Thursday, October 23, 2008

grind your own beans (Make-do Sally would)

So I am getting a bit out of control on the coffee making at home. This is my counter coffee set up. Electric espresso maker (I ruined the stove top one and had bought this for work but brought it home), fresh coffee beans, syrup, milk frother, a thermos to take the espresso to work and now, the coffee bean grinder. It has three settings and you set a dial to let it know how many cups of coffee worth you need.

I am now also looking at buying this cool milk frother for $100. The Italians at work have one and swear by it. The reality is that to buy a good espresso machine would cost me $800. All together these smaller machines will end up costing me $200. A little bit of justification...

Must go to bed so I can wake up and make myself coffee!

2 comments:

Rachel Catriona said...

You have a problem.

Is that the Ethical Bean Espresso - honey sweet? I bought that the other night at the IGA a few blocks up. I don't have a fancy bean grinder (or any coffee bean grinder) so I used the instore grinder they have for the IGA house beans. And I opened the package and ground it up before I even paid for it! Ha! Ha!

PS. Milk frother? Get some balls. Americano. Why cut the drug with milk? Lattes are for losers.

Anonymous said...

I too am grinderless, here it is the expresso blend from Peet's (delish) Dave does the Dark Italian in his french press. I am a lazy coffee drinker so I make a jug of expresso and keep it in the fridge, add milk and a mix of SF caramel and vanilla (not to sweet and not to overpowering)and the perfect iced latte can be had in minutes. I am keeping the milk, the last thing I need is another appendage:)