Coffee Appreciation

I butchered a pancake dosing funnel into a single dosing funnel. The Mazzer one is something hilarious like £170.
There’s a rubber lens hood round the rim where the hopper goes to make life easier, I used a small tamp on top of the beans after loading to stop them flying everywhere. I then blow the machine through with a lens blower to clear all the grounds out and minimise retention. I also just covered the exposed innards with some marking tape, intending to do something more proper but never got round to it. It does seem that people make proper kits for single dosing now, but this works and cost me about £15.
Excuse the absolute state of my setup at the moment.

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I think it’s more like Assembly is the fancy arm of Volcano. I’ve never enjoyed either

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Interesting the perception that introducing a premium tier brand, fully isolated from the main imprint means that the regular brand isn’t worth buying from because they’re wilfully withholding the good stuff.

In the early days I considered selling commodity-grade coffee under a sub-brand to protect the YBCR image because more volume would have made life much more comfortable. I resisted because it wouldn’t have brought any joy to proceedings and I’m continually glad that I did.

Are there any particularly "good" supermarket milks for steaming?

What do you mean by “good”? I just use supermarket whole milk (usually Sainsbury’s because that’s my local supermarket). It’s homogenised, like most milk is now, which makes it very consistent. Every now and then I’ll get a bottle that won’t steam nicely and it froths up like washing up liquid, but it’s rare. Sometimes I’ll get semi-skimmed if I fancy my cups a bit lighter. If I want that really Italian cappuccino taste I’ll get a carton of UHT because it’s closest to their milk. I haven’t tried the filtered milks like Cravendale though.

I wouldn’t get a Jersey milk or any other unhomogenised gold top, because you’ll have to work hard to reincorporate the cream and it’ll behave inconsistently when you steam it.

Yeah, never had any issues with the bog-standard Sainsbury's whole milk here

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Jersey milk is bloody tasty and I've really enjoyed steaming with it without taking any especial effort to incorporate anything prior.

I've never wanted to admit this but my unscientific anecdotal experience is that organic milk (sains also seems to be better than tesco though I shop at tesco so that's where my milk comes from..) somehow steams into a tighter foam than regular though ymmv since I am terribly inconsistent with my steaming.

It's interesting you say that because my question was brought on by a bottle of organic milk from Asda that I'm really struggling with. Whereas a non-organic bottle from (I think it was) Sainsbury's went much better last week.

It's also unnerving to me that all of the various milks are in plastic bottles when paper cartons are widespread in Ireland. Different social connotations here maybe.

Doesn’t milk change when they move between grass/hay/silage?
That may explain some of the differences.

For what it's worth age also makes a difference. I go through about a carton in a week and nearing the end of the week the quality is always worse. I also think different supermarkets have different milks (though tabloid-style rumour has it that that may or may not be true).

Surely someone here will bite the bullet and get their own cow?

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They do a nice shot of coffee too.

Just get your milk delivered by the milk man. Silver top banger, glass bottles, happy days.

can loop in the bbq thread to start getting ready for next spring.

Until the bluetit gets it and shits on the neck while helping itself.

Not sure my estate is the milk man sort..

Is your private driveway too long for milkman to drive down?

Yeah having to lug the glass bottles up the stairs means he's winded before three floors.

Tradesperson’s entrance is upstairs?

Do you happen to remember the capacitor that is needed? The uf value?

Do you happen to remember the capacitor that is needed? The uf value?

As I'm about to go to rs and not had a definite answer from searching

Couldn't find a picture, but did find the order confirmation of the replacement I had ordered in the past: "Capacitor: polypropylene; X2; 330nF; 15mm; ±10%; 18x10x16m;310VAC".

The machine worked for 2 additional months before it died again (and I bought a Mignon grinder).

Thank you

This is up there with his Bripe session:

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