Real Coffee

[doggone]

I know almost nothing about double expresso lattés and such as I never been in a serious coffee shop, but have been given a stove top percolator and bean grinder.
So which whole beans would be good to try first.
Have been told medium roast but didn't realise there are so many to choose from.

[Riejufixing]

[hellkat]

If it's a Bialetti you just need bog standard espresso coffee.
You need a dark roast really but experiment with different brands til you find one you like cos dark roasts can sometimes be too bitter and even adding more sugar doesn't improve it.

Also you often have to grind it very fine for those type of machines.
Might be better at this stage to save the bean grinder til you're used to using the coffee percolator and just buy pre ground stuff.
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[doggone]

It's similar to this, nothing special.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07FYDHTGG/

[Riejufixing]

[stinkwheel]

I hate everything about coffee. The smell, the taste and the culture.

I think you should get some of that stuff that's been up a cats arse. It can't make it smell or taste any worse. Let us know how it was.

EDIT: Kopi luwak
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[A100man]

[chickenstrip]

I just checked my jar of dirt cheap Tesco instant. It's real. I'm not imagining it.

I might be imagining it tastes like coffee though
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[WD Forte]

When I were a lad, coffee came as a black gooey liquid in bottles
with a pic of a bloke in a kilt on it.
Never did us any harm, mind you I did and still do prefer a mug
of good strong char anyday.
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[Riejufixing]

[recman]

Bloody coffee ponces!

[hellkat]

[Islander]

The coffees that Lidl sell are really nice and don't cost a fortune either.

One of my friends brought some Luwak (civet cat coffee) when she visited (she has relatives in Malaysia) - it was nice but not worth the money. The best coffee I've ever tasted were some blue mountain beans a friend brought back from Jamaica after a holiday.

[hellkat]

My favourite type of coffee is Costa Rican, or at the very least something central-American, it seems to have a "sweeter" taste from that region.

But the coffee club I'm a member of, has some fancy schmancy thing about imagining that they can smell fancy flavours, as if they were wine buffs or something...their PR department must wank themselves to death writing the cards that accompany each different variety.


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[Islander]

[duhawkz]

Top tip, you put boiling water in the bottom. Not cold otherwise by the time the water boiled you'll have burnt the coffee grounds and the result will be an acrid coffeeesque liquid fit for nowt

Took a couple goes before I got the hang of it, I ended up watching a video on YouTube after have a few cups that tasted like shit
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[Sister Sledge]

Could it fill my flask for work each morning or would I be waiting hours?

Fun fact: You can make coffee from dandelion roots.
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[goto10]

I've always been a tea person, but I do enjoy coffee (I just never buy it when out and about, the price doesn't correlate to the value)
Someone gifted me a Delonghi bean-to-cup machine, so I've started using that a fair bit - I get beans from Amazon, 2kg for under a tenner (quite often on offer for £6.50 ), to me [with my coffee-philistine tastes] it's as good as any stuff you'd get in a coffee-shop.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07CGXZMT3
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[doggone]

[Riejufixing]

[MCN]

[doggone]

[MCN]

[chickenstrip]