Thread: Coffee

I roast and grind my own fresh columbian coffee that I then prepare in a bodum french press.

Any other coffee fanatics here???

I share your interest in fine coffee, however...

What is a "bodum french press"?

I have a number of "coffee makers" here in Tonga...
filter cones, percolaters, and a German-made "press"
(I don't know what else to call it), and the venerable
"cowboy coffee" boiler.

Incidently, Tonga produces a very fine organic arabica
coffee, which is available for export from the Kingdom
Coffee Company. If properly roasted and ground, it is
quite good.

That said, I prefer a blend of various beans, dark roasted,
and prepared in a fine grind, suitable for filtration.

A single-variety coffee is fine, but a blend provides
fullness...both in aroma and, of course, taste.

My early morning routine includes both a relaxing
straight razor shave, and a couple of cups of fine
coffee.

Thanks for the thread!

Best regards,
Paul Kidd
Pangai, Ha'apai
Tonga

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I usually make my coffe in my Isomac Napolissima.
Btw the bodum is a nice french press.

PaulKidd, The Bodum is a brand name. If your press looks like a glass mug with a handle and has a funny looking lid with a plunger hande that you push straight down with a funny metal mesh and spiral contraption on the inside that holds the coffee down when depressed, then you have the same thing as the Bodum french press.
Here in Australia we just call 'em Plungers. Like a womans bra, they come in a variety of cup sizes.

I love my coffee, but these days I stick mostly to decaffinated.

Mick

Quadruple espresso for breakfast every morning with a little steamed milk and chocolate sprinkles on top. A great start to the day

Rancillio Silvia and a big commercial grinder that works really well oh and not forgetting great fresh beans from my local coffee merchant free delivery too

ian

Mick..."Plunger" it is! Makes fine coffee.

After several attempts, I've finally settled on an "all
stainless steel" plunger. A friend of mine brought it
to me from Germany.

Previous glass models broke, plastic ones were garbage,
and the only other versions I've seen were either just
plain junk or the filter was just not fine enough for my
choice of grind.

Thanks for the post, mate!

Paul

G'day Paul, I have a variety of plungers as well. The one I like best is a glass Bodum single cup job. Having said that, I use one of those 'Drip-u-lator' things...Like you see in those nasty fast food places. It drips the water through the coffee, through a filter of one sort or another and on into the pot. I have a couple of those 'cowboy' perculators as well, just small ones, as they travel well on a motorbike.


Mick

I learned this "cowboy coffee" recipe from a real cowboy
cook, while working for a pack outfit in Colorado:

A #10 can full of water...call it a "billy"...about 2 liters
Bring it to a boil
Toss in a big handfull of ground coffee and a pinch of
salt...plus any egg shells left from breakfast
Let it boil for about a minute
Remove from fire
Throw in a dash of cold water
Wait a few minutes to let things settle
Enjoy.

For me, that's Cowboy coffee!

It may not be as "fine" as coffee brewed in some sort of
fancy apparatus, but it sure is good!

All the best,
Paul

I do. I, too, have a Bodum French press--two of them, a 12oz. and a 32oz. I grind for French press on a made-in-Taiwan Feima 600N. For my AeroPress, I grind with a Kyocera hand grinder. For espresso--La Pavoni PRH--I grind with a Porlex hand grinder.

I recently started roasting as well. I have a Quest M3 that I'm still learning how to use.

What do you think of these?

I have been thinking of getting a manual grinder for a few reason.
1) My current cheap burr grinder is so so
2) my electric grinder is loud as hell and i hate waking the wife up at 6:00 am on a saturday when I want some coffee.
3) If it works well and is quiet, could be a nice setup at the office w/ the french press.


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