Coffee thread
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I was using a Bonavita 8 cup, Capresso grinder, and PNG beans from various sources. For Christmas we got ourselves a Gaggia Anima and are working our way through the Lavazza beans starting with the Super Crema and Qualita’ Oro.
During the summer I make cold brew in a half gallon Mason jar with any generic coffee in a French press bag.
During the summer I make cold brew in a half gallon Mason jar with any generic coffee in a French press bag.
Picked this up at Christmas time from Williams Sonoma.
Makes a tremendous cup of coffee. Top bean loader with grinder.
As for beans... Starbucks blonde roast, Peets medium roast are most common in our house.
Bout time for a cup
Makes a tremendous cup of coffee. Top bean loader with grinder.
As for beans... Starbucks blonde roast, Peets medium roast are most common in our house.
Bout time for a cup
I used a Bonavita all of 2020 and loved it. I ultimately switched to the pour over because it became unreliable. I’m curious if you had the same experience.
The unit would only come on if you unplugged the machine first and plugged it back in before starting it. Sometimes the power switch had to be pressed several times before it would stick and lastly it seemed that no matter how much citric acid I ran through it always clogged up. Sometimes taking 2 or 3 brew cycles to finish 8 cups. Made a great cup, incredibly frustrating.
Technivorm Moccamaster was a game changer for me, pretty much a pour over machine....fast, hot, and strong.. I dislike almost all Starbucks blends but the Verona is a good daily and $6 at Walmart. Black.
Mine stopped mid-cycle a couple of times over several years. Descaling seemed to help. Only thing I didn’t like was making “8 cups” really only provided 2.5 cups of Joe. Serving coffee at Christmas was a pain. I loved the flavor and the hot temperature of the brew.
I had previously had a super automatic espresso machine (Gaggia Synchrony Logic) about 15 years ago. It made great single cup coffee but when you buy one, you know it is finicky, requires lots of regular home maintenance, and probably won’t last as long as you would expect a $500 coffee maker to last. It also doesn’t make coffee really as hot as I like.
The new Gaggia I has all the same faults but when it quits, I will just get the Bonavita out the basement and fire it up again.
You might to try how Cowboy Kent Rollins does it. Sounds the same as your MIL (RIP).
Whenever I watch his videos, I think of @warrior-cat .... both in Oklahoma.
Bought this a few weeks ago. New line for them. Supposed to make a regular cup of coffee taste more like a really good cup of coffee. Works. Not a flavor like vanilla, caramel, or any others.....just makes the coffee taste like good coffee.
You haven’t tried them all
We use a Krups burr grinder and Ninja machine for the daily driver. I like to use an Aeropress when I have more time on weekends.
I also like those newfangled milk frothers - not the immersion blender type, but the kind that heat and mix on a timer. They work really well, IMO.
I used to get beans from a local roaster, Coffee Emporium, but I haven’t since I stopped working downtown. I need to pick that back up.
My dad has gotten more into good coffee in his retirement and started using his grandmothers’ old hand grinder (a wooden box). The kids love doing it.
This is my daily coffee. Parisi has a couple of cafe's around town (Kansas City) but neither are very close to my house so I rarely darken their door. I do not like all of the milks, sugars and flavors that other like so give it to me hot and black, please.
Because I don't speak the Starbucks language correctly I guess and don't need some hipster twenty something telling me so.
Chemex
chemex filters
Electric kettle at 205
Burr grinder
I like the local Nate’s Organic Guatemalan beans, has an excellent bloom.
Prefer medium to light roasts. Every once and a while get a hankering for a dark Verona.
This thread got me excited, just ordered a bunch of 100% Kona beans from KOA. Can’t wait.
chemex filters
Electric kettle at 205
Burr grinder
I like the local Nate’s Organic Guatemalan beans, has an excellent bloom.
Prefer medium to light roasts. Every once and a while get a hankering for a dark Verona.
This thread got me excited, just ordered a bunch of 100% Kona beans from KOA. Can’t wait.
We've got two of those grinders. Probably 75 to 100 years old, or older. If your dad is using his g'mother's grinder.....did he clean it in any way? I've thought about using ours, but they were stored on and off for so many years in the basement, I'm afraid there may be rust inside. Don't know if you can even clean them.
Most of those old grinders IIRC have conical ceramic burrs in them, so rust shouldn't be a problem.
He took it apart and cleaned it. I don’t think he used a dremel - just wire brushes, steel wool, etc. There are a bunch of YouTube videos of people restoring them.
Re: eggshells in the coffee grounds. I started doing it because grandfather did it. He said it made the coffee smoother. Turns out there is science behind it. The shells are alkaline, and help reduce the coffee's acidity.
I mainly do it though, because my granddad did it. And he was an awesome man. Black coffee, ALL day, Lucky Strikes, baseball on the radio, out on the front porch. He played semi-pro baseball and football, back in the 30's (played with NFL HOF'er Ace Parker) and once hit a basesball over 500 feet.
Sorry, didn't mean to go off on a tangent. He was just that cool.
I love camp coffee percolated over a fire. Something about that little bit of fresh smoke flavor in the coffee.
I hadn't either until February 2020 at age 42. Got sick at a conference in Lexington (still wonder if it was Covid) and had hellacious chills. Fixed a cup in the hotel room for sole purpose of trying to get warm and I've been hooked ever since.
Very few things smelled better to me as a kid than when Granddad would fire up a Lucky Strike unfiltered. Noticeably different than any other cigarette.
1) residual oils cause bitterness
2) descaling allows machine to reach its correct/designed temps for proper operation
espresso machines require back flushing and descaling on a very regular basis. Either that or you are wasting your time.
If you like bitter, stale tasting coffee, no need to clean. Some nasty residue will adhere to the bottom of your pot over time.
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It may not have been the coffee you enjoyed so much.