Coffee Appreciation

^Nah, cortado is something different, just a regular espresso with some warm milk.

^ French call that a "noisette"

Love noisettes

and the Austrians call it a "kleiner brauner" (little brown one)

Noisette* means hazel nut - due to the colour

*Not that shit band.

cant wait to make that bombom stuff

Just bought this, thanks Bombcup!

Result, have fun with it. :)

Anybody recommend a good manual grinder?

Anybody recommend a good manual grinder?

curious too, from what i've read zassenhaus is the best if you can get a used one in decent condition, they've had quality issues the last coupla years

I'm considering this:

La Cafetiere Coffee Mill, Black: Amazon.co.uk: Kitchen & Home

Seems that the only bad reviews are by clueless people who don't know what they're doing, and at that price it's worth taking the plunge imo.

yeah seen that too but second hand zassenhaus doesn't go for much more than 30ish on ebay, when theyre on there that is, so ill wait for that

i wouldn't expect to get a consistent enough grind for espresso for that price. it takes very high quality burrs to do so

I was looking at hand grinders and considering the Hario Skerton (available from Square Mile, about £37) - anyone have any experience with it? was a bit sceptical about the old zassenhaus since i read about the quality issues in recent years too, and would always be worrying about it

honestly, how hard can i be to make a decent hand grinder? It can't be just zassenhaus that do decent ones?

after reading some on coffee forums the whole thing seems utterly anal. i just want a good cup of joe out of my stove top damnit, not ponder molecules n shit

Well its pretty easy to grind up coffee beans in some way, yeah, but since the taste of the coffee is entirely dependent on the grind being quite precisely the right size, there would be no point having a grinder that wasn't quite good.... If I wasn't bothered about making the coffee taste better then I'd continue to buy it ready ground which is cheaper and easier

Apparently those Harios aren't too good for extremely fine grinds that you need for espresso.

Well its pretty easy to grind up coffee beans in some way, yeah, but since the taste of the coffee is entirely dependent on the grind being quite precisely the right size, there would be no point having a grinder that wasn't quite good.... If I wasn't bothered about making the coffee taste better then I'd continue to buy it ready ground which is cheaper and easier

so since I can't really be arsed reading to much about it, but realize and appreciate what you say above, should i just grab myself a zassenhaus and be done with it? Rather spend much once than buy a naff one and then regret it

I'm considering this:

La Cafetiere Coffee Mill, Black: Amazon.co.uk: Kitchen & Home

Seems that the only bad reviews are by clueless people who don't know what they're doing, and at that price it's worth taking the plunge imo.

i've got this. works ok but build quality is poor and the handle works loose etc. when you get the grind right it doesn't seem to stay for long before you have to fiddle with it again.

save up for better i reckon.

Might just go for the Zassenhaus Lima then, not too expensive, looks pretty nice too.

^^Trudat. Buy cheap buy twice. And other sage wisdom.

quite a few zassenhaus on ebay.de

http://shop.ebay.de/i.html?LH_SiteWideCondition=Used285fdd&_nkw=zassenhaus&_fln=1&_ssov=1&_trksid=p3286.c0.m282

check this! http://cgi.ebay.de/ALTE-ZASSENHAUS-MOKKA-KAFFEEMUHLE_W0QQitemZ260584461838QQcmdZViewItemQQptZHaushalt_Küche?hash=item3cac0b560e#ht_4598wt_950

Yeah I was having a look at that earlier, gorgeous little thing isn't it.

http://static.lfgss.com/attachments/17098d1257509872-dsc09989.jpg

selling my one as i still havent got round to doing the light restoration on it.

what's needed doing on it?