Coffee rules my life. I drink it non-stop from ~9am to ~5pm. For me drinking coffee is like a job where tautalogically I get paid in coffee.

Yeah burr grinder makes a huge difference compared to blades. It go brrr

I use a light roast for my moka pot btw, it's better imo

Any Gaggia classic (pro) experts out here on watmm though? Does it need the mods? (Last post on previous page; Seems i got pagebreaked here (no worries though IOS lol))

I ordered a flair neo, don't need the steam wand etc. This looks like a nice cheap way to get into espresso

I'm thinking about trying French press coffee. What kind of grinder would be best to use? Is a big electric overkill for a single serving of coffee or should I look at a manual grinder?

  On 10/25/2021 at 11:58 PM, yekker said:

I'm thinking about trying French press coffee. What kind of grinder would be best to use? Is a big electric overkill for a single serving of coffee or should I look at a manual grinder?

There's small electric ones too. Important thing is being able to set the grain size from what I know!

  On 10/26/2021 at 12:01 AM, chronical said:

There's small electric ones too. Important thing is being able to set the grain size from what I know!

Grain size adjustment is very important! yeah.

  On 10/25/2021 at 11:58 PM, yekker said:

I'm thinking about trying French press coffee. What kind of grinder would be best to use? Is a big electric overkill for a single serving of coffee or should I look at a manual grinder?

Can you get Wilfa in Canada? After having loved two amazing grinders to death I decided to buy a "small" one for pour over and a "big" one for espresso. The coffee store I go to and buy beans from used a Wilfa for a long time for their pour overs. They said that it was just as good for that particular kind of brewing - so I bought one. And for what it costs it's excellent. Definitely get one of those or something along those lines if you can.
https://www.pactcoffee.com/blog/what-is-the-best-wilfa-coffee-grinder

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double raktajino, extra sweet

So my electrical blade grinder stopped working and I got pissed that such a simple machine broke down and is now a useless piece of plastic, wires and metal, that I bought one if these manual burr grinders:

https://global.hario.com/product/coffee/grinder/MMCS.html

So far so good, I hope this lasts till I die.

  On 10/31/2021 at 7:24 PM, GORDO said:

So my electrical blade grinder stopped working and I got pissed that such a simple machine broke down and is now a useless piece of plastic, wires and metal, that I bought one if these manual burr grinders:

https://global.hario.com/product/coffee/grinder/MMCS.html

So far so good, I hope this lasts till I die.

 

I was looking at that one. Easy to make a medium grind?

  On 10/31/2021 at 11:43 PM, yekker said:

I was looking at that one. Easy to make a medium grind?

Yeah, adjusting for grind size is easy and grinding doesn't require much force, I grind for a moka express which I guess would be medium-fine size.

Only pain is that since the jar is wide your holding hand might get tired a bit from holding the jar in place while grinding, but no biggie.

I like that the jar is standard size so if it breaks for any reason you could replace it with another mason jar or whatever.

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Systematically Improving Espresso: Insights from Mathematical Modeling and Experiment

https://www.cell.com/matter/fulltext/S2590-2385(19)30410-2?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS2590238519304102%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

  On 10/26/2021 at 12:39 AM, yekker said:

Grain size adjustment is very important! yeah.

Don’t know how much you’re willing to spend but after I did some research for a good grinder to go with my flair neo (mainly reading up on Reddit posts) I got myself a 1zpresso jx pro a couple of weeks ago and it’s the shit. I think you can get it for about 160 dollars. It can go from Turkish coffee to espresso to French press.

I’m using a bottomless portafilter and removed the spout. No spraying or channeling whatsoever since I found the sweet spot on the grinder. Feels very satisfactory.
 

on the other hand French press is more forgiving so maybe investing in a jx pro is a bit over the top, although there are much more expensive grinders out there and if you ever wanna try another brewing method your grinder is sort of future proof when you get the jx pro

  On 8/19/2022 at 1:29 PM, Berk said:

Don’t know how much you’re willing to spend but after I did some research for a good grinder to go with my flair neo (mainly reading up on Reddit posts) I got myself a 1zpresso jx pro a couple of weeks ago and it’s the shit. I think you can get it for about 160 dollars. It can go from Turkish coffee to espresso to French press.

I’m using a bottomless portafilter and removed the spout. No spraying or channeling whatsoever since I found the sweet spot on the grinder. Feels very satisfactory.
 

on the other hand French press is more forgiving so maybe investing in a jx pro is a bit over the top, although there are much more expensive grinders out there and if you ever wanna try another brewing method your grinder is sort of future proof when you get the jx pro

 

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I ended up going with that hario and am pleased with it

I bought a 60s Dienes grinder for like $40 on eBay in 2013 and never looked back.  Does everything from so fine it clogs an espresso machine up to coarse enough you don't need to filter it at all, doesn't burn the beans like an electric burr grinder, and you aren't going to find machined steel burrs on anything new under a few hundred dollars.

It's all just caffienated sludge water so it doesn't really matter that much, but it's really satisfying to use and looks cool.

Any Flair users over here? Using a Flair Neo at the moment. Pulling some decent shots. Got my eyes peeled for a nice deal on the Flair 58 but no luck so far

  On 8/12/2021 at 4:43 PM, iococoi said:

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Would be fitting if they made a version of this for the cafelat robot

My friend had a really cool Baletti espresso maker that had two spouts but the other day he forgot to put water in before putting it on the stove and melted it!!

  On 11/27/2022 at 8:19 PM, milkface said:

My friend had a really cool Baletti espresso maker that had two spouts but the other day he forgot to put water in before putting it on the stove and melted it!!

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Holy shit, flashback... I used to one of those. It made such a fucking mess, because it squirts out coffee left and right before there's a constant stream of coffee coming out.

  On 11/28/2022 at 11:55 AM, Squee said:

Holy shit, flashback... I used to one of those. It made such a fucking mess, because it squirts out coffee left and right before there's a constant stream of coffee coming out.

Yesss haha always have to wipe the stove after making them (le creuset espresso mugs only)

Le Creuset coffee mugs?! Hot damn!

  On 11/28/2022 at 6:21 PM, Squee said:

Le Creuset coffee mugs?! Hot damn!

Yeah man we found a shop that had discounted Le Creuset stuff so we ended up getting shitloads of pots, mugs and a nice teapot too.

Le Creuset are the best coffee mugs, cosign.

coffee here is shit, it's basically brown water... anyway I'm used to espresso so my threshold is probably to high... I usually mix an espresso cup with a full glass of milk... that's how I like it, that, with some butter toast... there's days that I only eat that, my 3 meals per day...