Are you a coffee drinker?
Do you like to fanny around with complex methods of making coffee?
This may be the thread for you, or not.
My coffee evolution started with an Aeropress and hand grinder, then moved onto a Nanopresso, and a different hand grinder whose handle nub would fit into a electric screwdrivers standard hex socket.
Mainly because I worked away from home and needed quality portable coffee. I fannied with grind sizes, bean weights and water volumes for each of them until I had fine tuned the hell out of them.
When it came time to get a home coffee maker, i decided to avoid retreading that path, and went with a bean to cup machine that did one thing really well, an espresso shot, which I could then top off with water for my preferred Americano.
I wanted to press a button and have good coffee come out the other side with the minimum of fuss.
Which? Informed me, in the range I wanted to pay, that this would be the Melitta Avanza 600 Series.
And a fine shot of espresso it does too.
Moderately funny coffee anecdote:
My wife, who did not drink coffee and who doesn't seem to object to me buying guitar gear, did object to a full coffee machine.
I started her off on packet Mochas, which she enjoyed. She eventually moved herself onto Americanos And Espressos.
Soon as it got to that point, and the possibility of her having to faff with hand grinders and the nanopresso reared its head, we had a coffee machine within 2 weeks.
Work smart, not hard.
Do you like to fanny around with complex methods of making coffee?
This may be the thread for you, or not.
My coffee evolution started with an Aeropress and hand grinder, then moved onto a Nanopresso, and a different hand grinder whose handle nub would fit into a electric screwdrivers standard hex socket.
Mainly because I worked away from home and needed quality portable coffee. I fannied with grind sizes, bean weights and water volumes for each of them until I had fine tuned the hell out of them.
When it came time to get a home coffee maker, i decided to avoid retreading that path, and went with a bean to cup machine that did one thing really well, an espresso shot, which I could then top off with water for my preferred Americano.
I wanted to press a button and have good coffee come out the other side with the minimum of fuss.
Which? Informed me, in the range I wanted to pay, that this would be the Melitta Avanza 600 Series.
And a fine shot of espresso it does too.
Moderately funny coffee anecdote:
My wife, who did not drink coffee and who doesn't seem to object to me buying guitar gear, did object to a full coffee machine.
I started her off on packet Mochas, which she enjoyed. She eventually moved herself onto Americanos And Espressos.
Soon as it got to that point, and the possibility of her having to faff with hand grinders and the nanopresso reared its head, we had a coffee machine within 2 weeks.
Work smart, not hard.
