Coffee Appreciation

making espresso at home

There is an irony to spending ages making a coffee in a format originally designed (or at least popularised) as a mass production / fast food.

Just to contain the controversy in one post I'm going to share two discoveries that may make some readers cry;

1. Fortnum & Mason breakfast blend. I know that blended coffee is now equivalent to putting ice in claret, but it has probably given me the most around pleasurable cup of coffee I've had since drinking coffee in CR and Colombia via those baggy stand filter things. Not sure you can get it outside of a hamper.
   
2. Kenco Americano. Great for having in the house to give to other people, but also... 1tsp of coffee, 1tsp of sugar, boiling water, splash of milk and you've got the coffee equivalent of a McDonald's cheese burger.