My espresso machine wouldn't work this morning so I made coffee in a Bodum tea press

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I have started using Illy preground espresso coffee in a pressurised tin through my Krups espresso maker - what's the verdict?

The main problem is that once you've opened those tins the shelf life is short. It will be fairly fresh when you open it though.

I always thought they should make some kind of vaccuum jar for coffee that can pump all the air out of itself and reseal. Do they?

― Hurting (A-Ron Hubbard), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 14:30 (seventeen years ago) link

They do!

VacuVin Coffee Saver Vacuum Jar

― Maaarghk C (Maaarghk C), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Ooh, this is a good page for vacuuming stuff:

http://www.judyofthewoods.net/pump.html

― Maaarghk C (Maaarghk C), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 14:40 (seventeen years ago) link

We have a very fancy coffee maker (restaurant grade) with seperate grinder in my office. No real reason why just when we were moving in my colleague and I went a bit crazy and decided we needed a proper machine. We weren't under budget constraints so spent a fortune.

Sad thing is she didn't even drink coffee and I've given up. Still, our colleagues like it.

― kv_nol (kv_nol), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 14:40 (seventeen years ago) link

o that sounds about right, Mark, esp as I've heard the gaggia called the macchina (tho' i always think of that as meaning 'car').

re-vaccuuming a tin every time you want coffee seems like so much fuss, though, even compared to grinding fresh and cleaning up after.

― cis boom bah (cis), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link

The solution is surely to drink so much of it that it never goes off (cf. soft cigarette packets)

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link

re-vaccuuming a tin every time you want coffee seems like so much fuss, though, even compared to grinding fresh and cleaning up after.

I can see how a person might think this, but in fact it is not true. There are no lengths too great, apparently.

My favourite, favourite thing about the coffee in our house is that I never, ever have to make it myself, giving it all the advantages of restaurant coffee with all the advantages of home coffee.

We use Palombini beans, ground as needed. They are very good.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I have a VacuVin for wine and it's no hassle at all - you just pumpy pumpy and it'd done.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Even if you grind your own it's probably worth it to get a vacuum jar if you're REALLY serious - beans lose their full freshness after a week or two.

― Hurting (A-Ron Hubbard), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Hmm. If only there was some major gift-giving festival coming up at which I could present my beloved with a vaccuum jar.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I have a VacuVin for wine and it's no hassle at all - you just pumpy pumpy and it'd done.

and if you can't find the pump you can suck the air out. TRUE LOVE FINDS A WAY.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 23:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I think I have the same reaction to caffeine that ADD kids have to ritalin -- it's a stimulant that calms me down. I just drank a cup of coffee and it's knocking me right out. Weird.

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 7 December 2006 04:14 (seventeen years ago) link

i only use my french press, which i love to bits.

― derrick (derrick), Thursday, 7 December 2006 07:34 (seventeen years ago) link

i only use my french press, which i love to bits.

http://history.nih.gov/exhibits/nirenberg/images/photos/instruments/06_fpress_pu.jpg

Seems a bit excessive, Derrick.

― Maaarghk C (Maaarghk C), Thursday, 7 December 2006 14:23 (seventeen years ago) link

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