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Coffee
hendorog:
We get a weekly delivery of beans from a local roastery.
I grind them and convert that into coffee using one of these (pic from the www):
ivaylo:
Apples and oranges. Coffee culture is pretty different in different parts of the world (even if global brands make things sound vaguely similar). Europe, North America, South America, Asia just can not compare except to say “anything different than what I know sucks”. I bet people not from North America are wondering what do MsDonalds (or Starbucks for that matter) have anything to do with good coffee.
David Hess:
I had to give up coffee over the past several years because I became more and more sensitive to it triggering migraine headaches. It got to the point where every morning I woke with a migraine and scintillating scotomas were occurring several times a week. (1)
I was never particularly picky about coffee as long as it was Arabic.
(1) Caffeine by itself is not a problem for me but coffee contains a lot of other alkaloids.
tom66:
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--- Quote from: tom66 on September 01, 2020, 09:06:24 pm ---More important than anything is how it is made.
Instant coffee tastes awful. In any brand. Never liked it.
We use an espresso machine to make even large drinks of coffee. High pressure steam/water at 14bar through dried ground coffee of any brand wins over instant. We currently use Lavazza Rossa.
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I am curious about the price of the machine. I am not a coffee drinker but a friend of mine said he paid $6K for his coffee machine.
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Ours cost £100. They range in price from £50 to £1000, and we definitely got one of the cheaper models. My brother has an £800 model and, I'll be honest, I can just about taste the difference because he's got fine pressure control and the beans get slightly less overdone, but it really is quite minimal and if you have sugar or sweetener with your coffee like I do you'll never notice it.
--- Quote from: David Hess on September 02, 2020, 05:42:01 am ---I had to give up coffee over the past several years because I became more and more sensitive to it triggering migraine headaches. It got to the point where every morning I woke with a migraine and scintillating scotomas were occurring several times a week. (1)
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A friend of mine suffers from migraines, and interestingly enough he's noticed that coffee makes them less worse, or eliminates them altogether. He gets good sleep and is otherwise healthy. He took a month off drinking coffee, believing the migraines to cause it, but they just got more frequent and intense. Two cups a day, keeps the migraine away :)
bd139:
I'm lazy. This off Amazon and a simple Bodum press. That's about 6 months for £18
And quite honestly I can't tell the difference between the above and anything more expensive or freshly ground. Only thing that is terrible is instant coffee.
I suspect it's like wine: mostly bullshit :popcorn:
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