definitely interested in hearing your experiences with the orea, it looks interesting
I got the melodrip a few days ago, almost been through a whole bag with it and it’s kinda fun but it really does amp up the concentration required and I’m not convinced it’s actually improving anything.
it’s well made, though I don’t really know if the plastic part is … PFAS free? whatever the thing is that generates the microplastics. It would be hard to make this out of glass or even stainless. And I don’t really brew enough coffee to do blind tests to see if it’s improving the cup or not. But it’s a nice little doodad and everyone here is probably a sucker for doodads or we wouldn’t even be here, right?
Jesus Christ this dude pisses me off. Literally every week he posts different hours. Last week he was closed on Thursday, this week (Sunday) he posted he’d be open Thursday, now on Thursday he posts at 11:30 that nah, closed today.
I feel you. My run bad is less in the randomness or mechanics, instead ancillary factors.
After my partner yeeted the third Chemex off the kitchen counter and it shattered into dozens of pieces, everything has went off the rails. I’m literally just using a basic af Mr Coffee drip that we bought to use strictly when her parents are in town, since they drink shitty diner coffee. The beans are some shit French roast from Costco. It has to be sadder than whatever you’ve got going on.
I’m thinking about going the automatic or (more likely) super automatic espresso machine in the near future. My thinking is this will be less effort, more consistent, and it can’t be knocked off the counter.
Anyone know of a good resource for evaluating these? So far my Google searches are turning up SEO nightmares and I’m not really confident. I’m thinking budget is probably up to $1k, but that could be adjusted higher as I learn more.
I haven’t been running bad but I haven’t been running good either. I can’t remember the last time I had a real mind-blowing yahtzee cup, but I haven’t completely whiffed either. I have had a few extremely difficult bags in the last few months that I couldn’t dialed in, and a few that were consistently good but never great.
I just opened this up yesterday:
about 6 weeks off roast. 15:240 in the v60 switch. first cup was probably the best first cup I had ever had, immediate grape and cola notes, great body, I thought dang, I just need a really slight tweak and this will be fantastic. the next cups have all been flat and dull.
That’s why I stopped buying glass and ceramic coffee things.
I would strongly recommend buying anything else, but if you want to look then start with Jura. They’ve been around for a while and are considered to be one of the top makers of super autos. Saeco is another one. You pay a huge premium for convenience while getting mediocre (at best) coffee and reliability issues in return. There’s also a lot of cleaning involved, to the point where you may spend more time cleaning the machine than you would making manual espresso. I’d recommend a pod machine over one of these things, and for the same budget you could have an elite filter setup.
I have the Nanopresso and JX grinder. 1000’s of cups with this combo and every one has been perfect (once I got the grind dialed in). Was thinking about upgrading to the Pico, but no need yet.
I got the breville touch about 6 months ago. I really like it.
Semi automatic or something. But the extra effort in preparation is made up for by the ease of cleaning.
It grinds, you tamp, it brews, then it has an auto steamer/frother. Rinse and wipe and it’s ready again.
I was at the inlaws and they had whatever Jura was at Costco, it was really nice but every few cups there was some procedure to preform that took several minutes and a trip to the sink.
I suggest not buying direct from breville though, I ordered extra water filters, a portafilter extender and descaler from them and it was just an awful experience.
