I have a burr grinder for my moccamaster. I’ll assume good enough for now.
Not sure what i want, just seemed like something that might be fun to play around with on the weekends. Something to buy with a bit of the Christmas money from parents. Might just keep an eye out for a good deal.
It’ll make espresso, especially if you have a pressurized portafilter. And as discussed above, if you aren’t drinking straight espresso, pulling the perfect shot doesn’t matter.
I used to make espresso with one of those grinders with the spinning blade. The $30 things. Got me by for college and a few years beyond.
I’d say check out the Bambino, I think Target recently had them for around $260 or so. They are smaller and don’t take up much space.
The Creatista Plus is on sale everywhere today for 25% off (487 vs 650). This seems like it is a rebranded Nespresso?
Counter space isn’t an issue. I could use a reason to hide off some device chargers and other junk the family accumulates out in the open.
It’s a Nespresso. It’s fine and like a third of Europe seems to use them. But I think one thing that really helps make better coffee is fresh beans, and Nespresso isn’t fresh.
Oh, pod system? Right, not interested.
A while back I spent $30 on an assortment of about 2,500 bolts, screws, and nuts. Recently I noticed I was running low on some electrical parts.
Last night I bought 1,500 electrical connector things and a bunch of heat shrink tubing. All on Amazon, for about $40.
It’s a huge time saver, I basically never have to run to Ace or True Value and burn a half hour to buy a $0.25 part for a job.
I will say the as far as pod systems go Nespresso is probably the best. At least the one we have (virtuoso line?). If your only experience is with a Keurig it is worth finding a store with one to taste it, if convenience is your goal.
Nah, i like real coffee from real coffee beans. I was not familiar with Nespresso and didn’t realize it was a pod system.
For the extreme inconvenience option in pusuit of the prefect cup, you can even roast your own coffee beans. A long while back a local roaster had a light roast of beans from the Ethiopian Yirgacheffe region…a really nice, bright coffee with strong berry flavors. I have not seen this since then as most roasts i have found have been to dark and i find that took over the flavors i was going for.
But then i discovered the $20 popcorn air popper i had could be used to roast coffee. So i bought 5 pounds of green coffee beans from the region, and can now play around with roasting it the level i want.
Things to know if interested… its really easy to do. Roast them outside because it will smell like shit (nothing like the finished product, closer to burnt popcorn) and make a mess as the outer parts of the coffee flake off and fly out of the air popper. It takes<5 minutes to roast. The beans will pop a bit like popcorn.
I haven’t tried making anything more than a medium roast, so not sure what happens trying to do something darker, but i assume it should be fine.
I’ve been planning to try roasting beans in a frying pan, on low heat. Bad idea?
(I just want to do it once, for the sake of trying it. I don’t even drink coffee every day. I’m certainly not going to roast beans regularly.)
I suppose it could work, hope you have a good vent for your stove top. It really smells pretty bad for a product that smells amazing at the end.
The air popper works really well as it has a fan that constantly blows and rotates all the beans inside, and blows off the crap that flakes off. That all would seem difficult to manage on a pan. Might take a few tries getting an even roast.
I guess I’m not 100% sure with the air popper if it is the hot air doing the roasting or the metal cup the beans sit in.
I bought pink and now there are a gajillion pink bags.
I bought bright yellow, which is decently uncommon.
DM your address and I can make your collection a “10” . . .
For real? Whatcha got?
Looks like that book was published nearly 30 years ago.
origin story for another (national) insurance company.
Do we work at the same place?
It’s possible. Does Merna have any meaning to you?
It does for me, and I doubt we worked together. 
