Coffee - Moka Pot
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Coffee - Moka Pot
I love strong coffee. I walked by a moka pot today and decided to buy it. I recalled watching a video on YouTube on how people made espresso-like coffee with this stove top brewing process.
Does anyone have suggestions as to a widely available espresso roast to try?
The stronger the better...
RR
Does anyone have suggestions as to a widely available espresso roast to try?
The stronger the better...
RR
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I've had good luck with Peets Major Dickason's blend.
Here's a trick that will reduce any metallic taste you may notice in the moka brew: preheat the water before you fill up the moka pot--almost to boiling.
Cheers,
Greg
Here's a trick that will reduce any metallic taste you may notice in the moka brew: preheat the water before you fill up the moka pot--almost to boiling.
Cheers,
Greg
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Intelligentsia Black Cat is the espresso to die for! (not cheap!)
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Inspired by this thread, I bought a stainless steel Primula 6-cup off of Amazon. So far I've used Folgers run through a burr grinder (about as you'd expect) and some Sumatra that I roasted myself (via Sweet Maria's and much better). It is a bit more acidic and inferior to my Aeropress, but better than the average shot I get from my 15-bar DeLonghi (except when I got very lucky.)
Roasting your own is as easy and cheap using a popcorn popper.
Roasting your own is as easy and cheap using a popcorn popper.
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here is the story:
http://www.dearcoffeeiloveyou.com/gizmo ... -moka-pot/
http://www.dearcoffeeiloveyou.com/gizmo ... -moka-pot/
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I tried this and was unable to get the darkness of roast that I desire. I ended up using a dry frying pan.cjc15153 wrote:Roasting your own is as easy and cheap using a popcorn popper.
One thing I will say is that the roasting process stinks ... literally. I was surprised.
Now grinding freshly roasted coffee ... *that* was something special.
My beans roast to oily smoking black if I'm not careful. My complaint with the popper method is that I only roast 100 grams per batch, which is annoyingly small.
And yes it smells arguably worse than boiling beer (though I've grown to like that smell.) And sometimes there is chaff flying around.
But the lower cost per pound, and the smell of the roasted beans and the coffee itself keep me at it.
And yes it smells arguably worse than boiling beer (though I've grown to like that smell.) And sometimes there is chaff flying around.
But the lower cost per pound, and the smell of the roasted beans and the coffee itself keep me at it.
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A few years ago, there was a local coffee plant sitting alongside a well traveled thoroughfare. It was on the way to a state college where a great many of us commuted on a daily basis. On the days they roasted the coffee, it was common to see folks (who didn't know what the smell was, obviously) pulled over with the hood up, peering down to see if the car had caught fire. True. It happened to several of our college friends.
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Tonight it was raining as I drove home, so the thick smoke from the Autocrat Coffee plant -- which next to the freeway, merely behind a row of trees -- had settled across the road like a wall of fog.
I blasted my A/C to suck in as much as possible and took deep, joyous breaths of the lovely stink until it dissipated.
Love it! I just won't live in it!
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I blasted my A/C to suck in as much as possible and took deep, joyous breaths of the lovely stink until it dissipated.
Love it! I just won't live in it!
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Haha. I homebrew as well.cjc15153 wrote:And yes it smells arguably worse than boiling beer (though I've grown to like that smell.) And sometimes there is chaff flying around.
Before the hops go in, the boiling mess smells like breakfast.
After the hops go in, it smells. I like it too. Back when I first learned how to homebrew, a friend and I brewed our first batch together (this was in 1993). After the hops went into the boil, his father, an Air Force Senior Master Sergeant, said "it smells like a five dollar whore in here." I had a great belly laugh over that one, lol.