The Reading Room

Day one of brewing with the Hario for my wife.   I blogged the other day about the gift of a Hario V60 as a gift that I admired and had a good cup of coffee from.  Today it was...

I think I have just about chronicled the wide variety of items that I have gotten over the holidays except for perhaps my favorite gift a set of these Inker Porecelain cups. I was forunate enough to receive two espresso...

The Versalab grinder -  a few quick impressions after a morning of use.   The Versalab M3 grinder is one I have always wanted to play with and one of the few really high end grinder lines that I had...

/files/u5804/photo1-26.jpg" width="264" height="500" /> A trip to Target this morning left me with a “small world” coffee experience and simultaneously reminded me of something I’d written a while back, so I thought I’d take a moment to briefly describe what...

I like my friends! I blogged a while back about friends who brought me home roasted coffee, micro roasted coffee, lent me a Mypressi twist, and let me play with a Cremina.  Etc. Today a friend dropped by and brought...

Coffee in general is a pretty subjective, mainly because it's food so some people are going to like different flavors than others. There are some types of flavors in coffee that are generally liked by all people who drink like...

  I have been blogging in the past about using the La Pavoni Lever espresso machine to prepare espresso as well as milk drinks. However, I never really make a video or describe my approach to using this machine. Despite...

To start off the new year, I"m drinking a cup of Malawi Mapanga AAA roasted a little more than a week ago.  I have been drinking SO espresso from this coffee from both the La Pavoni Profesional and also in...

Bringing in the new year coffee style.  I am thrilled that with the new year only a few hours away I was still pulling shots of espresso!  I normally quit drinking coffee at about 3 pm and my wife quits...

I have reported here in the past about my trouble with plumbing in the Nuova Simonelli (yes, I have the plumb-in version): http://coffeekind.com/reading-room/blog/another-machine-problem-nuova-si.... Like I have said, what I did was just dropping the Musica's hose into a water container....

I have written a few posts about the different espresso baskets that I have gotten to use with my espresso machine. While I can go on and on about talking about the differences these baskets can and cannot cause I...

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Since moving to my new place, I have had much less space for coffee stuff because our new condo is a small one and we also have much more other non-coffee stuff.  I really have to convince my wife really...

I have been pulling this espresso since Monday of this week and I have not been disappointed even when the shots didn't go exactly right. /files/imagecache/image_230/files/espressonuevo.jpg" align="left" width="230" height="230" />What had drawn me to this espresso was the fact that...

Hot chocolate – espresso style.  With the colder weather my kids have turned their attention to the joys of hot chocolate.  I remember the discovery when I was a kid of how much better it was if you made hot...

First, no I do not have this piece of espresso gadgetry, however it was pretty interesting and thought that I would share it with you all. As you can see from the photo below, the Attento is a thermometer for steaming milk....

This morning, I was very excited to wake up because I know that today, I will have the ability to make myself quality coffee. The coffee I'm excited to be drinking today is the Malawi Mapanga AAA roasted to a...

What I am drinking now – Velton’s Twilight blend.  I was looking for a good dark roast for my wife as I often am.  She likes dark roasts and I like them fine although my favorite roasts tend to be...

  In the past  I have posted about the Vietnamese coffee filter called Phin on Roaste, here http://www.roaste.com/CoffeeBlogs/sontondaman/Phin-my-cheapest-brewing-device and here http://www.roaste.com/CoffeeBlogs/sontondaman/making-drip-coffee-Vietnamese-phin.  I also took some video a while back but have not been able to have time to edit the video. Now...