Originally Posted by gooram
What??? I hate to tell you but you are drinking bad coffee. Don't waste a perfectly good espresso machine with pre-ground beans... let alone Harris pre-ground beans.
LOL. It is 100% on instant coffee though. I cannot drink instant coffee any more.
We have an italian deli/warehouse nearby, so perhaps when I am "in the mood" I'll give some fresh beans a go.... but I do like the Harris stuff, and to be honest, my coffee at home is better than most coffee shop coffee. Perhaps it all comes down to how good the maker is with their hands .
I only drink one or two coffees a day, but with my brother and his workers calling around and each drinking two cups per session, several times a week, we do plough through the coffee. I would be grinding beans all day......
I'm not sure what you're talking about when you say "uit's on instant coffee" but then you say you are using beans...
But very defintiely, and quite obviously if you think aobut it, how you make the coffee actually makes a lot of difference... I I could buy $200/kg beanns (if they exist) which might be fantastic, but if I only use 4 grams and grind it wrong, regardless of what typoe of machine I use, the coffee will come out watery and w34eak - 1. not enough coffeee to make a full sstrength shot 2. ground wrong, so wont work. 3. If you didnt tamp it down tight enough for to suit the machine's pressure (like it or not, this is what you are wqorking with), then it will coume out watery
With coffee, unlike say a cup of tea where you jsut put in the teabag in and waait, for epspresso coffee, you are making coffee, like cooking ffod - if you turn the flame up to super super high and crack an egg in itand jsut leave it for 5 minutes wihtout looking at it, what will happen ? Even if the egg is organice and fresh laid - it will burn..
HOW you do it usually makes a differemnce, no exception in this case
I know some people seem to think foreigners and sons of foreigners etc are wierdo's or soft or fake sophisticates for drinking and liking this sort of thing, but honestly, it's just a cup of coffee I dont think of myself as sophisitacted for knowing about something.. others seem to think the fact that I bothered to care means I'm an idiot of some sort - wierd is it not ?