Coffee Appreciation

Anyone got coffee recco for Penzance? I'm down next week for work and will be regularly while I'm at this company so good to know where to go.

The arts cafe and the cafe by the lido were the two places I went, can't offer more than that.

The lido is fantastic place to go coffee or no if you're in town.

Maybe not helpful if you just want Penzance but Origin’s roastery is not too far away in Porthleven and it’s great

Thanks for the suggestions!

I did see that, I'm taking my bike so might try and ride out there before or after work

Tried James Gourmet after recommendation on here.

Nice!

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I did the same last week!

Honestly I think if designed their packaging to be a bit more hipster they'd have an extra £5 on each packet

"gourmet" immediately makes me think of cheap cat food or old tv dinners. if it wasn't recommended here i doubt i would ever even go to the site let alone order from it just based on the branding.

was going to try some this week but the roast delay would have meant we had no coffee for days so went with dark arts as usual.

Interestingly, they've always fought to keep prices accessible.

That’s what I think of when I hear gourmet and coffee in the same sentence!

They have recently updated their packaging!?
I stopped buying assembly coffee as £14-£15 on 200 not 250g for something that promised much but was ultimately mediocre, while JGC are not producing a real banger every time you never feel you have overpaid.

Cheap, delicious, ethically sourced, good people behind the company. Choose all four.

I'm going to cancel my extremely long running hasbean sub (which is now ozone in any case and has recently declined in quantity to 220g, although tbf to them they've held the price for about as long as i can remember) and go onto james gourmet

:)

come to think of it, i've had the hasbean sub for so long, i don't even know how to cancel it.

I agree, the name/brand would see me skip straight past for the same reasons.

I’m looking for chat about automatic brewers, you know, so we can wake up to freshly brewed coffee every morning without employing staff.

This hadn’t really been on our radar before, but we’ve just spent a week with friends in SoCal* and their Cuisinart brewer was a really nice thing to have in the morning - walk to the kitchen, pour a cup of coffee.

I don’t know how customisable the brew is (something we’d be looking for) and I suspect also that Cuisinart is a US brand and therefore 110V.

I recalled James Hoffman’s review of the Sage/Breville Precision Brewer so I looked at John Lewis for the price, and also customer reviews… which are very mixed (daily cleaning required in particular defeating the object IMO).

So any anecdotes about the Sage/Breville, recommendations for a similar machine, or general advice and potential pitfalls?

Thanks!

*landed at lunch yesterday, hence posting this at 0330.

Standard reply here is timer + Moccamaster if the Sage isn’t right for you.
No experience on my part.

Last discussed on the previous page.

They're all going to require daily cleaning I think.

Thanks for the responses - sorry I didn’t see the previous page.

Can I ask about two particular customer comments re the Sage?

1. The steel jug means the coffee goes cold
   
2. The steel jug is difficult to pour from
   
   

Thanks!

The steel jug keeps the coffee warm for quite a while. The coffee will probably start to taste bad before it gets cold.

The steel jug is easy to pour from but you can't get the last 1/8 of a cup without removing the lid.

Thank you! This is the kind of advice I needed.

Would anyone be interested in this Bonivita kettle for cheap? Works fine apart from sometimes not boiling the first time you ask it to which drives my wife nuts while she's trying to use it to prep something for the baby so I'm replacing it

Could be… how much? :)