Coffee Appreciation

So what issues do you have?

I punch random people in the face on my way to work, gets better by noon though.

Kidding; but I feel sort-of uptight, and "all over the place".
Also stomach hurts.

Thinking about limiting to two or three a day instead of four / five.

fucking hell. Yes, you definitely need to cut down. Get down to 2 per day - but only do it over a period of about a week to avoid shitty withdrawal symptoms

^^^ I only started drinking coffee a few years ago thanks to a coffee-snob girlfriend and this used to happen after my first coffee. I used to feel so 'all over the place', it felt like I was slightly high. I think I've built up my tolerance slightly, but still happens after more than 2 coffees.

#csb

Also if you feel like you still need a hit, have a green tea. It's a) good for you, and b) has a small amount of caffeine in (20mg) so will help. Just don't heat the water to more than 70 degrees as you'll kill all the good stuff.

Thanks for the input.
Can't really do green tea though, everytime I tried it really upset my stomach.

Will try to go down to two a day til end of next week.
Actually I weighed how much grams go into one of my 'moka pot' servings (about 15),
and realised I drank way over 1kg per month at home alone in the last months, plus maybe another half kilo a month at cafés etc. WTF

Finally getting into a groove with my AeroPress. It's taken me ages tbh, the first 20 or so cups I made with it were proper wazz.
I don't have the time or inclination to go full retard with the weighing scales and that, but for a casual home drinker I've now got a fairly-repeatable technique down;

• Prepare AeroPress in 'inverted' setup with the plunger pressed in between 3 and 4, and put in 1.5 scoops of medium-coarse ground coffee (I buy beans from local posh organic shop and grind it on the shop grinder between the 'Filter' and 'Coarse' setting).
  
• Put paper filter in the little 'mesh' holder, sitting it over intended coffee cup.
  
• Boil kettle, pour half a cup of boiling water through paper filter, leaving the water to warm up the cup a bit.
  
• Wait 30 seconds after kettle has boiled to begin pouring water over coffee. I fill it up past the 1 mark, to almost full.
  
• Gently stir for 20 seconds using paddle.
  
• Attach filter, and leave the coffee to brew for 1 minute. During this minute I empty the hot water out of the cup and put a little sugar in.
  
• Carefully flip the whole AeroPress over onto the cup (I do this right by the sink) and steadily plunge. Takes no more than 20 seconds. I see the water push its way right through the coffee. I stop the moment I hear the sound of escaping air.
  
  

That's it. Content, for now.

^ sugar?

kind regards,

full retard rhb

^^ stop before the air escaping sound.

Got it.

I've added some to watch list on the bay but none of them mention this pre-Philips thing .. Where do these machines sit if used bike vocabulary? Campag? Shimano? If shimano then 105? ultegra? DA?

I picked up a gaggia factory, not working for £40. Just the one filter, a double. I have yet to take it apart. It looks like this.

Rancilio silva? rings a bell, but have a look at the set up McCarthy had a while back that was really nice.

If buying second had look at the price of a service kit, and how easy they are to dismantle. Recently serviced may not mean that.

I punch random people in the face on my way to work, gets better by noon though.

Kidding; but I feel sort-of uptight, and "all over the place".
Also stomach hurts.

Thinking about limiting to two or three a day instead of four / five.

I have that every day even with out coffee ;)

How long does it last for?

How long does what last for?

Sorry wasn't clear the effects of uptight and all over the place.

^^ stop before the air escaping sound.

Yup - you can pretty much feel the moment just before this.

Sorry wasn't clear the effects of uptight and all over the place.

Well I'd say "hours" after the last one, depends on how much I've had..

^^^ I only started drinking coffee a few years ago thanks to a coffee-snob girlfriend and this used to happen after my first coffee. I used to feel so 'all over the place', it felt like I was slightly high. I think I've built up my tolerance slightly, but still happens after more than 2 coffees.

#csb

I get this sometimes, a 'bad' coffee buzz is tricky for me, like being high but less pleasant, though not unpleasant as such, but maybe it's like that paranoid feeling that some ganja smokers might describe. I've never been paranoid, I'm just too awesome.

A certain weirdness, certainly.

I like the look of this Bodum grinder. Reduced to £29 in Selfridges: http://www.selfridges.com/en/Home-Tech/Brand-rooms/Home-brands/BODUM/Bistro-Blade-electric-coffee-grinder_311-72048697-1116001UK/

Don't. Blades mean you get massive chunks and powder, when consistency is what you need for coffee. Have an old blade grinder which you're welcome to try to see what I mean

Yeah, yeah, I know. I have a really old Bodum smasher, I mean grinder, but I do like the look of them :/

Finally getting into a groove with my AeroPress. It's taken me ages tbh, the first 20 or so cups I made with it were proper wazz.
I don't have the time or inclination to go full retard with the weighing scales and that, but for a casual home drinker I've now got a fairly-repeatable technique down;

• Prepare AeroPress in 'inverted' setup with the plunger pressed in between 3 and 4, and put in 1.5 scoops of medium-coarse ground coffee (I buy beans from local posh organic shop and grind it on the shop grinder between the 'Filter' and 'Coarse' setting).
  
• Put paper filter in the little 'mesh' holder, sitting it over intended coffee cup.
  
• Boil kettle, pour half a cup of boiling water through paper filter, leaving the water to warm up the cup a bit.
  
• Wait 30 seconds after kettle has boiled to begin pouring water over coffee. I fill it up past the 1 mark, to almost full.
  
• Gently stir for 20 seconds using paddle.
  
• Attach filter, and leave the coffee to brew for 1 minute. During this minute I empty the hot water out of the cup and put a little sugar in.
  
• Carefully flip the whole AeroPress over onto the cup (I do this right by the sink) and steadily plunge. Takes no more than 20 seconds. I see the water push its way right through the coffee. I stop the moment I hear the sound of escaping air.
  
  

That's it. Content, for now.

split your pour. You should always bloom your coffee. Do 30ml first, mix the coffee through gently so its all wet, wait 20-30 seconds, add the rest of your water, off you go. Your extraction time also seems short if your coffee is that coarse.

Anyone done any roasting themselves? I'm tempted to try it with a heatgun and and a colander

I used to live on a commune* when I was a kid where one of the dudes there would roast beans for everyone on the stove using a cast iron pot and a big spoon.

My friend home roasts using a modified popcorn popper (which I think is the standard entry-levl home-roasting solution). He got so into it he is now starting to sell beans at farmers markets and whatnot http://willardbeans.com/

*I'm not sure if you have those there but it is basically an apple juice farm where a bunch of families all live together in a trust. Everyone has their own house but would eat together in the 'main house'. They would also garden naked and do other hippy things. Essentially it is how Gaston seems to live.

Climpson's Winter Blend is really, really good. I may have said that already, recently.

I used to live on a commune* when I was a kid where one of the dudes there would roast beans for everyone on the stove using a cast iron pot and a big spoon.

My friend home roasts using a modified popcorn popper (which I think is the standard entry-levl home-roasting solution). He got so into it he is now starting to sell beans at farmers markets and whatnot http://willardbeans.com/

*I'm not sure if you have those there but it is basically an apple juice farm where a bunch of families all live together in a trust. Everyone has their own house but would eat together in the 'main house'. They would also garden naked and do other hippy things. Essentially it is how Gaston seems to live.

Hippy things...Poison, drug, milk, gluten and dead animal less with this: my second stomach
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