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Post by BurlyBeaR on Nov 26, 2019 23:20:15 GMT
But I digress. Our machine is a bit moody. I have it programmed to make a larger cup (still not quite big enough if truth be told) and it often 'forgets' to put the extra water in and I find myself rushing across the kitchen to press the button again, before it clicks off. So we decided to upgrade before it completely gives out. Im deeply suspicious of that virtuo thing. I have a very old magimix machine. Its great but has never made my preferred longer coffee (no I’m not going to use the term “lungo”) hot enough. There’s a simple answer to this. A kettle. Two pods (for the first one of the day when ones hand is still shaking) a medium sized cup (with saucer, I do not entertain mugs), topped up with fresh boiling water. Then a big heaped teaspoon of Coffeemate. Yes, you heard right. Coffeemate. I just bought a squeezy tube of condensed milk which I plan to experiment with in coffee. I think it’s going to be good. I was on the Eurostar over to Paris the other week and this fabulously chic Japanese woman sat opposite me. She had a coffee and, get this, asked for a foil wrapped pat of butter which she unwrapped and dropped into the coffee. My eyes were out on stalks. I googled it later ( good luck getting a Wi-fi signal on the Eurostar) and it’s an actual thing. “Bulletproof Coffee”. |
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Coffee
Nov 27, 2019 23:12:12 GMT
Post by Phantom of London on Nov 27, 2019 23:12:12 GMT
I would say making your own coffee at home with all these fandango machines with bells and whistles is going to be cheaper than a shop bought coffee. But the coffee from a shop is far superior than home brew, for no other reasons their beans are fresher and the machines have better pressure to froth milk.
Even though shop bought coffee is seen to be a luxury by most. However you can keep the cost down, for example in my preferred coffee outlet (others are available) Caffè Nero, if you collect the stamps you get one stamp for every coffee you buy, take your own cup and you get an extra stamp, pay with their app and you get a plethora of free stamps to entice you to use the app and every time you make a purchase to the app for the holidays - you get a Christmas Cracker that may contain an awful joke to bonus stamps between 1 and 9 stamps, this doesn’t seem to be random and is controlled by an algorithm to peg you back to an average of 1-2 stamps per purchase. But the first 2 crackers I pulledI got 2 free coffees, then the next couple a pair of rotten jokes and then bonus stamps for the couple being 1 stamp, then 3 stamps, then a couple more terrible jokes and so on.
So that luxury cappuccino still maybe a luxury but instead of paying £3.05 with all the stamps you pay about £2.
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Coffee
Nov 28, 2019 14:06:32 GMT
Post by anita on Nov 28, 2019 14:06:32 GMT
Instant coffee made with a kettle - fine by me.
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