Yeah, there’s a whole lot of fun stuff you can do with black coffee and an espresso machine. Like an aerocano (where you basically foam the drink with ice to infuse it with air, it looks like a stout beer)
Oh wow! I already had someone convince me into an expensive hobby this week, so I’m not going to go and buy an espresso machine, but if there’s anything fancy I can do with a plunger or aeropress then I’d give it a try!
Yeah, the rabbit hole on espresso goes deep. I’m ashamed to say that the machine I made that drink with cost me over six grand 😢
I’ve never actually used an aeropress but everyone seems to love them. You can make milk foam with a plunger though so you might be able to effectively do something similar to the aerocano.
I’m ashamed to say that the machine I made that drink with cost me over six grand 😢
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I’ve never actually used an aeropress but everyone seems to love them.
In my experience, an aeropress is a plunger that is easier to clean. I’m not convinced the coffee is any better than a plunger, but for sure Americans love it compared to drip coffee.
I could try using a plunger to foam up my coffee, I’ll try to remember to do that tomorrow and see if it works.
I forgot I already had coffee plans today, will try when I’m home tomorrow.
I don’t really like filter coffee (or at least, I’ve never had something described as “filter coffee” that I liked). Might just have not had a good one.
There’s filter coffee and then there’s pour over coffee. I personally like pour over - the water doesn’t stay in the grounds and get over bitter and the coffee itself is immediately consumed instead of sitting around getting overcooked.
But the great thing about coffee is whatever way you like to consume it that’s the right way.
I love a good pour over, although recently for my filter brews I’ve been using a Hario Switch which can do both pour over style percolation and immersion with a little valve at the bottom of the V60 cone. I do the 1st 40% of my brew as a normal pour over and then the latter 60% with full immersion.
I think I’ve only had filter coffee from cafes that serve it, and cafes can be so hit and miss it’s hard to know if I didn’t like filter coffee or just didn’t like the way they made it or the coffee they used etc. I think I’ve only tried it twice.
When I make it myself, I feel like the coffee doesn’t end up strong enough if I don’t let it sit. I could probably do it with like 6+ tablespoons of grounds, but when I make an aeropress with twice what they say in the instructions and still need to let it sit to get the strength I want, I feel like I’m already using too much…
This is even when the beans have been roasted only a couple of days earlier and I grind it myself.
You know what, I think you’re right. But then does that change if you use a metal filter instead of paper? That’s more like a plunger.
I think of filter as pouring water through coffee, through a paper filter. The way I use the aeropress is more akin to a plunger. Coffee grounds and hot water, then let it sit for a while before “plunging” it. But it’s made with less water then you top it up after.
Nice! Latte art on a flat white!
I’d like to learn to do latte art on a long black but it doesn’t really work too well.
(Of course while writing my silly comment I had to search to see if anyone had done it, and found this)
Yeah, there’s a whole lot of fun stuff you can do with black coffee and an espresso machine. Like an aerocano (where you basically foam the drink with ice to infuse it with air, it looks like a stout beer)
Here’s me drinking an aerocano I made:
Oh wow! I already had someone convince me into an expensive hobby this week, so I’m not going to go and buy an espresso machine, but if there’s anything fancy I can do with a plunger or aeropress then I’d give it a try!
Yeah, the rabbit hole on espresso goes deep. I’m ashamed to say that the machine I made that drink with cost me over six grand 😢
I’ve never actually used an aeropress but everyone seems to love them. You can make milk foam with a plunger though so you might be able to effectively do something similar to the aerocano.
😱
In my experience, an aeropress is a plunger that is easier to clean. I’m not convinced the coffee is any better than a plunger, but for sure Americans love it compared to drip coffee.
I could try using a plunger to foam up my coffee, I’ll try to remember to do that tomorrow and see if it works.
I’d probably want to put some ice cubes in the plunger to both cool it and provide some extra agitation when “foaming” it.
My filter brewer of choice is the Hario Switch, absolutely love that thing.
I forgot I already had coffee plans today, will try when I’m home tomorrow.
I don’t really like filter coffee (or at least, I’ve never had something described as “filter coffee” that I liked). Might just have not had a good one.
There’s filter coffee and then there’s pour over coffee. I personally like pour over - the water doesn’t stay in the grounds and get over bitter and the coffee itself is immediately consumed instead of sitting around getting overcooked.
But the great thing about coffee is whatever way you like to consume it that’s the right way.
I love a good pour over, although recently for my filter brews I’ve been using a Hario Switch which can do both pour over style percolation and immersion with a little valve at the bottom of the V60 cone. I do the 1st 40% of my brew as a normal pour over and then the latter 60% with full immersion.
I think I’ve only had filter coffee from cafes that serve it, and cafes can be so hit and miss it’s hard to know if I didn’t like filter coffee or just didn’t like the way they made it or the coffee they used etc. I think I’ve only tried it twice.
When I make it myself, I feel like the coffee doesn’t end up strong enough if I don’t let it sit. I could probably do it with like 6+ tablespoons of grounds, but when I make an aeropress with twice what they say in the instructions and still need to let it sit to get the strength I want, I feel like I’m already using too much…
This is even when the beans have been roasted only a couple of days earlier and I grind it myself.
I would categorise aeropress as filter.
You know what, I think you’re right. But then does that change if you use a metal filter instead of paper? That’s more like a plunger.
I think of filter as pouring water through coffee, through a paper filter. The way I use the aeropress is more akin to a plunger. Coffee grounds and hot water, then let it sit for a while before “plunging” it. But it’s made with less water then you top it up after.
I did it! Didn’t use any ice, it worked fine without it.
https://lemmy.nz/post/183965