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Re: In praise of the Aeropress

Postby Stokey Sue » Sat Jan 14, 2017 8:09 pm

JD coffee? No thanks, but the bottled barbeque sauce is quite nice

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Re: In praise of the Aeropress

Postby Sakkarin » Wed Jan 18, 2017 12:35 pm

Fab piccy a friend of mine took, borrowed to illustrate this thread!

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Re: In praise of the Aeropress

Postby Gillthepainter » Wed Jan 18, 2017 6:28 pm

Ooooo, moody.

Where'd they get their cup, Sakkarin.
I need another new glass cup for my morning coffee routine.

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Re: In praise of the Aeropress

Postby Sakkarin » Wed Jan 18, 2017 6:55 pm

Looks like they do a bigger latte-sized one too. But only in pairs...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from= ... ss&_sop=15

EDIT: Just read a reviewer of the Aeropress who says he rinses and reuses the filters up to 5 times each. I know it's the ultimate in tightfisted, but for the sake of it I've got a couple of rinsed ones drying out on the radiator...

EDIT 2. Ignore that last comment, tried it and it is idiotic.

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Re: In praise of the Aeropress

Postby Gillthepainter » Wed Jan 18, 2017 10:53 pm

Ha!
Only works with toilet paper, Sakkarin.

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Re: In praise of the Aeropress

Postby Pampy » Fri Jan 27, 2017 3:01 pm

Have just come across this - I've never heard of it before.
http://www.bonappetit.com/drinks/non-al ... tro-coffee

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Re: In praise of the Aeropress

Postby Sakkarin » Fri Jan 27, 2017 10:29 pm

Interesting! I see that article is nearly 2 years old, I wonder if it's made it here yet. Also found a Guardian article from 4 months ago...

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyl ... ffee-shops

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Re: In praise of the Aeropress

Postby Pampy » Sat Jan 28, 2017 12:21 am

Sakkarin wrote:Interesting! I see that article is nearly 2 years old, I wonder if it's made it here yet. Also found a Guardian article from 4 months ago...

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyl ... ffee-shops

Yes, it is a couple of years old. The coffee's mentioned in the latest Good Food magazine but I couldn't get a link to it as I was looking at it using a "reader".

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Re: In praise of the Aeropress

Postby Sakkarin » Fri Feb 17, 2017 7:32 pm

I see the classic gold and black obsidian version of this coffee maker is only $18,000. I should have that saved up in about 234 years, no problem.

http://www.royalcoffeemaker.com/product ... fee-maker/

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Re: In praise of the Aeropress

Postby Pampy » Sat Feb 18, 2017 3:34 pm

Many years ago when I lived in Sardinia, the Aga Khan had His purpose-built yacht moored on the Costa Smeralda. I was told that the coffee machine alone had cost something like £250,000! Apparently, it was like the big Gaggia ones that you see in restaurants and was completely gold plated, with some parts made in solid gold. Wonder if the coffee it produced tasted any better than some made with cheaper machines? I doubt it!

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Re: In praise of the Aeropress

Postby jeral » Sat Feb 18, 2017 6:21 pm

Pampy wrote:Many years ago when I lived in Sardinia, the Aga Khan had His purpose-built yacht moored on the Costa Smeralda. I was told that the coffee machine alone had cost something like £250,000! Apparently, it was like the big Gaggia ones that you see in restaurants and was completely gold plated, with some parts made in solid gold. Wonder if the coffee it produced tasted any better than some made with cheaper machines? I doubt it!

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If it has diamond cutting blades that never go blunt, it could be a good investment - unless he went off coffee of course, or he got bored with it... It'd be a good charity shop find :)

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Re: In praise of the Aeropress

Postby Sakkarin » Mon Mar 13, 2017 8:20 pm

I was inveigled into buying an expensive pack of coffee beans in Sainos yesterday, as the packaging made it look like something new. I now realise that it was just rebranding of the old Taylor's Brazil beans as "Praline Especial Brazil". Not impressed, especially as the flavour did not to me suggest praline, whereas the Morrisons' Brazilian beans I tried in November on this thread very much did have a hazelnutty undertaste.

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On their website, they have the following chart (top) to show the "flavours" of the coffee. FLORAL? As much as potatoes taste of celery. So I did a my own taste chart for potatoes along the same lines...

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Re: In praise of the Aeropress

Postby Sakkarin » Thu Jun 01, 2017 12:09 pm

Well I've just opened my fourth pack of Aeropress filters, so that means I've made over 1,000 cups of coffee with it, as there are 350 in each pack. Only a tiny handful of those has not been 100%.

The bottom line is that I now use the Tesco cheap and cheerful £2 "original" beans as I'm on a shoestring budget, and they really are only marginally inferior to the top brands when Aeropressed, still a fabulous cup of coffee to my taste. And only 10p a cup. Stuff those expensive pods!

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Re: In praise of the Aeropress

Postby Renée » Thu Jun 01, 2017 4:25 pm

I don't blame you!

I bought Alcafe Columbian ground coffee from Aldi, because it smelled really nice when I squeezed the packet. It has a one-way valve. I also bought Specially Selected Ethiopian 100% Arabica ground coffee, which is a Which best buy.

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Re: In praise of the Aeropress

Postby Sakkarin » Thu Jun 15, 2017 3:29 pm

Intersting chart with recipes for 38 different types of coffee-based drinks.

Click it for a readable blowup.

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Re: In praise of the Aeropress

Postby Sakkarin » Thu Jun 15, 2017 6:43 pm

P.S. I notice that several of those brews are a mixture of filter coffee and expresso. What's the point of that? I feel an Irish coffee coming on.

Felicity's already been there...
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyl ... day-recipe

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Re: In praise of the Aeropress

Postby Renée » Thu Jun 15, 2017 10:16 pm

As for all those coffees, it's getting a bit ridiculous, although I did order a Macchiato once, because I was with a friend who was ordering one.

Sorry, but I missed seeing those charts that you did in March, due to having a friend staying here. The potato chart made me laugh! :lol:

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Re: In praise of the Aeropress

Postby Gillthepainter » Fri Jun 16, 2017 6:01 pm

So that explains why the "I'll have what you're having, Catherine" I had yesterday, when Catherine did the cappuccino run tasted like a bounty bar.

She brought me a coconut milk mocha.

(sickly though, not lovely).

As I don't order a mocha, I didn't realize it was half chocolate. Is it?

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Re: In praise of the Aeropress

Postby strictlysalsaclare » Fri Jun 16, 2017 6:15 pm

Gillthepainter wrote:So that explains why the "I'll have what you're having, Catherine" I had yesterday, when Catherine did the cappuccino run tasted like a bounty bar.

She brought me a coconut milk mocha.

(sickly though, not lovely).

As I don't order a mocha, I didn't realize it was half chocolate. Is it?


Hi Gill

theoretically a mocha should be made with either mocha or mysore coffee beans. However, these days if you have one from Costa etc, it's more likely to be made with the chocolate Monin syrup like I had once :vomit. Some outlets may use cocoa which is a lot more palatable in my view. I only make lattes at home now, so I can control the amount of coffee I put in. I prefer the taste of coffee to hot milk so I am generous with the coffee. If I make a mocha, the only ingredients I use are instant coffee granules, cocoa powder and milk. I don't need the sugar in it.

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Re: In praise of the Aeropress

Postby Stokey Sue » Fri Jun 16, 2017 8:20 pm

Just looked at that poster
Surely most of those could be described as X amount of espresso coffee plus Y amount of milk (where X and Y are both very variable)? Or hot water in place of milk

An Espresso Martini might be more to my taste, as I don't drink milk
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/recipes/10681309/Espresso-martini-cocktail-recipe.html

Very fashionable apparently :D

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