Tom
I am a FH squatter
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I recently spend a week in Norway filming a bloke whose interests included making decent coffees. And boy did he have his craft in fine fettle. His lattes were things of beauty, drinks so divine I wanted to jump in and swim around in them. I've had a Francis Francis X1 coffee machine for a few years and it makes ok coffees, but I could never quite make the "god shots" that experienced baristas do.
Until today's purchase:
The machine in the centre is a Mahlkonig Vario, basically a good quality coffee grinder (the Francis Francis is on the right). It's bloody brilliant. It grinds beans into the consistency of flour (if you want it to), which means that unlike the freeze-dried crap I used to buy, I get a full-bodied espresso with a decent crema on top. The difference in taste is remarkable, the freeze-dried stuff was oooohh keeeyyy but comparing it to freshly-ground coffee from beans roasted only today, it's like the difference between powdered milk and the full fat unpasteurised stuff that's just come out of the cow.
Now all I have to do is fix the leaky steam wand and I should be away. Of course some of you will drink instant coffee, in which case you're ignorant fucking philistines
Until today's purchase:
The machine in the centre is a Mahlkonig Vario, basically a good quality coffee grinder (the Francis Francis is on the right). It's bloody brilliant. It grinds beans into the consistency of flour (if you want it to), which means that unlike the freeze-dried crap I used to buy, I get a full-bodied espresso with a decent crema on top. The difference in taste is remarkable, the freeze-dried stuff was oooohh keeeyyy but comparing it to freshly-ground coffee from beans roasted only today, it's like the difference between powdered milk and the full fat unpasteurised stuff that's just come out of the cow.
Now all I have to do is fix the leaky steam wand and I should be away. Of course some of you will drink instant coffee, in which case you're ignorant fucking philistines