Coffee Thread

Kiroy said:

This is the one i have. Its awesome, my only regret is not buying one sooner

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so apparently my wife had a latte while we were on vacation and now she wants lattes, so while i didn't get the matching milk frother, i just bought whatever 40$ on amazon. it's pretty amazing, heats up the milks and froths in like 5seconds

i bought one with a handle and i think it takes up too much countertop space so i bought a breville milk frother clone, i'll see how that works out.

Kiroy and Sadre Spinegnawer and any other nespresso dudes?

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they are different codes for different coffees

only good for end of day 10-8

Purchase 8 or more Vertuo sleeves to receive one (1) free sleeve of Caramel Cookie coffee and (1) free sleeve of Elvazio coffee. Code THANKYOU2020. Until 10/8.

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(i passed cuz i was only interested in kona)

Ao- said:

Any suggestions on a good milk frother? Going to start making my own coffee drinks (and probably special 'non-coffee' drinks for the kids) and will use it.

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i bought 3, 1 to try, 1 to replace, and then the next day amazon had a lightning deal for 11bucks off, so i had to buy that and returned the other 2 heh.

Milk Frother, VAVA Electric Milk Steamer for Hot and Cold Milk Froth with Double Wall, Strix Control, Non-Stick Interior, Silent Operation for Cappuccino Hot Chocolate, Latte, Coffee

there seems to be many clones of this model on amazon, i like this more b/c i found the one w/ handle to take up countertop space and i like the easy 4 leds to tell me

foam, airy foam, hot milk and cold foam

half a cup of milk (for latte) gets hot and foamy in 5s

i drink lots of nitro cold brew now, so i was thinking of expanding the way i brew, now the way i currently brew i like, which is putting 6oz of coffee in a big strainer basket

and immersing it in a 2l jug,

then when i strain it i sandwich a brew basket filter between 2 huge mixing bowls (theyre cheap just 1$) with the bottoms cut out


i like it, its basically a toddy w/o the annoying stopper and washable filter, after i'm done i just empty everything out into my compost.

problem is it takes up room, and pouring out from the 2l jug into the makeshift huge filter basket is a bit annoying, so i was searching for a better toddy.

i came upon this


i guess the newest way to make cold brew now is to vortex infuse it, but cleanup looks messy and it barely makes 1l of cofffee (i know i'm being silly using litres, but honestly most coffee measurements and recipes and ratios are in litres, so when in rome), and it's not even like concentrate.

i ended up getting this


it says it holds 2 liters, and what i like is, it has a lever to open the drain and not the silly stopper plug of the toddy, i'll see how it works in a few days.

most of the other ones like the oxo (and similiar) are more interested in making it look "cool"


i mean it looks nice and cute, but it only holds like only .5litres

so what do you do w/ a virtually perfect coffee brewer like the moccamaster?

you make it perfecter, lets start with the showerhead


it's nice, but it's a 60year old dated design that does not give you a "flatbed" of grinds at the end, what is this? after youre done brewing, you want it to be as flat as possible, this means you've extracted, and you can test it out with a TDS (no, not that ) meter



what? no, this is madness...


no, this is COFFEE!!!

anyway, it's also pretty gay that theres a hashtage #flatbedchallenge

don't click if youre not a neo fufu hair bunn hipster

you can opt to replace your showerhead with a more wider one


what i do NOT like about this, is that the cover does not fit

so i opted instead for this insert, which allows your cover to fit over it


yes i know,

coffee is serious business

in other brewing news, i really like that cold brew brewer i got and it is now my preferred method of cold brew rather than my diy method simply because it's more compact, less to wash and no "in-between" step of transfering from brewing container to filter apparatus since it's all in one now.

Ao- said:

Which cold press? I'm looking for one that is smaller but still can make a few cups. During the summer I love making coffee drinks w/ booz for a mid-day pick-me-downer.

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just 2 posts back, the brewista cold pro 2, imo its the superior toddy, that toddy plug is just so jank

Brewista Cold Pro Jr. 2 Liter Cold Brew System

it's enough for my concentrate ratio, i use 6oz grinds to 50oz water

Ao- said:

Which filters do you use?

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they want you to use their big bag filter, but i see no need for that, i just use a big spice basket


this is just big enough to hold 6oz of grinds for my ratio.

then the final outlet filter is the traditional cloth hockeypuck


i don't particularly like these cloth filters and i believe paper filters, filter out the oils anyway (and it's been shown that the oils in coffee are bitter and add nothing to taste), so i wrap a regular paper filter around the cloth hockey puck, so the final brew is basically filtered through water.

i'm gonna experiment soon by just making a hockypuck out of filterpaper w/o the cloth hockeypuck, in this way i can just truly dump everything out into the compost bin, w/o worrying about first taking out the cloth hockey puck.

Kiki said:

A nespresso

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if youre gonna get a nespresso, might as well get the best of em the vertuo system

Nespresso BNV420BLK VertuoPlus Deluxe Espresso Machine by Breville, Black