Coffee Appreciation

Thanks! I have some girls maths on your espresso machine but your not going to like.

Aside from the work flow improvements, an incredible 4 mins daily saving.

The biggest gain I noticed from switching from the silva to the rocket is pre infusion. With the right bean you might not be putting any milk in your coffee so you can deduct all that milk spend from your upgrade.

Budget option:

I have these (or very similar) and they have worked perfectly for several years.

Mini Kitchen Scales | Mafiti Mini Food Scales 3000g x 0.1g with LCD Display Stainless Steel Platform for Coffee, Cooking, Baking | Portable and Precise Weighing(Battery no Include) https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B089SY2MDL?

As long as the girl maths is pointing me in the direction of the buy button I like it!

You've had the Silvia for a long long time. That alone, combined with how many milk drinks you make is excuse enough to upgrade to a dual boiler. No girl math needed.

What is girl maths?

Do people happily pay £18 + shipping for a bag of coffee as a regular thing?

Guilty. The coffee I buy is usually about $25 a bag + shipping. So I tend to 'subscribe' to a roaster for a month at a time, which gets free delivery. Then just cancel. I.e. this month I have finally subbed to Sey in Brooklyn. $24-25 per bag + shipping, or if you sub its $58 with free shipping for 3x250g bags. So quite a big saving.

Last months sub was with Flower Child Roasters in Oakland, CA and I think that was $62 for 3x250g bags and free shipping. Seems to be the going rate for a three bag sub from a renowned specialty roaster this side of the pond.

Has anyone on here done the pid mod on the rancillio Silvia?

Why is the unit so fugly

I have paid £16 from a coffee shop a couple of times for remarkable beans when I’ve been caught short at home.
It is not financially responsible, the coffee has always been banging though.

Looking on recent orders, it averages around £9/250g once you add postage for a 5 bag order.
Which is still absurd in many ways, but I’m unlikely to go back.

as i may have mentioned previously, my ceiling price wise is square mile who confusingly ship in 350g bags - but i prefer bigger bags to smaller bags. some roasters are now doing 200g and some even less than that.

Square Mile Red Brick is £13.00 plus p&p for 350g, their filter blend is £14.25.

Saw a box of DAK at Paradox Coffee today, looked tiny. Just looked on their site and they’re selling beans in 125g packs. For €25

Ancoats coffee co do 350g bags too

I go for kg bags from Horsham Coffee and it brings the price to £30-35 a kg if you don’t go for the spendy stuff.

Don’t get to try as much variety with the big bags but the bulk savings make it worthwhile.

The days of paying £16 for 200g of mediocre Alchemy are gone.

Casual misogyny

My local is usually between 11 and 15 euros. Occasionally I've gone for a limited run bag for over 20 but not very often.

No shipping though as they're just down the road.

I googled it. To be fair it is the invention of three female radio presenters. Whether the patriarchy had a hand in their thinking is another matter.

And yet you choose to remain part of society?

Not regularly, but if it's really fucking good then yeah I'll spend that.

That Wush Wush I posted about a few months ago from A Matter of Concrete was £18 for a 100g tub, but it was really fucking good.

I picked up a set of Yagua Barista scales after a recommendation from here. Ordered from Bruud for £18, free postage and they arrived the next day. They work fine and are small enough to fit on the tiny drip tray of my Sage Barista.

I'm in agreement with you here, seeing his name and Wilton Benitez too on the rarities list when I've been in is what made me question why they have a bad rep.

I don't want to assume anything here, but man maths has been a thing for as long as I can remember, a colloquial term where you do back of an envelope calculations that make a hell of a lot of theorised life or time improvement assumptions to justify spending a large amount of money.

You often see it in bikes and cars, if I upgrade my car to this faster car or lighter bike, then I'll get to my destination quicker, or my rides will be faster, so I'm saving x hours a year which works out at x value so that means I should spend 10 grand on this bike or 50 grand on this car.

I was assuming that girl maths was a way for women to co-opt the term and therefore make it so it's not just a man thing.

And since its 2024 you might choose to use girl maths instead of man maths to make a joke about how men think only they perform these mental gymnastics when trying to justify consumerism?

Or maybe I've got the wrong end of the stick

bloody hell lads it's not that deep

£18 posted bag just turned up £2.70 postage so don't think it's bad.

Also S/O to Coborn coffee who were going to cycle over a bag as it was delayed through royal mail. Haven't tried the coffee but would order from them again