Coffee Appreciation

I find it absolutely bat shit crazy that people install machines at home when you can make great coffee with something simple

Fixed that for me

Cafetière and preground. I do take scales though.

I forgot my scales so I'm on holibobs eyeballing my coffee ffs.

holibobs

straight to ignore list

A hand grinder, some beans and a Pipamokka

Hand grinder, beans and aeropress. No scales.

Niche Zero, scale and v60. It was to an air BnB, I would usually also take knives and cookware because I want to enjoy my time..

V60, filters and ground coffee

Last holiday I took big v60 (for me) & Aeropress Go (for others) plus 2 hand grinders, one for higher quantities (more than 36g) of beans for when making a round of coffee (v60 into large caffetiere).

Kinu hand grinder, 9Barista, burner and gas bottle, scales, espresso glasses, coffee beans. All goes into a repurposed camera bag.

Making coffee this morning, all throughout the brew I was thinking 'it looks funny today, never seen the grounds dissappear into the clever dripper like that before.'

My wife's away and it turns out I'd managed to grind coffee for one but put in water for two. Tried it, turns out homeopathic coffee isn't for me.

None of you have kids do you

I have a 6 year old thanks, hence why I have a machine that makes coffee automatically in the morning and a car with a boot that's unnecessarily large so I can take all of his bullshit as well as all my bullshit

I think you’ll find that coffee is the life blood of many parents

9Barista

Holy mackerel, that's 1000aud

This is it

It’s an awesome thing, and makes proper espresso anywhere. I took it everywhere this summer in France.

Added a softening stage to the general filter. Makes a huge difference to tea and coffee. Only about £50 all in so well worth it.

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I’m interested have you got a link or some details?

https://www.finerfilters.co.uk/inline-softening-resin-water-filter-for-limescale-and-hardness-removal
https://www.finerfilters.co.uk/3m-ap2-head
https://www.finerfilters.co.uk/ff-fc02-compatible-filter-cartridge-with-lincat-filterflow

Plus some 1/4" tube and fittings. Brought the calcium down from ~400ppm to 70ppm according to test strips. Idea with the softener is I can open it up and soak the resin in brine to renew it every six months or so, rather then throw away cartridges.

and this all joins to the cold feed - trying to work out where in my house would be best for this to cover both downstairs taps...

Out of interest, what settings are people using on their DF54s? I keep reading I should be using 20 to 18 for the robot, but it's way to difficult on the robot pressure wise, currently around 23 or 24. Is this just a maybe zero wasn't set properly issue?

I know it doesn't really make much odds, but curious.

Mine comes off the mains and feeds a tap that's only used for kettle, Aarke + Moccamaster. If you're doing the kitchen taps you'll need a higher flow system. Same components, just bigger I think.

It varies massively depending on beans and roast levels, don't take the internet advice on that one, you just get better over time at guessing where to start dialing in a new bag and adjust from there!

If I were to do it for the utility tap then that could be less of an issue that's where the aarke and filter machine are already.