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Jun 23

Preheat Your Mug, Thermos, Cup or Vessel

For great tasting coffee at home, the office, on hikes and on trips, always preheat your coffee mugs, travel mugs and thermos. Well, you have to do something while waiting for your coffee to finish dripping, may as well heat your drinking gear!
Jun 23

Espresso Machine Cleaning Hacks

Keep your stainless steel coachwork looking great. Just need a clean short-nap washcloth (lighter color will give you type-A people a good sense of progress). Wet the washcloth with water from your hot water tap, wipe your machines metal clean, going with the grain of the metal, then dry off.... read more →
Jun 17

Melita Cone, Moka Pot & French Press

Melita Cone Wet the filter before use and put one coffee scoop per cup plus one, pour water in circular pattern and stir once you have a nice cupcake like bloom happening (just don't tear the filter). I like to make the Melita into a preheated thermos if making more... read more →
Jun 17

Moka Pot

Moka Pot (for stove top espresso) Please never let your Moka pot stay on the lit burner with no water... you will wake up eventually, to the smell of burning plastic (this will be either your gasket or the handle) and not only will you be a bit late for... read more →
Jun 17

French Press

If you are going to keep the OOh-La-La going in your life and save some bucks at the same time ; just decide to trust me and ( wait for a sale if you have to ) get this one the Bodum Columbia double wall 8 cup .We have had... read more →