http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Very Random Query en Wed, 13 May 2026 04:38:00 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16467&page=3#post-249561 Tue, 09 May 2017 19:49:59 +0000 gembo 249561@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@iwrats, these skills of your uncle Italian in law if that is a relation? Are super powers let's not beat abut the bush, I repeat super powers.</p> <p>With the stove top the whole process is a joy, the crema is there in the top chamber but even if you lift the lid when the contact is made with the lip of the spout of the jug it vanishes. I crave crema. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16467&page=3#post-249556 Tue, 09 May 2017 19:31:29 +0000 I were right about that saddle 249556@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo</p> <p>My Italian uncle in law was maître d' in some swanky hotels. He has a stove-top Bialetti with a fancy crema adaptor that looks like a silencer for a gun and uses some secret roast that he will not tell me about. He also has a special skill that he not only knows what you will like to eat he also knows exactly how much of it you will eat without you saying a word. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16467&page=3#post-249553 Tue, 09 May 2017 19:14:06 +0000 gembo 249553@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Dear comrades, here is a tip I share with you if you drink black coffee and like a crema. This can be got from a French press. Make the coffee. Let it brew. Plunge. Then before pouring lift the lid a little so that when you pour the coffee out it is not touching the lid in any way. Careful not to spill. The first and sometimes second cup poured will have a nice crema. I do like a crema </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16467&page=3#post-249537 Tue, 09 May 2017 16:28:36 +0000 Min 249537@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>gkgk<em>Re that 125ml flask, it's got one of those pouring tops that's heat-efficient but tricky to clean, esp with milk. I'd sooner go for the 200ml one with simpler lid.</em></p> <p>Oh I have one of those (the 200ml). It fits in a pocket and is much less wasteful than a full sized flask where I end up pouring out some of the coffee by the end of the day anyway. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16467&page=3#post-249504 Tue, 09 May 2017 13:33:06 +0000 unhurt 249504@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Agreed re: coarse ground coffee. (Admission: I often prefer coffee from a press. Shame shame etc.) Maybe time to start grinding own beans (perhaps even with a hand grinder!) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16467&page=3#post-249491 Tue, 09 May 2017 12:59:24 +0000 chrisfl 249491@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I have an aeropress. Much less mess and better coffee than a cafetière. For the office I order ground coffee from the internet.</p> <p>At home I use beans and have a cheap chopper thing to grind them as needed. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16467&page=3#post-249488 Tue, 09 May 2017 12:48:39 +0000 gkgk 249488@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Re that 125ml flask, it's got one of those pouring tops that's heat-efficient but tricky to clean, esp with milk. I'd sooner go for the <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Drink-Flasks/Grunwerg-HCF-200SS-Stainless-Steel-Drink-Pod-CB200SS24/B006YSIQJO/ref=pd_bxgy_201_img_2?_encoding=UTF8&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=YR0AXRQGR3V8WAHP6QKQ">200ml one with simpler lid</a>. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16467&page=3#post-249453 Tue, 09 May 2017 09:47:21 +0000 I were right about that saddle 249453@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@nedd1e_h</p> <p>This is undoubtedly true. The obvious solution is a <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Reusable-Nespresso-Pods-Refillable-OriginalLine/dp/B00WOX5312">refillable stainless steel capsule.</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16467&page=2#post-249452 Tue, 09 May 2017 09:41:55 +0000 dessert rat 249452@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@ nedd1e_h - yes I totally agree. Mrs McR however sees it slightly differently. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16467&page=2#post-249450 Tue, 09 May 2017 09:32:52 +0000 neddie 249450@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Those coffee pod machines are the same scam as the printer / printer ink scam.</p> <p>Namely, when you buy the machine, you are buying it at below cost, but then you are committed to expensive pods forever. The manufacturer sells the machine several times over through the cost of the pods.</p> <p>Also, terribly wasteful and bad for the planet. Not only are the pods wasteful, but people end up throwing out the whole machine when they get fed up of being ripped off.</p> <p>Buy a cafetiere (if only the French had a word for that).</p> <p>(Oh, and don't get me started on how you can no longer buy coarse ground coffee for cafetieres - "suitable for cafetieres <em>and </em>filters" just doesn't cut it.) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16467&page=2#post-249449 Tue, 09 May 2017 09:29:30 +0000 dessert rat 249449@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@ Gembo the nespresso shop in Mulltrees has a pod recycling point - although if they are truly recycled I'm not sure. I shall be putting my Aldi ones in there anyway.</p> <p>As for baristas, yes they are 100% recyclable. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16467&page=2#post-249446 Tue, 09 May 2017 09:20:50 +0000 I were right about that saddle 249446@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>A bunch of us recently chipped in a fiver each to buy one of these George Clooney espresso machines</em></p> <p>My mother-out-law is a big fan of George and his machine. Her's stopped working so good and the quote for repair was more than the price of a new one, a fact which should have all of us shedding hot espresso tears. So it was gathering dust in a garage in rural France.</p> <p>I stripped, cleaned and reassembled it after learning how to defeat the security screws in the casing from YouTube and it will be pressed into service for a <em>You're spoiling us, Mr Ambassador!</em> event tonight. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16467&page=2#post-249436 Tue, 09 May 2017 07:11:33 +0000 gembo 249436@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Aldi, you have to quite like them. Named Georges Clouseau's Espresso pods in French Aldi I hear?</p> <p>I have a very reasonable de longhi espresso maker (does have steam for frothing milk which works too)</p> <p>In an office environment where mess is likely, and not the cleaners job to sort out coffee grinds I think pods good.</p> <p>On downside not recyclable are they?</p> <p>Also worry about coffee shops and baristas. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16467&page=2#post-249433 Mon, 08 May 2017 22:47:16 +0000 dessert rat 249433@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>got an email from Aldi today, telling me they now do Nespresso compatible pods - they must have seen MrsMcR's shopping list. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16467&page=2#post-249432 Mon, 08 May 2017 22:40:58 +0000 gembo 249432@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@edinburgh cycle training, that George Clooney, his machine is cheap but his pods are dear</p> <p>Had an astonishingly strong espresso this afternoon just the right side of hitter, well on the line in fortitude just after buying cello string in stringers (an ethnomethodologist's paradise that shop). Please do not tell my former self about any of this.</p> <p>That's me been n three of the daily torygraph'stop thirty UK coffee shops. Again maintain radio silence with my former self. And indeed my apple pie bakery of Carnwath self where the same espresso minus bells Is half the price </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16467&page=2#post-249421 Mon, 08 May 2017 20:47:09 +0000 unhurt 249421@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thank you @cb for resurrecting this thread as it's most enjoyable. </p> <p>Also allows me to say re: iwrats comment about making coffee with grappa that there is a scene in Farley Mowat's highly enjoyable (and I assume hugely exaggerated since no-one drowned) book The Boat Who Wouldn't Float where coffee is made with Newfoundland rum. (Rum features heavily in these adventures.) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16467&page=2#post-249365 Mon, 08 May 2017 13:07:51 +0000 Edinburgh Cycle Training 249365@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A bunch of us recently chipped in a fiver each to buy one of these George Clooney espresso machines (other hot drinks machines are available)</p> <p>Works a treat.</p> <p>Even very occasional espresso drinkers were happy to chip in a fiver on the off chance they'd use it. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16467&page=2#post-249336 Mon, 08 May 2017 10:57:17 +0000 cb 249336@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ibili-753801-Stainless-Steel-Double-Walled-Vacuum/dp/B00J3LKDO0/ref=pd_sim_201_1?_encoding=UTF8&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=9R9BPGVGRNVF1VJKDDEY">125ml vacuum flask | Amazon</a></p> <p>"Ibili 753801 Mini Stainless-Steel Double-Walled Vacuum Flask - Flask Capacity 125 ml"</p> <p>Smallest capacity I think I've ever seen. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16467&page=2#post-221987 Fri, 03 Jun 2016 16:55:14 +0000 PS 221987@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Offices get very hot overnight. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16467&page=2#post-221984 Fri, 03 Jun 2016 16:39:28 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 221984@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"it won't get that hot"</p> <p>Clearly never worked in this office....</p> <p>Bought a 250ml carton yesterday morning about 10.30am.</p> <p>This morning it was chunky. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16467&page=2#post-221983 Fri, 03 Jun 2016 16:36:02 +0000 cb 221983@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My great-idea-that-I'm-not-sure-how-to-implement for a vacuum flask is to have the internal volume decrease as liquid is poured out.</p> <p>The trouble with pouring out your first coffee on top of a mountain in sub zero temperatures is that the hot coffee is replaced by freezing air which doesn't do much to enhance the 2nd cup of coffee.</p> <p>As to the milk question - just carry it in a small plastic bottle; it won't get that hot.</p> <p>I have sometimes wondered if it is worth filling the bottle to the top with milk to reduce sloshing (and churning on the way to butter). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16467&page=2#post-221978 Fri, 03 Jun 2016 16:13:34 +0000 gkgk 221978@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Great thread! Of course, the coolbag and chill puck thing is the non-mad solution but that's too easy!</p> <p>I use a small, old plastic fruit juice bottle (easypour, easyclean) inside a sock, inside an Avex Contigo thermal mug (drinking lid discarded). Pre-chill the lot overnight.</p> <p>Been looking for a small wide-necked easypouring three-turn screw lidded glass bottle to fit for 3 years or so. Tesco Polish range Frugo drink bottle came close but thread only a half-turn, metal lid wears, not secure enough.</p> <p>Most actual flasks have internal threading, not so graceful, to this beholder. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16467&page=2#post-221972 Fri, 03 Jun 2016 15:31:53 +0000 wingpig 221972@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Well, it's only cafetiere coffee, so it's not as if you're wreaking lactic impertinences on anything good. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16467&page=2#post-221964 Fri, 03 Jun 2016 14:41:29 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 221964@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I do feel milk in your coffee is coming in for a lot of unwarranted disapproval on this thread :-/ </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16467&page=2#post-221961 Fri, 03 Jun 2016 14:26:20 +0000 paulmilne 221961@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Fly to Antarctica. Chip ice from a 10,000 year old glacier. Wrap it in a hessian sack inside a Lakeland plastic bottle inside a vat of liquid nitrogen. When you return to the UK, put the whole thing in an insulated rackpack with a pint of milk, then drench the rackpack. Dangle the wet rackpack from your handlebars by a string as you pedal to work, then put it inside a USB fridge hanging out the office window. </p> <p>Or drink your coffee black, your choice. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16467&page=2#post-221938 Fri, 03 Jun 2016 11:09:36 +0000 wee folding bike 221938@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Coffee should be blacker than a black steer's tucus on a moonless prairie night. </p> <p>I used to think I hated coffee till big Marian made me try it with no milk. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16467&page=2#post-221752 Thu, 02 Jun 2016 09:16:10 +0000 I were right about that saddle 221752@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXMapqiDsqs" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXMapqiDsqs</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16467&page=2#post-221751 Thu, 02 Jun 2016 08:30:22 +0000 dougal 221751@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yes, @slowcoach mentioned it just now. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16467&page=2#post-221732 Wed, 01 Jun 2016 20:47:14 +0000 slowcoach 221732@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Has anybody mentioned that today is <a href="http://www.fao.org/economic/est/est-commodities/dairy/school-milk/15th-world-milk-day/en/">World Milk Day</a>? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16467&page=2#post-221723 Wed, 01 Jun 2016 19:53:01 +0000 neddie 221723@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Wrap the milk bottle in hessian sacking. Soak the sacking in water. Then tie the bottle/sacking so that it dangles from the handlebars. The airflow that passes over the sacking will evaporate the water and cool the milk as you go.</p> <p>Job done.</p> <p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coolgardie_safe" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coolgardie_safe</a> </p>