2 cups of yellow label tea in the morning. Water till lunch and then a full fat coke. Beer from 4pm.
Unless it's the weekend when the beer starts after the cups of tea.
2 cups of yellow label tea in the morning. Water till lunch and then a full fat coke. Beer from 4pm.
Unless it's the weekend when the beer starts after the cups of tea.
Coffee
Robusta coffee from my back garden and farm, 15 trees, which produces about 15 kg, a years supply, of roasted beans. Usually two harvests a year although the November one is much smaller. The May/June one is the most prolific.
Irrigate once a week November to June, the "dry" season down here, a few buckets of compost 4 times a year and sit and watch them grow.
I take the red beans to a local farmer who processes the picked berries. He pulps the white beans from the red berries, soaks them in water to dissolve the sticky for 3 days, dries them under the sun and roasts them to a dark French, in his industrial size roaster.
He has hundreds of trees and ships the green beans mostly to China, but supplies different roasted beans to his franchised coffee shops.
Coffee Grinder
Krups Burr Grinder gvx2 - 10 years old now. Adjustable volume of beans and also adjustable for grind size.
I thought I'd broken it a month or so ago. Turns out the internal passages just needed a good poke around and clean out.
Coffee Pot
Italian stove top aluminium Coffee maker - 6 cup allegedly, one large mug for me - breakfast and teatime
All aluminium except the handle. They last as long as whoever is making the coffee remembers to use a low flame, otherwise they melt. I have a few nice pairs of oven mitts as the standby.
Strong black, no sugar or milk.
I've also a few Cocoa trees to make chocolate powder from , eventually.
Similar processing.
I might try coating the roasted coffee beans with chocolate in the future. Very tasty.
Last edited by OhOh; 04-10-2019 at 08:13 PM.
A tray full of GOLD is not worth a moment in time.
^ I want like that.
PG Tips every day
1 cup of ultra-strong dark-roast machiatto-style ground coffee every 2nd day
I make it so strong that it takes 2 days for my brain to recover from the seismic effects.
Drinking it every day would cause a chernobyl style core-meltdown
I only drink alcohol on coffee days. But only about once a week. I love the mixture of the coffee brain pressure and the champagne bubbles (not real champagne unless it is my birthday or international women's day).
I did not know that you could still buy instant coffee. Amazing that people still drink it when ground coffee is so easy.
Krups Grinder is usually in Robinsons
Coffee pot from here:
https://www.bialetti.com/coffee/stovetop/moka-express-c-1_7_22.html
Cocoa and coffee trees are local, how many do you want?
Cup of Lipton's Strong Tea™ w/ brekkie. Then a medium Dunkin's coffee when I get to work. That's my caffeine for the day.
Convenient for the Bialetti as they only deliver in US. There was a guy in Bangkok who sold similar pots, but I've lost his info. Does your Moca have a metal or plastic handle?
I will look into various coatings to suit the Thai market, once the trees start producing fruit. Some years in the future presently. I'm not sure of how to ensure the chocolate coating can be made to stay "crispy" in the tropics.
Been there, leaving them on the stove when all the water has been boiled away does tend to burn the seal.
Last edited by OhOh; 05-10-2019 at 12:58 PM.
Electric Moka pot... it's what the cool kids use.
^
Not my kids, all pretty cool.
Sorry. But ohoh wins this one hands down. Coffee for the trees in my back yard. FFS.
It's not really a "back garden" to High Sussex standards, more a figure of common speech describing the portion of the house plot, behind the house, as opposed to the front which abuts the road.
Similar to my usage of the word "farm". More accurately it's a "jungle clearing", shared with the local herd of elephants and wild pigs. Who luckily don't appear to enjoy coffee or rubber trees, to be more precise.
I still have a stash of Champas finest. I vacuum packed it and put it in the freezer when I came back from my last trip abroad. Far from fresh brewed at least it's the real deal. I'll throw a spoon of sweetened condensed milk in a cup and sometimes take it over ice.
Almost makes me miss the place.
https://www.lazada.co.th/catalog/?q=...7f1f719cN7vHyw
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It sounds like you might be screwing the top part on too tightly.
I did that on an old one I had.
Desisted from doing that, and the current seal has lasted for about ten years.
Last edited by cyrille; 06-10-2019 at 09:12 AM.
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They are quite distinctly burnt/melted if you overheat them. By leaving them on the stove and all the coffee boiling away.
As somebody does in my little house.
On another page there are a selection of bialetti offerings.
https://www.lazada.co.th/catalog/?pa...&sort=priceasc
Found the plastic seals here:
https://www.lazada.co.th/products/i-mix-3-2-i278405829-s448916324.html
No replacement handles though.
Last edited by OhOh; 06-10-2019 at 10:16 AM.
That's for a different brand.
The Bialetti seals are on the page I linked to, though slightly different things come up each time.
Best to just search for Bialetti seals.
You lot of Shifters have some terrible habits, disgusting...
Yorkshire Gold, teabag left in for 3 minutes, thoroughly abused before being removed from the cup, with a suggestion of milk. &, a biscuit, something manly such as a Digestive, Ginger Nut or Petite Madeleine if I'm wearing the wife's underwear...
Cycling should be banned!!!
In the morning its got to be coffee - either fresh brewed Ethiopian or Columbia ground coffee, or if i am feeling 'full-on' with it, grind my own beans before making it.
One of the best coffees I ever has was in Highlands Coffee in Ho Chi Minh City, where a friend, who knew I liked quality coffee, took me. From their specialist coffee selection I had the 2nd most expensive - ginger coffee. OMG, I can still taste it now and that's 7 years ago! came in a cup not much bigger than an espresso one, but the flavor? Intense, perfect balance, creamy texture yet strong - a real sip-and-savour experience. I have tried many times to re-create it with little success.
I never drink instant... for me, that's a 'warm brown drink'....lol
Tea? yep drink that too. and yes.. Yorkshire Tea for me as well. we can get it here in Dubai so no issues.
i drink the Lipton lemon/ginger tea now and again as its supposed to be good for the circulation.
..and PJ has bought be some weird dried seed-pod tea that's supposed to be good for my health!?
Most coffees are available here in Dubai and I usually take a few packs back when i go to BKK. as mentioned the Waitrose Columbian , especially in whole bean from (for grinding) is pretty good, and i also like the Taylors of Harrogate Lazy Breakfast or Rich Italian blend.
both tea or coffe with or without milk / cream, but after a lifetime of adding sugar, now i gave it up after starting that KETO diet. It was easy to give up. happened in one day with no issue. (and 7.5kg lost in 34 days)
So..don't leave real coffee out in the air. Air is the enemy of taste and freshness - the essential coffee oils evaporate quickly if left, resulting in a drop in taste. Same goes for instant, actually. I keep mine in the fridge in a sealed container but its never there long before being used up!
One final interesting anecdote.... way back when (long before Princess Joy), i was dating a Brasilian girl, whose family had a big coffee farm in Espirito Santo. Well of course, i visited and marveled at the processes which i saw first hand. When returning to UK, we went to the local store and i stocked up with some to take back. (couldn't get a lot as I was bringing back 14 cartons of ciggies to sell - thanks v much, that paid for most of the flight!).
Anyway... that coffee? .. was awful! No, really... musty, poor-flavoured, even the colour was a sort of browny gray. it was arabica/ robusta blended which was what they drunk there.
She enthused. I was polite. Later the coffee met with the bin and became permanent friends...
Can't win 'em all....
Milk in tea bothers me,mentally. Strong black tea is where it's at
I just leave the PG Tips bag in the mug. The tea gets stronger as you drink it and finishes off with a kick.
Good measure 'the suggestion'. I just wave the milk jug near the mug of tea.
Not really, but I measure about 3 drops of milk usning the cap from the milk jug.
Just 2 or 3 drops makes for a better taste I think if you are drinking proper strong tea.
I only use pre-ground if I am travelling. If you are at home and you have a grinder then why not always grind your own. It only takes 30 seconds.
No need for a poove grindr either. Coffee pooves will tell you it has to be ground and not smashed up with a high speed blade grinder but the blade grinder is fine.
Must be well over twenty years since I has instant coffee. Mountain Top Coffee is grown only a few Klm's from where I work and we get about four kilos delivered every week.
Would have had about five cups of tea in over 50 years. It must have been freezing with nothing else available.
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