Did the postman bring anything nice today?

GeekKopi

GaryatGala wrote:

They,re a bit like the Rancilio Silvia. Get it wrong, and they bite you. Get it right, and they,re like gold in a cup.

great analogy GG. spot on.

Brett_H

I loved my Silvia too 🙂

Cuir_Beluga

These arrived a few days ago now. I have been drinking iced coffee for the last few weeks and thought it looked much better in a nice double walled glass than a mug :thumb:.

Brett_H

Fantastic! I'm a huge fan of double walled glasses! Enjoy!!

GeekKopi

Cuir Beluga wrote:

These arrived a few days ago now. I have been drinking iced coffee for the last few weeks and thought it looked much better in a nice double walled glass than a mug :thumb:.

nice glasses CB. Here's an idea for you. Freeze your black coffee (say long blacks) in ice cube trays and add them to baileys and milk.

Kevohere

GeekKopi wrote:

nice glasses CB. Here's an idea for you. Freeze your black coffee (say long blacks) in ice cube trays and add them to baileys and milk.

Now that sounds like a great idea GK :exclaim: Think I'll go with short black ice cubes though, as a long black with milk seems a bit too diluted for me. :coffee:

Cuir_Beluga

Thanks Brett and Geek 🙂. I am kind smitten with them right now. If anyone is interested I picked them up from Victorias Basement, they have some really nice stuff for great prices I think. That sounds really nice Geek. I might save it for Christmas time though 😛.

LeroyC

It was a couple of days ago to be fair. But my biggest purchase for some time - Compak K8 Silenzio (Aust/NZ model).

Brett_H

That's a big grinder! Congratulations mate. Are they 80mm burrs? I paid almost $200 for burrs fr the A8 and then haven't used them. I guess they'll be good for when I move into the retirement home in forty or so years.... :doh:

LeroyC

Brett H wrote:

That's a big grinder! Congratulations mate. Are they 80mm burrs? I paid almost $200 for burrs fr the A8 and then haven't used them. I guess they'll be good for when I move into the retirement home in forty or so years.... :doh:

Thanks Brett. Yeah 83mm burrs. This is the Australasian model so it's the 50hz, 600RPM motor. An impressive beast for sure. I'm using it without a hopper at the moment and it's working fine. You can get short hoppers for them, but at $100 they're not cheap. Might see if I can knock something up myself.

Brett_H

LeroyC wrote:

Thanks Brett. Yeah 83mm burrs. This is the Australasian model so it's the 50hz, 600RPM motor. An impressive beast for sure. I'm using it without a hopper at the moment and it's working fine. You can get short hoppers for them, but at $100 they're not cheap. Might see if I can knock something up myself.

My K10 has just had the original hopper cut down. I don't think that would work with my A8 unless I found a smaller replacement lid as its a tapered hopper.

GeekKopi

Not the postman but my father in law just brought me back a Turkish Gjezve pot from turkey on his recent trip to the Balkans. It's enough for two cups. Now where did I place my Turkish raki to make my Turkish cafe coretto.

Brett_H

That's a nicer version than the one I have. It's a real luxury to have the ti e to make Turkish and the payoff is far too short-lived.

GeekKopi

Brett H wrote:

That's a nicer version than the one I have. It's a real luxury to have the ti e to make Turkish and the payoff is far too short-lived.

In my house, especially with visitors, Turkish coffee (as we call it Tursko (roll the 'r') kafè) is a necessity. Today we had some family over and it was full house so it came the large pot. The recipe is simple. 1 heaped teaspoon of powder grind coffee to 1 level teaspoon of sugar to one Turkish coffee cup of water. Then scale to the required number of cups. With a medium heat keep stirring the concoction till just before the boil (a few mins). That way you ensure you don't burn off any 'Kajmak' (pronounced kai-muk') / crema as it rises up the pot. this takes practice to get it right. Then pour. Pouring is the tricky part as you want to distribute the Kajmak evenly to each cup. A cup without Kajmak is rejected immediately and the villagers stone you to death for the offence. It's been a tradition that once the cup is drank it is flipped upside down onto its saucer for a few minutes. Then we read our fortunes in the patterns it leaves behind. Usually my mum / grand parents are well versed at reading my future in the cup. FYI. My background is Macedonian and this tradition has been with me since forever.

Brett_H

Thank you for sharing this. What a wonderful tradition (perhaps not the stoning bit...)!

LeroyC

Not today exactly, but in the last couple of weeks I've picked up a Spong 2 hand grinder and an Aeropress. OMG! Sign me up to the Aeropress fanclub. I thought I was doing ok with my 1 cup pour over, but the flavour I'm getting from the Finca Lerida Panama Gesha that I've got at the moment when I use the Aeropress is just out of this world.

Brett_H

Great! Are you using the papers or the ss filter?

LeroyC

Brett H wrote:

Great! Are you using the papers or the ss filter?

I've been told the paper filters are better for flavour so I'm using the ones that came with the unit. I'm using the inverted method - 16g or so of slightly courser than espresso grind coffee, 10sec stir, 50-60sec brew, then press. I'll get a SS filter for travel, but I'm more than happy with the paper ones for now. I've tried a few different amounts of water and TBH it hasn't seemed to make a lot of difference other than a little bit to the strength of flavour. Largest amount of water so far has been 150ml, smallest amount about 50ml. It's all been good. The Spong is impressive too. It's in pieces at the moment as it needs to be reconditioned. It's all cleaned up just waiting for a bead blast to get the rust off the grinding surfaces and then I'll repaint it.

GeekKopi

Postman brought me a new jeep this week. Had to choose the ELMO colour for the little one.

Brett_H

Lol.... Nice wheels (literally)!

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