Coffee/Caffeine status.
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But Sweet Marias is a good place to start looking, they are also quite a good resource on home roasting
https://www.sweetmarias.com/category/green-coffee
https://www.sweetmarias.com/category/green-coffee
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My new Expobar Office Lever. It's a giant boat anchor but it's it makes much nicer espresso than the Gaggia it replaces.
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Junior took the coffee about 3:00PM for a Rowing ERG thing and I expect will have sleeping issues tonight.
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Moka here. Six "cups", ie one standard American coffee mug brewed with 19 gms beans and 14 gms decaf beans (espresso, French roast or similar). Timed grind. Careful pack. 13 minutes on the stove in a SS pot. Real coffee that an Italian would thank me for. (They have.)
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Ahhh...this thread. I have a Saeco Aroma machine at the shop. With our seemingly constant association with Intelligentsia Coffee I've got beans. Local spring that has amazing water. Riders dropping by all the time = flow.
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I use a Cunill Tranquilo grinder I got about 8-9 years ago. The grind quality is on par with something like a Mazzer Mini but it's quite a bit messier and not as attractive. I'm getting good microfoam but so far latte art attempts have been a big fail.
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Yeah so I feel I must share that I F'N QUIT! Yes that's right, I quit drinking coffee completely. This is mostly a big deal because of the strong habit I had (4-8 cups a day) but also because of how ubiquitous coffee/caffeine is in the cycling world.
I honestly didn't realize how good of an idea it was until my first day 'clean'. I seriously felt like CRAP. Headache off and on all day and feeling like I was only half awake. It took about 2-3 days for my body to feel normal, and now I'm feeling great. In retrospect, coffee made me feel really 'up and down', whereas now I feel like my energy is at constant level. Also, coffee was really messing with my gut (which originally was why I wanted to quit). Similarly with my energy, I feel like my gut is relaxed and can do what it needs to do, naturally. Coffee definitely kept me regular, but I've gotten used to going when my body needs to go.
Anyway, I hope this can help anyone else who wants to quit or cut back. Quitting was one of the best life decisions I've ever made, so I definitely recommend it. After a month or so I'll probably have a coffee every once in a blue moon, but in no way do I want to go back to having such a habit.
I honestly didn't realize how good of an idea it was until my first day 'clean'. I seriously felt like CRAP. Headache off and on all day and feeling like I was only half awake. It took about 2-3 days for my body to feel normal, and now I'm feeling great. In retrospect, coffee made me feel really 'up and down', whereas now I feel like my energy is at constant level. Also, coffee was really messing with my gut (which originally was why I wanted to quit). Similarly with my energy, I feel like my gut is relaxed and can do what it needs to do, naturally. Coffee definitely kept me regular, but I've gotten used to going when my body needs to go.
Anyway, I hope this can help anyone else who wants to quit or cut back. Quitting was one of the best life decisions I've ever made, so I definitely recommend it. After a month or so I'll probably have a coffee every once in a blue moon, but in no way do I want to go back to having such a habit.
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Anybody here on any of the coffee forums as well?
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Usually 2-cups per day and occasionally a third in the mid afternoon and love our French Press.
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Still pretty new to the machine so I can't say for sure how long the cooling flush is on average. I have an E61 thermometer on it now that lets me flush to the same temp each time. The US distributor installs a thermosyphon restrictor on these particular machines so they don't idle as hot. It's supposed to cut down on the volume of the cooling flush quite a bit. If I wasn't using bottled water the length of the cooling flush wouldn't bother me at all. The cheapest double boiler machine that I would buy costs close to twice as much as this one. I drink milk based drinks so I need the ability to steam.
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Still pretty new to the machine so I can't say for sure how long the cooling flush is on average. I have an E61 thermometer on it now that lets me flush to the same temp each time. The US distributor installs a thermosyphon restrictor on these particular machines so they don't idle as hot. It's supposed to cut down on the volume of the cooling flush quite a bit. If I wasn't using bottled water the length of the cooling flush wouldn't bother me at all. The cheapest double boiler machine that I would buy costs close to twice as much as this one. I drink milk based drinks so I need the ability to steam.
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Moka here. Six "cups", ie one standard American coffee mug brewed with 19 gms beans and 14 gms decaf beans (espresso, French roast or similar). Timed grind. Careful pack. 13 minutes on the stove in a SS pot. Real coffee that an Italian would thank me for. (They have.)
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I replace the natural rubber gaskets that come with them with 1/8" food quality silicone rubber gasket material. (When I need a new supply, I call around industrial suppliers. A square foot of scrap that they usually hand me for free lasts me many years.)
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