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Saw that the nifty cerulean blue V60s were selling out everywhere and finally jumped on buying one, along with a Skerton Pro (which I am now to understand is only “ok”, and apparently no longer recommended, but I wanted to get free shipping and it’s what they had, and $37- the cost of the grinder minus the $13 shipping I would’ve otherwise paid- isn’t too bad) Any recommendations for where to start getting coffee? Ideally good supermarket-available stuff. I’ve got Trader Joe’s, Wegmans, Costco in my rotation but am happy to go to Whole Foods, Market Basket, etc as well if there’s something there worth getting. If there’s like a good store in Massachusetts, or a web store I’ll check those out too, but I guess I feel a bit weird having coffee shipped to me. trilobite terror fucked around with this message at 21:08 on Apr 23, 2021 |
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mediaphage posted:i don’t know what city you’re in but i would absolutely check for small time roasters near you before anywhere else I’m around Boston, so if there’s a roaster anywhere in eastern Mass or the rest of New England I’m pretty much within distance of a store carrying their stuff I imagine eke out posted:places like Whole Foods tend to feature some local roasters, I bet there's some 12oz bags from somewhere not very far away from you there that actually have roasted-on dates that you could find? that'd probably be one of the best options, since finding something that isn't months-old is often the hardest thing to do at supermarkets. could also look out for the bigger names in the specialty scene that distribute all over, like counter culture or blue bottle thanks for the advice Am I gonna be happy with my Skerton? It’s my first grinder. I’ve ground coffee at the supermarket before but never really at home. I get the impression from some negative or indifferent reviews that I’d be doing good beans a disservice by using it though 
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AnimeIsTrash posted:This looks like a hipster version of the bripe. Besides the man behind Bripe looks like someone who just wants you to live your best bripe life. the real Diamond Joe?
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silvergoose posted:Made moka pot for the first time in a while and couldn't remember the exact details...how much coffee and then how much water? Ended up with 15g to 150ml and it turned out tasty enough. I was one of those children, drinking black coffee to my parents’ chagrin in like elementary school the child will be fine
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Jay Derkin posted:Okay so I understand that this is heresy, and initially I was even ashamed of myself. threadban
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yeah if british youtube coffee bae is down all bets are off
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BrianBoitano posted:It's also a nice treat for guests. My nanny, who is 55, giggles when she walks in and I offer her one OOOOOH MISTAH SHEFFIELD! IS THAT CAWFEE FOR ME? OOOOOOOOH, I'M SORRY IT'S "HAND-PULLED ESPRESSO" VERY FANCY! trilobite terror fucked around with this message at 01:58 on Sep 11, 2021 |
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Cannon_Fodder posted:I'm torn on Hoffman.  that’s seriously loving weird, dude
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sugar free jazz posted:Why do you want to punch the gentle, twee, helpful, British coffee guy because he’s effete
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Cannon_Fodder posted:I don't apologize. Cannon_Fodder posted:I'm not really invested in a slapfight with you guys. you’re trafficking in the same thought processes historically used to casually justify and encourage violence and repression against people who don’t perform masculinity in “the right way”, but you probably knew that which is why you’re backpedaling now tell us how you feel about trans people next
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Cannon_Fodder posted:Is that what I said? Like, you know that I didn't say that, right? You can read my post. hmmm yes, ”the effete coffee Englishman just has something about his way and his face and his tone that makes him entirely punchable” help, I don’t know how to read between lines
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Cannon_Fodder posted:Reducing the person to "effete Englishman" is saying a whole lot more about you than about me right now. Not once was anything mentioned about his demeanor, I just don't like his tone. Oh no! My “rep sheet”! With probations! From the same handful of worthless D&D mods for slapfighting! Oh how do I bear the shame? aren’t “tone” and “demeanor” sides of the same thing?
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sarcastx posted:Need some advice on what to do in this unfortunate situation: I would make a fuckton of cold-brew (and then probably try to figure out a way to put weed in it), but I like cold-brew. Echoing calls to do pour-over (never too late to drop $20-40 to get a V60 or Chemex, just to -like- have. I know there are Maybe try using it for cafes con leche or baking or flavoring meats or some other type of thing that you’d never use nice espresso for
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how do ppl here feel about Bustelo? I grabbed a brick at half price ($2.50) bc my Dominican mom reminded me of it trilobite terror fucked around with this message at 03:11 on Oct 10, 2021 |
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I just eyeballed a zero-effort Bustelo pour in the V60 (two tbsp for a cup, next time I’ll probably do three). Filtered super quick, as would be expected with such a fine grind. It’s not “high end” by any stretch but it’s a loving order of magnitude better than Dunkies, office coffee, etc. Holy poo poo what a night-and-day difference even for such a relatively minimal step. It’s the “at least you made some effort” step, like how a $50 Craigslist receiver plus some garage-find speakers will blow p much any soundbar or Bluetooth speaker out of the water.
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blessings to you, Coffee Thread, on this, your Page 420 Coffee is one of my favorite delivery methods for cannamilk
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TheDarkFlame posted:I'm looking to get some good coffee stuff for a friend of mine, and I'm not sure what it would be best to point him to. He's asked me about coffee grinders, so I'm thinking a Hairo hand grinder, unless there's a better one that isn't needlessly more expensive (although I could probably convince his partner to go halves on something). Also currently he has a Nespresso machine, I know you can get refillable capsules for these, so for the sake of making it easy for him would it be worth getting one of those to put decent coffee in? Or do I get him a Clever cone or something similar where he has to actually brew it himself? v60 in ceramic is slightly cheaper than Clever and might feel a bit more “premium” to a newbie. But yeah, a pourover of some kind plus whatever is better than a Skerton Pro (what I started with + still use because it was on sale but I hear there are way better liked things out there) is 👍👍 and better than hacky refill pods that are a messy pain to use and get subpar results
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Thumposaurus posted:Put the beans up your butt no dry mouth dry butt
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Cannon_Fodder posted:
Thumposaurus posted:Put the caffeine pills up your butt no dry mouth
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Clark Nova posted:an excellent problem to have on a long bike ride I was going to make a joke about Dry Butt becoming Chapped rear end, but actually Wet Butt leads to that
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ThirstyBuck posted:Plus extra caffeine as you bypass most of 1st pass metabolism. Now what is the preferred grind for this? Discuss. Ultra fine, as fine as you can make it, then placed in a bellows for most effective distribution and surface area coverage
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Lord Stimperor posted:I dunno, crunching some beans isn't that bad. Could probably make them interesting tasting if you put them in a spice mix or something. I mean, they’re “interesting” enough if you put them in your butt, but you do you
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i own every Bionicle posted:The other day I was out driving with my dad and he wanted a snack, and I was regretting not making a cup of good coffee to bring with me, Starbucks was packed, so went through an Aroma Joe’s drive through. Aroma Joe’s is a New England drivethrough-only chain that feels like it never left the second wave or the 90’s in general. They had a Rwanda single origin next to their mocha vanilla caramel lattes and usual dark roast stuff on the enormous menu. It was shockingly good. It didn’t have a lot of acidity but it was sweet, balanced, and had no unpleasant roast flavors. It reminded me of Cometeer a lot. And it was like a buck fifty. Burn down dunkin and replace them with aroma Joe’s Honeydew Donuts. you meant to say “Burn down Dunkin and replace them with Honeydew”
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Sweeper posted:I wish I could have more espresso in a day without twitching, stupid delicious coffee do more weed
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Jestery posted:Probably mods on a dead forum is the forum gay as well? interested parties want to know
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Mu Zeta posted:Try adding some cannamilk
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ROJO posted:Alright, my lovely kitchenaid drip maker is starting to piss me off because the carafe leaks where the plastic lid is sealed to the plastic, and various other reasons. Starting to buy decent goon coffee has opened my eyes compared to the lovely starbucks I had been buying up until a year ago, so I am looking to do something better on the brew side. Technivorm is the pretty standby. It will make you very very good coffee, in 1-2 ways, forever. The price-equivalent Breville/Sage is the one you wanna get if you want to tinker and load up on customizations and convenience features, brew modes, etc. It’s basically down to what you want. AFAIK there isn’t a clear winner, just different approaches to roughly the same problem. The Technivorm is the Technivorm. It has a cult for a reason. It’s a design icon. It makes a brilliant cup of coffee. If you’ve always lusted after it then no substitute will do. The Breville is the most advanced and technologically capable pour over coffeemaker currently in existence. It will do many coffee-related things very well and in Breville’s intuitive and user-oriented style. Lots of dorks have one. Lots of dorks have both.
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Xarthor posted:Ok coffee goons, question time: Have your parents give you a gift card and then spend the rest of the way to a Technivorm or Breville. If you’re prepared to spend a hypothetical $150 in holiday money value on a coffee machine then you may as well push it to $300 and get the best there is.
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Mu Zeta posted:So Hoffman posted his ultimate moka pot technique and I'm crossing off the moka pot from my list. Way too finnicky and kind of wasteful IMO. sounds like racism against Italians (one of the worst and most evident kinds of racism in today’s world, unfortunately)
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Jestery posted:Do you guys ever get the coffee dream with Hoffman in it? did you punch him in the face?
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NomNomNom posted:Coffee thread is long, confusing, and full of over-caffeinated weirdos. Our Oxo on-brain 9 cup dripper has lasted about 5 years and died and we need a new drip pot. Having a timer is a plus but not required. AFAIK, at that price point you can either go Technivorm or Breville/Sage. Technivorm- simple, teutonic, iconic, eternal Breville- fancy, all of the tech, Breville user interface design, build quality, and customer support (very very good, best-in-class) Breville = S-Class of drip coffee machines Technivorm= S-Class of drip coffee machines, but it’s the S-Class from the 70s
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NomNomNom posted:Yeah I appreciate the simplicity of the Technivorm, tired of replacing small appliances with touchscreens and gizmos that break in a few years. FWIW, there’s no touchscreen BS or super complicated menu diving with the Breville. If you’ve ever used one of their recent toaster ovens or air friers, it’s basically that UI. Just like two buttons and a knob. Arguably some of the best implementation of “smart” features/etc in a household appliance I’ve tried. I would think more about what you want to do with the machine than worry about durability or support. The Breville will let you do stuff like cold brew, over ice, “auto Gold Cup” (ie the closest to what a Technivorm will do), etc, and let you micromanage things like brew time/temp/etc. to your heart’s content. If you have a pourover device like a V60 or Clever that you want to hook up to your Breville for some bizarre reason, you can do that. Last I checked, it’s also the drip machine that James Hoffman uses at home, if that matters at all to you.
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Sir Lemming posted:So my morning French Press routine is changing, and I'm looking into buying a bigger one -- and a bigger kettle to go along with it. Currently I have a press that I think is 1L full capacity (I usually get 800 ml of coffee out of it, which I can stretch to 900 if I leave the top loose). And I have a stovetop gooseneck kettle that also appears to be about 1L. I don’t think there are any gooseneck electric kettles that big, tbh. Might be worth picking up an inexpensive but high-volume non-GN if you plan to use it every day. It’s not like you need the gooseneck precision for French press nearly as much as for, say, pourover. FWIW, my roommate and I use a non-gooseneck kettle for French press and even pourover/clever and it works fine for my needs, I assume it works fine for his. I’d love to get a Stagg, and will probably do so in time, but until then the Oster has digital temp control up to like 220 degrees and holds a ton of water
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Red Crown posted:I gotta transport problem. sounds like you need a work rig
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:What's a good cold brew contraption for making batches? An ex of mine had one of these and liked it enough to gift one to my mother (doesn’t have to be from Williams Sonoma, that was just the first link I saw) https://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/oxo-cold-brew-coffee-maker/ Edit: apparently there’s a newer, more compact, stackable 24 oz sibling to the original’s 32 oz: https://www.oxo.com/compact-cold-brew.html fwiw NYT and other media seem to prefer the bigger one, but if the whole assembly’s going into the fridge then maybe the compact one is a better bet trilobite terror fucked around with this message at 09:23 on Jun 20, 2022 |
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Mu Zeta posted:I use a plastic Melitta cone which uses the standard flat bottom filters you can buy in any grocery in America. I really see no benefit to the v60 unless you need speedier brews. The Melitta only takes like 30 seconds longer. yes but the V60 is Japanese
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obi_ant posted:Thanks for the suggestions guys. I'll probably take a look at all four units mentioned ( Clever, v60, Kalita Wave, Melitta). Although the Clever seems like a good medium for what I've wanted. Maybe I'll pick two of the four. honestly I just go straight from the water boiler into the V60 most days. Hario makes an inexpensive polycarb (that’s plastic) pouring kettle called the Air that’s pretty nice to use but you can also replicate much of the experience with your standard 2 cup Pyrex measuring/pouring cup
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