My coffee altar looks a lil different than y'alls
If the baristas actually looked like that, I'd buy $5 coffee drinks more often.
Lots of bikini baristas up here in the Seattle/greater Seattle area. Could become a very expensive habit.
My coffee altar looks a lil different than y'alls
If the baristas actually looked like that, I'd buy $5 coffee drinks more often.
When we were looking to buy our house one of the house had a coffee bar in it. It was across the dinning area from the kitchen and looked pretty inconvenient. Never saw if there was a plumbed sink or water. Just a cabinet with nice coffee maker, and all the extras. Our retirement house coffee bar altar is a 5 cup Mr. Coffee just to the left of the stove. The cabinet above it is filled with my coffee cup collection. Some of the cups cost more than the Mr. Coffee. Did a quick check on Amazon and paid 19.99 for it in 2022 currently sells for $40. So, if I replaced I wouldn’t have a higher priced coffee cup. Talk about inflation!
I had a chance to try my daughter's Nespresso machine. The result was very good.
Our coffee altar looks very similar except we have the Cuisinart coffee maker with the thermal carafe. We found the thermal to keep the remaining coffee warm for hours, avoiding ruining the coffee in the glass carafe due to constant heat from the hotplate beneath. Otherwise, very similar!
A thermal carafe sounds like a good idea. But I'd have to give up my purple Cuisnart which has received complements from others. Hmmm....
Are those coffee containers worth it?
The ones linked in this thread were over $30 for a plastic can or is it like stainless hill?
I just use one of the old Lavazza bags I have left over and put the ground coffee in there while keeping the beans in their original bag, but I clip the opening. It's not airtight but can't imagine too much aroma is escaping.
The one in the OP is stainless steel with a plunger which removes most of the air. Air is suppose to be the bad guy for coffee.
If you drink your purchase reasonably fast or are not fussy then I suppose it does not matter. I have never done some sort of control test and don't intend to. I just wanted convenience. That's me. You can find all kinds of opinions on this.
Good Quality Burr grinders do not recommend using Dark French Roast in them, as it can clog them.
We haven’t had a problem in well over 20 years. Ceramic burr grinder.
Where do you all get your coffee? I recently signed up for Beanbox and find it's quite good! I don't mind paying a bit more for good, fresh coffee if it's good.
We also have a local roaster, which is a bit cheaper at $16/bag.
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In my case, I'm in search of that perfect cup while my wife has a more binary opinion of coffee: sucks or doesn't suck... So the goal is to find that intersection of "tastes great" and "doesn't suck".