Coffee Appreciation

Yeah guess its the little tweaks from tamping to quantity of coffee etc.

How much did the machine set you back?
[well jealous]

£360 I think it was plus transport costs ~50, plus filter setup ~£150

looking for a new grinder - If anyone's got a mazzer they want to let go for 50 notes…

:^]

looks wistfully to stars

http://www.openxtra.co.uk/p/usb-net-power-8800uk

Power-on the machine from my phone?

Or you could use a simple timer socket.
But that idea is well tech

Had awesome coffee in Notes on St Martins Lane, SM natural process El Salvador done on a cloth filter. Real painstaking preparation turned out a delicious brew. Nice place to sit too, they got the new bells and whistles Marzocco but I don't really get the espresso.

Or you could use a simple timer socket.
But that idea is well tech

I already do that. I want to click GO an have something make noise elsewhere....

Had awesome coffee in Notes on St Martins Lane, SM natural process El Salvador done on a cloth filter. Real painstaking preparation turned out a delicious brew. Nice place to sit too, they got the new bells and whistles Marzocco but I don't really get the espresso.

Pretty please visit Ealing... I will dose you on coffee and stuff you teach me.. I buy you food and then kick you home... go on.. do it.. :)

Database error trying to open this thread for the last ten minutes. Did someone break the coffee thread...

Found this in my parents' garage:

Opened it up, cleaned the shit out, and have just had my first cup - variable grind switch on the back is a little primitive in that you just tighten or loosen depending on how you want it (seems to come a little loose as you grind unless it's V. tight - but otherwise a pretty good find I'd say.

Unfortunately the bracket underneath to affix it to a table/work top is sheared off. My fault, I was tightening and grinding at the same time (but that said there's a line of rust where it split so I doubt it would have lasted too long under normal strain. A quick welding job I think, or use the wall mounts, assuming I can find a suitable piece of wall to drill into.

or just gclamp it. or fix to wood then fix wood to wall or similar...

Fixing to wood/wall is still going to require some sort of wall destruction, however mild, which, in a rented property I'll try to avoid. Actually, fuck it, it's not the rented nature of the place, it's the 1cm thick corkboard walls. If I cranked the handle once, my hovel would fall down around me.

As for a G-Clamp. Logic smogic.

Pretty please visit Ealing... I will dose you on coffee and stuff you teach me.. I buy you food and then kick you home... go on.. do it.. :)

you fucking whore.
(quite happy about my first post of the day)

looking for a new grinder - If anyone's got a mazzer they want to let go for 50 notes…

:^]

looks wistfully to stars

Ascaso I-mini.

Bit more than 50 notes, and the dosing is a bit hit & miss, but the overall height is less than the Gaggia Classic, which means it doesn't take up too much room.

My old man is in the market for a new machine, is the Gaggia Classic still the best bet for around 200 quid?

Bill was that a suggestion or you have one for sale?

Bill was that a suggestion or you have one for sale?

Suggestion, we got one, but we're not selling it!

i'm hopefully getting one this week. can't decide if it's worth paying extra for the i-steel or to just get the alloy or even cheaper black one.

My old man is in the market for a new machine, is the Gaggia Classic still the best bet for around 200 quid?

We love our Gaggia Classic! Drawbacks are that you have to take the overflow pipe off to get the water tank out, which means taking the top off as well. Not a major problem, but a little irritating. Also the steam wand is a little under-powered.

i'm hopefully getting one this week. can't decide if it's worth paying extra for the i-steel or to just get the alloy or even cheaper black one.

The steel looks nice, and matches our machine.

Thank you kindly, I'll put it forward to jaw snr. He deserves a decent machine, he's got a Nespresso for when he's lazy and the Francis Francis is on it's last legs after 6 years of abuse.
I'd really like to get him a Rancilio Silvia, but need to win the lottery first, so the Gaggia might be a good halfway house.

The Gaggia classic is a great machine for home, give the cubika a skip tho!

the grinder that Bill posted is great for the gaggia as is the dualit.

Neither grind fine enough for larger machines with higher pressure though. [Coffee ground for a 28 second pour on Hippys Bezzera would give you about 1/4 of an espresso in the same time on Gaggia classic]

The options seem to be [thanks bombcup]

2nd hand Mazzer mini [about £170 on the bay don't come up that often]

Rancilio Rocky non doser [about £230 new]

or an Iberital MC2 [£110 new]

We love our Gaggia Classic! Drawbacks are that you have to take the overflow pipe off to get the water tank out, which means taking the top off as well. Not a major problem, but a little irritating. Also the steam wand is a little under-powered.

i'm confused?
if you remove the long metal rod (it just pulls out of the grommet) then the tank just slides forward.
i just cleaned mine as there was a tide mark, have one of those filters on the end of the water feed and still managed to remove the tank.

Pretty please visit Ealing... I will dose you on coffee and stuff you teach me.. I buy you food and then kick you home... go on.. do it.. :)

I'd love to do a coffee thread group training session covering espresso and brewing but I'm not going to be able to do it at work. Only way would be to come to Northampton on a saturday.

i'm confused?
if you remove the long metal rod (it just pulls out of the grommet) then the tank just slides forward.
i just cleaned mine as there was a tide mark, have one of those filters on the end of the water feed and still managed to remove the tank.

Ah. I never worked that out. Derr.

just put in my first order with Hasbean looking forward to it but a shame I've moved so not living round the corner from http://www.smallbatchcoffee.co.uk/ when I could nip in whenever run out of beans.

Hasbean the best of the mail order options?