The Coffee Thread - I do believe we never had one
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Re: The Coffee Thread - I do believe we never had one
And why wouldn't you give the cards to homeless people in Vancouver?
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Can't you refund them and buy a tank of gas for your boat?
#22
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I use a drip machine, making 6 cups (my size cup, not a ginormous one) at a time and use a pod or an instant for when I don't want to do a pot.
I have a replacement drip machine lined up, still in ts box. $9 in Superstore about three years ago. I thought I'll get that and save cleaning the other one.
Can't quite understand how over the past two years I drifted into drinking the instant (albeit premium-instant) variety.
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Re: The Coffee Thread - I do believe we never had one
As a Melburnian, who will be coming to Canada as soon as practicable after COPR is received, this is a very interesting thread for me.
Melbourne thinks it has the best coffee in the world, and proudly announces that Starbucks had to close stores it opened here (presumably because they weren't supported). You can spot a Melburnian overseas as they loudly proclaim how disgusting the coffee is wherever they are in the world. They will also go to great lengths to find the coffee shop opened and run by Melbourne expats (I get a kick out of going to Bluestone Lane cafes in New York as the chain was started by a Melburnian, Nick Stone, and offers such Australian delicacies as vegemite on toast and smashed avocado on toast - all at fabulously inflated prices...).
I buy my coffee out during the working week, but on weekends at home I happily use a Nespresso machine. The Ristretto black pods are fairly strong, with some bitterness, but as I drink my espresso coffee with hot milk (prepared in the Nespresso milk canister), the bitterness tends to dissipate against the sweetness of the milk.
When I come to North America on business, I tend to go native and drink dirty dishwater coffee. That's what's available, so I drink it. This horrifies the coffee cognoscenti back in Melbourne, but I still like my morning coffee. I drink Tim's dark roast in Canada - sometimes with milk, but never sugar.
Some friends in LA I visit have a Keurig pod machine. I drink the Original Donut Shop blend or the Green Mountain breakfast blend when visiting with them. They taste fine enough to me.
Melbourne thinks it has the best coffee in the world, and proudly announces that Starbucks had to close stores it opened here (presumably because they weren't supported). You can spot a Melburnian overseas as they loudly proclaim how disgusting the coffee is wherever they are in the world. They will also go to great lengths to find the coffee shop opened and run by Melbourne expats (I get a kick out of going to Bluestone Lane cafes in New York as the chain was started by a Melburnian, Nick Stone, and offers such Australian delicacies as vegemite on toast and smashed avocado on toast - all at fabulously inflated prices...).
I buy my coffee out during the working week, but on weekends at home I happily use a Nespresso machine. The Ristretto black pods are fairly strong, with some bitterness, but as I drink my espresso coffee with hot milk (prepared in the Nespresso milk canister), the bitterness tends to dissipate against the sweetness of the milk.
When I come to North America on business, I tend to go native and drink dirty dishwater coffee. That's what's available, so I drink it. This horrifies the coffee cognoscenti back in Melbourne, but I still like my morning coffee. I drink Tim's dark roast in Canada - sometimes with milk, but never sugar.
Some friends in LA I visit have a Keurig pod machine. I drink the Original Donut Shop blend or the Green Mountain breakfast blend when visiting with them. They taste fine enough to me.
#24
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Re: The Coffee Thread - I do believe we never had one
What about cappuccino espresso machines?
#25
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I drink tea at home, I'll buy a jar of instant for work. Haven't found a single Keurig coffee I like. If I was to buy a machine I'd have a fancy nesspresso (sp) thingy.
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This is like me ordering my first fancy coffee in front of my teenage Daughter...
#27
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That's what our broken one was. I don't know if it was just Himself making a palaver of it, but it seemed like so much bother I never actually used it myself. (I prefer tea really anyway.) Results were, to my mind, hit and miss. And the milk doesn't get properly frothy unless you used full fat, which I always forgot to get.
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That's what our broken one was. I don't know if it was just Himself making a palaver of it, but it seemed like so much bother I never actually used it myself. (I prefer tea really anyway.) Results were, to my mind, hit and miss. And the milk doesn't get properly frothy unless you used full fat, which I always forgot to get.
Skim and semi-skimmed milk will steam and froth just as well as full fat if you get the technique correct, and the right steam temperature.
The Rancilio Silvia is about the best bang for your buck for a home machine - many of the components are commercial grade, so it has the capability to deliver more consistent results than less robust domestic machines.
Last edited by R I C H; Feb 1st 2017 at 1:33 am.
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Re: The Coffee Thread - I do believe we never had one
My wife drinks coffee. Myself I am not fond of the taste, tolerable with sugar and cream and copious amounts of both. It also gives me stomach aches.