Coffee Appreciation

Attention Sheep! Attention Sheep! Starbucks iMoan app using cleartext passwords. Beware of people liberating your hipster account of it's £3.60 and ordering lattes for Bob Geldof.

I'm after a counter top knocking drawer but can only find £70 upwards stuff online.
Anyone got one to flog or got any links to cheaper ones?

I use an old plastic takeaway tray

#toptip #notasgoodthough #shitthisisnttwotterisit

I'm after a counter top knocking drawer but can only find £70 upwards stuff online.
Anyone got one to flog or got any links to cheaper ones?

Does it have to be a drawer? coffee hit have these counter top ones?http://www.coffeehit.co.uk/cafelat-red-knockboxhttp://www.coffeehit.co.uk/grindenstein-knock-box-silver

Attention Sheep! Attention Sheep! Starbucks iMoan app using cleartext passwords. Beware of people liberating your hipster account of it's £3.60 and ordering lattes for Bob Geldof.

Honestly I can't really taste the difference between 'real' over priced coffee from an 'independent' coffee shops or the efficient machine like output of most starbucks stores.

Anyway.. starbucks sent me another voucher in the post by mistake today.
Feel free to print off as many as you like.. the contrast is slightly off go for pure white on the background.

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'independent'

My new local 'independent' store don't make a bad cup tho.

http://www.brixtonbuzz.com/2014/01/review-blue-turtle-oasis-coffee-house-210-coldharbour-lane-loughborough-junction/

I'm in the photos 'networking' on my laptop - busy trolling on here like normal.

Honestly I can't really taste the difference between 'real' over priced coffee from an 'independent' coffee shops or the efficient machine like output of most starbucks stores.

Anyway.. starbucks sent me another voucher in the post by mistake today.
Feel free to print off as many as you like.. the contrast is slightly off go for pure white on the background.

Knock the front of your head against a wall each time you went not independent will cure this.

I really don't like that bitter aftertaste paying tax seems to give me.
I'll stick to stealing coffee from starbucks.

I'm after a counter top knocking drawer but can only find £70 upwards stuff online.
Anyone got one to flog or got any links to cheaper ones?

I like the knocktop that I got for Christmas (madebyknock.com)

Any recommendations for a decent cup (and maybe a sandwich) in/ near Canary Wharf?
Added bonus if they sell coffee beans too.

There's a Taylor's

^^ +1

When I got mine, I bought the knocktop and tamping mat set for £16. Very pleased with them and that they don't take up too much space in the kitchen: http://www.madebyknock.com/store/p3/knocktop_and_mat_set_.html

http://blog.chewxy.com/2014/01/20/why-does-a-good-kettle-cost-90

^ Got half way down and zoned out - automatic throwback from my GCSE Physics days.

I'm one of those suckers who bought the Hario electric.
I'm willing to pay too much for something I think is purty.

^^ I automatically scroll to the bottom of websites and just realised thats why I read news papers back to front.

TR;DR: I seem to have given a lot of thought to buying a kettle (this article is 2250 words long). I come to the conclusion that expensive basic kettles are the same as cheap basic kettles, except for price differentiation. The increase in marginal utility from purchasing a expensive kettle is not big enough compared to buying a baseline cheap kettle to warrant it. It’d be better to buy a temperature control kettle, as then the increase in marginal utility would be enough to warrant puchasing it. What do you think?

Looks like they're using a Rocket too

I really don't like that bitter aftertaste paying tax seems to give me.
I'll stick to stealing coffee from starbucks.

Starbucks - who in turn steal from the UK by not paying taxes.

Just sayin' ;)

And serve shit coffee. Negs all round.

Spare parts for my Gaggia factory arrived ok (took a week to dispatch them though) and installation was straightforward apart from one of the gaskets being thicker than the original. The boiler screws in to the base and the thicker gasket meant that it was fully tight with the lever/group pointing 90 degrees to the right rather than straight on, some careful sanding down got it sorted though.

It's pulling much nicer shots now, the first few lead to a fair amount of splutters and spraying but I think that was due to the piston seals not being sealed properly. Can't tell if its the new brass piston or the lack of tiny leaks that's lead to improvements but I'm glad I gave it a decent service.

Now I just need to improve my grinder situation, currently getting by with a Porlex mini but it's not great. I think electric grinders are big/ugly and since I've got a lever machine it would be nice to continue the manual theme. I'm pretty set on getting the Lido 2 when it comes out

http://www.home-barista.com/grinders/orphan-espressos-lido-2-t28932.html

I also considered the new Made by Knock Hausgrind, looks like a really nice bit of kit and is cheaper than the Lido.
http://www.madebyknock.com/handgrind-grinders.html

That Hausgrinder is bloody beaut!

Im in London tomorrow to visit the London Textiles Fair, which is in islington. Any recommendations for good coffee shops near there or Liverpool St.?

Coffee Works Project on Camden Passage by Angel tube station? Islington is a big place.

I'm using a bottomless portafilter with my lever machine and never get a nice central stream of coffee like this

Instead I get 3 or 4 smaller streams in various places (rarely any in the centre of the basket) and a lot of the time some of the coffee runs towards the portafilter handle and on occasion all the way along the handle (which is messy and annoying).

Any tips/recommended reading on how I can sort it? I don't think I'm getting channeling or cracks in the puck but something isn't right.

Try magnets.