A Good Cup of Coffee

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Dvorak Oct 2024 9:40pm, 26 Oct 2024 28,205 posts	0 Dvorak Lidl has some Turkish-style ground coffee with cardamom in at the moment. Or, big bags of cardamoms if you want to prepare your own
Red Squirrel Oct 2024 10:03pm, 26 Oct 2024 24,595 posts	0 Red Squirrel I love cardamom. I make my own chai with plenty of the green pods.
Derby Tup Oct 2024 10:06pm, 26 Oct 2024 68,582 posts	0 Derby Tup I love cardamom too. My coffee in a restaurant in Hebden Bridge was as good as it loooked
Red Squirrel Oct 2024 9:20am, 27 Oct 2024 24,596 posts	0 Red Squirrel @Derby Tup Hebden Bridge is somewhere I fancy visiting, so I might do an overnight train stop on the way south sometime. Would you recommend it, Tup?
Derby Tup Oct 2024 9:25am, 27 Oct 2024 68,594 posts	0 Derby Tup Hebden Bridge is a great place. We’re twenty mins away but go there regularly
Red Squirrel Oct 2024 9:29am, 27 Oct 2024 24,599 posts	0 Red Squirrel Great - will go early next year and try to tie it in with a Parkrun if there is one.
Derby Tup Oct 2024 3:37pm, 27 Oct 2024 68,595 posts	0 Derby Tup There’s a Parkrun in Todmorden a few miles up the valley
Groundhog Oct 2024 5:20pm, 27 Oct 2024 6,568 posts	0 Groundhog Up until recently I made all my homebrew coffee by aeropress, but I spotted a second hand basic espresso machine in a charity shop and bought it. Now I'm trying to get my head around how much coffee to water to use. Any tips and do you go by scoop and weighing to the gram?
jacdaw Oct 2024 5:25pm, 27 Oct 2024 4,637 posts	0 jacdaw I use 18g for a 40g double shot. But I trust my grinder to give me the right amount of coffee, rather than weighing every time, and I have a "standard" cup I brew into, so I don't need to weigh that either.
jacdaw Oct 2024 5:26pm, 27 Oct 2024 4,638 posts	0 jacdaw I aim for a grind that gives me that yield in 30 seconds, or thereabouts.