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I am still amazed about how much money you can spend on making coffee at home. 300€ for a manual grinder - "that's the cheao chinese stuff" wtf
I've purposely avoided getting into espresso because my wife already thinks i'm crazy for wanting to spend $6-700 on a new grinder and drip machine when our current ones "work fine".
Yea, I have extreme fomo when it comes to hobbies, so i inevitable "have" to upgrade. I think it's better I stick to my coffee. But, it's nice to know I can start lower if I ever change my mind.
Workflow? Jesus Christ I just want a coffee that's nicer than the instant powder.
Where $50 for a small bag of coffee seems reasonable.
Yeah because it apparently tastes like blueberries, moss and the left knee of Mussolini's grandma after a late afternoon walk in the summer rain
I agree of course. It is just nice to have a variety and it is also worth the money to a degree.
Although, I must say, I use rather cheap coffee (not more than 10€-12€/250g with the price resulting rather from fairtrade and organic labels than from it being high quality) if I want to make a milk based drink. I personally don't think most of third wave/specialty coffee tastes good with milk. So using it on a latte macchiato seems like a waste to me.
In general, I personally don't think milk and coffee go well together at all, to be honest. I don't drink milk drinks often, but when I do, I add tons of sugar and sirup and consider it a dessert and not "coffee".
I've got a £1000 espresso machine and that the cheap one. We also have all the pour over shite - scales, grinder, gooseneck kettle, Hario... It adds up quickly.
And when you invite a bunch people over and tell them yeah we're into coffee and they ask you for coffee and you're like... Ok I am incapable of making coffee for more than 2 people in under 15 minutes, I need to pull out the senseo pad machine.
Absolutely.. someone at work was like, grab a coffee, see you in 5. Dude, it takes at least 15 minutes to make a coffee in this house.
We have a ROK and my husband once did 3 espressos for guests in a row, it did break his soul a little bit.
Thank you xD
You know what the most painful part is? When your guests try the coffee and are like "aaah wow yeah that's... nice! It's really, uhm, intense" because they are so used to their crap coffee and don't get the flowery berry fresh aroma of specialty coffee and you're just smiling and dying inside. I mean I would have hated this kind of coffee 10 years ago myself so I get it but man...
This is why I still have a senseo pad machine. I'm not wasting my time, energy and coffee to make fancy hand filter coffee or manual espressos for people who really don't care (unless they ask for it, in that case, waste away).
May your kitchen never run out of space for more equipment my friend.
Love coffee as a hobby for this reason. You can start with $20 to get simple pour over equipment or even nicer venas but you can go far and high with it eventually or stop at the $20