Coffee

I feel like a douche ordering breves and even more of a couche since no one here knows what they are or how to make them. But they are so yum that I don't mind my true doucheness shining through.

hoochie coochie

fat

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 was just in Mexico and I found myself only drinking like 1/2 cup per day (down from 2-3) because it was hot and I didn't have great coffee. Felt fine.

That said, I got mildly irate when the airport's only coffee option appeared to be a Starbucks, and on top of that the line was really long. Eventually I walked around and found a little bar that had an espresso machine and no line though.

it's gotten very difficult to buy just about the only coffee I like now (Boyd's Red Wagon blend) for some reason so now I have to have it shipped to me from the maker in big boxes, which led to me confronting the fact that I spend $40 a week on coffee (this is coffee at home, not coffee out) but given that that's for 3 people who drink multiple cups a morning I suppose that isn't that bad. I never buy coffee out anymore unless I'm at a restaurant.

not really coffe but Koffe Kup donuts were my love, then they went ou t of business. what kind of &*^%^%$ is that

Initial rating of IAM slightly lower than IOM

Taro latte anyone?

its what taro milk i dont think ive had taro milk or if thats a thing i like taro tho ive had taro bubble tea i think thats just got taro flavor in it, prob not as good as regular coffee but id try it maybe nice for a treat

I misheard "the ideal copy" as "the ideal coffee" on Wire's "Ambitious" which is answered in the song with phrases like "H2O." Not that Wire would've sold out, but that could've been the basis for an awesome coffee commercial in the '80s.

which terrible prepackaged coffee brand of the 80s would it be for, is the question

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9avjD9ugXc

i want a stovetop percolator now :\

My parents had a glass percolator, and in addition to the problems mentioned in the video, they would sometimes start a pot and forget to watch it, so it perked for 5-10 or even more minutes after it was done.

Such 60s/70s nostalgia on the glass and steel stovetop percs, before my time but would like to try

I think my mom used her steel stovetop perc well into the 90s. My grandparents definitely did; they died knowing no other coffee prep.

it's after noon, time to switch from coffee to fake coffee.

i drank an afternoon coffee today, as a treat

fancy

thats right

There's unfinished coffee in the cafetiere in front of me, it's 8.30pm, do I microwave and consume n.b. am also on the beers

let's fuckin do this

also cooking orzo. champion of the fuckin world

coffee + beers is a low key speedball