have noticed this a couple times but never cared enough to remember what kind of beans. if it roast was a factor i would expect a dark roast to be less staticky because they are more "oily." maybe the beans were a little older and had lower moisture content. anyway you have to repeat this experiment under the same temp/humidity conditions with the cup exactly as clean/dirty each time. please report back.
― certified juice therapist (harbl), Sunday, 31 October 2021 18:02 (two years ago) link
calstars i think some of these kettles have temp controls on them for the real finicky types
― calstars, Sunday, 31 October 2021 18:03 (two years ago) link
its also much faster
― lag∞n, Sunday, 31 October 2021 18:09 (two years ago) link
is it? on your weeny little 120V current?
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 31 October 2021 20:56 (two years ago) link
i had always understood that to be the stumbling block to mass acceptance of the countertop kettle
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 31 October 2021 20:59 (two years ago) link
yeah its faster, americans dont have them i think just cause they dont use kettles very much
― lag∞n, Sunday, 31 October 2021 21:18 (two years ago) link
it's faster, but not as fast as euro kettles due to what I am told is the "mains voltage"
― mh, Sunday, 31 October 2021 21:31 (two years ago) link
its against gods law for europe to have a single better household appliance than america and must be rectified i demand mains voltage
― lag∞n, Sunday, 31 October 2021 21:58 (two years ago) link
most houses have 220V outlets for the washing machine.. i bet something could be rigged up
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 31 October 2021 23:02 (two years ago) link
xp burning the european flag to heat my coffee water
― mh, Monday, 1 November 2021 01:39 (two years ago) link
I didn't get it either before I dated/married a non-American but now I will never go back to the stovetop kettle. And the Fellow did heat very fast somehow.
I really did like the temp control as well as the temp hold feature on the Fellow, but I just can't splurge like that again. The cheapo one I've been using is basically fine for now.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 1 November 2021 01:46 (two years ago) link
the fellow kettle pulls hell of amps to keep up afaict
― mh, Monday, 1 November 2021 01:54 (two years ago) link
tbh feel like electric kettles have become pretty common in america
― lag∞n, Monday, 1 November 2021 02:03 (two years ago) link
as many as one in fifteen of my coworkers may have them in their domicile
― mh, Monday, 1 November 2021 05:18 (two years ago) link
Ive switched to a stovetop kettle because the electric ones just got eaten by the hard water locally
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Monday, 1 November 2021 09:12 (two years ago) link
reminding me that i need to get an electric kettle for my office...for TEA
― gbx, Monday, 8 November 2021 21:52 (two years ago) link
......i use the water arm of my coffee machine....
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Monday, 8 November 2021 22:07 (two years ago) link
It's a Friday afternoon and I'm fading, coffee would be great right now. I work on a college campus, it's finals week, shouldn't be hard to source, no?
Turns out, yes. None of the cafes in the buildings I can access are open, the local coffee shop randomly closed at 3 this afternoon, even the Starbucks is closed.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 17 December 2021 22:53 (two years ago) link
Thoughts and prayers
― o. nate, Saturday, 18 December 2021 04:23 (two years ago) link
An otherwise excellent cof house in my town closes at 1pm, WTF? Others close at 2pm. Only one is open until 5. Otherwise, the Starbucks inside the Target is your choice.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 25 December 2021 18:53 (two years ago) link
Not in the same annoyance league as most cafes in Japan, which OPEN at noon or some afternoon hour.
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 25 December 2021 20:16 (two years ago) link
japanese business hours are strange
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 25 December 2021 20:22 (two years ago) link
i got a good espresso grinder (eureka mignon) for xmas. this is going to be a life-changing upgrade.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 27 December 2021 00:55 (two years ago) link
get ready baby
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 27 December 2021 01:15 (two years ago) link
nice
― lag∞n, Monday, 27 December 2021 17:10 (two years ago) link
― lukas, Saturday, 1 January 2022 21:30 (two years ago) link
London's first coffee-house, as reported by an eyewitness in 1654:"A cuphye-house or a Turkish- as it were ale-house is erected near the Old Exchange. ...It is somewhat hot and unpleasant but a good after relish and caused breaking of wind in abundance"— Dr Anton Howes (@antonhowes) July 2, 2022
― mark s, Sunday, 3 July 2022 11:41 (one year ago) link
mods plz change thread-title to "cuphye"
it came late to london i think. bohemia and vienna were getting it in on horses from hungary and transylvania from the 1630s or so
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 3 July 2022 11:55 (one year ago) link
"caused breaking of wind in abundance, also the second half of the thirty years war"
― mark s, Sunday, 3 July 2022 12:30 (one year ago) link
lol
― lag∞n, Sunday, 3 July 2022 14:11 (one year ago) link
so my Oxo Barista Brain coffee maker finally bit the dust. I decided that I will go back to using the Chemex, and I purchased a new electric kettle for it. The kettle works really well, but I'm extremely underwhelmed by the results I'm getting from the Chemex. There's some good flavor in there, but it's just way too mild. I'm kind of surprised because the Barista Brain is designed to imitate Chemex-style pour over coffee, but it produces much more robust flavors.
I've tried making some little adjustments that have helped a bit, but not nearly enough. Here's what I will do next: try bumping up the kettle temp from the coffee setting (around 200 degrees) to full boiling temp, add a bit more ground coffee (not sure why I'd need more coffee when I'm using the exact same amount of water and coffee as with the Barista Brain), go to a finer grind (I've already bumped this up a bit and it helped slightly, I don't have much more room left for this before it starts to clog). If all else fails, I may switch to darker beans. I think I used to use French Roast with the Chemex in the past, I've moved to somewhat (not much) lighter roasts in more recent times, but maybe that just isn't going to work here.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 4 October 2022 13:47 (one year ago) link
do you scald the chemex first might help a lil but yeah more cof higher temp will prob do it, tho pouring actually boiling water in there is prob unadvisable
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 15:14 (one year ago) link
yes, I do. The water I used is a hair below 212 because 200 wasn't quite cutting it.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 4 October 2022 15:19 (one year ago) link
oh no, was the BB dead from natural causes? Mine works well, still
― mh, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 04:30 (one year ago) link
For most of the past year the water sprayer had only been hitting half of the basket, so I had to constantly stir up the coffee grounds while it was brewing to make sure it brewed correctly. Then the heating element got stuck to be permanently on, which meant that it would just immediately crank through all the water as soon as you poured it in, plus it didn't seem particularly safe. I got a good several years of daily use out of it, so I'm not too upset, but I may eventually have to get a new one if I can't nail down a good routine with the chemex soon.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 10:13 (one year ago) link
I'm no expert, but to get better Chemex results I had to start using hotter water (boiling or very near) and way more coffee than you see recommended online.
On that note, how much coffee would you all use when doing a Chemex for two?
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 16:25 (one year ago) link
I tend to go with roughly a scoop per 6 oz cup. I use about 6 scoops for my daily massive cup of coffee (more like 6 cups), so I'd probably shoot for about 10 scoops for 2.
I did raise the temperature and also went with a finer grind, I may have swung it a bit too far towards bitter, so I'll probably dial those back a tiny amount tomorrow
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 16:30 (one year ago) link
Lately I have been moving away from the single origin coffees and back to Stumptown's blends. Man, they are good. I've been especially into Homestead and Founders blend lately. They just taste more classically like coffee to me, but significantly elevated, as opposed to a high-end, wine-like product where you focus on tasting notes.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 10 November 2022 14:43 (one year ago) link
i too have been getting some blends and digging it, and agree it's more of a "classic coffee" type vibe.
was thinking about getting an espresso machine once I saw how cheap (and small ) they are, I assumed they were huge and cost $$$
― a (waterface), Thursday, 10 November 2022 21:00 (one year ago) link
I mainly want the blacknessof the bean to be true - a French roast - a real one, jet black
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 10 November 2022 21:19 (one year ago) link
yeah, I can't go there, but I am mostly liking a roast right down the middle. Light roasts are a little too delicate for me sometimes, although I do enjoy them.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 10 November 2022 21:20 (one year ago) link
― a (waterface), Thursday, November 10, 2022 4:00 PM (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Anything below a few hundred bucks is probably not going to be satisfactory quality though
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 10 November 2022 21:21 (one year ago) link
yah that's what i'm worried about. if anyone has one they dig???!!!
― a (waterface), Friday, 11 November 2022 14:46 (one year ago) link
My father has done a lot of study of home espresso, and according to him the least expensive option for real espresso at home is the Flair manual espresso maker. However, its a much slower and more manually intensive process than you might want:
https://flairespresso.com/products/espresso-makers/flair-classic/
― o. nate, Friday, 11 November 2022 14:49 (one year ago) link
I've come to prefer blends as well. Agree that the mentioned Stumptown blends are excellent. I also enjoy Verve, which I think is based out of Santa Cruz, so not sure how widely available they are. Their 1950 and Streetlevel are favorites - always buy them if they are on sale.
― beard papa, Friday, 11 November 2022 19:13 (one year ago) link
Never used it but the Breville Bambino seems to get good reviews and is not super expensive, if you just want a small machine to make espresso for yourself or you and a couple other people. Rancilio Silvia seems like it's the long-running favorite for modest sized kitchen espresso machines but it's gotten pretty pricey. I loved my La Pavoni Europiccola (which I'm sure I waxed extensively about in this thread in the past) but it was such a pain in the ass at the same time.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 11 November 2022 19:41 (one year ago) link
we have had the Saeco Aroma for 10+ years … seals are starting leak now but it has been a solid workhorse, love it i dont think they make them anymore sadly but there are used models floating around sometimes on ebay
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 11 November 2022 20:52 (one year ago) link
the bambino is good but bambino + decent grinder is still $$$$$
― call all destroyer, Friday, 11 November 2022 21:42 (one year ago) link
we've got a great burr grinder
i almost typed butt grinder
― a (waterface), Friday, 11 November 2022 21:54 (one year ago) link