Coffee - 30th April 2019 - Chester, NS
Fujifilm X-E2+35/1.4, f3.2, for 1/40th sec, ISO 800
Showing posts with label coffee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label coffee. Show all posts
Saturday, May 04, 2019
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Sunday, March 17, 2019
new photo #285
Lisa's tea - 15th March 2019 - Halifax, NS
iPhone 7 back camera, f1.8, for 1/439th sec ISO 20
Friday, January 18, 2019
new photo #244
interesting shapes - 16th January 2019 - Chester, NS
iPhone 7 back camera, f1.8, for 1/60th sec, ISO 25
Tuesday, September 18, 2018
new photo #211
coffee-run - 18th September 2018 - Halifax, NS
IPhone 5s back camera, f2.2, for 1/461th Sec, ISO 32
Monday, August 06, 2018
new photo #199
Beer-weather - 4th August, 2018 - Chester, NS
iPad mini 4 back camera, f2.4, for 1/60th Sec, ISO 25
Tuesday, July 10, 2018
new photo #184
First ‘cold-brew’ of the season - 8th July 2018 - Chester, NS
Fujifilm x100s, f2.8, for 1/100th Sec, ISO 3200
Friday, May 04, 2018
Thursday, March 30, 2017
speed recap #11
coffee-week concludes with a photo of one of the tastiest espressos that I have managed to pull from my admittedly-humble equipment...
...and a collage of the next attempt; which, while also quite nice, was not as good.
back to less coffee-related stuff tomorrow.
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
here's a link #11
www.home-barista.com/forums
all you could ever need to know about coffee making...
...and then way, way more.
all you could ever need to know about coffee making...
...and then way, way more.
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
here's a link #10
coffee-week continues with a link to the single biggest improvement you can make in your coffee preparations... keep it super-fresh and roast your own green-beans using an old popcorn popper...
roast your own
Not to say that every other step isn't important, but the biggest improvement in taste will come from freshly roasted, quality coffee.
A constant supply of high quality roasted coffee can be quite expensive, and since I live in a semi-rural area (quite a distance from any reputable roasters), it actually makes more sense to do it yourself.
It'll take some time to get 'right' (in fact you'll likely never match the taste of a commercial roaster without diving down the rabbit hole into professional roasting machinery), but for near enough to free, you really can't afford to not try
alternate method
"dog-bowl" method (when you're looking for advice on roasting your own coffee, you look for good advice, not good website design)
roast your own
Not to say that every other step isn't important, but the biggest improvement in taste will come from freshly roasted, quality coffee.
A constant supply of high quality roasted coffee can be quite expensive, and since I live in a semi-rural area (quite a distance from any reputable roasters), it actually makes more sense to do it yourself.
It'll take some time to get 'right' (in fact you'll likely never match the taste of a commercial roaster without diving down the rabbit hole into professional roasting machinery), but for near enough to free, you really can't afford to not try
alternate method
"dog-bowl" method (when you're looking for advice on roasting your own coffee, you look for good advice, not good website design)
Monday, March 27, 2017
here's a link #9
...coffee-week continues with the gadget that started me down the rabbit-hole.
aeropress
If you are in anyway interested in making a good cup of coffee, upgrading from a keurig, or just looking for a good travel kit - give this $30 gadget a try. Just make sure you remember that the 'most' important part of good coffee... is "good" (ie: freshly roasted) coffee!
aeropress
Sunday, March 26, 2017
here's a link #8
No matter which way you choose to brew, coffee will always taste better when extracted from more uniform particle sizes.
You get better consistency from a grinder with more precise tolerances.
Like this massive behemoth of overkill!
my grinder...
Double the size of any electrified grinder in the same price range. It takes a little time to grind (30-ish revolutions), but that's not really much slower than going through the procedure with an electric one... Oh, and it's still small enough to put away after making a coffee, so it doesn't steal a lot of counter space...
You get better consistency from a grinder with more precise tolerances.
Like this massive behemoth of overkill!
my grinder...
Double the size of any electrified grinder in the same price range. It takes a little time to grind (30-ish revolutions), but that's not really much slower than going through the procedure with an electric one... Oh, and it's still small enough to put away after making a coffee, so it doesn't steal a lot of counter space...
Saturday, March 25, 2017
here's a link #7
espresso on the cheap :)
Coffee-week continues, with the elusive espresso.
Ordinarily you would need to drop at least a couple of grand on a machine capable of producing the pressure to make a real espresso (and while those little pre-pressurised portafilters may make something that approximates espresso, this thing uses full-size 58mm group head parts to give you a better than coffee-shop taste, while at home, or on the road)
I have the espresso forge version 2.0 and it works amazingly well; but as is always the case, you need a very high quality grinder and meticulous portafilter prep (a well fitting tamper) to make it all work.
Coffee-week continues, with the elusive espresso.
Ordinarily you would need to drop at least a couple of grand on a machine capable of producing the pressure to make a real espresso (and while those little pre-pressurised portafilters may make something that approximates espresso, this thing uses full-size 58mm group head parts to give you a better than coffee-shop taste, while at home, or on the road)
I have the espresso forge version 2.0 and it works amazingly well; but as is always the case, you need a very high quality grinder and meticulous portafilter prep (a well fitting tamper) to make it all work.
Friday, March 24, 2017
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