Going to attempt slurry chips
Going to attempt slurry chips
Running out of the free tub of coffee I was given when departing the office for home working back in March. It's a big tub of Douwe Egberts Gold, I went off coffee but am back on it with gusto now. Any recommendations of the best instant coffee about? Or is cafetiere the way forward? Minimal fannying about preferable.
We've one of those Tassimo machines now, but my Mrs used to swear by either these or Azera.
We have a tassimo machine too and I am doing a costco trip soon but they do irritate me a bit with the amount of waste that isn't easily recyclable. Might investigate coffee bags, the science seems sound but the first time I encountered them some absolute fuckwit colleague was using them so I took a dislike to them by proxy.
I don't drink coffee, but the bags always smelt amazing whilst they were brewing. If a coffee brews? I don't know the wanky language.
Spikey's missus () knows, Azera is what you want. Or, if you want to reach advanced level consumerism, Lidl's own-brand version which comes in an identical tin.
I've recently been drinking these, after initially turning my nose up at them when they came in the shopping:
Game changer.
I'm a twit
I have sadly left the instant coffee world and gone to a better/poncier place now, but my favourite one used to be Sainsbury's own brand.
I tried the Taylor's coffee bags recently and it wasn't that great to be honest. Azera instant was much better.
I’ve never understood the point of instant coffee. Making a cup of coffee is hardly an effort and the difference in taste is massive. Could be a cultural thing as I’ve never gotten used to it nor actually seen anyone drink it before living in England for a bit.
I think (though I could be wrong) that it is a cultural thing - coffee here is traditionally just an alternative to tea, which is something you drink all day while doing other things and would take 5 minutes to make. In the European cultures I am familiar with, coffee is more of a special thing that you would stop your day and take 10-20 minutes for, and they don't have tea.
Obviously in our more cosmopolitan / metropolitan areas, there is European style coffee in abundance.
It's not just a drug, it's a cultural phenomena.
Speaking as a coffee ponce, those Azera latte things are great
My only experience of coffee these days are in hotels. And I say 'these days' in a fairly distant sense.
There's loads of wanky coffeeshops around if that's what you want.
Now I'm looking at aeropresses but not sure the difference will be tangible.
I seem to remember Pen going to London, where every other building is a wanky coffee shop with a wanky Barista with a wanky moustache selling Fair-trade, Rainforest Alliance approved, Colombian roast for £8.50 a cup.
It makes a great cup of coffee but can be a bit more of a faff than I can deal with on a weekday morning.
I recently bought a coffee machine (the Breville Bambino Plus, as recommended here: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...-coffee-maker/) and it's been awesome.
Just buy a coffee filter ffs. I Can’t imagine anything less wanky
In Britain it's a thoroughly middle class, lah-di-da item. I can only apologise.
Sounds right up your alley
I have a miniature one that only holds enough coffee to serve one person, which is very much a metaphor for my life.
I'm going to assume you mean you have a tiny penis.
If by assume you mean 'consume the joke as intended' then yes, you've had a solid Tuesday morning over there in Essex.
I'm going to assume you mean I'm stupid.
There was a guy I used to play cricket with who had a penis that was so small you basically couldn't see it. It was just a sort of tiny bean of a thing, sitting there above his normal-sized balls, and it barely protruded at all. I have since doubted the parentage of his daughter, as there's no way you could do anything with that, vagina-wise, it just wouldn't go far enough in.
When I saw it I thought of your bonce.
Heard it's banging but yeah, the faff is not worth it.
I've also got one of these bad boys now as well:
I'm actually looking into buying something to distill water to complete the wanky coffee experience as London water is crap and I spend money on buying water to stop the machine scaling up within a week.
That is more or less the machine I have and it's a stonker. Might try some different beans in it, Taylor's are fine but I bet there's better out there.
He may just be 'a grower'.
There was a weird old man at my gym a while back, he was the type you get that walk around for unnecessary lengths of time wearing just t-shirts and socks. Anyway, one of his mates said "Is it cold in 'ere or sumfink Roy!?" And he responded by proudly standing hands on hips, micro-cock on full display, with 'from tiny acorns, mighty oaks do grow'.
Good Times.
Try Union. It’s stocked in Sainsbury’s, or you can order from them directly. Plenty of variety if you’re looking to try new things.
Don’t buy supermarket beans if you’ve got a good quality machine like that. They’ve probably been sitting around for months since they were roasted.
Yeah I’ve got this too. Had it for 3 years and it’s absolutely excellent. I’m pretty lazy with the coffee beans since I’m always home now though.
Just a pack of these every month.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000FWHW..._MY8JFb2QMFKV9
Can you put the beans directly into that? You put the beans into the top of my one but that's probably blasphemy. As are my beans being darker than Magics soul.
I'm going to order a pack of that lavazza cheers.
@Giggles - yep. Put them in, the machine will do the rest.
Is it not dead noisy?
I'm a twit
Not really, it grinds for 20 seconds, then makes the coffee for 20 seconds.
I doubt he takes it to the Library.
I ordered some deathly black Javan beans last night that claim to be 'extra strong', if I'm still the man I used to be after a couple of cups I will demand a refund.
Yeah, you can’t argue with the price tbf and it’s a decent cup of coffee. Maybe 3-4 cups of coffee per day and the bag lasts just about a month I’d say. I have it on a monthly subscribe and save and it’s just about right.
I do like to pick up a different bag if I’m in Glasgow and passing a shop but this is a really good regular one.
Lavazza is brilliant. Good work all around, ragazzi.
Getting back to food (fuck coffee), I did the bicarb soda roasties today and they were excellent.
First chocolate apple of the season tonight, magic
Is it not meant to be a toffee apple?
You can usually pick a Terry's Chocolate Orange up for a quid these days, so making your own tramp versions seems like one of those things that should have gone out with coal fires.