Le 1 déc. 13 à 04:59, Andrew Fildes a écrit :
> Ah, what the English call a cafetiere (?) and everyone else,
> including the French I suspect, a plunger.
Never heard of this ... neither here nor there - I'll have to check on
the word.
> Coffee in the UK is almost universally dreadful. Cafe Nero isn't too
> bad, but...
You can find good coffee these days - and planets away from the
instant stuff that tasted like Oxo in the 70's or 80's ;-)
> Speaking as one who believes that coffee comes out of a bloody great
> big Italian machine tended by an expert, I find that plunger and
> filter stuff a weak and dull substitute. Even the French have caught
> up with that. They used to have two kinds of coffee - large and
> small (filter). But you can usually get an espresso in a Bar/Tabac
> these days.
Coffee is made with dripping machines (awful juice), a press (slightly
better) or a Nespresso type piece of electronics.
This is my coffee-machine which even grinds the right stuff to the
best powder size
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/Playground/Waiting-1090574.jpg.html
The main trouble here these days is finding the right beans or mix.
> I do have a dark and hidden addiction to French coffee with
> Chicory, a strange and shameful hangover from my childhood.
>
Exactly what we call "jus de chaussettes" i.e. socks juice, aka ditch
water I presume. Sorry Andrew.
But also reminiscent of my younger years ...
So sigh? Nope :-)
Amities
Philippe a coffee addict since ....
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> On 01/12/2013, at 5:48 AM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
>
>> What Joan got at all the B&Bs save one was a two-cup French press
>> gizmo loaded with coffee. As that's not something that
>> automatically destroys coffee, I would guess it was the blend
>> rather than the technology that was off-putting.
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