Keto dieters are out of control.
That butter coffee is so gross.
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I wanted some coffee at home recently and when stressed out with the options bought a jar of Cafe Bustello Instant Espresso.
I worked at The Bucks for a few years and the fetishism is permanently ruined.
But
Several regulars would order a iced “breve” latte — espresso in cold cream with ice.
Once you have affogato, the gloves are really off for adding high-fat dairy to coffee. Out of milk? What ice cream do you have? What about heavy cream and sugar, that’s basically deconstructed ice cream, right?
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Supposedly, if coffee makes you anxious then it raises cholesterol, makes you gain weight, etc. but if it makes you feel relaxed then it lowers cholesterol, makes you burn fat? I don’t think it affects my emotions but I don’t want to be a slave to caffeine (also it stains my teeth horribly).
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this is interesting, I always take my coffee in the afternoon when I’m starting to have low blood sugar and it makes me both more focused and more relaxed
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I’ve gotten much better at making coffee with a moka pot. Now it’s my favorite brewing method. Before, I would enjoy watching the steam escape from the valve, but while I did that, the coffee burned. Im having a lot more luck taking the pot off after I hear the coffee whoosh to the top. Anyways, it all tastes good now
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Pointless coffee anecdote:
One of the companies my brother-in-law’s milk company serves is a new local chain of coffee shops called For Five Roasters. They’re trying to take on Starbucks, at least regionally. They’ve got the ambience in their stores down, for sure.
Anyway, bro-in-law got a few sample bags of their ground coffee and he passed one along to me and I gotta say, it’s not bad.
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bumping this because i’ve got into coffee properly recently. had a aeropress for ages but only ever put cafe bustelo through it, upgraded my setup recently:
- aeropress
- french press
- south indian filter (cheapo off amazon but they sell #specialty versions now - SOFI 72)
- 1zpresso k-max grinder (ridiculous indulgence, extremely worth it)
- $12 neoweigh espresso scale (massively worth, it’s way nicer than the price point)
- single origin coffees from local roasters Mayorga and Zeke’s.
I like the Mayorga Peru Amazonas and Zeke’s Mexico Chiapas, Bolivian is okay, kind of not a fan of Ethiopian coffee that ive tried it doesnt really have that coffee taste to me.
for daily drinking i’ll have the aeropress, french press if i want to make more than one cup, and i haven’t had a proper south indian filter kaapi in a month or so but i went through a couple weeks of being filter coffee obsessed. in addition to being good hot it’s the ideal cold milk coffee beverage. still getting the K-MAX dialed in for each brewing method
i dont have a fancy goose neck kettle for pourovers but maybe that would be next. maybe not though it seems fussy. the hario switch less so
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oh yeah brewing method wise i’ve been doing the james hoffman thing. boiling water, 1:16 ish ratio (12g/200g water or 30g/500g)
french press - 4 minutes before stirring to stop brewing. dunno what grind size really
aeropress around 3min (with a swirl at 2:00 and start pressing at 2:30). ground to about 5.2 on the k-max
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i forget if you got an answer to this but it’s what my viewport landed on so: have you ever had a dexy and if so how’d that hit you? stimulants are one of those things that i think really goes either way depending on your neural wiring
edit: wait nvm i guess we covered this a few posts up
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pour over is just hipster drip coffee, only get into that if you like the taste of drip imo
(I do french press or turkish because I like either the roughest grind or the finest grind and nothing in between)
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i was daydreaming about a flair 58 or another espresso machine, i like espresso a lot, that heavy body thing is very familiar to me from years drinking south indian coffee
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pour over has the benefit of being easier to clean but yeah identical otherwise imo
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I’ve been at this coworking space every now and then lately and their coffee machine has a super weird and angry steam wand. I feel like every other time I’ve tried to froth milk at a friend’s house its gone pretty well lol and yet I cant for the life of me get even close to a good foam. Doubly frustrating because it screams like a dying pig in a public, quiet office lmao
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I scrolled up to see if I had posted itt yet and only then realized that I made the thread
Update: I still like coffee. Chemex filters are slightly easier to find now
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went to see BLUE GIANT and then had an espresso at a little Japanese crepe café next to the theater. yum. I love espresso
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It’s way cheaper to buy a tiny plastic pour over cone thing than a drip machine and it takes up zero bench space. Why does it have to be a hipster thing
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many pour over enthusiasts, especially when it became a trend a decade ago, were very pretentious about the superiority of this coffee style but it’s literally just drip coffee without a machine, hence my calling it a hipster thing.
Granted, I think drip coffee is the worst kind of coffee that’s still regularly made today (let us not speak of the dreaded percolator, lest it return) so I’m pretty biased.
eta: and the reason I think drip coffee sucks is that I hate what a paper coffee filter does to the taste of coffee, it takes all the uniqueness out of a given roast, soaks up all those delicious oils, leaving something lacking in body.
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oh i did pour over with a reusable metal filter, it did taste better than our old drip machine but i wrote that off as “the machine was old and kinda sucked”. i wonder if it was the switch from paper too though.
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