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I have a decent cuisinart coffee maker that grinds the beans just prior to brewing and it's a serviceable cheap machine for when I'm lazy. I have a french press that I use as well. What's a non-blade grinder? I'm considering upgrading to what people have told me is the holy grail of home crafted espresso:
Have you ever heard of this thing? It looks pretty decent for home use.
A non-blade grinder would most likely be a burr grinder. Blade grinders chop the beans, unevenly, generating a lot of dust, static electricity and unwanted heat. A conical burr grinder uses two burrs that rotate, breaking the beans between the "teeth" of the burrs until the grounds reach a size smaller than the distance between the two burrs. The distance between the two burrs at their closest point determine the size of the grounds, thus all grounds that pass between the burrs must be as small or smaller than that distance. You absolutely need a conical burr grinder to brew espresso, especially if you're looking at a quality machine like a Rancilio Silvia. My recommendation is a Mazzer Mini. You simply won't find a more reliable, better built grinder, except higher up in the Mazzer line. Gaggia and Rancilio make decent grinders (the MDF and the Rocky respectively), but Mazzer is the hands-down winner of the home grinder market. You could get a Zassenhaus mill for 1/4 the price and get a grind easily as good as the Mini produces, but it's a manual mill so you'd be turning those burrs by hand - not the most fun thing to do in the world.
As for the Rancilio Silvia, it is a VERY popular machine. The only real competitor it has in the price range is the Gaggia Classic, another excellent machine. There are others, like the Francis! Francis! X1, which has a reputation for not being so reliable, the Saeco Vienna Deluxe, which is good, but it's fully automatic, so you don't have the control that the Rancilio and Gaggia offer, and the La Pavoni Europiccola, which can produce truly excellent espresso, but requires a bit more maintenance than most. The next serious step up would be a La Pavoni Pro Lever or the even more expensive QuickMill Anita. Once you get above the $500-600 range, you have to spend a lot more to get appreciably better results.
A black espresso wouldn't have nearly that much water.
Its like saying you drink black mocha's, because you don't add sugar or cream to it. It doesn't make it black.
Espresso and water is coffee.
And black coffee is coffee without milk.
No. No, it isn't.
I don't mean this in the pure sense of "they are different chemicals" or some shit. They use different blends, different graininess(blanking on the correct terminology there), have quite different tastes, etc. You don't add water to espresso and bam, have a black coffee, otherwise espresso would just be coffee anyways.
I'm sure I'm horribly getting my point across here, but you can't use espresso and coffee interchangably.
According to Webster's New World dictionary, espresso is defined as coffee prepared in a special machine from finely ground coffee beans, through which steam under high pressure is forced.
Its like arguing a Toyota is not a car because its totally different from a BMW, which is a car.
According to Webster's New World dictionary, espresso is defined as coffee prepared in a special machine from finely ground coffee beans, through which steam under high pressure is forced.
Its like arguing a Toyota is not a car because its totally different from a BMW, which is a car.
There are two tips I've got for making instant coffee taste nice.
First you've got to find your brand, for me, to my very great surprise, is the Fairglobe brand from Lidl. Yes, Lidl. This isn't a great help for you given that Lidl is a European discount supermarket chain but I think it goes to show that good instant coffee comes in unexpected places.
The second, and by far the most important, is to make instant coffee with milk, no water at all. Put a mug of milk into a microwave for a minute thirty to a minute fifty then stir in one half to a whole teaspoon of instant coffee. Of course you can heat the milk in a pan on the stove but it's just much easier to use a microwave.
You guys are still arguing about what an Americano is? An Americano is coffee, just as espresso is coffee, and a lungo is coffee and a long black is coffee. If it's made with ground coffee beans and water, it is coffee. It doesn't matter if it's boiled, steeped or pressurized. The brewing process is irrelevant. It's still coffee.
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A black espresso wouldn't have nearly that much water.
Its like saying you drink black mocha's, because you don't add sugar or cream to it. It doesn't make it black.
Espresso and water is coffee.
And black coffee is coffee without milk.
No. No, it isn't.
I don't mean this in the pure sense of "they are different chemicals" or some shit. They use different blends, different graininess(blanking on the correct terminology there), have quite different tastes, etc. You don't add water to espresso and bam, have a black coffee, otherwise espresso would just be coffee anyways.
I'm sure I'm horribly getting my point across here, but you can't use espresso and coffee interchangably.
No, that is exactly what you do.
If you go to a coffee shop and ask for a coffee you'll be a given an Americano, which is a shot or two of espresso topped up with hot water. This is available in "white" (with milk) and "black" (without milk).
You're right that you can't use espresso and coffee interchangeably. Espresso is a form of coffee and most decent coffee is based upon shots of espresso.
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A black espresso wouldn't have nearly that much water.
Its like saying you drink black mocha's, because you don't add sugar or cream to it. It doesn't make it black.
Espresso and water is coffee.
And black coffee is coffee without milk.
No. No, it isn't.
I don't mean this in the pure sense of "they are different chemicals" or some shit. They use different blends, different graininess(blanking on the correct terminology there), have quite different tastes, etc. You don't add water to espresso and bam, have a black coffee, otherwise espresso would just be coffee anyways.
I'm sure I'm horribly getting my point across here, but you can't use espresso and coffee interchangably.
No, that is exactly what you do.
If you go to a coffee shop and ask for a coffee you'll be a given an Americano, which is a shot or two of espresso topped up with hot water. This is available in "white" (with milk) and "black" (without milk).
You're right that you can't use espresso and coffee interchangeably. Espresso is a form of coffee and most decent coffee is based upon shots of espresso.
When I went to Europe if I ordered a "coffee" they just gave me a shot of espresso. If I wanted something resembling American coffee (a large cup of cofffee) I had to order an Americano: Espresso and water. Either way I was getting espresso, they didn't have the slow brew stuff in the coffee shops over there.
In America if you order a "coffee" at any diner you get the filtered slow brew non pressurized mr coffee stuff instead of espresso. I'm not a fan of that, but I don't like straight espresso shots either, so I always order Americano's when I go to coffee shops instead.
My recommendation is a Mazzer Mini. You simply won't find a more reliable, better built grinder, except higher up in the Mazzer line.
This thing is officially in the queue. I might go for a cheap conical burr in the meantime though. The grinder + the maker is a significant investment.
Coffee is one of the most unfair things on Earth. It smells delicious, but tastes like the inside of my asshole.
Agreed, the smell of freshly ground coffee makes me want to stuff it right in my gob. Taste of actual coffee? Okay. I drink macchiatos myself (mostly for taste, because I've yet to notice coffee ever actually waking me up), but the taste is never as great as the smell.
Instant coffee is the fucking devil, but there's like 6 flights of stairs and The Outdoors between me and a decent cup at work, so I usually suck it up and hit the nescafe in summer.
I have, however, actually gone to a Coles and bought real coffee and a $10 plunger while staying at a hotel once, because they only had sachets of International Roast in the rooms. I'm pretty sure that stuff is actually mispackaged rat poison.
A black espresso wouldn't have nearly that much water.
Its like saying you drink black mocha's, because you don't add sugar or cream to it. It doesn't make it black.
Espresso and water is coffee.
And black coffee is coffee without milk.
No. No, it isn't.
I don't mean this in the pure sense of "they are different chemicals" or some shit. They use different blends, different graininess(blanking on the correct terminology there), have quite different tastes, etc. You don't add water to espresso and bam, have a black coffee, otherwise espresso would just be coffee anyways.
I'm sure I'm horribly getting my point across here, but you can't use espresso and coffee interchangably.
No, that is exactly what you do.
If you go to a coffee shop and ask for a coffee you'll be a given an Americano, which is a shot or two of espresso topped up with hot water. This is available in "white" (with milk) and "black" (without milk).
You're right that you can't use espresso and coffee interchangeably. Espresso is a form of coffee and most decent coffee is based upon shots of espresso.
Espresso and water is, in fact, an Americano. However, if you go into a coffee shop, and order a cup of coffee--at least in America--you will most likely be given a cup of brewed coffee. If you order an Americano, you will be given espresso in water.
I know this applies at all Starbucks, and most other coffee shops. Yes, there are some coffee shops that don't carry brewed coffee, and the closest thing they have to that is an Americano, but they are most definitely two different things, with two different tastes. Saying they're the same thing is like saying a cat and a dog are the same thing because they both have four legs.
Technically, if you want a cup of black, brewed coffee, you're ordering a house blend, black. And let me tell you, you order that in Seattle, and you get some weird fucking looks. I swear to god, some of the best coffee in the fucking world, and everyone wants to ruin it by drowning it in cream, sugar, and milk. What the fuck, people?
Hey, you dudes that are arguing that an americano isn't "black coffee" because it has water in it...you do know what's being used to brew your black coffee, right? And how that ends up in your mug?
As a British woman this whole post is like a strange mirror of how Americans must feel when witnessing a British discussion on tea (a tiny bit of milk, and half a sugar myself, though my boyfriend used to be a builder and complains if it isn't strong enough to coat the teeth and strip the paint off the mug). I mean...coffee...it's just what wakes you up, and goes well with a cigarette mid-christmas-shopping in my eyes.
If you mean the instant crap that you stir into a cup of hot water, I relied on it for a while, and it tore right through me. Upset stomach, the works.
Going back to grounds, even the cheap stuff like Folgers in the big jug, made it a lot easier to enjoy a cup of coffee in the morning. It brews while I'm showering. Still quick and easy.
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Hey, you dudes that are arguing that an americano isn't "black coffee" because it has water in it...you do know what's being used to brew your black coffee, right? And how that ends up in your mug?
The process of making espresso and the process of making drip coffee create two pretty distinct tastes, not just one being weaker or stronger. Drip coffee also doesn't have any of the crema espresso does, and is usually made with lighter roasted and lower quality beans. If an Americano was just black coffee, they wouldn't have given it a name to differentiate it.
Coffee is one of the most unfair things on Earth. It smells delicious, but tastes like the inside of my asshole.
See, now I just want to taste the inside of your asshole.
Protip: It's probably caffeine free.
I drink at least 4 liters of soda a day, so I'm pretty sure it actually would not be caffeine free. Regardless, if I started charging him and others to taste the inside of my asshole, Starbucks would just start doing it for 3 times as much money and I'd lose all my business.
Drip coffee also doesn't have any of the crema espresso does, and is usually made with lighter roasted and lower quality beans. If an Americano was just black coffee, they wouldn't have given it a name to differentiate it.
Right, because espresso shops are known for the unimpeachable logic they use in naming their drinks.
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"Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are." - Bertolt Brecht
Hey, you dudes that are arguing that an americano isn't "black coffee" because it has water in it...you do know what's being used to brew your black coffee, right? And how that ends up in your mug?
The process of making espresso and the process of making drip coffee create two pretty distinct tastes, not just one being weaker or stronger. Drip coffee also doesn't have any of the crema espresso does, and is usually made with lighter roasted and lower quality beans. If an Americano was just black coffee, they wouldn't have given it a name to differentiate it.
If you brew with an aeropress, you'll get a bit of crema on top. Is coffee you make with an aeropress not black coffee, then?
Also, your statement about lighter roasted and lower quality beans for drip coffee is patently false, at least for every knowledgeable roaster I've talked to.
...most decent coffee is based upon shots of espresso.
This is essentially backwards. Good espresso is based on good, single origin coffee beans. If an espresso blend is good, it's pretty likely that all of the constituent single origins in there are delicious when they stand alone.
Drip coffee also doesn't have any of the crema espresso does, and is usually made with lighter roasted and lower quality beans. If an Americano was just black coffee, they wouldn't have given it a name to differentiate it.
Right, because espresso shops are known for the unimpeachable logic they use in naming their drinks.
Actually, it was meant as an insult originally, meant to convey the point that Americans drink weak-assed coffee.
t msh1283 - It's kind of a tossup. An aeropress is pretty much a poor man's manual hand pull espresso maker. And while a higher end coffee shop will have a quality bean in its drip brew, your average place will just use whatever's readily available.
Hey, you dudes that are arguing that an americano isn't "black coffee" because it has water in it...you do know what's being used to brew your black coffee, right? And how that ends up in your mug?
The process of making espresso and the process of making drip coffee create two pretty distinct tastes, not just one being weaker or stronger. Drip coffee also doesn't have any of the crema espresso does, and is usually made with lighter roasted and lower quality beans. If an Americano was just black coffee, they wouldn't have given it a name to differentiate it.
If you brew with an aeropress, you'll get a bit of crema on top. Is coffee you make with an aeropress not black coffee, then?
Also, your statement about lighter roasted and lower quality beans for drip coffee is patently false, at least for every knowledgeable roaster I've talked to.
shut up shut up shut up
No one who is not retarded cares about this stupid argument about whether espresso is actually coffee, and those who do care can lick the inside of my asshole, which - in case you're curious - does not taste like coffee, but rather like shit which is distinct from diarrhea, because the former is just any old fecal matter while the latter is created with a special blend of spicy foods and rancid meats, and you totally can't just make diarrhea by adding water to poop, and in summary screw you all.
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Has anyone mentioned using a Moka pot yet? They make a good amount of quasi-espresso in less than 10 minutes, and they're easy as hell to use and clean.
And you don't have to grind your own beans, just go to the supermarket and look for the Lavazza or Illy brand tins of finely ground espresso coffee. It's so good.
The keurig was quite possibly the best money i've spent in a very long time. The fact that they sell the pods at my local BJs makes it a pretty good deal for me too. I now can drink coffee every morning without taking a trip to Dunkin Donuts.
No one who is not retarded cares about this stupid argument about whether espresso is actually coffee, and those who do care can lick the inside of my asshole, which - in case you're curious - does not taste like coffee, but rather like shit which is distinct from diarrhea, because the former is just any old fecal matter while the latter is created with a special blend of spicy foods and rancid meats, and you totally can't just make diarrhea by adding water to poop, and in summary screw you all.
I drink instant every morning, since I'm the only coffee drinker in the house and I only want one cup before I'm off. I also have a single-serving "pod" coffee machine (Senseo brand). In the past year, I've worked my way through most pods and instant coffees in the local superstores. Here are my findings:
1) There is no good instant coffee.
2) There is no good pod coffee.
No surprises so far, but here is the shocker:
3) Many instant coffees are better than pod coffee.
My recommendation for instant: Folger's. They put quite a few artificial flavors into their instant that makes it almost mediocre. It's my current choice.
Now, if you want to spend the money, there is good single-serve coffee to be had. It's called Nespresso and it's delicious. So far, I've been to cheap to buy that stuff for myself. Here's some dude's video of making a Latte Macchiato in their Nespresso Latissima machine. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CilFoVNf5oo
EDIT: And drip coffee tastes very different (worse IMHO) from Americano.
There are two tips I've got for making instant coffee taste nice.
First you've got to find your brand, for me, to my very great surprise, is the Fairglobe brand from Lidl. Yes, Lidl. This isn't a great help for you given that Lidl is a European discount supermarket chain but I think it goes to show that good instant coffee comes in unexpected places.
The second, and by far the most important, is to make instant coffee with milk, no water at all. Put a mug of milk into a microwave for a minute thirty to a minute fifty then stir in one half to a whole teaspoon of instant coffee. Of course you can heat the milk in a pan on the stove but it's just much easier to use a microwave.
It's not real coffee but I find it delicious.
I just buy coffee flavoured milk from the supermarket. I used to drink Nescafe instant coffee all the time, with loads of milk and sugar dumped in. I miss it.
I make a single cup (well, its more like two - for my travel cup) in the mornings using a small french press.
And it's really easy.
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I've got a Nespresso machine, it's pretty good but tries to pretend it is some sort of horribly pretentious club. Also their delivery service is outstanding.
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Has anyone mentioned using a Moka pot yet? They make a good amount of quasi-espresso in less than 10 minutes, and they're easy as hell to use and clean.
And you don't have to grind your own beans, just go to the supermarket and look for the Lavazza or Illy brand tins of finely ground espresso coffee. It's so good.
We have Keurigs and Green Mountain Coffee (same shit you get at Exxon On the Run [with your moneys] shops) here. The only flavors I've found to be tolerable are the French Road, Columbian Supremo, and the Sumatran... and no one here drinks the Sumatran. Which was great, because all the Sumatran is left for me. But the admins stopped ordering it for more weenie coffee.
I don't actually like the coffee, but I'll drink it because it's free wake up juice. You gotta pay for sodas. I end up pouring a ton of creamer in it.
I haven't had a good cup of coffee in a long time... the best I ever had was on a business trip to Kuala Lumpur. Damn fine coffee.
Has anyone mentioned using a Moka pot yet? They make a good amount of quasi-espresso in less than 10 minutes, and they're easy as hell to use and clean.
And you don't have to grind your own beans, just go to the supermarket and look for the Lavazza or Illy brand tins of finely ground espresso coffee. It's so good.
I have an espresso machine and I can make up to four cups of actual espresso in about 5 minutes.
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I'd like to make a note here, that drinking coffee before you plan on drinking alchohol is a good plan, generally, because it speeds up your ability to take in the drink, and also counters the depressant effect of the alchohol.
Or alchohol in various coffees, which is also delicious.
And I own a French press and use it in my forced triple dorm room. It's not that fucking hard.
I just dump some preground Starbucks coffee that my roommate gets for free into a tiny French press, I don't even wait 3 minutes before pushing the plunger, and then I put milk and sugar in it.
I just dump some preground Starbucks coffee that my roommate gets for free into a tiny French press, I don't even wait 3 minutes before pushing the plunger, and then I put milk and sugar in it.
How does that make the rest of you feel?
I just don't know what to say to you. You know it's wrong, but you do it anyway! Shame!
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A non-blade grinder would most likely be a burr grinder. Blade grinders chop the beans, unevenly, generating a lot of dust, static electricity and unwanted heat. A conical burr grinder uses two burrs that rotate, breaking the beans between the "teeth" of the burrs until the grounds reach a size smaller than the distance between the two burrs. The distance between the two burrs at their closest point determine the size of the grounds, thus all grounds that pass between the burrs must be as small or smaller than that distance. You absolutely need a conical burr grinder to brew espresso, especially if you're looking at a quality machine like a Rancilio Silvia. My recommendation is a Mazzer Mini. You simply won't find a more reliable, better built grinder, except higher up in the Mazzer line. Gaggia and Rancilio make decent grinders (the MDF and the Rocky respectively), but Mazzer is the hands-down winner of the home grinder market. You could get a Zassenhaus mill for 1/4 the price and get a grind easily as good as the Mini produces, but it's a manual mill so you'd be turning those burrs by hand - not the most fun thing to do in the world.
As for the Rancilio Silvia, it is a VERY popular machine. The only real competitor it has in the price range is the Gaggia Classic, another excellent machine. There are others, like the Francis! Francis! X1, which has a reputation for not being so reliable, the Saeco Vienna Deluxe, which is good, but it's fully automatic, so you don't have the control that the Rancilio and Gaggia offer, and the La Pavoni Europiccola, which can produce truly excellent espresso, but requires a bit more maintenance than most. The next serious step up would be a La Pavoni Pro Lever or the even more expensive QuickMill Anita. Once you get above the $500-600 range, you have to spend a lot more to get appreciably better results.
I suppose the issue is that some feel "black" should only be used to describe coffees with which the alternative is common.
No. No, it isn't.
I don't mean this in the pure sense of "they are different chemicals" or some shit. They use different blends, different graininess(blanking on the correct terminology there), have quite different tastes, etc. You don't add water to espresso and bam, have a black coffee, otherwise espresso would just be coffee anyways.
I'm sure I'm horribly getting my point across here, but you can't use espresso and coffee interchangably.
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Its like arguing a Toyota is not a car because its totally different from a BMW, which is a car.
Or that Toyota can't make a five series.
First you've got to find your brand, for me, to my very great surprise, is the Fairglobe brand from Lidl. Yes, Lidl. This isn't a great help for you given that Lidl is a European discount supermarket chain but I think it goes to show that good instant coffee comes in unexpected places.
The second, and by far the most important, is to make instant coffee with milk, no water at all. Put a mug of milk into a microwave for a minute thirty to a minute fifty then stir in one half to a whole teaspoon of instant coffee. Of course you can heat the milk in a pan on the stove but it's just much easier to use a microwave.
It's not real coffee but I find it delicious.
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1. a beverage consisting of a decoction or infusion of the roasted ground or crushed seeds (coffee beans) of the two-seeded fruit (coffee berry) of certain coffee trees.
If you go to a coffee shop and ask for a coffee you'll be a given an Americano, which is a shot or two of espresso topped up with hot water. This is available in "white" (with milk) and "black" (without milk).
You're right that you can't use espresso and coffee interchangeably. Espresso is a form of coffee and most decent coffee is based upon shots of espresso.
When I went to Europe if I ordered a "coffee" they just gave me a shot of espresso. If I wanted something resembling American coffee (a large cup of cofffee) I had to order an Americano: Espresso and water. Either way I was getting espresso, they didn't have the slow brew stuff in the coffee shops over there.
In America if you order a "coffee" at any diner you get the filtered slow brew non pressurized mr coffee stuff instead of espresso. I'm not a fan of that, but I don't like straight espresso shots either, so I always order Americano's when I go to coffee shops instead.
This thing is officially in the queue. I might go for a cheap conical burr in the meantime though. The grinder + the maker is a significant investment.
I have, however, actually gone to a Coles and bought real coffee and a $10 plunger while staying at a hotel once, because they only had sachets of International Roast in the rooms. I'm pretty sure that stuff is actually mispackaged rat poison.
I know this applies at all Starbucks, and most other coffee shops. Yes, there are some coffee shops that don't carry brewed coffee, and the closest thing they have to that is an Americano, but they are most definitely two different things, with two different tastes. Saying they're the same thing is like saying a cat and a dog are the same thing because they both have four legs.
Technically, if you want a cup of black, brewed coffee, you're ordering a house blend, black. And let me tell you, you order that in Seattle, and you get some weird fucking looks. I swear to god, some of the best coffee in the fucking world, and everyone wants to ruin it by drowning it in cream, sugar, and milk. What the fuck, people?
Whittrads over here does some fairly nice instant and brewed coffee: http://www.whittard.co.uk/store/catalogue/Coffee-P3000/Instant-SC3005/ although the flavoured ones taste a little of how those Yankee candles smell.
Going back to grounds, even the cheap stuff like Folgers in the big jug, made it a lot easier to enjoy a cup of coffee in the morning. It brews while I'm showering. Still quick and easy.
I drink at least 4 liters of soda a day, so I'm pretty sure it actually would not be caffeine free. Regardless, if I started charging him and others to taste the inside of my asshole, Starbucks would just start doing it for 3 times as much money and I'd lose all my business.
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Right, because espresso shops are known for the unimpeachable logic they use in naming their drinks.
If you brew with an aeropress, you'll get a bit of crema on top. Is coffee you make with an aeropress not black coffee, then?
Also, your statement about lighter roasted and lower quality beans for drip coffee is patently false, at least for every knowledgeable roaster I've talked to.
This is essentially backwards. Good espresso is based on good, single origin coffee beans. If an espresso blend is good, it's pretty likely that all of the constituent single origins in there are delicious when they stand alone.
t msh1283 - It's kind of a tossup. An aeropress is pretty much a poor man's manual hand pull espresso maker. And while a higher end coffee shop will have a quality bean in its drip brew, your average place will just use whatever's readily available.
shut up shut up shut up
No one who is not retarded cares about this stupid argument about whether espresso is actually coffee, and those who do care can lick the inside of my asshole, which - in case you're curious - does not taste like coffee, but rather like shit which is distinct from diarrhea, because the former is just any old fecal matter while the latter is created with a special blend of spicy foods and rancid meats, and you totally can't just make diarrhea by adding water to poop, and in summary screw you all.
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And you don't have to grind your own beans, just go to the supermarket and look for the Lavazza or Illy brand tins of finely ground espresso coffee. It's so good.
Or is it an espresso enema?
1) There is no good instant coffee.
2) There is no good pod coffee.
No surprises so far, but here is the shocker:
3) Many instant coffees are better than pod coffee.
My recommendation for instant: Folger's. They put quite a few artificial flavors into their instant that makes it almost mediocre. It's my current choice.
Now, if you want to spend the money, there is good single-serve coffee to be had. It's called Nespresso and it's delicious. So far, I've been to cheap to buy that stuff for myself. Here's some dude's video of making a Latte Macchiato in their Nespresso Latissima machine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CilFoVNf5oo
EDIT: And drip coffee tastes very different (worse IMHO) from Americano.
I just buy coffee flavoured milk from the supermarket. I used to drink Nescafe instant coffee all the time, with loads of milk and sugar dumped in. I miss it.
And it's really easy.
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Moka Pots are snazzy.
They take a bit of getting used to though.
I don't actually like the coffee, but I'll drink it because it's free wake up juice. You gotta pay for sodas. I end up pouring a ton of creamer in it.
I haven't had a good cup of coffee in a long time... the best I ever had was on a business trip to Kuala Lumpur. Damn fine coffee.
This is where 90% of my coffee consumption comes from. Also because sometimes I do in fact need the heat.
9% of my coffee comes from various mochas, mostly iced, mostly cold-brewed (which is fucking fantastic).
1% is me just saying fuck I'm cold and mochas are overpriced and I need some goddamn caffiene RIGHT NAOW
I have an espresso machine and I can make up to four cups of actual espresso in about 5 minutes.
Or alchohol in various coffees, which is also delicious.
And I own a French press and use it in my forced triple dorm room. It's not that fucking hard.
How does that make the rest of you feel?
i mean does the coffee taste better? worse? same? like candy mules?
I just don't know what to say to you. You know it's wrong, but you do it anyway! Shame!
Percolated coffee is generally regarded as the worst kind of coffee. To me, it's worse than instant. Which makes it MUCH worse than drip coffee.
Things I have at work:
-French press
-Mug
-Airtight Container
-Source of Hot Water
-Damn good beans
Things I do not have at work:
-Grinder
I'd like a grinder that doesn't make too much noise (I am at work, after all) and doesn't cost too much money, and makes good coffee.
does such a thing exist?
A plastic bad and hammer?