Coffee - At home or on the road?

[viking1]

I only tea-bag Green Tea.

Never got into the coffee culture.

[Yamcha]

Vince, could you please flip that spoon around on the right hand side?

My OCD thanks you.

[polychronopolous]

Vince, could you please flip that spoon around on the right hand side?

My OCD thanks you.

haha

[tom joad]

No.  Just no.  If you are talking about their foo-foo coffees, they aren't bad but their regular coffee sucks Goodrums dick.

Tim Hortons
Dunkin Donuts
Krispy Kreme. 

Those are my top 3.

how do you rank their donuts?

[AbrahamG]

how do you rank their donuts?

Krispy Kreme.
Krispy Kreme.
Krispy Kreme.

[El Diablo Blanco]

okay fellas, end of thread.  I bought the Ninja Coffee Bar machine at Costco.  HOLY FUCK!  amazing shit right there.  Making single cups is a breeze with no need for those bullshit K Cups.  Different strength brews and sizes. Even has a milk frother that is awesome.  Only cost $129 which is like a few months of starbucks.  Best part is you can brew straight into the travel mug.  Thing is a beast.

I store my beans in a Co2 releasing container and use a Burr Mill grinder right before I'm ready to brew.  Cheap to get from Amazon.

[DroppingPlates]

okay fellas, end of thread.  I bought the Ninja Coffee Bar machine at Costco.  HOLY FUCK!  amazing shit right there.  Making single cups is a breeze with no need for those bullshit K Cups.  Different strength brews and sizes. Even has a milk frother that is awesome.  Only cost $129 which is like a few months of starbucks.  Best part is you can brew straight into the travel mug.  Thing is a beast.

I store my beans in a Co2 releasing container and use a Burr Mill grinder right before I'm ready to brew.  Cheap to get from Amazon.

You bring a good point by storing your beans in a vacuum container. I use a larger version of this one.

[Ropo]

Fuck me none of you can make a decent cup of coffee by the sounds of things.  You NEVER grind your coffee the night before, infact if you don't use it in 10 minutes it goes in the bin.

Use filtered water, good coffee beans, pressurized port a filter, steel tamper not the plastic one in the box.  Grind fresh using only a burr grinder and use different size grinds for different pours.  You should get a good crema that holds up to being stirred. 
I use a delonghi burr grinder and a delonghi dedica ec680.   Favourite roast is Columbia superior and of course Jamaican blue mountain coffee (though 90% of it in the USA is fake).

Nice try, but you drop the ball like any other bozo. First of all, pressurized port a filters are for fucking imbeciles, secondly only fucking amateurs use delonghi products and only fool amateurs claim that they can make good cup of coffee using them. Here is minimum system for home barista:



and




You can't even compare delonghi piece of shit with these products, and the coffe you can make with these. Then you add little drop of this




and you have nice cup of coffee 

[DroppingPlates]

We have some badass baristas on Getbig..

[Ropo]

I use a Moka Pot for my coffee but I fucked it up today.  Grinding the beans up is always better but if you keep your coffee in stone wear containers, its preserved

Secret life of the mocca pot..butt plug at night, coffee maker at daytime...Please wash it between sifts..

[Ropo]

We have some badass baristas on Getbig..

Just wannabees like me. If you like a cup of coffee every now and then, why don't drink it as good as it can be? It cost some money, it take some effort but at the end, you get far better coffee than you get from most of the coffee shops. Furthermore, you know how it is done, what is in it and how it should taste AND you have endless variety of coffee beans to choose. Today I use Etiopia Yirgacheffe beans, tomorrow some beans from Menendez, El Salvador. Just 35€ per kilo, or 18$ per lb  

[ChristopherA]

Christ it's a cup of coffee not science. Oh my god, you are such a bad ass you make the baddest cup of hot flavored water around.

[gmflex]

Verismo $59

https://store.starbucks.com/products/verismo-v-brewer-011060691

[rocket]

Nice try, but you drop the ball like any other bozo. First of all, pressurized port a filters are for fucking imbeciles, secondly only fucking amateurs use delonghi products and only fool amateurs claim that they can make good cup of coffee using them. Here is minimum system for home barista:



and




You can't even compare delonghi piece of shit with these products, and the coffe you can make with these. Then you add little drop of this




and you have nice cup of coffee  

I have used a silvia a fair bit, it is a decent machine.  It does like a fine grind, though - so it is very important not to skimp on the grinder as some coffees will cause you issues, if not.  Cheap burr grinders are the ones you need to beware of as grinding fine comes at a cost.

For those that do not know, the rate of flow out of the head, into the glass is a good gauge of whether your grind is good.

Naturally, some people may be reading stuff like this and shaking their heads, but I'm sure you can all understand that different beans will require different grind settings to get the same consistent pour.  I mean, if I grind wood into dust from different trees, the flow rate will be different, won't it?  Softer woods vs harder woods etc

My advice to anybody who doesn't understand this stuff and thinks it is lies is stay thinking that.. you'll save money.  If you must search the truth, buy a silvia and a grinder and some roasted beans and watch what happens if you leave your coffee grinder on a static setting, without adjusting it for the extraction time.  Hint:  some coffees will be good, others will be terrible.

[DroppingPlates]

Just wannabees like me. If you like a cup of coffee every now and then, why don't drink it as good as it can be? It cost some money, it take some effort but at the end, you get far better coffee than you get from most of the coffee shops. Furthermore, you know how it is done, what is in it and how it should taste AND you have endless variety of coffee beans to choose. Today I use Etiopia Yirgacheffe beans, tomorrow some beans from Menendez, El Salvador. Just 35€ per kilo, or 18$ per lb  

African & Mid American beans are known for the best aroma and flavor. The closer to the sun, the higher the market price..

[SilverSpoon]

Nice try, but you drop the ball like any other bozo. First of all, pressurized port a filters are for fucking imbeciles, secondly only fucking amateurs use delonghi products and only fool amateurs claim that they can make good cup of coffee using them. Here is minimum system for home barista:



and




You can't even compare delonghi piece of shit with these products, and the coffe you can make with these. Then you add little drop of this




and you have nice cup of coffee 

Take a look at the Alex Duetto.  That is what I rock.

Also a Mazzer Mini grinder.

[Tapeworm]

I was thinking more of something that looks nice in the kitchen than of its performance.  Seems like the technology to push steam through grinds would be well established and the kmart model would do it just as well as the ferrari.  

I still don't want anything made of fucking plastic for purely aesthetic reasons, and I'm content with my good 'ol Murican cup 'o joe drippy maker, but I want to know if the more expensive espresso maker produces a better cup.  And if so, how?  More pressure?  More volume?  Higher temp steam (in b4 u already said moar pressure)?  

Ceteris paribus, grind, etc, wassup machine vs machine?

[cephissus]

I was thinking more of something that looks nice in the kitchen than of its performance.  Seems like the technology to push steam through grinds would be well established and the kmart model would do it just as well as the ferrari.  

I still don't want anything made of fucking plastic for purely aesthetic reasons, and I'm content with my good 'ol Murican cup 'o joe drippy maker, but I want to know if the more expensive espresso maker produces a better cup.  And if so, how?  More pressure?  More volume?  Higher temp steam (in b4 u already said moar pressure)?  

Ceteris paribus, grind, etc, wassup machine vs machine?

[rocket]

I was thinking more of something that looks nice in the kitchen than of its performance.  Seems like the technology to push steam through grinds would be well established and the kmart model would do it just as well as the ferrari. 

I still don't want anything made of fucking plastic for purely aesthetic reasons, and I'm content with my good 'ol Murican cup 'o joe drippy maker, but I want to know if the more expensive espresso maker produces a better cup.  And if so, how?  More pressure?  More volume?  Higher temp steam (in b4 u already said moar pressure)? 

Ceteris paribus, grind, etc, wassup machine vs machine?

I have an isomac zaffira.. pretty nice looking

[Grape Ape]

I have a kuerig, but still maintain the this stovetop method is the best homemade coffee i've ever had.  Absolute gas - stronger than any I've made in any other apparatus I've owned.

[Ropo]

African & Mid American beans are known for the best aroma and flavor. The closer to the sun, the higher the market price..

After tasting +20 different beans, these seem to be my favourites at the moment. I don't say they are the best coffee there is, but after +20 and before 56 558 other coffee beans, these are what I like just now. What is nice about real espresso, you can drink lot of it because while there is as much aroma than you can get out from coffee, there is still only small amount of caffeine. That bottomless port a filter is for triple espresso, so I use quite large cups for my cappuccino  

[Ropo]

Take a look at the Alex Duetto.  That is what I rock.

Also a Mazzer Mini grinder.

Ranchilio Silvia is the cheapest real espresso machine there is, and it is all I need. I know there is lots of finer and probably far better machines, but I don't want pay thousand of euros for coffee maker. I am no sommelier, I dont have taste buds fine enough to taste the difference of 550€ and 2550€ machines, so it would be stupidity to spend more money in this hobby. I also know that there is lot of people who are dazzled by the price and all that chrome and meters, but who don't know fuck about coffee. By your arguments it seem to me that you are one of those 

[smoothasf]

Nice try, but you drop the ball like any other bozo. First of all, pressurized port a filters are for fucking imbeciles, secondly only fucking amateurs use delonghi products and only fool amateurs claim that they can make good cup of coffee using them. Here is minimum system for home barista:



and I




You can't even compare delonghi piece of shit with these products, and the coffe you can make with these. Then you add little drop of this




and you have nice cup of coffee  

Nice! Can't argue with that, beautiful bit of kit.  Have to disagree on delonghi being a piece of shit though, it's one of the highest-rated home coffee machines and tastes better than 99% of places I gets coffee from.  It's not the gold standard of coffee but it should at least be a bare minimum to be using before comparing quality.

[DroppingPlates]

Faxed

[tom joad]

Faxed

that espresso machine and grinder look kinda like a mismatch
... the espresso machine looks sharp while the grinder looks a little cheapo (but maybe it works well?)