As I mentioned in a previous post – I get asked this question quite a lot. So for the month of January I logged every cup of coffee I drank, using a splendid website called Daytum.
So – how many coffees? In January I drank 126 cups, so on average a daily consumption of 4.1
Below is [...]
At the London Gastronomy Seminars I was given a Mypressi Twist to play with by the UK distributor. I had been toying with buying one having seen the hype online, so this was a rather pleasant surprise.
I didn’t really get a chance to play with it til yesterday afternoon. I’ve played with it some more [...]
Back in 2006 I published a recommended reading list. Since that time my collection of books has (worryingly) increased so I thought I should probably update it. I could easily write a list of coffee books that one should avoid (having learned the hard way) but I suspect that would get me into [...]
These tips probably apply more to a commercial environment than a domestic one, but hopefully there are some useful reminders for anyone in here.
We’ve all ended up chasing an espresso, somehow a delicious espresso remaining elusive. These may seem obvious but all get overlooked from time to time.
First off a big thank you to everyone who contributed to the espresso poll. It closed out at just under 100 people giving their data. Out of this some data had to be ignored as it was clearly entered in error, leaving just over 90 espressos worth of information.
I am not a massive statistics expert [...]
By seasoning a coffee machine – I am talking about pulling a few shots per group having done a chemical clean. Conventional wisdom says that if this is not done then the coffee will have an unpleasant metallic tang to it, because the machine is “too clean”.
Something about this just doesn’t sit right for [...]
POLL NOW CLOSED
Brew recipes have been on my mind again recently, so I thought I’d post up this quick poll. I’d love if it people could give me some data on this. If enough people respond then I will post up the results, and any trends that occur.
A few quick things. Please dial your espresso [...]
These last few days have been a pleasant, but steep learning curve. I know I’ve muttered about pressure profiling from time to time, but I hadn’t really played with a lever machine properly until Gwilym’s WBC prize arrived. 1
Footnotes:Yes, we kindly offered to ‘look after’ it for him for now… [↩]
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Not too long ago I posted on Home Barista about trying to find a good way to measure the density of coffee beans. 1
As always the paricipants there were way smarter than me and offered several interesting options. I dropped into the thread that this was part of my idea of a grand unified theory [...]
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