/ck/ - Food & Cooking

First for the Aeropress, the best coffee making device of all time.

>>16670567
False. The express-o is far superior to your frisbee coffee contraption. Get wrecked.

>>16670567
people really use a plastic device with nearly boiling water to make coffee?

Been making cold brew recently. I recommend it a lot. I did 80g coffee 6 cups of water. Put it in a big container covered in my fridge for 24 hrs. Then strained through sieve and cheesecloth.

I want to recommend this method because it’s so low tech and delicious. I think you could use coffee filters instead of cheesecloth. Or honestly just a sieve if you don’t mind it being a tiny bit gritty

I recommend

Any tips on making my Moka pot not taste bad? I’m cleaning it well, not packing the grounds in, pouring in boiling water into the bottom before the stove, using good beans and water, etc. It still tastes bitter: what do i do?

>>16670705
Lech! Cold brew shills again? Aren't you aware that letting coffee sit out like that oxidizes it and completely ruins what all true coffee aficionados love about actual good coffee and brewing methods? Come back after trying at least 50 different types of coffees and please make sure at least a handful are single tree expressions. God all these coffee plebs are so stupid. Why not spend some time actually developing your palette and maybe you could get where I am? I can tell you the altitude a bean was grown at withing 100 meters and easily tell you what country it was grown in! It's not hard just don't ruin the coffee by cold brewing it!

>>16670727
>angrysoyjack547.png

this is the junk grinder from before. anyone know if this has to be calibrated or something? I screw it down but it doesn’t seem to go all the way, the burrs are almost but not quite touching. i can’t turn this thing on until the adapter arrives tomorrow. i spent a while cleaning oil and dried coffee out of the threads.

>>16670769
There are highly autistic ways to "calibrate" the burr alignment, but it will be fine without.

Finally got a french press after living on instant during lockdowns.
Used some preground coffee and it ended up tasting okay but a bit grassy.
Going to try some other local coffer roasters and different amounts/brewing times, because I really don't want to deal with a grinder.

>>16670716
>using good beans
Try grinding them a bit coarser.
Use medium to medium-high heat on the smallest stove and turn it off before the sizzling.

French Press is the best coffee.

>>16670796
Find a grocery store with grinder dispensers. Set it as coarse as possible.

>>16670811
Don't do that. You will regret your decision.

>>16670820
Why?

>>16670830
It's too coarse. Medium grind is better for french press.

>>16670802
>Try grinding them a bit coarser.
I only have cheap beans at the moment and only an expresso machine. can I coasely grind for expresso?

>>16670846
Is it burnt tasting or sour? Burnt means over extraction(coarser grind), sour means under extraction(finer grind)

>>16670846
Well, my advice was specifically about moka pot. Don't own an expresso machine, so don't know

>>16670776
should i consider using oil if it doesn't screw down all the way?

>>16670911
The burrs should never be touching. For espresso they would be close-ish to touching, but never grinding against each other.

>>16670727
good coffee has a nice natural "flavorful foam" that forms when its fresh and not under(or more often OVER HEATED/BURNED)
that heating plate adjustment knob on your coffee mate? put it at the middle setting and brew a newly opened container of coffee, regular(STRONG setting just burns it/boils off extra water) if you want stronger coffee, add more grounds instead

>>16670956
Absolutely pathetic know nothing coffee noob. I use a fully manual handmade italian lever press espresso machine and a german engineered grinder. Strong setting? Lmfao. Pathetic. You're driving an automatic toyota prius and I'm driving a fully manual ferrari. Coffee turns out as you'd expect. Fucking delicious and better than yours. Open a new tin? I get my coffee hand delivered by the farmers on a weekly basis. I bet my coffee is fresher than yours, actually I know it is.

As for that nice foam? Let me bestow some knowledge onto your tiny brain. That's called créma and you only get real créma from espresso using the freshest beans and only the best of technique. Maybe one day you'll get there.

My moka pot isn't spitting out any coffee and when I took it off to check almost all the water had gone.
the FUCK

>>16670969
wow, getting some use out of your reddit tier pictures there, of COURSE that setup is better than a MR. Coffee, but I'd rather have the common coffee drinker at least use what they have correctly versus having to spend hundreds to thousands for a espresso machine, expensive grinder, and hand delivered by farmers coffee(only really possible in hydroponics around here, if you are in coffee country; YOU LUCKY FUCKING CAT!)

Ice cubes in highball glass
Put under espresso machine
Top up with milk
wala

>>16670941
gotcha. they look pretty close when it's screwed down but i have no idea if it's enough to grind finely. I'll see how it comes out when I get a chance to fire it up

>>16671004
Do you plan on making espresso? You only really need to worry about a very fine grind for espresso.

>>16670987
Haha I was just shit posting. I find coffee snobbery to be hilarious, so I indulge sometimes in the (slim) hope of creating a copypasta. I have a nice machine and grinder, but no hand deliveries, unfortunately.

>>16671013
have ya heard if growing your own coffee indoors is worth it? would love being able to grow my own coffee, use a air-popcorn popper or drying racks in a window greenhouse to make the coffee myself.
Or is the yield of a dozen coffee plants too little for more than a cup of coffee.

>>16671013
yeah it’s for espresso, i have an entry level machine with a pressurized basket i’ll consider upgrading later. it’s an espresso grinder, bought it as a junk item on auction

>>16671013
Look. I know im responding to a mongoloid, i know. But i have to tell you. You dont know anything about coffee. Read all the faggot books you want. Go to coffee fest and turn your nose up to the italians and masturbate over synesso. Go pay thousands of dollars to be a q gradee and look at coffee under a uv light. Go for it. I dont even care. Just remember kid, i was stripping trucks of supremos while you were in fucking poopy pants diapers. I remeber when Choc full of Nuts delivered coffee in a fucking rolls royce. Your playing yourself, kid.

I have over 100 specialy offerings from 97 different countries of origin in contianer quanities AT ALL TIMES. Wow you say mr. Coffee broker bean KANG you just doxed yourself on the internet, but i dont care. Fuck you. Ive been doing this so long i was playing golf with the nca guys before it blew up ive been a member and disbarred by the scaa more times then your punk ass has even been on there mailing list. Ive FUCKED my way through more coffee roasters secrateries than you even have in your rolodex. I have a warehouse filled with over $1,000,000 of espresso equipment laying DEFUNCT.

People like you, kid, people like your are marks, customers, losers. Go ahead, drink your shitty overextracted coffee; freeze your green coffee; hook up pid machines to your little home.use espresso machines, buy a 1 bag Lorring. But to me kid, youll always be a loser and a faggot

Reminder: one who owns/uses a Bripe is still unionically much less of a faggot than anyone who has an aeropress, as well as anyone who calls their pourover a “vee sixtee”.

>>16671632
I hate people who refer to their ziplock branded plastic sandwich bags as ziplocks too. Please use their proper name, which is resealable plastic sandwich bags.

>>16671026
Coffee plants really need very specific climates to grow good coffee. It's very very difficult to replicate that let alone grow the trees outside of their natural habitat.

I actually have a couple coffee tree saplings and the little guys grew maybe 1 inch last year.

>>16671042
Yeah you'll be fine. Pressurized basket machines have a fair bit of leeway when it comes to grind size.

>>16671650
How about rps bags?

>>16671632
>much less of a faggot
Imagine fucking arguing over this like "oh, I'm not AS gay as you" while you fully acknowledge you are in fact still a faggot.

>>16671923
Abbreviations are a slight to Yahweh.

>>16671928
In a world of turbofaggots, the regular faggot is the straight guy.

>>16671632
Did it come all scratched up like that or are you incapable of taking care of your possessions?

>>16672006
Soft rolled copper gonna soft rolled copper, anon. It came that way.

>>16672050
Rip. As the saying goes, can't polish a turd.

>>16672460
Try using some actual premium turd polish instead of whatever dollar store shit you’ve tried to use on your turds, poorfag.

>>16670696
>people really use a plastic device with nearly boiling water to make coffee?
I don't get this either. Even their coffee messiah advocates for it, hell, he advocates for plastic V60s for some retarded reason.

I keep very little plastic shit in my kitchen at all, and none of it is for anything beyond room temp.

>>16670716
Make sure the stove is hot before you put the pot on, try heating the water chamber with hot tap water first too so it doesn't cool down the boiling water you pour in. Otherwise check your grind size; if it's sour then it's too it needs to be ground finer, if it's too burnt then it needs to be ground coarser (to clarify what >>16670859 said).

Grind should be between table salt and white sugar.

Or just try different beans, different roasts. Generally though darker is better for moka pot.

>>16670796
See above about grind and taste. FP needs to be medium-coarse, similar to sea salt I would say.

>>16670807
This is fact. Immersion coffee is best coffee.

>>16672596
My lighter costs more than your whole bripe setup.

>>16671923
yeah anything fresh ground will be an improvement for my espresso, especially since my standards for a good shot aren’t that high. i’m not sure if my delonghi ecp3220 would even pull anything good with an unpressurized basket

>>16672881
>bripe setup
It’s literally what comes with a bripe. Not sure I’d call it a setup as if I’m some pretentious faggot who assembled individual pieces based on what YouTube told him.

>>16670696
safe and effective

>>16670727
Look. I know im responding to a mongoloid, i know. But i have to tell you. You dont know anything about coffee. Read all the faggot books you want. Go to coffee fest and turn your nose up to the italians and masturbate over synesso. Go pay thousands of dollars to be a q gradee and look at coffee under a uv light. Go for it. I dont even care. Just remember kid, i was stripping trucks of supremos while you were in fucking poopy pants diapers. I remeber when Choc full of Nuts delivered coffee in a fucking rolls royce. Your playing yourself, kid.

I have over 100 specialy offerings from 97 different countries of origin in contianer quanities AT ALL TIMES. Wow you say mr. Coffee broker bean KANG you just doxed yourself on the internet, but i dont care. Fuck you. Ive been doing this so long i was playing golf with the nca guys before it blew up ive been a member and disbarred by the scaa more times then your punk ass has even been on there mailing list. Ive FUCKED my way through more coffee roasters secrateries than you even have in your rolodex. I have a warehouse filled with over $1,000,000 of espresso equipment laying DEFUNCT.

People like you, kid, people like your are marks, customers, losers. Go ahead, drink your shitty overextracted coffee; freeze your green coffee; hook up pid machines to your little home.use espresso machines, buy a 1 bag Lorring. But to me kid, youll always be a loser and a faggot

>>16674355
How blasé.

>>16672691
>See above about grind and taste. FP needs to be medium-coarse, similar to sea salt I would say.
My issue was that I just wasn't using enough.
Tried again today with 2 tbsp instead of 1 heaped tbsp and it was better.
Loving the french press, it's all steel and glass with no plastic.

>>16674735
Use a scale for water and coffee. Best and most consistent way to do things.

What's the latest time you think you should have coffee?

>>16675371
for me it’s 12pm

>>16675371
Linear time is a social construct. Coffee is for when you feel like having it. There are no rules but those which you impose on yourself, or allow consensus reality to impose upon you. Be free.

>>16675371
One before zzzz

>>16674892
Also a thermometer whenever you can.

>>16672691
>plastic V60s for some retarded reason
Plastic V60s heat up quickly and hold hotter temps than other materials. I can understand not wanting to heat plastic though. Can't wait to get a siphon and leave plastic and paper filters behind.

how do you guys keep your beans?
in my case, as soon as I open a fresh bag, I empty it into a glass jar and store it in a cool dark pantry
but a lot of places say that you should store it in the fridge, though I'm afraid the moisture could fuck the beans up

anyone know how this should be installed? only one wire is labeled Z, i screwed the other two in randomly and both combinations didn’t work for powering my grinder.

>>16676025
Maybe one of the wires is ground/earth.

>>16676025
/diy/ is full of electricians.

>>16675913
you are correct.
Airtight container in a cool, dark, dry place is optimal. No need to keep them in the fridge.
If you're not going to be using the beans for a long period of time its OK to bulk freeze them.

>>16676025
Green with a stype is ground, so stick in the side with the ground symbol. thats the pyramid of lines looking thing.
White is neutral, and black here is hot.
IDK where they should go on the grinder, but hopefully this helps.

>>16674735
Yeah dunno why nobody mentioned that. Play with the ratios as well, there is no golden rule for anything. I would increase the amount of coffee you are using until you don't like it then scale back. I personally prefer mine very strong, part of the reason I like French Press in the first place.

>>16675865
I am very anti-plastic for just about anything. Especially if it's heated up. I know they say things like the V60 is going to be food safe and fine to heat up to those temps but they also say the crap they put in stuff they sell on the shelves is safe and we know it isn't, not over long term.

I know it's a different type of plastic (there is a lot) but they know K cups are shit for you but they are still used anyway.

>Try a sip of apple macchiato that my gf got from Starbucks
>The most horrid shit I've ever tasted
How do people down that stuff?

>>16676400
deep denial, most of them never snap out of it.

>>16676400
sometimes I'm out of the good coffee and I just buy whatever bean I can find on the store, first cups taste like ass but then you get used to it
until you drink a cup of decent coffee and realize what you were missing

>>16676198
Keurigs likely don't get hot enough to leech anything harmful out of the plastic. Their environmental impact is fucked though.

>>16670035
lol

>>16675371
I used to not touch it after midnight because my sleep would be hell, but then I got a good mattress and now I can drink it whenever. Thank God I'm single.

>>16676025
You've tested continuity first? Not trying to be patronizing or anything, just checking.

>>16676400
Some Starbucks drinks are passable, some are good, some are duds. The one you drank is widely considered to be bad.

>>16675371
11:59pm

Any bean recommendations?

>>16677254
https://www.brandywinecoffeeroasters.com/products/colombia-monteblanco-purple-caturra-pineapple-washed

Any way to minimize particulates in the Moka? My coffee tastes just right in a certain grind range, but no matter which grind size I choose (I've literally tried every setting on my gringer, even the ones that taste like shit), I always get particulates at the bottom. Is this just considered normal for Moka? Like, there's enough particulates that I don't want to drink the last sip. Shitty/uneven grinder perhaps?

>>16677355
>Shitty/uneven grinder perhaps?

Yep. Run your grounds over a paper towel to pick up the superfines and if that works think about a new grinder/kruve sifter.

>>16675913
Cool dark place. Only need fridge/freezer if you plan to not use it for a long while.

>>16677254
Depends what you like but I'm partial to the fruitiness of south-east asian beans.

>>16676836
no I have no idea what I’m doing, I looked it up but I don’t have any tools to test continuity.

Muffin with your cawfee, sugar?

>>16678298
yes

>>16674355

lmao this is the navy seal "what the fuck did you just say to me" of coffee posting

how the fuck do i make a decent iced latte at the house?

>>16678710
Look. I know im responding to a mongoloid, i know. But i have to tell you. You dont know anything about tea. Read all the faggot books you want. Go to tea fest and turn your nose up to the indians and masturbate over Royal Tea. Go pay thousands of dollars to some chink to grade and look at tea under a uv light. Go for it. I dont even care. Just remember kid, i was unloading barrels of keemun while you were in fucking poopy pants diapers. I remeber when East India Trading still sold English breakfast in a square pine box.. Your playing yourself, kid.

I have over 100 specialy offerings from 97 different mountain ranges in contianer quanities AT ALL TIMES. Wow you say mr. tea broker leaf KANG you just doxed yourself on the internet, but i dont care. Fuck you. Ive been doing this so long i was playing golf with the tea guys before it blew up ive been a member and disbarred by the tea association of the use more times then your punk ass has even been on there mailing list. Ive FUCKED my way through more secrateries than you even have in your rolodex. I have a warehouse filled with over $1,000,000 of filters and tea brewing equipment laying DEFUNCT.

People like you, kid, people like your are marks, customers, losers. Go ahead, drink your shitty lung ching; panfire your own lapsang souchong; buy a new yixing for each new puehr. But to me kid, youll always be a loser and a faggot

>>16676836
I've managed to shock my self a little bit so I can confirm there's some electricity going on. an anon on diy informed me that I need 3 phase power

>>16678869
Do you have access to the motor or is there an info plate on the unit? It should say something like Phase:3 or p3 or something like that on there if it is 3 phase.

can you make good coffee with a drip? i've been using a french press with fresh ground coffee and an electric kettle that you can heat to 200 degrees. it's annoying to clean it out every morning. but it tastes really good. so can i get french press quality coffee with a drip?

>>16678896
Look into immersion drippers like the hario switch and clever dripper. Steep as long as you'd like.

>>16678298
>>16678807
Realise that it is a milkshake with coffee flavor

>>16678893
it says 三相 which means 3 phase in japanese, but weirdly it says 三相:10分定格 which i think means 3 phase rated for 10 minutes, whatever that could mean

>>16678955
Is that on the motor? There is a possibility that there may be a wiring diagram that allows you to run single phase. If not you'll definitely need a phase converter.

The 10 minutes thing may just be how long you can run before overheating the motor.

>>16678298
only lemon poppyseed scones for me

>>16678973
>>16678955
Wait no. I'm dumb you will need a phase converter 100%

>>16679005
oh well. guess i gotta find a way to get rid of this thing now.

>>16679063
Do you have diy skills? You could always attempt a motor conversion. DC motors have good power for their size and you can control the RPM pretty easily.

>>16678232
Try looking up some documentation for that part. You can often find maintenance /repair instructions online, or at least the data sheet for that motor.

Stay safe anon, mains power can really fuck you up and saving some cash by diy is not worth your life. If you aren't confident maybe get some help from a friend irl who knows what they are doing or just pay for the replacement or repair

>>16678298
>>16678989
That can be arranged

Congolese beans are overrated.

>>16680433
Got some shitty beans? Describe them.

>>16678204
Coffee & Toasted sandwich is yum

How on earth do you get the foam on top when making turkish coffee? I can't seem to ever get it.

>>16671632
holy shit that pic is gay haha

>>16680733
scoop up the bubbles when its brewing and put them in the cup. and dont stir after u pour slowly

>>16680750
I never get bubbles.
I get small black tar looking bubbles at the sides which I assume is the sugar rising with some coffee sludge.

>>16680589
I've been doing an everything bagel with melted brie ghost/scorpion/reaper salt. Incredibly based brekkie.

>>16680733
improper grind
turkish is extra fine