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pdxleaf
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This is my setup, minus the bean grinder.

Most machines are about getting the water to the right temperature. The more expensive machines get it there and keep it at the right temperature to not burn the beans or let them cool too much, right?

After buying expensive machines that break down every couple of years, I found this at a local coffee shop. It takes about the same amount of time but won't break down and is less than ten bucks, (not including the hot water machine that also works for tea.)

Heat the water to 200 degrees, grind the beans while it's heating and add the paper filter. Wet the filter, add the beans, then start pouring the water. The perfect cup.
 
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pdxleaf pdxleaf
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This is my setup, minus the bean grinder.

Most machines are about getting the water to the right temperature. The more expensive machines get it there and keep it at the right temperature to not burn the beans or let them cool too much, right?

After buying expensive machines that break down every couple of years, I found this at a local coffee shop. It takes about the same amount of time but won't break down and is less than ten bucks, (not including the hot water machine that also works for tea.)

Heat the water to 200 degrees, grind the beans while it's heating and add the paper filter. Wet the filter, add the beans, then start pouring the water. The perfect cup.
I have the one cup drip- it really does make an excellent cup.
 
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SkunkPrince SkunkPrince
I just bought a vintage West Bend percolator on eBay. Wish me luck!
Perk is capable of delicious coffee- there is a whole cult that swear by it. Lots to read in making the perfect cup with vintage perks (both electric and stove top). Grinding fairly course is about all I remember.
 
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pdxleaf pdxleaf
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This is my setup, minus the bean grinder.

Most machines are about getting the water to the right temperature. The more expensive machines get it there and keep it at the right temperature to not burn the beans or let them cool too much, right?

After buying expensive machines that break down every couple of years, I found this at a local coffee shop. It takes about the same amount of time but won't break down and is less than ten bucks, (not including the hot water machine that also works for tea.)

Heat the water to 200 degrees, grind the beans while it's heating and add the paper filter. Wet the filter, add the beans, then start pouring the water. The perfect cup.
That kind of setup is about as good as brewing gets, in my opinion.
 
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I'd love to go down the rabbit hole of an espresso machine... I start with good intentions to do something affordable like a Gaggia classic or even a Rancilio Sylvia...then I think for a little more I could get this or that feature... then... I could have a double boiler, and the next thing you know I'm looking at thousands... (Mini Vivaldi with custom wood panel sides)

Realistically if I go for a machine, I might try to do a lever, those copper Elektras would look very nice on the counter.

Right now I take my pour-over seriously. I grind beans in a conical burrr grinder every morning and use a Chemex. Everything gets weighed for consistency. Makes a great cup of coffee.
That sounds great, I started with a gaggia classic 15 years ago (great little machine), soon after I got that I realised I needed a grinder, so got an ascaso. In October last year I moved into a new house and as the gaggia was on its last legs and as a treat I moved up a gear to the bezzera, but stopped short of the dual boiler, PID flow control, etc. So far so good, I also weigh in and out so consistency is excellent and as I only pull 4 to 6 shots a day I think I'll get 15 years out of this set up as well. I do love the look of the lever machines too, maybe one day😀,
 
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One of my hobbies is rebuilding vintage Olympia espresso machines--Cremina, Maximatic, Coffex. These things were built like tanks, and will run forever with some new gaskets and the occasional pump/solenoid/pressurestat. I recently scored the find of a lifetime: a new-old-stock Pasquini Livietta from 1984. Original box, styrofoam, instructions, coffee scoop, etc. The Liviettas were rebranded Maximatics, so all the parts are interchangeable--but no parts were needed on this machine. I rinsed out the boiler, started it up, and made a very nice latte. There will be many more...

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Sweet, that's an interesting hobby you have, I have never heard of any of those, "Pasquini Livietta" the name just sounds right for an Italian inspired espresso machine, enjoy
 
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My parents both drank freeze dried instant coffee back in the 1970s, and having tasted that, I was turned off to coffee until I tried real espresso as an adult. Started with a little $200 Saeco Poemia espresso machine to save on the trips to Starbucks. When it bit the dust after 4 years, I decided to move up to the advanced beginner level, and just got this Solis Perfetta and a burr grinder. A little more work, but the taste has been worth it.

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Nice set up. It was a choice between the baratza and eureka for me, down to noise levels in the end, Mrs BAJJ doesn't appreciate the sound of a coffee grinder first thing in the morning😗
 
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Tako Yaki Tako Yaki
- Old La Pavoni from the 70s,
- Italian Mocha pot,
- Turkish Mokka pot
- French coffee press
- Hand filter system
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Beans are changing, try a lot!

I mill by hand!

And...
no milk, no sugar!

But, mostly I drink tea!
English tea & Japanese Greentea
Nice, Im not big tea guy, more herbal teas and I like them cold.
 
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Mostly I drink cafe bustelo which is a preground expresso type. I'll make it in a drip, percolator, press, or in a sock. Folgers is fine with me too.

just no french vanilla, sandalwood, patcchuli, hazel nut or fruit punch flavoring.

no milk, no sugar
Yeah, I'm not sure about the flavoring either, just meh😵‍💫
 
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Vietnamese iced coffee uses sweetened condensed milk, and is delicious.

If I drank my coffee with sweetened condensed milk I would have probably died of a heart attack 10+ years ago. That stuff it too good.

my man!

Anthony Bourdain swore by it.
4 generations on drip.
It took forever and 20 minutes to extract 2oz.
 
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my man!

Anthony Bourdain swore by it.
4 generations on drip.
It took forever and 20 minutes to extract 2oz.
Great photo, nice coffee too😀
 
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my man!

Anthony Bourdain swore by it.
4 generations on drip.
It took forever and 20 minutes to extract 2oz.

I still buy Vietnamese coffee and indulge in one a few times here and there like above. Mate at work is converted by me many years ago and it’s all he drinks at work so I get one each week off him

We do buy it and re-grind it finer for a coffee machine and enjoy a flat white with it. (Just have to remember to pack less in the portafilter)
 
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Perk is capable of delicious coffee- there is a whole cult that swear by it. Lots to read in making the perfect cup with vintage perks (both electric and stove top). Grinding fairly course is about all I remember.
In this case, it's all about where the thermostat is set. I had one in college that was perfect, but for some reason got rid of it. Hoping this one will be too.
 
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In this case, it's all about where the thermostat is set. I had one in college that was perfect, but for some reason got rid of it. Hoping this one will be too.

Hadn't thought of a perk but now that it's mentioned, I can see and hear it from my childhood where it was a constant in the background for all our Dads, at their offices, in church basements where we scout meetings, in uninsulated cabins on camping trips. I think I need to find one.

Thanks for the memories.
 
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Hadn't thought of a perk but now that it's mentioned, I can see and hear it from my childhood where it was a constant in the background for all our Dads, at their offices, in church basements where we scout meetings, in uninsulated cabins on camping trips. I think I need to find one.

Thanks for the memories.
So true, I'd forgotten about that, my folks had one with a clear plexi bubble on the lid, I have strong memories of being fascinated watching the coffee gurgle in it.
 
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Lelit Mara X & Niche Zero for me (after starting with a Europicola & a Rok grinder). Strictly espresso, typically 4 x 18.5g in/36ish out a morning.

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I am fairly new to it but I bought an "Aircraft espresso" coffee machine during the lockdown. It is basically a rebranded Lelit PL41 TEM PID.
I use it with a manual grinder "Comandante C40". This way, I feel I deserve each coffee I drink ☕

For French people (or at least french speakers), I can recommend "Le café qui fume". I only try 2 of their coffees for now and the "signature du Brésil" deserves to be known IMHO 😀
The other one I tried was good too but not really my taste (I cannot exclude I did not find how to extract the most of it 😁 - at least it felt neither tasteless nor burnt)
 
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Lelit Mara X & Niche Zero for me (after starting with a Europicola & a Rok grinder). Strictly espresso, typically 4 x 18.5g in/36ish out a morning.

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Nice set up, 18 in 36 out for me too, so fairly similar, but four of them in a morning I'd be bouncing::psy::
 
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A vintage percolator that was clean and it works flawlessly. I'd almost think that it sat on a shelf for these many decades.
 
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