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Thread: Woodworking Coffee Adicts
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25th April 2011, 03:17 PM #46
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Coffee icecream YUM
I once had a Coffee icecream affogatto with crushed carmelized sugar wafers and a drizzle of Kahlua - Just a tinse over the top maybe
Kinda like a longer than standard mac. I tried it at lunch - it was quite enjoyable. Much more intense flavour for the whole cup. I have dubbed it the 'Cafe Bob' - bobaccino didn't seem right, and shal be a fixture from now on
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25th April 2011, 03:19 PM #47
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25th April 2011, 04:30 PM #48Bushmiller;
"Power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts, absolutely!"
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25th April 2011, 04:46 PM #49
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I am afraid that Leanne and I fell into this trap. Fantasizing about having a glamorous little coffee shop that is. We were offered an opportunity to walk in to an existing business and took it on. Fundamentally we didn't know what we were doing and had had no previous history in hospitality or catering. Leanne was a competent cook and I was enthusiastic. They were our credentials.
We served excellent quality food, all made on the premises, offered 19 different teas (loose leaf) including 4 green teas and excluding some herbals, an excellent coffee (way better then most), opened 7 days a week and a couple of nights for dinner and in the end hardly made a living from it.
The only thing we were not going to do was starve to death.
We had a get-out clause in our lease and get out we did before we deceased.
In many ways I don't regret this little excursion in our lives, but I would not do it again and I would certainly explain to anybody contemplating this life how exacting it is.
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25th April 2011, 04:48 PM #50
BobL
Re posts 32 & 33.
I laughed.
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25th April 2011, 04:52 PM #51
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25th April 2011, 06:51 PM #52
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I too am a combined addict being hooked on woodwork and coffee. I am at present tasting the range of coffee bean supplied by the Cleanskin Coffe Company in Brendale near Brisbane. I was drawn to this company because they produce a blend specially for the fund raising activities of a group of Ambulance people in QLd who are raising money for the Jamie Jackway foundation.
Jamie was a qld paramedic attached to the helicopter unit in Townsville. On the way down on the winch to boat with a patient on board the cable snapped and Jamie was dropped to the deck ending up a paraplegic. My interest in this was aroused as I am a volunteer ambulance officer.
Anyway enough of that I was saying am tasting the range of coffees this company produces and am very impressed. Their range is all subtly different to each other and full of flavours.
I make my coffee using a Vibiemme expresso machine that has proved to be reliable and consistent over three years unlike my previous two Saeco machines.
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26th April 2011, 11:39 AM #53
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Wanted a cup of black coffee with lunch in Ballina Yesterday.The young fellow had not been taught how to make a larger coffee and completely stuphphed the whole operation.
Young lass (waitress) came to the rescue and I wound up with a pretty good brew,
Apparently these pubs just put machines in and then just let the staff learn from each other!Last edited by artme; 16th May 2011 at 10:35 AM.
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27th April 2011, 05:52 PM #54
Some like it hot
"I want a coffee and I want it hot. Real hot!"
This is the cry that is dreaded amongst coffee makers. Why do we want a drink that is too hot to drink and will take the lining off your tongue and the skin off your throat?
Our answer to this problem was to take a cup, which is already warm having been kept on top of the coffee machine and fill it with hot water, also from the machine. Then we nuked it in the microwave for a minute, which superheated the cup itself. Then chuck out the water and proceed as normal.
The effect of this was to minimise the heat transfer from the beverage to the cup. The coffee extraction is still too hot for the human throat and without heat being transferred to the cup it seemed to satisfy the "hot" brigade without compromising the heating of the milk in particular. Long black and short black were not an issue as those people were not chasing hot liquid anyway.
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Paul
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27th April 2011, 11:35 PM #55
I have the EM6910 and the EM0480 conical burr grinder.
I don't consider myself a coffee snob, I just make my coffee the way I like it, at least once a day and I have it down pat to my tastes.
I heat the machine, purge the steam and stretch the milk.
While doing this the porta filter (?) is in the group head warming up.
I then grind directly into the porta filter, fit it to the group head and extract immediately.
I don't use a bumper, I just scrape the coffee from the basket and flush it down the drain.
Even though I have a conical burr grinder I am lead to believe a flat grinder like the Mini Mazzer is much better.
I have also visited coffee plantations in Guatemala and was about to buy some beans but they then told us that 80% of their beans went to Starbucks so I didn't buy them.
I visited the States soon after Guatemala and had coffee at Starbucks, it wasn't bad.
Don't fall for the hype, not all Starbucks is bad, but it is bad in Australia.
They must use different beans here."There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark."
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28th April 2011, 12:50 AM #56
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I have enjoyed and made many coffees on the EM6910 and still have a RED one at work that has been badly abused but still keeps going strong....
As to the StarBucks and many other chains...
Beans and Grinders are important along with machines that are well maintained; however even with the best, if the staff are not correctly trained. Then the beans / Grinder and Machines are useless. And from what I see and experience, most of the issue comes back to poor training and a lack of a true understanding of the bean and what makes a real espresso
We will not even think about what many do to the milk
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28th April 2011, 02:01 AM #57
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28th April 2011, 02:39 AM #58
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Brief but expensive coffee story in the post.
https://www.woodworkforums.com/f122/travel-snaps-117545/
Read from about post 13 onwards
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15th May 2011, 07:42 PM #59
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Looks like the man has done teh deal...
Wood and coffee; now for teh wooden modifications to the machine and accessories..
Well done Johno.
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15th May 2011, 08:06 PM #60
I have just remembered something. (It is 10 years since I made coffee in anger with a "proper" machine). We always used to throw away the first two coffee extractions of the day.
The reason being they didn't taste any good. Probably it is to do with the cleaning process. The closest I can liken it to is coating a tea pot (not scrubbing it clean) or seasoning a cast iron frypan.
It seems coffee has to pass through first.
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