Espresso

[Tomchri]

Works for me, 6 cups waking up.
Cheers Tom.

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[activpop]

40 minutes ago, audiomick said:

Sorry...

The one in the film must habe been similar to this when new. I got mine at a flea market, for around €20.- I think. Works fine.

Nice! I wonder where they got the new decal. I'll have to keep my eye out for one. I like the simplicity.

[audiomick]

26 minutes ago, activpop said:

I like the simplicity.

Yes, so do I.

[Lucky Phil]

2 hours ago, audiomick said:

Yes, so do I.

 

3 hours ago, activpop said:

Nice! I wonder where they got the new decal. I'll have to keep my eye out for one. I like the simplicity.

A model T ford is simple as well but you wouldn't want to drive one now in the modern world.

Phil

[docc]

I hate to admit anything about my coffee habit and production methods. Let's say I (machine) grind "good" beans, with a selected roast level, using a derived grind coarseness, and brew with proper extraction time/temperature.

Of course, this is just "coffee" and not espresso. 

[audiomick]

I prefer a flat white to an espresso, mostly. For those that don't know:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_white

So we are talking about a double espresso topped up in a fairly small receptacle with steam-heated milk.

I "discoverd" the variation in Melbourne in the '80s, consistent with the Wiki aricle. Contrary to the article, it is usually served in  a glass, not a porzellan cup.

Anyway...

I can do something very close at home with the Bialettis and a pot to heat the milk.

 

The annoyance is, cafes here in Germany have discovered the term, and are starting to include it in their menus without finding out what it really means. What you tend to get is

A cup half full of foam: WRONG: "flat" means without foam

with just enough liquid milk to be able to say that it is not black coffee: WRONG

made with UHT skim milk, fat content 1.5%. WRONG on two counts. The cream is what it is all about, and UHT milk tastes terrible.

So I regularly take the risk and order a "flat white" here, in the hope that they may have understood the one true way. Mostly, they haven't. Maybe I'll learn one day...

 

[Lucky Phil]

1 hour ago, audiomick said:

I prefer a flat white to an espresso, mostly. For those that don't know:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_white

So we are talking about a double espresso topped up in a fairly small receptacle with steam-heated milk.

I "discoverd" the variation in Melbourne in the '80s, consistent with the Wiki aricle. Contrary to the article, it is usually served in  a glass, not a porzellan cup.

Anyway...

I can do something very close at home with the Bialettis and a pot to heat the milk.

 

The annoyance is, cafes here in Germany have discovered the term, and are starting to include it in their menus without finding out what it really means. What you tend to get is

A cup half full of foam: WRONG: "flat" means without foam

with just enough liquid milk to be able to say that it is not black coffee: WRONG

made with UHT skim milk, fat content 1.5%. WRONG on two counts. The cream is what it is all about, and UHT milk tastes terrible.

So I regularly take the risk and order a "flat white" here, in the hope that they may have understood the one true way. Mostly, they haven't. Maybe I'll learn one day...

 

Don't worry sounds like what Queenslanders think a Latte is. When in Hervey Bay I always ask for a look at what they are going to serve me my latte in after stupidly ordering one early on in my visits there and being presented with a massive Irish coffee glass complete with handle of a milky coffee like concoction for something like $6 and at other places a "MUG" of a similar disaster. Of course the Latte is a pre 10am beverage and I wouldn't be seen dead drinking one after that or a Cappuccino for that matter.   

Happily on my recent trip to Brisbane city they have now grasped what a reasonable coffee should be but outside the state capital it's still a risky order. I once politely asked a Queensland Cafe proprietor when ordering my breakfast Latte why they didn't serve them in the traditional glass and the answer was "we don't like glasses here" meaning in that Cafe. What the customers would like? No interest in that. Good old Queensland where they come out with your breakfast food order on a plate under a stack of other plated orders one on top of the other. Classy they are not.

Phil    

[activpop]

9 hours ago, Lucky Phil said:

 

A model T ford is simple as well but you wouldn't want to drive one now in the modern world.

Phil

Apples to oranges. I've been a simple carpenter for over 50 years with an affinity for things well built from wood, especially when they are old.