Coffee Appreciation

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deleted in reply to @Weepsie

I was taught to use boiling water, keep it on a super low flame and watch it like a hawk... I turn the flame off when it starts bubbling into the pot, all to hopefully avoid 'burnt coffee'...

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NotThamesWater in reply to @deleted

Ditto

Some hobs make it hard work though - if it takes too long to push the water through, and the coffee ends up literally boiling, or too fast, and you end up with insipid nothing.

I don't fill up to the line either, and, although I've (in the mists of time) been told not to tamp the grounds, I do a little bit.

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withered_preacher in reply to @NotThamesWater

I've (in the mists of time) been told not to tamp the grounds, I do a little bit.

Standard advice from most if not all the manufacturers is not to tamp. Before I got the Robot I was tamping the moka pot too, had only read that somewhere in the last couple of years. I think it's a good thing.

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