Coffee Appreciation

That is my usual pick, just fancied a bit of variety :)

I was going to ask a vaguely similar question; where in London is best to drink filter these days? Either having a choice of roasters or something interesting from outside of London? Bonus points if it’s made extremely well.

You could try curator's coffee - they seem to carry a few different roasters' beans, although I think it's more like rotation than a wide selection at any one time.

Or buy the workshop filter taster pack, get 4 X 125g bags for £20 and I think free postage. Really great coffee too

Finally have a 6 cupper that makes good coffee, can highly recommend "Top Moka" for all you stove top people.

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Keepcups

I don’t want a vacuum insulated cup just something that holds coffee and doesnt leak and is easy to drink from. And when I get home I can stick in a dishwasher.

What are the Frank Green ones like?

Annoying. The locking seal collects stains and scale. Same for bamboo cups which otherwise insulate pretty well. Try the bistro glass double insulated cups maybe?

How leakproof do you want - won't spill all over you, or can be put in a bag full and won't leak out? Because for the first I've found keepcups work fine, and are dishwasher safe; I've not seen anything I'd trust with the latter.

I got a glass / cork keep cup and the glass and my experience so far:

• Nice to drink out of glass, lid seals pretty well and easy to clean
  
• Glass smashed when i put it down on a table, not so good.
  
• KeepCup replaced glass as they said it should be stronger but sent me just the glass
  
• When putting on the cork band with their instructions the cork split ;/
  
  

So all in all I wouldn't bother with the glass.

To add to the above sentiments - I've tried MANY cups and none are leak proof. The closest match I've found that will not leak* is a tiny flask. 12oz was the smallest I found (klean kanteen) that met my criteria and it's been a great buy. I already have some of their water bottles and their insulated flask lives up to my hopes. Use it every day.

*make sure you have an extra sip AFTER you've closed the seal as some coffee pools in the lid when you open/swig. So if you sip/close/put away you might find a teaspoon full or so has spilt unless you do a safety sip.

Am thinking I need at least two, so may go for one Frank Green and one keepcup and see which works best.

The Frank green are decent if you don't overfill them, because of the way the mechanism fits inside the cup. With regards to cleaning the assembly just unscrews so I haven't had any issues with mine so far!

+1 @CYOA post.

The Primus 200ml flask this thread led me to is great.

Got a KeepCup myself, pretty happy with it aside from the tough to clean lid as mentioned above. Are there any better alternatives that can be used with an Aeropress?

The lid of my kettle has just come away from the body of the kettle - this is not something that the designer had in mind, and therefore it is now an ex-kettle.

What, coffee thread hive-mind, is the finest kettle that money* can buy?

* Up to about £100

KitchenAid artisan for variable temperatures or Smarter iKettle for being able to boil it from your phone. If that's your thing. The latter is twice your budget but... boil from your phone.

We have a dualit classic which is solid with easily replaceable parts, long guarantees etc but only one temp which is something I'd consider for the next time I need to heat water rapidly.

Dualit Classic looks good, only slightly over budget. I'd buy the other one if I could fill it with water from my phone as well as turning it on.

Any advance on Dualit Classic?

I had an expensive Magimix thing which broke after a few years. Now got a £30 Bosch which does variable temperature and fulfils the requirements of "kettle" nicely.

I ordered one with a filter in it, therefore committing myself to spending 4,000% of the price of the kettle itself (£35) on filters over the next 12 months.

R2d2 and stormtrooper keepcups ordered

Had a play on the new La Mazocco Leva at Glasgow Coffee Festival, pretty fun piece of machinery. You engage the lever at the max pressure you want, then hold it for manual preinfusion and release. It then runs a long and slow descending pressure profile as the piston closes off the water flow. You can see it happening as the internals are all exposed. They were pulling a Panama Geisha at 60 seconds, which is ludicrous on paper but tasted delicious.

Buy a russell hobbs and they'll give you a new one if it breaks within two years.

Or buy one from Argos and return it if it breaks within a year ..... you get the idea.