A Good Cup of Coffee

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Heinzster Jan 2021 9:48pm, 26 Jan 2021 1,695 posts	0 Heinzster I got a De Longhi Authentica. It's amazing😊 This is the version without the attached milk jug, although it can froth milk if amyone wants it.
larkim Feb 2021 9:28am, 8 Feb 2021 13,436 posts	0 larkim Decided to do a full strip down and clean of the Haggis Classic yesterday. Got a little limescale to remove....
rhb Feb 2021 10:12am, 8 Feb 2021 1,617 posts	0 rhb A rare model from the time when production was briefly moved from Italy to Scotland?
larkim Feb 2021 10:19am, 8 Feb 2021 13,437 posts	0 larkim LOL, hadn't spotted that astonishingly good preductive text fail!!
larkim Feb 2021 10:40am, 8 Feb 2021 13,438 posts	0 larkim Now just the small matter of reassembling and deciding which bits need replacing...
Red Squirrel Feb 2021 3:14pm, 8 Feb 2021 21,720 posts	0 Red Squirrel I wondered about the Haggis too!
Dvorak Feb 2021 4:14pm, 8 Feb 2021 21,961 posts	0 Dvorak (Just typed it to check, I got haggis, or alternatively Haggis, for it ) Ground some beans today, for the first time in ages. Colombian, from Aldi. Treated brutally, some would consider, in the 46 year-old Moulinex grinder. Nice cup of coffee. Well, three cups, in the end.
larkim Feb 2021 4:18pm, 8 Feb 2021 13,460 posts	0 larkim Now spent £50 on spare parts. New brass showerhead, new basket, new showerscreen screw, several new o-rings and seals (I'm bound to tear one!). My problem that I'm looking to solve is that from time to time the water only flows through the wand at any speed, it just trickles through the grouphead, so I suspect I'm getting flakes of limescale in one of the valves. Quite good fun disassembling (I don't think I've broken anything just yet!); my better half is bemused that I spend any time at all doing things like this as she just drinks tea which requires zero "faff" in her terms.
RichHL Feb 2021 6:18pm, 8 Feb 2021 15,348 posts	0 RichHL Tea is for amateurs, larkim, unless it's Japanese and they're doing a decent ceremony for it.
Red Squirrel Feb 2021 10:14am, 9 Feb 2021 21,721 posts	0 Red Squirrel Larkim, I take my hat off to you. Today's cuppa joe: Bean: Finca Bosque Lya from El Salvador; dark roast Method: Aeropress Milk?: Warmed Oatly barista Sweetener: None Result: Cortado-style. A smooth bitterness (I know that sounds like a paradox - I think the milk smoothed it out.) When I started this thread I used agave nectar or coconut sugar. Now I use no sweetener in coffee (or tea).