WC, it turns out you are not thinking out of the box enough. here is what proper hipster coffee looks like.
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(68 posts)- Started 8 years ago by Wilmington's Cow
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Posted 8 years ago #
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@min good training and also Nolan Hirte the coffee guy complaining about the hipster tag but has short hair and huge polar explorer beard. WE have had peak beard but still hipster
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You didn't mention bagspace as an issue upthread. Freeze a small bottle of milk, so that you don't need the ice-pack? Hipsters only take coffee black when it's been brewed at that specific sub-boiling temperature to give it that hard-work taste sported by Artisan Roast and PY.
Posted 8 years ago # -
Aeropress is the way to go in an office. Much easier to clean than a cafetiere. There's more variety available with it, my preference is the inverted method, using my own scoop not theirs.
I'd also agree with Henry Ford regarding colour.
You could of course try:
Posted 8 years ago # -
You could of course try:
Those things are an awful lot of plastic for not an awful lot of milk.
I got into drinking black tea and coffee in uni halls as A/ the fridge was a long way away and B/ people stole your milk (or did worse to it) anyway.
Some people used to hang it out their window in a carrier bag, but our window faced onto a street below so they wouldn't let us do this in case we dropped a 2l jug of milk onto someone.
Posted 8 years ago # -
I'll stick my neck out and say the milk's not going to turn to cheese during your commute in even the heat of a Scottish summer in the bottom of a pannier.
I take milk each day in a 250ml plastic ex-milk bottle. It sits on my desk, unrefrigerated, and lasts the eight hours or so in which I'll have had my two or three cups of tea. But I'll drink milk even if it's turning.
Posted 8 years ago # -
I've have one of these Laken 350ml flask
Small enough not to take up too much space in my bag, in the summer I use it to take cold brew coffee into the office with some ice. Generally the ice hasn't melted by 7/8 hours after making it so it does work well. I don't know of anything smaller though.
Posted 8 years ago # -
Can't you just *ahem* borrow some from the inhouse cafe?
I was about to offer you a free "tardis" usb desktop cooler, but Mrs ECT has told me she gave it away on Porty People. I hope not to one of the sizeable anti cycling brigade.
Posted 8 years ago # -
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.
Job done.
Posted 8 years ago # -
Has anybody mentioned that today is World Milk Day?
Posted 8 years ago # -
Yes, @slowcoach mentioned it just now.
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Posted 8 years ago #
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Coffee should be blacker than a black steer's tucus on a moonless prairie night.
I used to think I hated coffee till big Marian made me try it with no milk.
Posted 8 years ago # -
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.
Or drink your coffee black, your choice.
Posted 8 years ago # -
I do feel milk in your coffee is coming in for a lot of unwarranted disapproval on this thread :-/
Posted 8 years ago # -
Well, it's only cafetiere coffee, so it's not as if you're wreaking lactic impertinences on anything good.
Posted 8 years ago # -
Great thread! Of course, the coolbag and chill puck thing is the non-mad solution but that's too easy!
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.
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.
Most actual flasks have internal threading, not so graceful, to this beholder.
Posted 8 years ago # -
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.
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.
As to the milk question - just carry it in a small plastic bottle; it won't get that hot.
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).
Posted 8 years ago # -
"it won't get that hot"
Clearly never worked in this office....
Bought a 250ml carton yesterday morning about 10.30am.
This morning it was chunky.
Posted 8 years ago # -
Offices get very hot overnight.
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"Ibili 753801 Mini Stainless-Steel Double-Walled Vacuum Flask - Flask Capacity 125 ml"
Smallest capacity I think I've ever seen.
Posted 7 years ago # -
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)
Works a treat.
Even very occasional espresso drinkers were happy to chip in a fiver on the off chance they'd use it.
Posted 7 years ago # -
Thank you @cb for resurrecting this thread as it's most enjoyable.
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.)
Posted 7 years ago # -
@edinburgh cycle training, that George Clooney, his machine is cheap but his pods are dear
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.
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
Posted 7 years ago # -
got an email from Aldi today, telling me they now do Nespresso compatible pods - they must have seen MrsMcR's shopping list.
Posted 7 years ago # -
Aldi, you have to quite like them. Named Georges Clouseau's Espresso pods in French Aldi I hear?
I have a very reasonable de longhi espresso maker (does have steam for frothing milk which works too)
In an office environment where mess is likely, and not the cleaners job to sort out coffee grinds I think pods good.
On downside not recyclable are they?
Also worry about coffee shops and baristas.
Posted 7 years ago # -
A bunch of us recently chipped in a fiver each to buy one of these George Clooney espresso machines
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.
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 You're spoiling us, Mr Ambassador! event tonight.
Posted 7 years ago # -
@ 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.
As for baristas, yes they are 100% recyclable.
Posted 7 years ago # -
Those coffee pod machines are the same scam as the printer / printer ink scam.
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.
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.
Buy a cafetiere (if only the French had a word for that).
(Oh, and don't get me started on how you can no longer buy coarse ground coffee for cafetieres - "suitable for cafetieres and filters" just doesn't cut it.)
Posted 7 years ago # -
@ nedd1e_h - yes I totally agree. Mrs McR however sees it slightly differently.
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