The Coffee Thread

[cyrille]

I would love to buy an expresso machine at some point.

Try getting a model train set, teecha.

[cyrille]

Btw, you once posted that moka pots were too complicated for you, so...

[hallelujah]

Celebrating the 10th anniversary of me and my trusty Vietnamese coffee filter being together this year!



He never lets me down and always delivers the goods.

Not bad value at all for about $2 or $3 (he also has a smaller mate who makes an appearance occasionally).

[Bonecollector]

Looks fucking epic Hal, dare I say it, Soviet-esque

[hallelujah]

Looks fucking epic Hal, dare I say it, Soviet-esque

Don't say that to a jam roll.

[Bonecollector]

555555 how does the fucker work anyway?

[hallelujah]

555555 how does the fucker work anyway?

The base filter, which sits on top of the cup, has minute holes in it.

So too does the brewing chamber that sits in the base filter.

You place both above your cup and put the ground coffee in.

You then put the press filter, which also has holes in it, on top of the coffee.

Pour your boiled water over the top, put the lid on and wait for it to drip.

A piece of piss. I had a moka pot for a while but kept burning the handle when I was half asleep in the morning.

[Joe 90]

Went Turkish again today!

A latte and an expresso to compliment an apple cheese cake and a lemon Merangue..



A bit of a sugar overload but a break from the norm..

[Joe 90]

£20 was a bit steep but it beats Cheers beer and 6 pints of Guiness at Spoooons for lunch.

[Bonecollector]

I heard when they liberated Saydnaya prison just outside of Damascus, they found crates of Cheers in the torture building

[Joe 90]

It's all fun and games till Cyrall is released from her Cheers induced slumber

[cyrille]

Cyrall

Surely the worst name ever 'thought' up for another poster, only ever used by you and you're such a dumb drunk that you can't even spell it.

[Edmond]

expresso

It arrived first, or told you how it was feeling?

[david44]

It arrived first, or told you how it was feeling?

[Troy]

I took Mrs Troy to an excellent espresso cafe in Munich where she really enjoyed the Cappuccino and now wants me to make similar at home.

It's never really possible to match good cafe drinks with a home machine, but I have heard some really good reviews of the Barista Impress. It takes a lot of the stress out of making a decent espresso, and the steam strength is okay for a decent cappuccino as well.

Anyone got one or something similar?

[cyrille]

A friend once told me 'It's fair enough spending ten minutes cleaning those things if you' ve made 200 coffees with it, but not if you've just made two'.

I've stuck with my Moka pot ever since.

[Reg Dingle]

A friend once told me 'It's fair enough spending ten minutes cleaning those things if you' ve made 200 coffees with it, but not if you've just made two'.

Your 'friend' was talking about a 'French Press' not a 700 pound 'Sage Barista Express Impress' automatic bean to cup machine you daft prat which only need cleaning every couple of months.




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[malmomike77]

^ I'm sure you'd stretch out the cleaning interval

[Reg Dingle]

^ The cleaning is mostly automated too, you buffoon,just fill the water up, add a tablet and press a button and it cleans itself, unlike that grotty Fisher Price oven of yours

[malmomike77]

^ Funny you should mention that again


just like you like your birds, warmed up and legs wide

[Reg Dingle]

Just like you like your coffee, cheap, instant with a frothy head

[Bogon]

^ Absolutely disgusting.

No sauce with the nuggets.

[Reg Dingle]

^ I can do you just a small tub/ sachet of mayo nowadays, Bogey

Back on topic , Troy.

That's a lot of wonga to splash on a coffee machine imho
I bought a refurbished delonghi ecam a few years ago now for just over 100 quid or so off ebay and it's still going strong.

I'm not really a cappucino kind of guy, more your double espresso but I've just ordered a few cappucino cups and stainless steel frottaging jug and am gonna try my arm at cappucino and latte art with my frothing wand for you.

The trick to a good cappucino appears to be in the milk frothing and getting it to a nice gloopy consistency

[Mendip]

I sometimes wonder about this place.

I joined because I thought it was a forum for expats living in Thailand?

Not a bunch of shifters listening to Vivaldi while their coffee percolates in the morning.

I have a fancy coffee machine I brought over from Australia, Italian I think, begins with B or T, something like that.

But, never used.

I get up, a quick cup of tea around 6am, see the daughter off, then a swift cup of coffee in the garden before I get down to it.

Nescafe Gold Blend, splash of milk, job done.

Of course, I'd love a cup of proper coffee but I have no time for that nonsense. Who does?

'... hhhmmmm... what a lovely aroma.... blah blah blah... '

The lives you must lead...

... and I'm only envious.

[Reg Dingle]

^ you've had time to grow and harvest your own beans via civet cats and knock out 200 cups on a French Press thats been cleaned after every 2 cups since the last time you've done any work

I made a bulletproof coffee on it the other day with clotted cream instead of butter. It was quite nice and was gonna post it up but I got a load of abuse whilst adding it to some eggs.