- Joined
- Sep 15, 2016
- Messages
- 27,428
- Reputation
- 20,496
- Reaction score
- 111,579
- Points
- 0
- Currently Smoking
- Dabs of Rosin.
Good Morfnoevight all You fine Monday stoners.
My love affair with coffee............ For many years I could not consume caffeine at all. I had a heart condition (Tachycardia) that was triggered by it. I had the condition corrected with surgery. Yet after many years of not drinking coffee I was afraid to try it. Then one day on the web I read about roasting coffee in a popcorn popper and how good home roasted coffee is. I gave it a whirl - Ground wrong and all that first cup of coffee was incredible. I had no idea coffee could taste like that. I cannot tolerate more than one strong cup of coffee's caffeine so I only get one double shot espresso a day. Espresso has less caffeine than brewed coffee when pressed properly.
If I can only have one double shot - it has to be a good one. Most coffee is best the 3rd - 8th day after roasting. I buy green beans grown all over the world. The luxury of a King and I just take it for granted! I roast them mostly by timing the changing sounds and the smells. I like most roasted to fullcity through fullcity+, rarely Vienna, never darker for me. The most important tool for good coffee extraction is the grinder. Then the Espresso machine needs to be up to the task.
I don't remember who asked but here are some pictures of the pressing:
I love that thing! Good coffee was the only thing missing from my day and I’ll never go back especially since I’ve started buying the fresh roasted coffee tooalthough you’re right MoG is big league compared to my amateur coffee skills
My love affair with coffee............ For many years I could not consume caffeine at all. I had a heart condition (Tachycardia) that was triggered by it. I had the condition corrected with surgery. Yet after many years of not drinking coffee I was afraid to try it. Then one day on the web I read about roasting coffee in a popcorn popper and how good home roasted coffee is. I gave it a whirl - Ground wrong and all that first cup of coffee was incredible. I had no idea coffee could taste like that. I cannot tolerate more than one strong cup of coffee's caffeine so I only get one double shot espresso a day. Espresso has less caffeine than brewed coffee when pressed properly.
If I can only have one double shot - it has to be a good one. Most coffee is best the 3rd - 8th day after roasting. I buy green beans grown all over the world. The luxury of a King and I just take it for granted! I roast them mostly by timing the changing sounds and the smells. I like most roasted to fullcity through fullcity+, rarely Vienna, never darker for me. The most important tool for good coffee extraction is the grinder. Then the Espresso machine needs to be up to the task.
I don't remember who asked but here are some pictures of the pressing: