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) I need as much calcium as I can get and caffeine prevents the calcium from gettin' to your bones (or something like that). So yeah, I miss it... I always loved coffee and cigarettes and a good book. Love the way they smell (coffee, cigarettes, and book)... but gotta eliminate two 
sirmyk said:I'm not a big fan of "standard" coffee and hate Starfucks and all those other Walmart-becoming-commercial-coffee-company drinks... but home espresso, that's where the fun's at. I've got a Bezerra unit at home with a grinder that grinds beans worthy of any god. Specialty drinks... mmm...
Here's a vendor image of my baby (not the same grinder, but close):
Now you are talking!
Wabbit said:Oooooooooooooooooooooh
I like to gring my own beans but it's a seperate unit. That's a nice machine!
And yeah, starbucks is crappy. It's the macdonalds of coffee. They took European cafe culture, took all the charm and quality out of it, homogenised it, and stuck a brand name on it.
Cold, charmless, clinical, over priced, and crappy tasting. Still... it will do in a pinch
Mmmmmmclueless said:Wabbit said:
I got mine in Spain too.
They are a little more expensive but then you are paying for a better product. So I suppose you have to expect that
If I buy from the supermarket then I get lavazza and that costs me £2.20 and some coffee from HasBean on average is around £3.00 so for vaule its REALLY good. I have looked at other sites that sell coffee and they charge a whole lot more for the same product.
Of course they sell mroe expensive coffee. They have a wide range of prices.
Yeah, they do sell fair trade coffee too although they are not big fans of fair trade because they have issues with it actually being fair. The company actually deals directly with the coffee growers and buy from a lot of small estates. But if you want that, they have it
Aaaahh... where do I start? Well, when you've got a machine that pushes a hundred-something pounds per square inch of water onto fresh espresso beans grounded to perfection, you end up with four ounces (2 shots) of some of the most outstanding espresso imaginable. The machine above has a dual peculating type device (where the espresso comes out)... and the espresso is so thick, that it has a quarter-inch foam head per shot (the espresso is creamy, not reminiscent of black coffee). If you run the espresso machine longer than the basic 2-shot run, you will notice that clear water will peculate through after the full four ounces are produced... which basically means there is no more "bean" left in the bean, because you have literally pushed all the flavor out of those beans. One shot from my Bizzera is realistically equal to two, maybe three shots of Starbucks espresso. So a double shot "whatever-you-want-to-make" drink is usually a once-a-day type drink, which must be enjoyed before 2:00 in the afternoon if you want to sleep by midnight. But the taste you get from the espresso puts regular coffee/espresso to shame... a "once you try it you never go back" deal... kind of like switching to broadband... It can also steam/froth 16oz of milk in about 30 seconds ad has a steamed water tap as well.Motokid said:
