capresso burr grinder forever
scott I'm pretty sure I would murder your relatives
mr veg always talks about getting a pavoni manual espresso maker and I'm like fuck you I'm not handcranking my goddamn coffee you maniac
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 March 2013 17:26 (eleven years ago) link
this is cheap for an electric burr and i guess pretty ok? http://www.amazon.com/Cuisinart-DBM-8-Supreme-Grind-Automatic/dp/B00018RRRK
― s.clover, Monday, 25 March 2013 17:37 (eleven years ago) link
I wish someone would come up with a raymond burr grinder
sry
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 March 2013 17:38 (eleven years ago) link
I have one of those DBM-8 grinders for making coffee at home, and it sucks: Uneven grind, powder that sticks to the crappy plastic cup. I guess if I had to make coffee for more than one person, and wanted a super find or super coarse grind, I would consider investing in one of those Capressos or some other fancy burr grinder. I'd still want to own a Hario mini mill for camping and work and stuff.
― poopdeck pappy (beard papa), Monday, 25 March 2013 17:48 (eleven years ago) link
we've had the capresso for 5+ years, it works great. but we do grind for both drip and espresso so it def suits our needs and copious amounts of coffee that we drink
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 March 2013 17:52 (eleven years ago) link
Veg the "hand" part of the Pavoni process is literally 10-15 seconds.
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Monday, 25 March 2013 18:06 (eleven years ago) link
i
don't
care
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 March 2013 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
as long as this is the coffee thread now, is there an electric kettle that will heat water to the proper temp or should I just do the 'let it boil, cut the heat and wait five minutes' thing?
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 25 March 2013 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
I wish I could taste the tiny differences between all these different coffee making ingredients and methodologies. I am sure there are highly gifted people who can, and their perceptions are what drives the ever more finely graded scale of which kind of X is the best kind of X, and I wish them great joy in their ability to enjoy these distinctions.
I can't. Therefore I just drink regular crap coffee and seem, against all odds, to enjoy it; that is my own peculiar gift, just as superfine senses are a gift others enjoy.
― Aimless, Monday, 25 March 2013 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
milo: http://www.amazon.com/Bonavita-Variable-Temperature-Electric-Gooseneck/dp/B005YR0F40/ref=pd_sim_hg_14
― max, Monday, 25 March 2013 18:19 (eleven years ago) link
Wait 5 minutes?? I bring to JUST the start of a boil and pick up the kettle and wait 13 seconds (usually while I do something else like put 4 plates in the dishwasher or etc so I'm not just standing there).
― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Monday, 25 March 2013 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
I don't know where I got 13 seconds, probably from some ilx thread between dayo and max.
― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Monday, 25 March 2013 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
gol dang yall i'm straight up drinkin folgers right now, if i had any cash to spare i'd buy some fresh from the shop on the corner and have them grind it.
― j., Monday, 25 March 2013 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
"pick up the kettle" do you have an ELECTRIC RANGE ugh how gauche
j/k j/k ;P
― open the blood gates (elmo argonaut), Monday, 25 March 2013 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
i grew up on instant, but I derive a bit of pleasure from making espresso at home. it's a fun problem-solving process that is frustratingly, interestingly different every time I do it. I try not to be a snob about it though :)also I drink those sbux via instant things when I need a coffee hit at work so it all comes out in the wash. sometimes coffee is just coffee
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 March 2013 18:28 (eleven years ago) link
xp HOW DARE YOU I WOULD NEVER. The flame element + reflecting shield + etc seem to retain enough heat that things cook a lil more unless you move the pan.
― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Monday, 25 March 2013 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Monday, March 25, 2013 2:21 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm. And I love in an almost obsessive compulsive kind of way finding little tasks to do in between bits of the coffee process/finding the most efficient order to do things in, etc.
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Monday, 25 March 2013 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
― j., Monday, March 25, 2013 2:23 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Get someone with a Costco membership to buy you coffee there -- good coffee at Folgers' prices. I've been using the Colombian beans for a while and they come out to about $5/lb.
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Monday, 25 March 2013 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
no thanks man i can't make basic food intake into a strategic economic operation, that's the first step down the road to hand-ground artisanal civet coffee
― j., Monday, 25 March 2013 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
slippery slope argument
― Aimless, Monday, 25 March 2013 18:50 (eleven years ago) link
other end of the spectrum is artisinal dumpster diving
― The Complete Afterbirth of the Cool (WilliamC), Monday, 25 March 2013 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
oh idk, I think it's kind of a different path. artisinal consumption is all about throwing economics out the window. I remember some article (maybe from the quid/ag ny times thread?) where some brooklyn foodie type was talking about how his moderate income family spent $12 on half gallons of milk and $8 on a dozen eggs.
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Monday, 25 March 2013 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
For $24/gallon, do they walk the cow to your front door and milk it in front of you?
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 25 March 2013 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
insanity
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 March 2013 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
I hope the people are actually getting $2/gal milk poured into fancy glass bottles tbh.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 25 March 2013 18:57 (eleven years ago) link
i love good coffee but i will also drink any kind of coffee.
― scott seward, Monday, 25 March 2013 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
they have good beans at the co-op market here. i grind them there. i used to grind electicallu, but my grinder pooped out. i kinda dig that swedish coffee i see in all the supermarkets now. i like the yellow bag. they must have been bought out by Kraft or something, cuz i never saw it and now its everywhere.
― scott seward, Monday, 25 March 2013 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
Hey, found it!
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/magazine/14food-t-000.html?_r=2&scp=3&sq=chicken%20meatball&st=cse&
Apologies, it was $14/gallon, not $12/half gallon
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Monday, 25 March 2013 19:10 (eleven years ago) link
gevalia, i guess?
― scott seward, Monday, 25 March 2013 19:11 (eleven years ago) link
Until recently, whenever we went to the farmers’ market, we would lug home $50 pork roasts and $14 gallons of milk. We would spend over $100 on food that might not last more than three days. Sometimes we’d shop on Saturday morning and have nothing to make for dinner on Monday. I shrugged this off as one of those oddities of New York life, like getting a ticket because your neighbor put out his trash on the wrong day. But the $35 chicken made me reconsider. Buying sustainably raised beef and sustainably squeezed milk and sustainably hatched poultry is a way of life that, these days, I just can’t sustain.
One of my favorite clueless statements of all time
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Monday, 25 March 2013 19:12 (eleven years ago) link
"All these ming vases are starting to add up! There must be another way to decorate your house!"
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Monday, 25 March 2013 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
― scott seward, Monday, March 25, 2013 3:11 PM (44 seconds ago) Bookmark
yeah it's not bad. my other supermarket rec is seattle's best level 1 or 2.
probably the best mass-market coffee is the target single-origin stuff
― 乒乓, Monday, 25 March 2013 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
archer farms
i haven't had costco tho...............................
― 乒乓, Monday, 25 March 2013 19:14 (eleven years ago) link
best super mass market is chock full o nuts
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Monday, 25 March 2013 19:15 (eleven years ago) link
"electicallu"
uh, ELECTRICALLY...
― scott seward, Monday, 25 March 2013 19:17 (eleven years ago) link
xxpost dayo interesting, i haven't tried the target/archer farms. what's the price like?
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 March 2013 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
everytime ive been its always on sale for like $6-7 a bag, but it might be a 10 ounce bag instead of a 12 ounce bag
― 乒乓, Monday, 25 March 2013 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
good to know, I might check it out
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 March 2013 19:21 (eleven years ago) link
i only have a few essential requirements for my coffee. it needs to have caffeine, it needs to be drinkable black, and it needs to keep the #2 train running on time.
― open the blood gates (elmo argonaut), Monday, 25 March 2013 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
hahaha, I had not heard that phrase before.
― The Complete Afterbirth of the Cool (WilliamC), Monday, 25 March 2013 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
lol elmo <3
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 March 2013 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
laxative qualities of joe shld get more mention in reviews
― Aimless, Monday, 25 March 2013 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
those cheap cans can fool me these days and i curse like a sailor when i get home and notice that i bought 1/2 CAFFEINE friggin' folgers or whatever. what the hell is wrong with those people? people can make weak coffee on their own.
― scott seward, Monday, 25 March 2013 20:03 (eleven years ago) link
savages
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 March 2013 20:14 (eleven years ago) link
I've liked most Archer Farms products ....
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 25 March 2013 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
― scott seward, Monday, March 25, 2013 2:03 PM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
my man
my lil' sis is working at a Caribou Coffee a bit, so I have some complementary beans. Might french press them this week.
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 03:46 (eleven years ago) link
Do you people who drink any kind of coffee drink it black, or with a bunch of cream and sugar? I feel like with enough cream & sugar any coffee is drinkable, but I prefer minimal enhancements to my brew. The beans I get are fair trade, locally distributed, are a decent price, and taste awesome black.
― poopdeck pappy (beard papa), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 04:27 (eleven years ago) link
decent stuff i'll drink black. most other coffee i'll cut with at least a touch of cream and sugar.
― s.clover, Tuesday, 26 March 2013 04:29 (eleven years ago) link
bad coffee demands half & halfgood coffee: 2% or almond milk
i can't drink black coffee anymore, owing to the increased schedule of #2 trains etc
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 04:39 (eleven years ago) link