Coffee Appreciation

Descaling often loosens the chalk particles which clock up the grouphead plate and shower screen as described above.

Take the boiler apart and clean it, will be fine.

If you need a hand gimme a shout, the reseal kit is less than a tenner from gaggia/philips.

With distilled water there is no limescale build up ;)

Wonder if you could make a coffee for hard water as they have done with teas.

You are right about the bottle water test, same coffee and differing tastes. Also how differing people prefer differing tastes.

London tap water straight from the tap is shit for any coffee.

Not that anyone is disputing it.

anyone know where I can get an Aeropress around EC4?

Alchemy I think might?

oh cool cheers for that will take a look

http://uk.allpressespresso.com/allpress-roastery-cafes/allpress-cafe-london/
i dont think you will be dissapointed of fresh cup of coffee! based in shoreditch

There are some things you can do when roasting for different waters, but they revolve around different mineral mixes at lower levels than tap.

You've just got to brew round the issue of bad water, use lighter roasts, brew colder etc....

No scale is fine, but I'd rather descale my machine more often and have better tasting coffee, nil minerals tastes Crap.

Ran out of beans at home so hastily picked up a kilo of these from the deli near work. Its what they use and I like it - not exactly artisan but very quaffable and hits the spot. And its not exactly expensive. So probably not fair trade either...

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99p shop coffee here you come?

How much for a kilo?

Often wondered if reverse osmosis would be good for London tap water.

Ordered the discounted twin pack from Bella Barista. Will report back as to how the Milk Buster gets on in a flat white.

RO is the system you'll find in the majority of places in London that sell anything above commodity grade. Not a perfect system re: constitution of minerals for brewing, but extremely effective at lowering overall conductivity to a useable level in hard water supplies. Unfortunately it is also way beyond the reasonable means of a home user for a complete system!

Our Hario MSS-1B was stripped and cleaned, and now it doesn't work. It will mash beans up in to small chunks, but won't produce a fine ground.

I assume the grinder has been blunted?

What's the go-to electric grinder these days?

Howard, what's your budget?

Whatever it takes really to obtain consistency and a level of durability that means an overzealous cleaner can't break it.

What will you be using it for? Espresso or otherwise?

Espresso pls.

I bought a sage smart ginder a few weeks ago for £200 because I wanted one asap and Harrods had them in stock.

It does espresso, and it's easy to use, but if I had the patience I would have bough an Iberital MC2 which seemingly does the same job for £60 less....or else I would have held out for a used Eureka Mignon (they're £270 new if you can stretch to that).

I am picking up another used one tonight that doesn't look like it had a hard life.

I will try it first and then freecycle the old one on here. The reseal kit will most probably need to be replaced.

mc2 is messy and noisy. I think you probably got a better deal.

I still want a Vario.

Not sure if you saw my previous post but interested if you're freecycling your old one