French Press is an acquired taste...it tends to have some of the finer grounds floating around and that can turn off the non coffee fanatic. I like it, but then I can also eat coffee beans with no issues ;-) I have a Mr Coffee grinder that has multiple grind and volume settings. It allows you to choose beteen the amount of grounds based on the number of cups for your coffee maker and also whether you want coarse, medium, or fine grounds. Espresso requires a fine grind. I like to use a medium grind for automatic drip and coarse for French Press. Another option...I just recently purchased a Keurig coffee maker. Depending on model, it allows you to create espresso (1 k-cup for 4 oz of coffee) on up to weaker brews that use 1 k-cup for 12 oz of coffee. This is a great investment. Some models also allow you to create your own k-cup with the my-kcup, which is basically a filter basket in a container that emulates a k-cup. A bit of a pain in the but because if you like stronger brews, it takes a couple of k-cups of coffee (I generally use 3...2 at 4 oz and 1 at 8 oz). Luckily you can purchase extra filters...I am waiting for mine to arrive ;-) Keurig.com, as well as other sites (google k-cup) has a HUGE selection of coffees and teas that can be used. Defintiely pretty awesome.
I have also used the cold brew method. It takes a pound of coffee and you fill the coldbrewer with the ground and water and let it soak for 14 hours. You then pull the cork on the bottom of the brewer and let it drain. It gives you an espresso like liquid, but is much more flavorful and has a higher caffeine level. The longer it takes to brew a coffee, the more caffeine that gets extracted. This is by far my favorite as I love the richer flavor you get from this. The benefit of cold brewing is that you dont destroy the volitle oils in coffee that provide flavor (which is why hot brewed coffee goes bad pretty quick in an open carafe on a heated pad). You may have had this before if you have ever worked in a office or been to a restaurant that uses Dewey Egbert coffee machines. Those use a bladder of cold brew that is shipped frozen...you can store the frozen cold brew for 6 months . One of the things thewy recommend for normal use is tofill an ice tray with the cold brew and when you want a regular cup of coffee, put an cube in a coffee cup and top off with hot water and you have a regular cup of coffee. Eric ALL HAIL THE GODDESS CAFFEINA!!! It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the Beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shaking, the shaking becomes a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. -----Original Message----- From: Sam [mailto:sammyc...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 08:25 To: cf-community Subject: Re: A Template for Every CF-Community Political Thread OK I'll start. French press coffee sux. Drip coffee is so much better. As for espresso, get a $10 old fashion espresso pot. It makes by far the best espresso. As for the grinder, I don't know. Welcome back :P On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 12:21 AM, Gruss Gott <grussg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Erika wrote: >> >> HOLY CRAP!!!! >> Where you been?!?!?! >> > > Hi Erica! > > Ha, well ... I decided to take a break awhile back (after me not even > liking me in a post) and then my job heated up, and then we were lucky > enough to take 3 trips (which only made work worse), and then it was > the holidays and then I cleaned up my emails and now I'm back! > > Oh, and plus I've started research (a LOT of research) on a new hobby: > espresso. I haven't bought anything yet, but I'm getting pretty close > to the go/no-go point. > > It all started when I got a Technivorm MoccaMaster for my birthday and > it DID make better coffee, but not as good as French Press, and not as > good as my wife's aunt's. > > So I bought a new whirly-gig grinder and that really didn't help so I > decided to figure it out why and that led me to burr grinders which > then led me to espresso. And then everything changed. I realized > there was a whole new World of Geekdom I never knew existed. > > So I've been head's down on that pretty big time and if my interest > holds I'll probably buy some kit in a month or two. > > How's life with you these days?? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:333872 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
