coffee gadgets...

[Lil' Knight]

Originally Posted by david21

Vietnamese coffee press/filter is all I need I'm addicted to the Vietnamese ice coffee!

Cookware - Single Cup Vietnamese Coffee Maker

It's my most favorite drink.
Miss it so much when I came to the States

[david21]

Originally Posted by Lil' Knight

It's my most favorite drink.
Miss it so much when I came to the States

Why not buy one of those contraption and make viet iced coffee yourself?

All you need is the $4 contraption, french roast coffee, and condensed milk It's really simple to make

[kugino]

Originally Posted by blubliss

Wow, I just found this thread and am glad to find a hidden gem of knowledge about espresso in the Head-Fi community.

I just moved from the Rancilio duo to this:


La Spaziale Vivaldi II Single Group Dual Boiler

and this:


MACAP M4 Stepless Adjustment Espresso Grinder

and I have a Hottop Roaster.

We (me and the 10-15 guys who use the machine) are very happy with them. Our shots are consistently great now. It was a little more difficult with the Rancilio.

We get our green beans wholesale from Royal Coffee and it only costs about $2.75 a pound but you have to buy 130 lbs. That lasts us like 6 months. We just got an awesome Ethiopian bean.

Just thought I would say hi.

cool coffee gadgets! i've been doing less espresso these days and more drip/press coffee, but i appreciate a good machine when i see it.

you might want to look into the green coffee buying club, where you can get 10-20 lbs. at a time and try different origins rather than having to get a whole sack yourself...

[Lil' Knight]

Originally Posted by david21

Why not buy one of those contraption and make viet iced coffee yourself?

All you need is the $4 contraption, french roast coffee, and condensed milk It's really simple to make

I've just put an order on Trung Nguyen Online: Vietnamese Coffee and Tea.

When I was in VN, I always made a cup of iced, milk coffee everyday. Really really addicted to it. One point is that the cost to make a cup here is far more expensive than in VN

[blubliss]

Originally Posted by kugino

you might want to look into the green coffee buying club, where you can get 10-20 lbs. at a time and try different origins rather than having to get a whole sack yourself...

Yes, thank you very much. I saw that site in this thread and have already checked it out. I'm pretty sure I will be getting involved there. It's nice to have a variety.

[raymondlin]

I just got myself a Gaggia Classic



and have one of these on its way to me from Germany !

[raymondlin]

Check it out !!!!!

[raymondlin]

Here we are

The weird thing is that the tamper and the bumper costs as much as the grinder lol . It's not that big actually in real life, kinda cute actually. The buold quality is amazing, all the joints are as tight as it can be, no gaps, and the finish is really clean.

[kugino]

those are some nice toys, raymodlin. i love the zassenhaus grinders and am always on the lookout for a used one at garage sales...you never know

so my iroast2 is officially dead. the power base had a short somewhere and doesn't fire up...i contacted hearthware to see if they do repairs, but they only do sales. i can purchase just the base for $120 or a brand new unit for $145. i'm not sure what to do...i may try to fix the base myself, but that won't happen for another month because of work and travel...but i'm also thinking of getting a behmor instead. hmmm...

[yashicaman]

Kugino,

Got my wife a Technivorm KBT 741 for xmas a couple years ago She loves it as do I. Our previous pot was a Starbucks Utopia electric vacuum coffee maker. It was fun, but it eventually died on us. So I went out coffee maker hunting and did my research. The Technivorm KBT 741 is the best drip coffee maker that I've ever encountered.

Coffee beans by Peets usually. Caribou coffee beans sometimes. I'd like to get into roasting my own, but my wife refuses to indulge my fancy (something about chaff and smoke and fires and expense).

Got a good coffee pot and decent beans anyway.

Cheers!