Reminds me off 

 

The singer even looks a bit like you Mono.

 

Well finally Russ...

 

I'll be down to check out your barrista skills in the coming months. Now the next big question is beans and where ya going to source them from.

any ideas?

Hello john got a new motor - @@Luc - a classic.

Made a reasonable coffee for@@djb today but still a bit hit and miss. Looking forward to a masterclass from David's barista son.

I've got some very nice Guatemalan beans from a coffee Shop in hawthorn. Any other suggestions?

When are you coming?

No idea Russ.

No suggestions.

The hit&miss experience is almost self replicating at times and a source of so many; Fark me!! moments that I now look upon the first coffee of the morning and the necessary interaction with the Lelit as a daily rite of passage. 

Capture dose,grind; is the grinder  sounding a bit slow(indicating it's set to low for the bean), tamper feels less resistance this morning than yesterday, perhaps I need to go a bit harder with the tamper. 

The extraction is a bit watery...oh...oh hang on, it's going crema as I look and oh what crema! Excellent! Now for the texturing of milk.

 

Damn, the milks not swirling and going like a whirlpool this morning yet yesterday it just went clockwise right from the start(Fark! What have I done wrong this morning? Temp of milk? Depth of steam wand? Angle of milk jug with the aforementioned?  I have one fingernail left unchewed and two extremely big toe toenails that are untouched(should I sit down for a moment for a gnaw?) oh  how I long for the days of Mocca freeze dried and the boiled jug.

 

Swirl textured milk into cup and grab the moment and attack the top of your ascending cup of crema as you would a canvas as inspiration hits:  A leaf!! Yes a I need to do a leaf!!

You manage a Menorah  which is lopsided and actually resembles a Rorschach card that only you've ever seen before...but by god the coffee...the farking coffee is like  nothing else you've tasted and you dare the little nutter in your head space to point out a better coffee you've had commercially...

 

 

And this is every single morning, every single morning you make a coffee you swear to yourself that it'll be better than the one from yesterday and that today you'll absolutely nail the crema art at the top as you finally nail the little wrist flick that gets the stem of the flower/leaf you've been trying for since...

...and of course you just reach for the chocolate shaker and liberally shake it across the top of your coffee turning it into a cappuccino to hide all results of your sad attempt at barrista art.

 

 

Yes I think about this too much

I've found the retraining to s new machine more complex than I thought

Finally have the "Silvia" supplying decent coffee tajen s couple of weeks

House has been empty even @@houdinifangs gone missing in action

Family fled so only self to experiment on!

You need to pull 4 latte in a row to get the feel of the machine <> ME, I have to double that # to get it right

I need innocent victims

Only woman to call in was a health nut who drinks warm water.

And the monk well he'd disown me if he knew I even had an evil non sentient coffee bean in the house worse than preparing a mushroom and red lentil salad.

Hello john got a new motor - @@Luc - a classic.

Made a reasonable coffee for@@djb today but still a bit hit and miss. Looking forward to a masterclass from David's barista son.

I've got some very nice Guatemalan beans from a coffee Shop in hawthorn. Any other suggestions?

When are you coming?

Speaking from my recent and limited experience, I'd say stick to the same beans until you get more consistent. One less variable to worry about

Speaking from my recent and limited experience, I'd say stick to the same beans until you get more consistent. One less variable to worry about

Good thinking, Steve.

I've found the retraining to s new machine more complex than I thought

Finally have the "Silvia" supplying decent coffee tajen s couple of weeks

House has been empty even @@houdinifangs gone missing in action

Family fled so only self to experiment on!

You need to pull 4 latte in a row to get the feel of the machine <> ME, I have to double that # to get it right

I need innocent victims

Only woman to call in was a health nut who drinks warm water.

And the monk well he'd disown me if he knew I even had an evil non sentient coffee bean in the house worse than preparing a mushroom and red lentil salad.

Still out in the wilderness that is Frankston. I've got Rancilio pumping the espresso. Milk? The stuff squeezed from cows boobs? No thanks. Will have to make the trip in again soon.

Snobs. I'll stick to my Vittoria beans and plunger. Not too much I can badoozle up.

Snobs. I'll stick to my Vittoria beans and plunger. Not too much I can badoozle up.

Ya cannae beat hi fi and coffee for pompous glittery.

A snigger escaped when vittoria was mentioned.

Sorry rehab.

A snob I know has always suggested that to get some taste out of vittoria ot lavazzia then place them on your driveway and drive back and forth and then scrape them up and into the plunger.

The kids tried it once with a sledge hammer and the ride on.

That's alright Luc, one of the tastiest coffees I've ever had was a vittoria pulled in a family cafe up the top end of Norton St Leichardt at about midnight on a Saturday. The joint was packed to overflowing with locals. They had "prize winning" gelati too.

But I'm with you on Lavazza. And Medaglia D'oro, which is even worse. And I am often complimented on my coffee, but perhaps my guests are just being polite. IMHO Vittoria is not fancy. Just solid.

I usually buy Vittoria 1kg bags as they are often on sale and end up ludicrously cheap for an ok brew...and I grind/pack them the same bag after bag. I'll indulge in a fancy single origin, locally roasted bean occasionally. Tastes so much better but at 4X the cost...and I waste a bit at the start getting it right....

Plunger is a nice fall back position. But rehab... get an espresso machine, life's too short.

I loved my Bodlum[?] For years and also my percolater but....

Espresso machines leave them for dead.

15 New 180grm vinyl.... there's your machine.

I thought about it Luc, but can't justify the kitchen real estate for another bulky appliance that gets used a few times a week. And besides, I like my coffee and life is too short to worry if it could be better, and too short to waste time trying. Another superfluous skill using semi-redundant machines. As Russ' earlier allusion, coffee and audio are similarly neurotic hobbies.

Apols for the thread crapp

I thought about it Luc, but can't justify the kitchen real estate for another bulky appliance that gets used a few times a week. And besides, I like my coffee and life is too short to worry if it could be better, and too short to waste time trying. Another superfluous skill using semi-redundant machines. As Russ' earlier allusion, coffee and audio are similarly neurotic hobbies.

Apols for the thread crapp

It's my thread and you can crap it as much as you like. @@Luc does.😃

Luc my Gaggia machine cost about the same as one new LP

Rehab, I have so few vices these days.......

...and anyhow one or two very good coffees a day is worth the real estate

My Lelit is about the size of a big toaster , it has the grinder built in.

Steve's right it wont take up much space and when you nail the coffee... yum.

Doing this on the phone and second bottle of red... excuse the typos

Maybe when I am closer to retirement age I will reconsider [emoji14] but I only drink tea at breakfast and coffee for smoko, so I pack the thermos for work. And no caffeine in the evening, strictly downers.

And besides, I like my coffee and life is too short to worry if it could be better, and too short to waste time trying.

You reckon espresso is a time waster, dont try US BBQ as a hobby.......

Ha, not much chance of that. A blue roo steak is more than satisfactory for this neanderthal. My culinary life is blissfully uncomplicated