Coffee - do you and how do you consume it?

[Redacted]

It's just coffee. I was given a machine for free. And where I live, capsules are welcome for recycling.

 

[RexrothPigeon]

I do 16.6gm dose / 34gm yield, in ~32seconds.

On a lever-machine, using locally-roasted, daily ground, medium roast beans.
A dopio for my mate, and a quad for me.

I find it almost impossible to froth just 50gm of whole [non-synthetic] milk, without scorching it.

Yours is a very classic approach, basically a 1:2, which probably suits your medium roasts well. I also use a lever machine, by the way, and would never go back to pumps. Lever 4 ever.

 

[xanalog]

Lever 4 ever.

Mine is only 6 years old.
It has a neon-lamp inside its power button, and another to indicate when the boiler is at temp.

The rest is the operator's responsibility!

Like the difference between a single-speed EV and a six-speed manual.
Three renters down the street do StarBucks/DoorDash, everyday.

 

[DY2]

Here is my setup and workflow. I use a complete ECM kit, and my current recipe is 18g in, 18g out, with a 36-second extraction time.
You can see all the equipment and details in the pictures below.

 

[Chanur]

I don't. It smells great and tastes horrid.

 

[EJ3]

I don't. It smells great and tastes horrid.

It'd be better if it was the other way around: smells horrid and taste's great!

 

[Count Arthur]

It'd be better if it was the other way around: smells horrid and taste's great!

There are plenty of cheeses that fill that niche.

 

[EJ3]

There are plenty of cheeses that fill that niche.

My Austrian mother likes all cheeses! I was concieved in the USA but born in Austria. Apparently I did not get the "cheese gene" as there are a very few "soft" cheeses that I like.
The rest, I do not like at all. They can cause me to not eat any of a meal. Naturally, I'll get over it by having another:

 

[Chanur]

We have been plowing through some Tillamook sharp white cheddar for cheese toast lately. Can't get enough.

 

[EJ3]

We have been plowing through some Tillamook sharp white cheddar for cheese toast lately. Can't get enough.

I'll help out by having some Tillamook Vanilla Bean Ice Cream along with my Stiegl.

 

[RexrothPigeon]

I made a milk drink for a friend

 

[DY2]

I made a milk drink for a friend

Here is my first attempt at drawing a flower.

 

[Newman]

I also use a lever machine, by the way, and would never go back to pumps.

$1300 for a glorified garlic press?

 

[RexrothPigeon]

$1300 for a glorified garlic press?

if you say so
(nah, this thing is incredible--perfect temp control, direct or spring lever, quality steam wand, etc.--I also bought it back when it was < $1k)

 

[Soandso]

 

[EJ3]

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Do they have bands playin' some jive?

 

[Ralph_Cramden]

Macchiato in Kotor, Montenegro

 

[romeekasmin]

It does have a knocker. While no grinder has truly zero retention, it's virtually negligible. In my experience, retention is typically under 0.2 g and often closer to 0.1 g. My NZ retains about 0.3 g if I blow out the chute, and using a more powerful blower from the NFC disk can clear as much as 0.5 g. The Lagom Casa, by comparison, retains less than 0.2 g, which is very impressive considering its grinding performance..

My only real complaints are that it grinds a bit slowly and produces a somewhat high-pitched noise. It's not particularly unpleasant, but it's not especially pleasant either. Overall, though, for the price, it's hard to ask for more.

 

[DY2]

It does have a knocker. While no grinder has truly zero retention, it's virtually negligible. In my experience, retention is typically under 0.2 g and often closer to 0.1 g. My NZ retains about 0.3 g if I blow out the chute, and using a more powerful blower from the NFC disk can clear as much as 0.5 g. The Lagom Casa, by comparison, retains less than 0.2 g, which is very impressive considering its grinding performance..

My only real complaints are that it grinds a bit slowly and produces a somewhat high-pitched noise. It's not particularly unpleasant, but it's not especially pleasant either. Overall, though, for the price, it's hard to ask for more.

What grinder do you use and how finely do you grind?
At the end of the coffee bag or when I change the coffee, I check to see how much is left in the grinder, but I find very little.
In fact, I measured before and after grinding, with a Felicita scale and the retention is almost zero, or within the scale's margin of error.
I use an ECM Automatika 64 grinder.

OnTopic, Sardinia, on the terrace for a cappuccino...

 

[Ears of Tin]

Coffee beans from Costco, usually a dark roast although I am gifted a lot of my beans. 15 tbsps finely ground in a drip coffee maker. After brewing immediately fill several mason jars, cool to room temp and then refrigerate. Drink cold and black the next day. The object is to be caffeinated with seconds of my feet hitting the kitchen floor every morning.