temp than most drip machines. i attended a 3-hour lecture/tasting with george howell recently and they brewed everything on a bonavita

I use my Chemex with the Bonavita, the showerhead is perfect for a 6-8 cup Chemex and I don't have to stand there pouring on top of a scale.

The Ratio Eight does basically the same thing for $600 but looks better. I'll stick with the Bonavita.

Chemex has been treating me real well lately. Drinking my cof right now. mmmmmmmmmmm.....

yea im pretty happy w/ my chemex too

weekdays i still use the bialetti moka pot, it's faster

thinkin bout getting a chemex or similar

love my aeropress but had some chemex brewed cof over the holiday and was really impressed -- mighta been the beans tho who knows

what's the difference between chemex and a hario v60? what's with that weird cloth

chemex is great but i don't think i'd want it as my exclusive brewer. the coffee it produces is extremely clean and bright, and sometimes i want a muddier thick brew

i've been doing french press for years but am sorely tempted by the bonavita now, it's just so damn easy.

That's for sure! Exactly one switch on the thing.

I'm quite happy with it.

I don't generally brew coffee on weekday mornings because that's in conflict with my donut and coffee buying ritual but maybe I should just change it up and start buying just donuts.

yea i only brew coffee at home if i am eating breakfast at home.

btw a coffee + croissant is the most elegant and perfect breakfast imo

i tend to crash after the croissant rush dies off. now i eat yogurt w/ walnuts and honey and drink a cup of filter coffee every morning: RECOMMENDED

you know how sometimes when you're in a foreign country and something about their culture strikes you as superior to your own and enviable. whenever I've been in a city in spain in the morning and seemingly everyone on their way to their office is stopping in at a cafe to drink a coffee and eat a pastry for breakfast i get that feeling

was in too much of a rush to make my french press this morning :|

Recovered a vintagey chemex out of my mom's hoarder house - still in the box new. Have been trying it out in place of my trusty french press and dang...

I highly recommend the glass handle Chemex over the classic wooden collar, if anyone's in the market. The leather straps on the wooden collar Chemex never seem to re-tie as nicely as they are originally when you clean it.

I make Chemex coffee every day. It is the best. My rules:

Pour 450 ml water into electric kettle. Turn on kettle.
Put new filter in Chemex pot
Rinse filter in hot water from sink until it is all wet and suctiony and the Chemex pot is hot
Pour out water, making sure filter stays in place
Add 4 tablespoons / 27 g medium roast coffee ground a bit coarser than medium
Shake Chemex a bit to flatten the ground
Add orange peel and cardamom if you like
Gently pour over the grounds 100ml of the water from the kettle that stopped boiling about a minute ago
Wait for a minute.
Continue adding all the water, soaking the grounds evenly, in any number of incremental little pours during the next 2-3 minutes, making sure you don't let the grounds dry out too much in between pours
Pour into a mug and spill that thing all over your shoes
Stop at Dunkin Donuts and drink a paper cup of their bogwater.

I make Chemex coffee every day. It is the best. My rules:

Pour 450 ml water into electric kettle. Turn on kettle.
Put new filter in Chemex pot
Rinse filter in hot water from sink until it is all wet and suctiony and the Chemex pot is hot
Pour out water, making sure filter stays in place
Add 4 tablespoons / 27 g medium roast coffee ground a bit coarser than medium
Shake Chemex a bit to flatten the ground
Add orange peel and cardamom if you like
Gently pour over the grounds 100ml of the water from the kettle that stopped boiling about a minute ago
Wait for a minute.
Continue adding all the water, soaking the grounds evenly, in any number of incremental little pours during the next 2-3 minutes, making sure you don't let the grounds dry out too much in between pours
Pour into a mug and spill that thing all over your shoes
Stop at Dunkin Donuts and drink a paper cup of their bogwater.

I make Chemex coffee every day. It is the best. My rules:

Pour 450 ml water into electric kettle. Turn on kettle.
Put new filter in Chemex pot
Rinse filter in hot water from sink until it is all wet and suctiony and the Chemex pot is hot
Pour out water, making sure filter stays in place
Add 4 tablespoons / 27 g medium roast coffee ground a bit coarser than medium
Shake Chemex a bit to flatten the ground
Add orange peel and cardamom if you like
Gently pour over the grounds 100ml of the water from the kettle that stopped boiling about a minute ago
Wait for a minute.
Continue adding all the water, soaking the grounds evenly, in any number of incremental little pours during the next 2-3 minutes, making sure you don't let the grounds dry out too much in between pours
Pour into a mug and spill that thing all over your shoes
Stop at Dunkin Donuts and drink a paper cup of their bogwater.

i pretty much do the same thing but i use 42 g of fresh ground beans with 750 mL water because i like to have a more than one mug in the morning

I do flash-iced most of the time so 500ml of water to 47g of beans with a handful of ice in the carafe and ice in the pint glass or thermos I'm drinking from, which gets me to about 750ml of water total.