How To Make Coffee |
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How To Make Coffee |
 Oct 25 2011, 08:20 AM
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Got this idea from suzi and the guy who sits with me at work who loved in milan. I love good coffee but it is an art and a skill. Anybody else anal about the drink can share here there tips...
firstly suzi can tell me about her special press. My big coffee tip. Well if you liek cappaccino get one of these... La Cafetiere Bialetti Tuttocrema Frothing Jug, Teflon Non Stick Surface and Double Filter For Extra Frothy Milk this makes the best froth ever and widely used in Milan by the ordianry folk... |
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Oct 25 2011, 02:38 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 406 Joined: 15-February 09 From: Canada Member No.: 54 |
Re... Your French Press question about grind from the interview thread.
It is correct that you usually use a coarse grind of coffee for a French press, but.... mine has a quite a dense mesh basket to it thus I am able to use a finer grind (which I prefer) Coarse grind works fine; I've used both but you would have to grind the beans down to a powder for them to go through the mesh in mine !!!! I'm not much for any type of fancy coffee like lattes, expresso or the such like. Just give me a nice cup of joe with one heaping sugar and some milk or cream and I'm happy (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) And in a proper coffee mug; not a paper cup (IMG:style_emoticons/default/angry.gif) This post has been edited by Suzi: Oct 25 2011, 02:42 PM |
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Oct 25 2011, 03:02 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 2,402 Joined: 11-February 09 From: here. Member No.: 18 |
Coffe in a mug!!!!! aaaarghhh
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Oct 25 2011, 03:05 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 406 Joined: 15-February 09 From: Canada Member No.: 54 |
QUOTE (Mr Tein @ Oct 25 2011, 11:02 AM)  Coffe in a mug!!!!! aaaarghhh (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) Gee, Teiny... when you have coffee at home do you have it in paper cups with plastic lids? I think not (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif) |
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Oct 26 2011, 07:09 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 2,757 Joined: 11-February 09 From: Sandy Eggo Member No.: 7 |
QUOTE (Mr Tein @ Oct 25 2011, 01:20 AM) I love good coffee but it is an art and a skill. Anybody else anal about the drink can share here there tips... Could you please avoid mentioning 'coffee' and 'anal' together? The last coffee enema gave me a headache, and I'm having a shitty morning...already. Thank you, 'Mr Tea.' |
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Oct 26 2011, 07:12 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 2,757 Joined: 11-February 09 From: Sandy Eggo Member No.: 7 |
QUOTE (Suzi @ Oct 25 2011, 08:05 AM) Gee, Teiny... when you have coffee at home do you have it in paper cups with plastic lids? The Brits drink their coffee from a goblet... ...or is it a chalice? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) |
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Oct 26 2011, 07:38 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 2,402 Joined: 11-February 09 From: here. Member No.: 18 |
A cup and saucer man!!!
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Oct 26 2011, 07:23 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 872 Joined: 6-May 09 From: The map's upside down, I tell you! Member No.: 183 |
QUOTE (Mr Tein @ Oct 26 2011, 08:38 AM) A cup and saucer man!!! Don't be such a ponce, man. |
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Oct 27 2011, 10:23 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 1,184 Joined: 18-February 09 From: Embra Member No.: 68 |
I know designer types who drink theirs from a bowl. ( And they don't even have the excuse that they're French.)
How to make coffee: buy a Nespresso machine. (Heston "dog dirt ice-cream" Blumenthal charges £7 a shot for this at his "Fat Bastard" restaurant. 2,333% profit.) |
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Oct 27 2011, 10:27 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 2,480 Joined: 21-February 09 Member No.: 77 |
Or just boil the kettle, put a spoon of instant in a cup, add milk and/or sugar to taste and just drink the fuckin' thing. Ridiculous.
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Oct 27 2011, 10:32 PM
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Vittoria arabica beans, grind fine, (or just buy their espresso grind if you can't be fagged grinding them) 3 heaped teaspoons in a 3-cup plunger, half fill with boiling water, stir vigorously, let it settle...warm a big mug with some boiling water, tip it out and put in a teaspoon of Beechworth honey leaving the spoon in the mug; plunge the plunger, pour the brew, stir for a while as honey doesn't dissolve as quick as sugar, add a splash of skimmed milk and sup it.
Not sure if you can get Vittoria beans or Beechworth honey outside Australia, but you can probably get something equally good. |
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Oct 27 2011, 10:34 PM
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QUOTE (donavan @ Oct 28 2011, 09:27 AM) Or just boil the kettle, put a spoon of instant in a cup, add milk and/or sugar to taste and just drink the fuckin' thing. Ridiculous. I'll never go back to drinking that sludge. |
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Oct 27 2011, 10:43 PM
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QUOTE (Keltik @ Oct 27 2011, 11:34 PM) I'll never go back to drinking that sludge. There is some pretty good instant coffee, Kelts. You've been had son. I blame Friends. |
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Oct 27 2011, 10:49 PM
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QUOTE (Keltik @ Oct 27 2011, 06:34 PM) I'll never go back to drinking that sludge. It will do in a pinch... I always have a jar of it at home but I do buy good name brand instant coffee. But, honestly ??? Kelts... I think they make it with old ground up broom handles and dried out burls off of trees thus giving it that "broomhandle-ishy taste" (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) |
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Oct 27 2011, 10:56 PM
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QUOTE (Suzi @ Oct 27 2011, 11:49 PM) It will do in a pinch... I always have a jar of it at home but I do buy good name brand instant coffee. But, honestly ??? Kelts... I think they make it with old ground up broom handles and dried out burls off of trees thus giving it that "broomhandle-ishy taste" (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) KENCO. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) |
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Oct 28 2011, 11:59 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 406 Joined: 15-February 09 From: Canada Member No.: 54 |
QUOTE (donavan @ Oct 27 2011, 06:27 PM) Or just boil the kettle, put a spoon of instant in a cup, add milk and/or sugar to taste and just drink the fuckin' thing. Ridiculous. Now, now Sweet Prince..... You've been drinking too much of the stuff and its making you skittish !!!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif) |
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Oct 28 2011, 12:19 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 322 Joined: 11-February 09 From: Living in a fishpond... Member No.: 22 |
Kenyan elephant ear or Jamaica blue mountain are my personal preference- the blue mountain is ridiculously expensive now but does make an exceptional cuppa...
...just get a massive stove top coffee pot- takes roughly as long as it takes to boil a kettle and tastes 100 times better- mug, sugar, milk, gob, wallop! This post has been edited by MXYZPTLK: Oct 28 2011, 12:19 PM |
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Oct 28 2011, 10:28 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 2,402 Joined: 11-February 09 From: here. Member No.: 18 |
stove tops make good crema....
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Oct 28 2011, 11:11 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 1,184 Joined: 18-February 09 From: Embra Member No.: 68 |
...and frankly if there's no crema it's not coffee. Instant? A caffeine delivery system. But it's not coffee.
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Oct 28 2011, 11:33 PM
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"Ne croyez pas le battage publicitaire!"
This post has been edited by donavan: Oct 29 2011, 08:24 AM |
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