Post pictures of your coffee machine

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i really like coffee, but i don't drink it, never got addicted... most people i know drink expresso and smoke cigarettes after the main meals like a religion...

although when i'm on my parents house i like to mix an expresso with milk and sugar and drink it while eating some toast...

once i worked with an English dude and he used to call coffee to coffee with milk and i was like no dude that's coffee with milk, coffee is just plain coffee, and he was like no dude, coffee is an expresso, coffee with milk is a coffee...

  On 7/13/2020 at 10:22 PM, Tim_J said:

once i worked with an English dude and he used to call coffee to coffee with milk and i was like no dude that's coffee with milk, coffee is just plain coffee, and he was like no dude, coffee is an expresso, coffee with milk is a coffee...

The English are even dumber than Germans in culinary questions, don't even bother (infinitely dumber, mind you). But somehow when I was in Portugal and ordered "un café, por favor" I always got what we call espresso here, not complaining since it was always excellent

  On 7/13/2020 at 10:32 PM, dingformung said:

The English are even dumber than Germans in culinary questions, don't even bother (infinitely dumber, mind you). But somehow when I was in Portugal and ordered "un café, por favor" I always got what we call espresso here, not complaining since it was always excellent

yes that's what i said, coffee is an expresso, the english dude called coffee to coffee with milk...

Coffee is black coffee most places, but in southern Europe your standard black coffee is an americano, although most of the time it's a watered down espresso. Coffee with plain milk is called covfefe

In my book coffee is coffee. And coffee with milk is coffee with milk. And espresso is a very concentrated coffee that you make in this thing:

...and typically don't drink with milk but either purely or with sugar.

And then there is something called "American coffee" which is 1 part coffee and 10 parts water.

Yeah, the stuff about americano was wrong, apparently it's its own thing, but still it's what you get because they don't do the normal roast/grounds in those places.

I bet coffee hipsters hate southern Europe, with their prized light roast tea coloured tart drip coffees not being served anywhere.

As a Finn I always have to remind people that we are the top coffee consuming nation in the world. https://weaverscoffee.com/blogs/blog/the-worlds-top-coffee-consuming-nations-and-how-they-take-their-cup

12kg per year, bitches.

Although, I have to say I don't really like Finnish coffee and rather drink espresso.

  On 7/13/2020 at 10:54 PM, Gocab said:

Coffee is black coffee most places, but in southern Europe your standard black coffee is an americano, although most of the time it's a watered down espresso. Coffee with plain milk is called covfefe

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Bica is the term commonly used in certain areas of Portugal for a "café" (coffee in Portuguese) that is similar to espresso,[1] but extracted to a greater volume than its Italian counterpart (akin to a lungo in Italy) and a little bit smoother in taste, due to the Portuguese roasting process being slightly lighter than the Italian one.

Edit: nvrmnd i don't know shit about coffee. I just seem to remember that the black coffee dust that they use on the machines was grinded coffee grains... 

Nowadays you have those expresso machines with the capsules which contain liquid inside... 

The thing on the left is a professional grinder. Bought second hand (which is where you should buy these things). Makes an incredible amount of noise.

The machine on the right is a Quickmill 820. As espresso machines go it is cheap and requires very little maintenance. With some effort (mostly making sure everything is thoroughly heated up) it does indeed make espresso, and with none of the fuss. "None of the fuss" is important because of the wife.

Also important because of the wife is to remain vague about the exact size of your professional ginder before it actually enters the house (naturally you should also not bring her along when you go to pick it up).

All this effort for three spoonfuls of, admittedly very good, black coffee a day (with the lockdown it's six, of course).

I have a French press and a Mocca pot at home. All very boring and you've all seen them a million times.

i don't drink coffee

but I've made plenty of espressos, cappuccinos and cortados with lemon peel

during restaurant shifts

it was a nice few moments away from the tables

to think of what you needed to get done next

when you're in the weeds:)

  On 7/13/2020 at 10:22 PM, Tim_J said:

i really like coffee, but i don't drink it, never got addicted... most people i know drink expresso and smoke cigarettes after the main meals like a religion...

although when i'm on my parents house i like to mix an expresso with milk and sugar and drink it while eating some toast...

once i worked with an English dude and he used to call coffee to coffee with milk and i was like no dude that's coffee with milk, coffee is just plain coffee, and he was like no dude, coffee is an expresso, coffee with milk is a coffee...

ESPRESSO. 
 

goddammit

  On 7/14/2020 at 12:14 PM, Candiru said:

ESPRESSO. 
 

 

goddammit

In Portuguese it's "expresso" and as he was talking about Portuguese coffee he was right in saying "expresso".

  On 7/14/2020 at 12:27 AM, xox said:

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Croatia being a country with Slavic, Romanic/italic and Ottoman/Turk influence I imagine the coffee culture there must be interesting and I know next to nothing about it.

Edit: Why is there an unpeeled egg inside the pastry in the background?

  On 7/14/2020 at 12:23 PM, dingformung said:

 

Edit: Why is there an unpeeled egg inside the pastry in the background?

You seen any Kusturica movies? Those are documentaries.

  On 7/14/2020 at 12:28 PM, rhmilo said:

You seen any Kusturica movies? Those are documentaries.

I haven't and will check him out. Recommendations that come from you are usually good. But don't equate Serbia and Croatia, a Southern European and an Eastern European country with different cultures (despite having been part of Yugoslavia). But let's not get into the weeds of it

  On 7/14/2020 at 12:23 PM, dingformung said:

In Portuguese it's "expresso" and as he was talking about Portuguese coffee he was right in saying "expresso”

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Damn, the Portuguese are wrong. Disappointing. 

  On 7/14/2020 at 12:40 PM, Candiru said:

Damn, the Portuguese are wrong. Disappointing. 

After further research I found out that it's the Brazilians who say "café expresso" when they mean what the Portuguese simply call "café", which we would probably call "espresso" but it's a mild espresso. Somewhere between regular coffee and espresso. But agree, fuck them, down with them!

  On 7/14/2020 at 12:36 PM, dingformung said:

I haven't and will check him out. Recommendations that come from you are usually good. But don't equate Serbia and Croatia, a Southern European and an Eastern European country with different cultures (despite having been part of Yugoslavia). But let's not get into the weeds of it

Very kind of you.

Anyway:

- Croats are Serbians who were part of the Habsburg empire and therefore became Catholic.

- Bosnians are Croats who, when conquered by the Ottoman Empire, decided it would be more advantageous to adopt Islam.

- Serbians are Bosnians who retained their Orthodox Christianity even after the Ottoman conquest.

And that's all there is to it.

Also, when you put two (Serbians|Croats|Bosnians) together they will split up into three different political factions. This is a joke (Serbians|Croats|Bosnians) tell about themselves.