Coffee

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

i looked on sweetmarias.com and was surprised to see they actually sell a air popper, but it's not v recommended. nice roasters are like a grand, so guess i'll not be doing that since i don't expect to ever have the space for the thing

what i think u shd do for yr work set up is get a nice electric burr grinder, an electric kettle with temperate settings, and a french press, an areopress, a kalita wave pour over cone, a chemex, and some other coffee devices, some nice mugs, a good selection of milks/creams

sugar cubes, granulated sugar, honey, simple syrup

croissants, scones, biscotti, a halfway decent espresso set up

I think I posted this before, but this is where I get my beans. They are very good and they do mail order.

https://andersonscoffee.com

yeah probably just something simple like this, and we can train the paralegal to do it

http://cleanhotdry.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/hario-bar.jpg

I don’t know anything about working in a law firm but I have to assume a paralegal would resent being assigned to coffee detail

for sure, hence I was joking.

paralegals resent most of the things they're asked to do iirc

is this the wrong place to say that i quit coffee?? i'm on chamomile tea now!

but i MISS it.

https://78.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2kqpi9qno1rpt7sfo1_250.gif

"You ferment your wine; you ferment your cheese. Kombucha is a growing craze. Fermented foods are said to be good for the gut, great for the skin, and help reduce stress and anxiety. The newest product to be fermented? Coffee. A new company is using fermentation to unlock what they describe as the “most unique coffee you will ever try.”

Cultured Coffee puts their beans through what they describe on their Kickstarter page as “a pioneering natural and controlled secondary fermentation process” that results in coffee with “extremely low bitterness with shining fruity, floral, and chocolaty notes.” By exposing beans to specially selected microorganisms right before roasting, they say they are able to “precisely chew-away undesirable coffee flavor molecules while adding interesting ones.” After that, the beans are roasted, which “also sterilizes them.”"

wld sample tbh

Sounds like they're going for the luwak coffee phenomenon (beans digested by civets) without the civet.

aren't coffee beans already fermented

our coffee is the shit......with none of the shit

xp. there is fermentation in the processing of coffee beans in every type of processing yes. though washed/wet-processed - which is the most common processing type in speciality coffee iirc - has the least fermentation

but i like the bitterness

(the way i like my men obv)

i will be having cof next week possibly wednesday for sure friday

I found some kopi luwak in my freezer during a recent move. It was a mild coffee stirred with dusty bookshelf.

Had some coffee today

finally a book for me

Coming soon from our friends @PAPress. A book of that epic coffee lid collection. https://t.co/P6Krez3InO

Lush. pic.twitter.com/KZFJ2r1B2P

— Present & Correct (@presentcorrect) January 24, 2018