Coffee Appreciation

Dad is obviously making great use of the grinder, aeropress and coffee I bought him.

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I was thinking, not a bad effort, looking at the clip 4 days after Christmas. Then I spotted the date...

Anyone fancy an Aeropress for a tenner? Comes with a few paper filters. Collection from SE20 or E20. Can post if no interest locally.

They’ve ’matured’

I’d definitely take you up on posting if no local takers.

It's all yours! Will probably be an extra £3 for postage. Drop me a DM and we'll figure it out.

Interested in how this experience was for you. My basic knowledge of coffee science seems to suggest that oxidation is the thing that kills flavour in coffee beans so increasing surface area by 1000x should do precisely that regardless of how good the initial grind was, and conversely a bad grind will still have some flavour (all of course assuming that beans are reasonably fresh)..

I have no intention of trying to sway people's opinion on the subject, especially when it's something that's trivial to test with your own personal setup, which may yield differing results to mine.

I ground around 150g or so, popped it in a bag with a one-way valve and used it for 2-3 days. Didn't notice any significant difference in taste over those days. Conversely, the time before that I took some whole beans with a Porlex and it felt like there was a noticeable difference relative to my main grinder at home (a Baratza Sette at the time). Still perfectly drinkable, and better than any other available option at the time.

Like I said, I have no intention of trying to sway people's opinions on it, and there are better hand grinders out there than my Porlex, so I encourage people to give these things a go themselves. I'm merely putting my experience out there. But I think boiling it down to oxidation > bad grind and calling it a day is oversimplifying things massively.

New setup

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That grinder is stunning

Lovely, just missing some Acaia Lunar scales for a full bingo card.

Shouldn’t there be a secondary grinder for full coffee douche?

Funny you should say that. If I'm gonna start drinking espresso regularly again I'm probably gonna need another grinder. Switching my super basic Eureka Mignon between filter and shots is a massive pain in the dick.

I have this one going spare?

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I don't even know what that is. 🙃

Looks very impressive tho'.

Speaking of pre ground. I’ve run out of coffee. Realised I had this from when I went on holiday…. In June.

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Local company to me- very cool design: https://subminimal.com/products/subscale?srsltid=AfmBOor8yS90hmIJaMgZBudaQAZQJu8QTgmO0re4ev9d-eCWMiTmA-58

dedicated dosing scale like Subscale eliminates the constant shuffling of your espresso scale, making your workflow smoother and more enjoyable

Whilst your target market being ‘people who are unprepared to move a scale 30cm between dosing and brewing’ would on the face of it seem farcical - they appear to have found their buyertm niche

Does Lance have one? Maybe I have seen one after all.

There is a blast from the past, have you been invoked by the end of LFGSS?

If so you might be rubbing the cobwebs from your eyes and have missed the date.

You’ve lost me entirely, sorry - have we spoken about it before?

You captured the mean spirited nature of buyer perfectly, whilst ignoring that this is a time of year when it’s not entirely unknown to receive gifts from people which may not meet your high criteria for a life that would make Calvin say “mate, live a little”.

Just a bit of glibness about the fact that making espresso at home is generally a market with almost infinite potential for discretionary upgrade buying at every level of spend, so a product like this which would feel woefully extraneous in a lot of contexts, really fits right in. (Much in a similar tone as the earlier post about secondary grinders - which I presume was not remotely in bad faith.)

It’s a hobby I also share, and as such was intended as tongue in cheek about the market segment, if not as solely self-deferentially, I’m regretful that it felt directed mean-spiritedly at either yourself/whoever gifted you the product in question.

Tempted