Coffee. How do you take yours?

[Dec27]

Who you calling mate?

You love

 

[Elsa TLC]

These are the beans I’m currently using. Seem okay to me but I have others to try.

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Yes thats a good Brew!

 

[Elsa TLC]

You love

Thanks mate.

 

[Elsa TLC]

Its a cow thats been for a swim

 

[Mottie]

Its a cow thats been for a swimView attachment 403725

Looks more like a duck.

 

[Elsa TLC]

Looks more like a duck.

Ok it's a duck our of water

 

[Mottie]

Ok it's a duck our of water

Or Casper the friendly ghost.

 

[ReganAndCarter]

Black like my men!

Strong and black?

 

[ReganAndCarter]

Bonus this morning when Mrs Mottie reminded me that I had some speciality biscuits in the cupboard that I had been given at Christmas along with my coffee bean grinder and selection of beans.

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Where can you get the Iti treats in the photo, Mottie? Supermarket or somewhere more specialist, eg. deli?

 

[ReganAndCarter]

After trying various, sometimes complex machines, and methods, I've settled for the past few years on a simple French Press, leaving it 4 minutes to brew two cups. After pouring my first cup, I cover the press with a woolly hat, to keep it warm.

Double walled version seems a good idea to keep it warm.

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Is there any difference between a French press and cafeterier? Which is better - filter machine or press? I prefer Americano longer coffee with milk rather than the small thimbles of super strength Espresso. Still need to be quite full bodied for me though - don't like weak coffee. Not interested in pod machines.

 

[MNW67]

Double walled version seems a good idea to keep it warm.

https://www.argos.co.uk/product/4336323?utm_custom6=LIA&utm_source=google&utm_medium=free_listing&utm_campaign=merchant_center&deeplink=true

Is there any difference between a French press and cafeterier? Which is better - filter machine or press? I prefer Americano longer coffee with milk rather than the small thimbles of super strength Espresso. Still need to be quite full bodied for me though - don't like weak coffee. Not interested in pod machines.

Americano is a diluted espresso. It has quite a different flavour profile to cafetiere coffee. French press is the same as a cafetiere. If I'm making it just for me, I use a small cafetiere which just makes one mug.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Is there any difference between a French press and cafeterier?

Two names, for basically the same thing.

Which is better - filter machine or press?

I've tried the stove top things, where the water, is funnelled up via a pipe in the middle, onto the coffee, in a container held above; the similar automatic electric versions, and the French Press. The stove top version made undrinkable coffee, the electric version was OK, but the best all round, for both coffee and convenience, was the French Press.

The French Press is simple, simple to clean, simple to set up. You just need a kettle to fill it. The electric version, soon gets choked up, and cannot easily be cleaned.

I would drink, but don't enjoy as much as my French Press, Costa/Greggs/etc., plus the output of cartridge machines.

 

[Mottie]

Where can you get the Iti treats in the photo, Mottie? Supermarket or somewhere more specialist, eg. deli?

The clue is on the packet………..

 

[SPLINE]

Having recently decided to live a healthier lifestyle I have just bought myself a decaffeinated coffee table.

 

[Dec27]

Americano is a diluted espresso. It has quite a different flavour profile to cafetiere coffee. French press is the same as a cafetiere. If I'm making it just for me, I use a small cafetiere which just makes one mug.

Aeropress is superior imho.