Plunger
SAMMY’S MORNING COFFEE
I recently accosted my friend Sam, who I incidentally live next door to, while he was making his morning coffee to ask him about his morning coffee. He was irritated at first, because a morning coffee is a special thing and I was interrupting it, and I could see he was irritated because we are […]
MORNING RITUALS
Currently, I have the blessing and the curse of having zero routine. On any given day my work could have me doing late nights, early mornings, both, or neither. Yet I still have a morning ritual, one that is probably very similar to yours. And it begins with step one: putting the kettle on. Step […]
FIKA: MARCH EDITION
Autumn is one of my favourite seasons. I reckon it’s in my top four. Truly, I love it that much. I’ve just found out that most of my favourite veggies are in season this time of year. Sadly I didn’t know this earlier because of our access to all things all the time, but maybe […]
LET’S GO TO COSTA RICA
I think, even though I’m feeling more optimistic about overseas travel happening again in my lifetime, I really want a holiday now. I know it doesn’t even begin to compare to the real thing, but they say that planning a holiday is 78% of the fun! I don’t know who ‘they’ are, but they sound […]
Cleaning your coffee plunger
Does cleaning your coffee plunger feel like it requires a barista course, several sponges and super-human patience? The coffee plunger or French Press has a long-disputed history with the question of origin widely debated from the 1800’s to the present. Coffee plungers are not a brewing tool that is frequently utilised by coffee shops, although […]
Best Brew methods
Stovetop/Moka Pot First patented in 1933 by a dude named Luigi, forget the complex physics of the espresso machine, just give me the coffee! Some say it rivals commercial espresso, I say it is awesome, though slightly different. This little contraption achieves about 1.5 bars of pressure when extracting with the slurry reaching 100 deg […]
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