Bean to coffee coffee makers? Coffe pod machines?

[Valiant]

I make mine like this but use the mesh filters for all that extra oily richness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVcgSBJFhgM

[Ben T]

I make mine like this but use the mesh filters for all that extra oily richness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVcgSBJFhgM

looks weaker than a nuns piss

[Jakob W]

35g coffee to 310-350ml water? That's not going to be weak coffee; as a specialty/hipster brew it's more likely just a light roast.

[Porkins]

Thanks to this thread I've got my Gaggia Classic out of mothballs.



I got it 5 years ago but I just couldn't get the hang of making a decent cup. This year I've been trying lots of different beans in various moka pots, grinding them with my Iberital MC2. And lo and behold, I seem to have learnt something about grinds and extracting. I now make delicious coffee, without any of the measuring and weighing and timing that I used to wrestle with. I can even make black coffee with a sweet crema. I've cracked it!

[Hot Flatus]

Its all down to temperature stability (or lack of it) with these thermostat machines. The temperature overshoots as the element switches off, drops, then carries on dropping for a bit after the element switches on again. I think it can be up to about 10⁰, which has a huge impact on flavour. Solution is to fit a PID. You can get kits just for the Classic.

[Porkins]

I'm delighted with the flavour. Not interested in changing anything.

[Hot Flatus]

Great. That saves £100 and a few hours of swearing and frustration with a soldering iron then