Switched to iced Yuban Traditional Roast with Salted Caramel syrup today. A bit more bitter than the Yuban 100% Columbian. Tastes earthier. Not recommended in the iced form. Will try hot tomorrow.
@leejackson You'll never make coffee with pre-ground as you can grinding up beans on the fly, but you need to invest in a decent grinder for it to be really worth the bother. Those electric-fan things won't fly.
@mcfate My goal is to review K-Cups, which is what I have - a Keurig machine. I don't have any other brewer or grinder to review. Sorry.
@leejackson Okay. I'm totally not a K-Cup fan, I'm hand-grinding beans and pounding them into a (single-walled) portafilter and pushing hot-water through them at 15 bar.
We do ESPRESSO here.
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@mcfate I consider you lucky. I can't afford such a machine. I wanted a Keurig that would froth milk, but Mrs. Capt. vetoed it on price and space concerns.
@leejackson Well, I went a few years using cheaper, hand-pumped espresso machines, but they're not durable. I spent more on those in two or three years than the Breville DuoTemp ended up costing me.
Here's a tip for you: get an Aeropress. Thirty bucks, you can thank me later. It's not quite espresso β you'd need to be the Incredible Hulk β but it's as close as you can get for that price.
Even easier to clean than a K-Cup machine.
@mcfate Thanks for the suggestion, but I've just finished a round of experimentation with the Primula Burke cold brew coffee kit. Mrs. Capt. would fire her blunderbuss at me if I started another coffee kit experiment so soon afterward.
https://smile.amazon.com/Primula-Burke-Cold-Coffee-Maker/dp/B0711WZ7S7