Coffee Appreciation

Oh, and if you are going to buy one... I'd push towards this style:
http://www.johnlewis.com/de%27longhi-ecam44-620-eletta-plus-bean-to-cup-coffee-machine-silver-black/p1435396

Which doesn't focus on the milk foamer and lets you do that bit yourself. This gives you your incredibly good bean-to-cup espresso... but lets you actually get a hot milk foam.

Most of the automatic foamers produce a cold or luke warm foam.

Our office DeLonghi got buttfncked... home use machine in a work environment. It was constantly being repaired...

We now have a coffee syrup machine (hotel style).

So I tend to aeropress and get weird looks.

#csb

I should think if your price point is good you will do very well. Good luck.

Yeah, the consumer automatic machines are really only rated for fewer than 10 espressos per day.

The business automatic machines are awesome though. But cost enough that unless you're Pret there's little incentive to buy one.

Shouldn't call anybody names anyway but what is it with serving flat whites in glasses in Kentish Town?

@Velocio when I had a play with it- its not a bean to cup but a grinder + espresso machine + steamer in one block machine (reducing number of appliances and counter space use).
I don't want a bean to cup machine.
So the grinder works on its own, doses the amount of coffee into your portafilter which you then move to the spout (or whatever its called) and then pull your shot.
cf:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpjf3uMC5Ss#t=138

I stand corrected. When I saw it in John Lewis in Kingston I thought it was a fully automatic.

I'd probably consider it the same as an automatic though and would only bet on a 2 year lifespan. Get the extended warranty.

excellent advice... its purely a counter top space issue for us which makes this more attractive

Isn't a flat white just a mini cap that couldn't be pronounced by Aussies?

..all this looks delicious..

Oh they are.

Sandwich is a pear sandwich, and the bowl is basically pork that's so tender you'd be forgiven for mistaking the textile for tofu.

Mmmmhh. Lecker.
Peru. Cajamarca, Provinz Jean. 1700-2000m 100% Coffea Arabica.
Garcia Family Dritte Generation.

I always get the guest espresso from Taylor St. Most of the time it's good, but occasionally it's exceptional. A few weeks ago it was Round Hill Spring Colombian and it blew me away. I bought some to use in an aeropress - lovely. That one is out of stock for now, but I'd buy from Round Hill again.

A quick shout out to @mrs_socks who has been sorting me out with lovely macchiati on my way into work, at Brooklyn coffee.

Thanks Sam, an otherwise good commute is now perfect.

Had fun at the Rhino Road Race in Rutland, good coffee and cake goes down well at the end of a wet 60 mile RR. Shame we couldn't use the counter, but the clubhouse is ace. Sorry about the sepia and that; well intetioned family photographer.

Love the graphics, thanks @big_daddy_wayne

Aw, thanks @mashton. Always a pleasure! Even if I can't always chat properly...(also, there's a bag of your requested beans waiting for ya! I'm not in tomorrow, but in the rest of the week!)

Cool. See you Thursday then.

Looks like a good first event Steve!

Direct import from the farm, 101% Colombiana organic lol.
£17 per 450 or 500g = 83 shots delivered fast track to your door.
PM me if you are interested.

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How are you getting 83 shots from 500 grams?

A 250g of Alchemy colombian at £9.
Only a fraction more tasty than ordinary supermarket coffee. Not worth the price IMO.

@mashton @almacenamiento68 underdosing an Italian old school 7 gram?!

Mum bought me a bag of M&S single origin Columbian. Honestly, it's actually pretty nice.

If anyone is planning on heading down to the Brixton SuperMad (you should be, it's always awesome!) I'm going to be slingin' shots. All profits straight back to the club. Come & laugh at me, it's my first time working an event outdoors, and the first time on a lever machine...I'll do my best to serve you something tasty. Really looking forward to it, if I can manage the day without hitting myself in the face with the lever, I'll take it as a win... (https://www.lfgss.com/events/792/)

Without trawling through 445 pages which I'm really not inclned to do, is there a forum-approved single cup coffee making device? Pref sub-£40
I drink my coffee with milk, will use water straight out the kettle and whichever pre-ground coffee takes my fancy when I do the weekly shop. Not a pro coffee drinker basically.
Currently use a big cafetiere but fancy something smaller so I don't start the day completely wired.

Have been recommended the SwissGold by Photoben

And when I cancelled my Pact subscription they kept trying to sell me a Hario at a reduced rate.

Don't fancy a Bialetti after a friend didn't clean his(a knock-off actually) for months, then left it on the stove where it clogged and exploded to a certain extent.

Thoughts?