Coffee Appreciation

You and me bro, this time next year

I’ve a wood stove and rights to gather a fagot weighing up to 12kg a day from the nearby forest. So I’ll be fine for boiling enough for my bripe.

Seems more appropriate.

I'm there. How do I get to Chingford again?

From your’s, head north west until you’re in the sea.

What's the route like?

I misjudged my subscription and have run out. What are the best/least bad coffee beans from Sainsbury’s/Tesco’s to tide me over until next week please?

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12kg a day

Imperial unit, surely?

I recently ran out of my regular supply and my wife got me some Tesco own brand beans.

They are disgusting and should never be drunk.

If you cba to check roast dates in Sainsbury i often find I can get something fairly recent.

I got this from Satellite in Morzine, it's actually a much more interesting and complex espresso from my grubby lever machine than I had in the shop, although thinking about it they may have simply recommended this one, but used another:

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From Sainsburys/Tesco:
Lavazza gold - medium
Lavazza black - medium/dark
Starbucks - dark

They all pull acceptable shots at home and just need grinding a bit finer than normal. Would avoid their own brands tbh.

Whittard Ethiopia Yirgacheffe is pretty good if you want a lighter roast off the shelf.

Thanks guys!

Starting a new job in a couple of weeks, the only source of coffee currently is a free vend machine that pours out undrinkable warm coloured water.

So thinking of getting a Moccamaster KBG for the office as it's mainly my team based there and it seems a bit more social than just making my own french press.

Any reason why this would be a bad idea?

Should be good, just be aware that people (the main thing wrong with the world) will leave the jug empty on the hotplate and it will break so budget for a few replacements.

Exactly that. One place I worked we got an average life of about 3 weeks from a jug before some clumsy moron smashed it.

With the moccamaster you could just get the thermos jug model; don't really want to keep heating the coffee anyway

Get the thermal carafe one to prevent that ^

Also, if you supply the good coffee, they will be replaced with pre ground shit from the supermarket (maybe)

good points; thanks.

i was considering the thermos version, hadn't factored the empty jug on hotplate scenario which does swing things in favour of the thermos.

From what I remember, people said that the coffee goes a bit rank on the machines with a heated plate, and the ones with a thermos are preferable.

My wife picked up some beans from Cambridge market today. Super excited to try them tomorrow

Left the handle for my timemore c2 at an airbnb while working away. FOR FUCKS SAKE.

The spindle measures 5.30mm according to my callipers. 7/32 inch is 5.56mm, so rather than fork out £20 for a replacement handle, I'm going to attempt to use a 7/32 socket, perhaps with some PTFE tape to bulk it out. And then hopefully the airbnb owner will be able to return the handle.

V csb.

Lavazza gold was a good stop gap. Thanks!

What does the hive mind use to descale their espresso machines? Mine should have come with some but I realised too late it wasn’t in the box so I’m not sure what I should be using

Puly descaler (not detergent!). Pretty sure it’s just citric acid though, which can be obtained far more economically when not sold as descaler.

Just a tub of regular anhydrous citric acid will do the job. Also worth picking up some Cafiza (or similar) for general cleaning (breaking down coffee oils as opposed to descaling)