Coffee

the bloom is such an easy thing to manage it take like 30 extra seconds and pays dividends if u dont believe me do a taste test, obvs as mentioned up thread its more important if youre doing freshies

the reason he told me to do it wasn't about bloom or bubbles he just said to wait after the first pour so that it would kind of solidify and so it wouldn't all stick to the sides in subsequent pours, but it's good that it's also got the bloom rationale

Avoid the gloom
Do the bloom

joe persistently chiding us for not following the finer details of third wave coffee bro best practice is my favourite part of this thread. i need it

i just want to see you all succeed at coffee

i spend too much on coffee to take my chances with 204° or 206° water

It’s weird how flops calls people by the generic “joe” instead of people’s real life ilxor names

lol his literal government name is like Joe Schmoe or some shit

i'm not even joking

o m g

did i tell you guys i got my officemates to all go in on a 220$ bonavita BV1900 ?

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41vNOKgTTBL._SL500_AC_SS350_.jpg

makes a p good cuppa 'joe' heh

doxxing, 30 day temp ban

tbf I don't care for pour-over myself. Also I think chemexes are ugly and impractical
*folds arms*
(truth: i am hella clumsy. filling a giant glass vase with hot water and coffee in my proximity is a recipe for disaster, bloom or no)

wow i've heard a lot of things about chemex but never ugly!

chemex r sexi

that wooden collar with the leather thong and the wooden beads, it reminds me of gross 70's decor, like macrame potplant holders etc

its def super 70s but most ppl like that about it

I've got the one with the glass handle. Its vegan.

Last weekend I was making a cup of instant coffee but I reached for the wrong thing and wound up taking a big swig of watery instant gravy with milk.

Well duh. Do you usually store meat in your coffee apparati?

(Xpost)

This cautionary tale is true but I posted it mainly to see how many FPs I get considering how many wrong things are in there.

i like that you really went all the way with it

I was so asleep still. I vaguely remember thinking it smelled weird but shrugging it off and just chugging it and then spitting it out projectile cartoon style into the sink.

drinking something thats not what you think it is is truly one of the most shocking and disconcerting experiences

otm, a reminder of our shared humanity

Yes!!

I think this is why clear Pepsi was so weird and wrong. It confused people’s brains too much.

My brother in law drank an entire teacup of fish sauce thinking it was he’d forgotten. I’ve never seen a look of betrayal like the one he made afterward.

Flopson, that bonavita is very similar to my Oxo Barista Brain that produced the swell cuppa joe I had this morning. Since I switched, my wife has been using the Chemex to brew tea sans wooden collar.

A cof mistake any heffalump makes

Love it

Coffee I mean

xxp that bonavita might be exactly the thing my small office needs, been looking for something worthy of replacing the keurig with (tbf, anything would be). The only thing is that we only have a max of six people in our office at any given time and some days there might only be one or two, so the keurig sort of makes sense from a pure convenience perspective rather than having to deal with deciding who makes/cleans up the coffee. Also would need to figure out what to do about beans -- flopson how are you handling? And did you get a grinder too?

obvious/banal question: what was a teacup of fish sauce doing sitting out?
many xposts

Sounds like someone didn’t have enough prep bowls

There was a fish in the percolator

Flopson, that bonavita is very similar to my Oxo Barista Brain

Second oxo barista brain in 24 hours iirc

flopson how are you handling? And did you get a grinder too?

so far we've fought over (i) making coffee too weak/strong (ii) accusations of shirking (iii) people not cleaning up. may tear us apart tbh. no grinder yet they were all pretty pissed at having to chip in 20$ per for the machine. i bought bonavita because someone mentioned it on this thread

Does anyone buy roasted whole beans online in bulk, like 20-30 pounds at a time (US delivery)? And if so, any brands, places that you would recommend?

i buy my beans at a place that gives you a free cof with any bean purchase. so, obviously, i buy the smallest cheapest quantity imaginable (250g for £8) and get a £3 flat white for free. (this place makes v v good cof.) buying quantities any larger than this would throw off the whole scheme

sometimes i get the side-eye for buying espresso beans for my aeropress but haters gonna hate

The coffee here is bad, or super expensive, so the next time I go to the US I want to stock up. We used to just do costco but membership ran out. I brought back some Sainsbury brand for us to try from last month. I should've bought more. I also do the aeropress (except when I am lazy and hit the french press).

is anyone roasting their beans? i've thought abt this for years, starting with a popcorn air popper or somesuch and seeing how it goes. but i've never invested in that first 5# bag of green beans. had a chef once that started doing it at their home and it didn't seem like much trouble, and she really liked the results

Re: teacup of fish sauce way upthread.

We often keep it out as part of the condiment tray (S.E. Asian household)

I'm Oxo BB compadres with Moodles. It makes a fine cup of joe

roasting yr own beans is no doubt fun.........but it is pretty impossible to get a good even roast on whatever home set up u go with

I should check in on this local dude who went way down the coffee insane person road. All kinds of thermometers, specialty gear, homemade apparatus for roasting

if you're gonna have the brain problems it's good to limit your obsession to something like the perfect bean

Wondering if this thing is any good. Would still have to get grinder and beans but there would be no need to deal with who has to make the coffee/clean the coffee maker. Water probably isn't ideal temp but it's still better than K-cups.

http://www.keurig.com/content/reusable-coffee-filter

they have their own branded one instead of claiming third-party ones are evil now, huh?

unless you own multiple and have them lined up, you have a moment of trying to shovel coffee into the little cup device without getting it all over. I ended up getting the little filters for my third-party one to make cleanout easier. if you already have a keurig machine handy it's a fine way to make use of it, but for my usage, since we have hot water available at work, an aeropress was much better