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Joe Gress wrote:

wsas3 wrote:Oh boy, coffee!!! I'm drinking some right now.

Joe Gress wrote:French Press here. Kinda just started, could use some ideas and tips actually.

What are you looking for? Get a coffee grinder and grind the beans for about 6 seconds and see how it looks. If it looks a bit coarser than pre-ground coffee you're good.

Whats a good grinder out there? Not too expensive, but one that will last as well.

I'm really digging the press I have right now. Its just one that my parents had, but damn it makes a pretty good cup of coffee (especially with kaluha or brandy in it). But I haven't done freshly ground coffee quite yet since I don't have a grinder. My roommates have an electric one that they used already for other things, so I'm not so sure I can use that one anymore.

Aside from turkish coffee, which depends heavily on the grind ( I prefer to use a manual one for that) I'm not too picky about coffee grinders. I have a 20 something dollar braun grinder that has lasted me years, its just very loud. Helps wake you before you even have coffee lol!

I'm another Mr. Coffee guy. I love that purring sound it makes when it's almost done brewing, spitting out the last remnants of water.

Chankgeez wrote:Hario dripper:



Either that or a Chemex.

Yep
Hario drippers make excellent drip coffee. And they look awesome.

Joe Gress wrote: Whats a good grinder out there? Not too expensive, but one that will last as well.

Don't get anything with blades - it makes it fucking hard to get a consistent grind. Get anything that has conical burr.

For day to day use I use this:



It's not espresso, but it's very nice.

Chankgeez wrote:Hario dripper:



Either that or a Chemex.

I will fully fucking back both of these. I'm in love with my Aeropress. I use the inverted method because it's a little more evil.

I've never used one of those moka pots before. I really want to try some coffee from one.

goroth wrote:

Joe Gress wrote: Whats a good grinder out there? Not too expensive, but one that will last as well.

Don't get anything with blades - it makes it fucking hard to get a consistent grind. Get anything that has conical burr.

This is true. I use a Braun blade grinder I got 14 years ago and it's rock solid, but things always get at least a little sludgy with the French Press. I've held off on a burr grinder because I've always come across received wisdom that the good ones that'll last cost.

Beyond grind consistency, some complain that blade grinders burn the beans a bit as they cut them, kind of like powered saws or sanders can burn wood a bit. I've never noticed a problem with it.

I have a black and decker burr grinder. It was a gift about five years ago. It works but requires the magical touch of holding the hopper lid down as a result of a failed safety feature and you have to hold the catch cup tightly to the body of the grinder. It's cute to watch the wife get frustrated trying to operate it.

I would avoid that particular brand.

Bialetti - three+ years strong.
4-cups, takes 5-6 minutes and hasn't made a bad cup yet.

Gone Fission wrote:

goroth wrote:

Joe Gress wrote: Whats a good grinder out there? Not too expensive, but one that will last as well.

Don't get anything with blades - it makes it fucking hard to get a consistent grind. Get anything that has conical burr.

This is true. I use a Braun blade grinder I got 14 years ago and it's rock solid, but things always get at least a little sludgy with the French Press. I've held off on a burr grinder because I've always come across received wisdom that the good ones that'll last cost.

Beyond grind consistency, some complain that blade grinders burn the beans a bit as they cut them, kind of like powered saws or sanders can burn wood a bit. I've never noticed a problem with it.

I've always wanted to test that, with the burning thing, but the problem is the coarseness of the grind is a fairly influential variable, and the nature of the beast is such that you can't control it. The only way to get relatively close would be to grind the shit out of the coffee with the blades, and set the burr really fine and hope that they end up relatively similar, but then that'd be too fine for any of my machines to actually make decent coffee out of it. Hmm...

I'm also a fan of having the right sized coffee machine for the amount your making - although with a moka machine that's kinda unavoidable but yeah.

Got a 2 cup Vev Vigano - this one:

- makes about enough for the equivalent size of a double espresso

4 cup Vev Vigano


6 cup Caroni (which I fucking love using - pictures don't do justice to how elegant it is)


10 cup Bialietti


Might make a pedalboard of moka pots...

And I'm in full agreeance with DADGBD - you can't wear them out and they make consistently good coffee. Had the 4 cupper for 6 years now and it looks like it is new and I've used it literally every morning since we got it.

Is it weird that Northern Europeans drink more coffee than anybody else?

Not when you've spent a winter up here... Haha!

nah, honestly I don't know why we drink as much as we do. It's not a recent trend either. I had to laugh a while back, I saw an advert for some conference thing, and the fee was a couple of hundred dollars. Under the price it said "coffee included", which says a fair bit about our priorities.

And the coffee's most always good here, at least the drip stuff. Few places do good espresso based coffee though. It's a bit too high falutin and continental.

goroth wrote:Not when you've spent a winter up here... Haha!

nah, honestly I don't know why we drink as much as we do. It's not a recent trend either. I had to laugh a while back, I saw an advert for some conference thing, and the fee was a couple of hundred dollars. Under the price it said "coffee included", which says a fair bit about our priorities.

And the coffee's most always good here, at least the drip stuff. Few places do good espresso based coffee though. It's a bit too high falutin and continental.

Yeah, that's exactly what I thought.

Thank you for playing the part of the stereotypical Northern European (at least when it comes to coffee).

I do my best

update.

day 3 with no coffee. fuck off i hate everything i will kill you.

after the cuisinart exploded, i got a dual brew (single cup and pot) hamilton beach. got it home, ran a pot's worth of water through it, and it took over an hour to get half way through. pump must be broken. returned.

almost pulled the trigger on a Bialietti. but at this point, i'm thinking of just quitting caffeine altogether.

Quitting caffeine's OK for a while, you'll be back.

fuck it.
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