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haha thanks for the laugh. With my simple tastes never thought of myself as a coffee snob. Espresso is not long enough for me, I need a lot more than a couple of sips. I just like it strong and long, about 100mL, but i go by the colour. if its a bit too bitter I sometimes add some sugar. Not many places know what a lungo is, you get strange looks, not that i frequent coffee shops.
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First time I ever saw a very young Jan Ullrich (Bosch team) drink this combo.
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First time I had Turkish coffee it was at a workemates place, I was picking him up for work, he had this little silver pot on stove, gave Ne a little coffee can and said try that?
Firstly he never said how to drink it so I just threw it down, he turned around and said whatever you do don't swallow the grounds!....it was already gone, one mouthful, I was on the shi..er all day, with my eyeballs feeling like they were glued wide open, I looked like Marty Feldman, lol, he was an ex jocky, French/Yugoslav and made jockeys whips from the skin from bulls dicks! that's true, softest leather you could get, had em nailed up in his shed with lead fishing weights hooked into the skin to slowly peel it off! He would tan em then braid them, all top jockeys bought em! Cheers Billy ![]() |
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A great Turkish guy brought along his coffee making set which fortunately he made up before becoming seasick on leaving the harbour. Well we all enjoyed it.
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Turk/Greek and middle eastern has its moments.
Some are nice some are like ive got cut slate from roKWiz jobs lol.... The films in my mouth - weird but I like trying various coffees. I love a cap with half a sugar daily x 3 or so. Espresso's only after a top meal out with a liquer or port.
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When your Breville packs a sad get a delonghi. I've had 3 Brevilles they don't last long and hard to get parts ,the service people reckon the delonghi or sunbeam were easier to service ( could be a NZ problem) .... the wife hates coffee and my machines that make a mess in her kitchen the last breville that packed a sad I was coerced into getting a pod machine which are pretty average but heaps quicker to use coz sometimes you want a coffee but you're too lazy to go through the hassle making one ..........the ol pod machines are a good compromise
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Now that isn't very nice.
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The small country town I live in has a few local roasters so I have plenty to choose from here.
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Mine have been the cheaper models , put me off buying a flasher model yeah I cannabilised a few bits off them but just got sick of fixing them ....so far so good with the delonghi pod machine
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First can for a while and really noticed how sweet it is and couldnt stop thinking about this post.... up to a dozen cans in a day, his teeth must be trashed ![]() |
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When i was going hard on the caps with 1 sugar, i was good with 1 cafe owner so it was freebies, and in another building i was good mates with the building manager so was allowed access to the business tab for the foyer coffe shoppe. Decent coffee beans make a big difference, but burnt milk is the worst. I know some full on coffee snobs that swear by sustainable sourced coffee beans that have been digested by birds and spider monkeys in the amazon rainforest etc, but i reckon that stuff is too sour. And expensive as its been harvested by an animal that works for free and come out its butthole. |
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I had a machine a long time ago I spent lots of time and money on coffee while trying to quit drinking.
These days I don't bother, you only need a machine if you drink espressos and I hardly did - usually long or milk drinks - same for most people anyway - if it wasn't no one would be buying pods or instant. There's a lot you can do with basic gear. I still buy beans and use my grinder but in summer I cold brew with a $12 kmart jug and in winter/cooler weather I use a delter press (similar to an aeropress but more of a hand 'pumped' espresso where you force water through the coffee, not like a aeropress/french press). cold brewer from kmart https://www.kmart.com.au/product/ice...ew-jug/2702339 delter press https://alternativebrewing.com.au/pr...r-coffee-press And I've got a breville smart grinder from the old days, and a hand grinder to use away from home. Beans are just aldi or coles or local when I can be bothered, but even the coles or aldi ones are better than instant. And the delter is better than pod coffee for sure. Last edited by oldel; 05-09-2021 at 04:19 PM. |
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Love my Hario cold brew. Problem is it takes a good 24 hours to get a decent flavour. And if you forget to make it the day before, you don't have it in the morning.
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Problem with a mocha pot is the water is too hot. Problem with a french press is you can't use a fine grind and it gets a little bitter sitting around mixed.
The delter is a bit of work, but the closet thing you can get to a coffee machine made coffee - which is just pumping/pressing water through grinds in a basket type thing (the delter uses a plastic screw on lid with filter paper so not exactly the same) |
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My best mate is a massive coffee snob, he's always stuffing around with new things. He has tried to get me into it on more than one occasion but I'll stick to my favourite type of Coffee - Iced... Ice Break in fact. I used to have one every day at work but I'm cutting back to a few a week...
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I make my own ice coffee, in summer in particular, it blows people away when they taste it!
One long tall glass, if you like sugar put normal dose, 1 and half heaped teaspoons of Nescafe, or your normal instant coffee brand, if you have a glass, capacity unknown then fill your normal coffee cup with water and tip in glass, that will work out sugar if you use it and you may need 2 heaped spoons of instant coffee. Put sugar and coffee in empty glass and add hot water, just enough to dissolve into liquid, add cold milk and stir it up, add half dozen ice cubes and top with vanilla ice cream, get a good thick straw and go for it, you won't buy another from the shop again!.....enjoy ![]() Cheers Billy ![]() |
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![]() Iced coffee here is no big deal but mention it overseas and you might get snobs that talk about how great their greek frappe was, and it has to be greek according to them. Like Australia people in Greece have been doing iced coffes with instant coffee for years (they claimed to have invented in in the 50s), and there's botique cafes in greece using espressos from regular coffee machines and thickshake machines and blenders, and ice machines that make different sort of cubes for different types ![]() https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frapp%C3%A9_coffee You can look at vids online about the lengths they go to in order to be snobby about it - "caffe freddo", the "freddo espresso" and the "freddo capacino" apparently the greeks thought of in 1991 haha |
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I used to work with a genuine italian bloke. He was all about the short blacks. If he had had a rough morning, feeling a bit dusty after a few too many vb's, it was a long black. But he couldnt really get his head around a flat white or a cap, pretty much anything with milk in it. But he did ark up at one apprentice who would order a cap with almond milk. Fair call sorta. Coffee shoppe's have milk and skim milk on hand, but almond milk, that takes a bit of extra time.
Although, my best story was when i was an apprentice. My tradesman got refused service and abused by the coffee shop barista. He ordered a small cap with 4 sugars. He got rudely told/asked how can you taste the coffee with all the sugar? That was pretty funny. |
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I used to buy my morning coffee from a shop in Sydney that was the local highway patrol shop of choice.
There was one particular bloke that was always rude , thought he was above everyone and was just plain arrogant. His was that bad his own fellow officers didn't speak to him at any time. He used to order his morning coffee and demand that he only got Almond milk. Well one morning as I'm grabbing my scumbag tradie cap , he pushed past , grabbed his coffee and took a big mouthful of it. That was the time I decided to ask the barista very loudly if "he knew why it was called almond milk?" He looked at me puzzled and said "uh no idea" My reply was "it would take a brave person to go to the shops and ask for 2 litres of nut juice" Hysterical laughter through the shop and the officer whom I assume was enjoying his coffee spat it out on the ground and threw the cup down and stormed out. I walked out of the store with everyone still laughing and one of the other coppers saying "nice work mate. I'll make sure he never hears the end of it" I drove a bit slower around there for a while after that....... |
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