Recent content by Bafa

Cook pot, shape is made to deal with frothing from boiling and keeping the grounds under control. hand grinder. Grinds coffee to dust. The finer the better. Stardard quality mill grinder for espresso and such usually can't get the grounds this fine unless you tweak the machine. I've...

I made some as best I could with the tools I had at home. I wanted to try it out before buying the hand grinder and little pot to make it. I was quite surprised. It tasted really good. First time I added the teaspoon of sugar it called for, but was wayyyy to sweet. Second cup I made with no...

I used to not like the espresso much maybe about three o four years ago I started to dabble with them. I'd order them from Starbuck, or Seatles Best, but still need to add a pack or two of sugar. I did this until about a year ago when I stopped a local mom & pop place owned by a guy who owns...

Hey I have one of those vacuum sealing machines. Little plastic bags you can stick food in and the machine sucks all the air out and melts the plastic closed. I bought some freshly roasted coffe, made just that day, and selaed them up. The bag shrunk down so toghtly against the whole beans...

I assume you are a "mom & pop" type of coffee house. Have you tried promoting you place using events? There is a small coffee shop where I live and very close to where I work that is calle Leopard Forrest Coffee. They have stuff like "Poets in the Forrest" where locally known, or if they are...

LOL nice. Thanks for the answer. :D

I work at a hospital and they opened a coffee booth in the lobby... was a cart with umbrella, small fridge and whatnot. Big enough that he could make whatever you wanted really. The guy ALWAYS had bussiness. I have no idea what the hospital was charging him, but after a couple of years they...

wow... i would have thought I'd have a bunch of responses after four days :P Anybody have any input for me? :D

I saw something about calorie counts of some coffees in another thread and it prompted me to ask. Whats the calorie count of your average single espresso? No sugor no cream, just a sing shot espresso. What other nutritional or fat values does it have? Just curious. Thanks!

It seems they have worked with this girl as I have given her yet another chance. She still isnt as good as the other ladies that make my espresso, but a great improvement and still an enjoyable cup. Also the shop got a new shipment of beans in, the whole store is stuffed with bags stacked...

I have someone insisting that you can cook coffee bean with a dehydrator. The fan in the dehydrator puts out mildly heated air, like a hair dryer on the lowest possible setting. It works great on my fruits, but I don't believe that works to cook coofee because isnt the point of roasting coffee...

Great explaination! Thanks. I did know that humidity has an effect on what size grind you should use, but i had no idea it meant that much. Also I "thought" I noticed several mistakes she made when making it. Her tamping was almost non existant. Barely did the 5 lbs for the first tamp and...

There is a coffer shop on my way to work that makes the yummiest espressos i have ever had. The last two days a new girl was working the late afternoon when i stopped on my way home. The espressos she made me were gawd awful! I have no p robalem with a little sediment at the bottom of the...