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Has anyone else heard of the Nomad? http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...resso-machinetm I've pre-ordered one as it'll be interesting to see if such a small footprint, hand powered machine will be able to deliver true expresso as opposed to faux-expresso. The 'true creama valve' sounds like an interesting concept too, can't for the life of me work out how it salvages poor quality grinds.
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| # ? May 19, 2013 03:28 |
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The Nomad sounds kind of an espresso machine for people who don't use espresso machines much. Between the weird, makes-me-uncomfortable rocking pressure lever, the "true crema valve" and the lack of any dials or anything to tell you what the water and coffee are doing, i can't see it being more than a gimmick.
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| # ? May 15, 2013 15:32 |
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Whalley posted:The Nomad sounds kind of an espresso machine for people who don't use espresso machines much. Between the weird, makes-me-uncomfortable rocking pressure lever, the "true crema valve" and the lack of any dials or anything to tell you what the water and coffee are doing, i can't see it being more than a gimmick. In the video there's dials for the pressure so you can see if you're consistently hitting 8-10 bar.
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| # ? May 15, 2013 15:57 |
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Hey all, I have no stake in this. Saw it on FB, the project is a friend-of-a-friend's....well more like friend-of-a-guy-I-knew-in-college-but-wasn't-especially-chummy-with. Regardless, looks like a neat idea. USA-made french press based on a pint-and-a-half mason jelly jar. https://www.crowdsupply.com/bucket/the-portland-press If I still had disposable income I might get one.
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| # ? May 15, 2013 17:57 |
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^^^^ That's kind of rad, but as I noted below, I don't see the point in trying to keep the coffee hot if the grounds are still sitting in said carafe. It's just going to over-extract the beans. Someone should really make essentially a press basket that you can pull the grounds all the way out of the carafe. dusty posted:I haven't seen anything better than bodum, they are well made. Mine's on its third carafe - i seem to go 9-12 months before I break em. I agree that though all press are all kind of the same. Yeah, I'll probably just get him the Bodum Chambord which is what I have. I've managed to not break mine so far. I've seen some neat looking insulated ones, though I really don't get that since you wouldn't want to keep your coffee in there with the grounds, unless it's built so that there is some sort of way to remove them entirely... I'm in the middle of roasting up four regions of coffee for him to go with the press. rockcity fucked around with this message at May 15, 2013 around 18:13 |
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I thought the same thing - and then I figured the the wool cozy on the press may be more intended to keep you from burning your hand than to keep the coffee warm in the press.
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| # ? May 15, 2013 18:17 |
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pr0k posted:I thought the same thing - and then I figured the the wool cozy on the press may be more intended to keep you from burning your hand than to keep the coffee warm in the press. "Includes press, one 24-oz. Pint & Half Mason jar and a custom size cozy to keep your coffee hot. We expect the post-crowdfunding retail price of the Portland Press to be $119." Sadly that doesn't seem to be the case. Oddly enough, I think I'd be more likely to buy it without the wool cozy. I just dig the wood handle.
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| # ? May 15, 2013 18:29 |
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I worry about staining and odorsticking on the wood surfaces. also, just, lol @ a 120bux presspot...that uses a mason jar that YOU still have to provide.
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| # ? May 15, 2013 18:32 |
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Gonna get the gaggia classic tomorrow. Some assembly required.  Will post pic.
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| # ? May 15, 2013 19:13 |
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foxxtrot posted:My preferred Bay Area Coffee is Four-Barrel, which I usually get from Red Rock in Mountain View. This is largely due to working for companies in Mountain View, so it's been the most convenient and best coffee when I'm in California. Just around the corner from Red Rock is Dana Street. They do all of their roasting in house. The espresso drinks they make are not as good, but their coffee is way better. I have talked to Red Rock people even admit that.
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| # ? May 15, 2013 23:24 |
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Wife knocked my CCD over onto the floor and it cracked. Dammit.
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| # ? May 15, 2013 23:30 |
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nwin posted:Wife knocked my CCD over onto the floor and it cracked. Dammit. A new one can be yours for only $22.
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| # ? May 15, 2013 23:39 |
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withak posted:A new one can be yours for only $22. Already ordered. Won't get me coffee tomorrow morning though! Back to French press for a few days.
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| # ? May 15, 2013 23:45 |
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I'd been trying to convert the Mrs. over to pour-over for a while now. I have the gear and do it for myself when I feel like slowing things down a bit on the weekends. Anyway, seems having a second opinion of one of her post-docs saying that the pour-over she had in Seattle last week was the best coffee she'd ever had, she's now lining me up to do one for her this weekend. That sounds a lot dirtier than I meant it to.
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| # ? May 16, 2013 00:38 |
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kim jong-illin posted:In the video there's dials for the pressure so you can see if you're consistently hitting 8-10 bar. I hope I'm wrong; if i am, i'll happily pitch in for the Nomad v2 (or just buy one outright) but with nobody outside of the creators saying anything other than "i hope this is okay/has anybody got a clue" I can't help but skeptic at it.
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| # ? May 16, 2013 00:47 |
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How long does it take to grind around 20-25g of coffee for a pour over with the Skerton?
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| # ? May 17, 2013 14:30 |
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A friend of my girlfriend is buying a $180 grinder. I'm trying to find out what the hell he's doing but is there any reason to buy one that costs more than $70?
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| # ? May 17, 2013 14:31 |
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Boris Galerkin posted:How long does it take to grind around 20-25g of coffee for a pour over with the Skerton? Took me a bit longer than it would take for my kettle to boil if I was taking it easy
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Saint Darwin posted:A friend of my girlfriend is buying a $180 grinder. I'm trying to find out what the hell he's doing but is there any reason to buy one that costs more than $70? Yes. Read the thread. Try the OP.
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| # ? May 17, 2013 14:47 |
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So the 2nd hand gaggia classic turned out to be an espresso. It's ugly as sin and lacks the 3way solenoid so I didn't really want it, but I struck a real good deal on it and got it for €50. Now I understand that I can't backflush this one because it lacks the valve, right? And instead of getting commercial descaler I got a kilo of tartaric acid. This should not eat away at my aluminium boiler, correct?
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| # ? May 17, 2013 15:29 |
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Saint Darwin posted:A friend of my girlfriend is buying a $180 grinder. I'm trying to find out what the hell he's doing but is there any reason to buy one that costs more than $70? Consider other things might be interested in; let's say, as an example, computers. A 14" LCD monitor with a fairly low pixel density is going to be good enough to play a bunch of games; I've played Skyrim, Dishonored and plenty of other games on mine. You can do a whole bunch with that. But if you can afford to get a 22" nicer LCD, with a really high pixel density, and you've made sure your computer can pump things into it that take advantage of that, there's totally reason to upgrade to something quantifiably better that can get nicer results out of what is being pumped into it. Not that there's anything wrong with the 14" thing on its own, it's just that when compared to what is possible, you start to realize you're doing a disservice to the end product by not getting something nicer.
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| # ? May 17, 2013 16:24 |
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Boris Galerkin posted:How long does it take to grind around 20-25g of coffee for a pour over with the Skerton? I grind 15g of beans in about 60-75 seconds on one twist up from the tightest grind (not for pour-over though, grind time is dependent on grind size as well as amount).
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| # ? May 17, 2013 16:42 |
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Is there something like boardgamegeek.com but for whole coffee beans? I'd be interested in seeing what other peoples' scores for whole beans are. I just started a personal log like so:
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Mandalay posted:Is there something like boardgamegeek.com but for whole coffee beans? I'd be interested in seeing what other peoples' scores for whole beans are. I just started a personal log like so: make a googleform so everyone can enter theirs. sounds like a cool project.
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| # ? May 17, 2013 17:17 |
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I think that it would depend too much on the roast and preparation to do too systematic of a comparison like that. The type of bean may be the least significant variable.
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withak posted:I think that it would depend too much on the roast and preparation to do too systematic of a comparison like that. The type of bean may be the least significant variable. well sure, but given enough statistics one could study by region of purchase, roast, etc. Maybe even garner which regions prefer to roast which coffees to which levels and prepare in which ways, etc.
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| # ? May 17, 2013 17:56 |
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Saint Darwin posted:A friend of my girlfriend is buying a $180 grinder. I'm trying to find out what the hell he's doing but is there any reason to buy one that costs more than $70? In my opinion, it's the inverse, there is little reason to buy one less than $70. No electric grinder less than about $80 (Capresso Infinity) grind with any reasonable consistency. You can get manual ones for less, but they are a lot of hassle and many need modding to actually be any good.
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| # ? May 17, 2013 18:00 |
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Speaking of coffee bean reviews and roasting. Anyone have any good software online or for OS X/iOS that let's you manage roasts, something like BehmorThing (RoasterThing now I think). Would love something that helps me hit roasts better for specific beans.
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| # ? May 17, 2013 18:09 |
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Is anyone else appalled by the prevalence of coffee "pod" systems? They have a great coffee machine at work that actually grinds real coffee beans for each cup dispensed. You can see the beans descending from a big hopper, it's great. Not perfect but pretty awesome compared to most workplace coffee machines. For some reason the company decided to have a pod system demo unit brought in with multiple flavors of pods that can be used...all of which are disgusting and are nothing near the quality of freshly ground and brewed coffee from the other machine. I pray that they don't get rid of the current awesome machine in favor of the pod machine. Guess I'm a coffee snob, but the concept of pre-packaged, flavored pods that have been sitting there for who knows how long and containing a processed, compacted plug of "coffee" disgusts me. Why do people like the pods? Is it just the convenience and variety and is there genuinely good pod-coffee out there?
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| # ? May 17, 2013 18:30 |
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People also like drowning their coffee in sugar and milk. I can tell you that our patients prefer a pod system to freshly made coffee, which is unfortunate but true. Is your coffee machine at work that grinds beans and makes you a fresh cup for sale?
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| # ? May 17, 2013 18:32 |
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added more spergery to the OP in the form of pouroverfiltercone 
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| # ? May 17, 2013 19:49 |
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As a newbie to espresso making and learning about owning a machine - here's something I wish I had done earlier: a new basket. I had been humming and hawing about the brand names you see on coffeegeek, but didn't really have courage to really pull the trigger on a part I don't know will work in my machine. So I decided to swing past a nearby service guru with my portafilter. And what a good choice it turned out to be - what I had presumed was a 58mm basket was actually more like a 57mm, and pretty shallow at that. The service guy must have tried a dozen different baskets and futzed around with the calipers no fewer than three times before finding something that fit (Astoria). Totally worth the drive. Check out the monstrous size and disparity in the holes on the old basket on the left.  No wonder I really struggled with channelling and gushing. And grit - yech! That old basket is what is kindly described as No Longer Fit For Purpose. The new basket pulls sooo much better, much more controlled, much better in the cup yada yada yada. Totally vindicated in getting an expert to size it for me too - talk about an odd size. My only regret is that I didn't do this as soon as I picked up this machine. And it was cheap too. I've think coffee gear is best measured in units of green coffee beans - that new basket cost me the equivalent of 1kg of green beans, which compares to the total cost of my espresso machine: 6kg of beans. Not as cheap as the roaster though: 300g. Here's my lastest blend - blended from about 9 batches of four different beans, which I roasted seperately. My popper is a bit of a pig, but I'm slowly learning to cook better with it.  Those little dark suckers in there are the last of my big bag of Yirg. I totally think that the Yirg is my favourite bean, do try some if you get the chance and enjoy fruity zesty flavours. Here I'm using it as about a third of a blend with mainly Cuban and Bolivian. Not a bad effort, but there is some evident scorching. Hard to complain about such a cheap coffee roaster, but there's only so much finesse available with a stock popper. dusty fucked around with this message at May 18, 2013 around 12:55 |
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dusty posted:As a newbie to espresso making and learning about owning a machine - here's something I wish I had done earlier: a new basket. Slightly related, but my 14g ridgeless filter basket from espressoparts.com showed up yesterday, along with a new 55m dispersion screen. The screen was night and day different from the stock stamped metal. The basket's finish is crazy better, very smooth. Pucks pop out clean. It also flows much... much faster. Going to have to re-visit the grind and tamp for this guy.
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