I think I'm a coffee snob

Gerry G wrote: »

Is it not?

No: https://www.today.com/money/coffee-taste-test-does-expensive-kind-really-taste-better-t102068

Candie wrote: »

Imagine if there was a clue in the name.

I mean I was going to address that at first, but it seemed so ridiculous - it takes 5-8 minutes to brew two large mugs of coffee.

How long does it take to boil a kettle? Perhaps shorter but seems like splitting hairs!

I worked for a while with UCC Coffee. Servicing coffee machines.
As part of that we travelled to Switzerland to see Thermoplan coffee machines being made and to train on The Mastrena(the machine Starbucks use) as Starbucks are very finicky about who they let work on their machines.
I wasn't a coffee snob before I did that job but I certainly am now.
What I will say if coffee is subjective, like any beverage really, I know people who hate Starbucks coffee and while I don't think it's the best it's not horrendous.

The nicest coffee I ever had was while training in Milton Keynes and it was from a Chemex.
It was so smooth and had no bitterness too it.

Coffee from Aldi whilst in college kept me fairly wired during assessments/exams.

Lethal stuff.

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

I have a part share in a coffee business that imports/ sells/ serves Bolivian coffee. I hate food snobbery in all it's forms (I will never apologise for drinking Carlsberg, or ordering red wine with fish), but there really but there is a difference between instant coffee and coffee made in a pot, and again, good-quality machine coffee.

From tastings we've done, or just from doing blind tastings of different beans that we import (using friends and families as guine pigs) I think everyone is capable of telling the difference; the idea that you can't blind-taste the difference is absurd: for one thing, you can often see the difference betwen instant vs 'real' coffee before you even taste it. If people don't know the difference, it's probably because they aren't interested enough to do a tasting, and why should they? We all have our interests.

But as food and beverages go, I think the quality differences between coffees are far more obvious than most -- certainly more obvious than wine or beer, for example.

But you drink Carlsberg so don't know if I can believe you. You should of pretended to drink Erdinger

Aceandstuff wrote: »

I'm still working through all the bricks of coffee I got in Lidl for 1.50 each a few years ago. And the beans from the cute little barrels they have at Christmas!

Are those any good? I'll stock up when they come back in.

Stevieluvsye wrote: »

They serve douwe egberts in my office.......Any good? Taste nice, but as i said, i like Tesco own brand instant

Living in NL and it's the coffee of choice for most but then it could be like our Barrys/ Lyons pride. Or maybe just good marketing :pac:.

Candie wrote: »

I put a bottle of wine through a sodastream and told people it was champagne. A couple had suspicions, but only a couple.

I don't know if you're serious, but I would do this with everything. Thinking about getting a soda stream because I love fizzy drinks- water and alcoholic beverages, not cola etc. Is it nice?

chite wrote: »

https://twitter.com/SteveBackshall/status/1161566757657763840

Thanks for sharing this, definitely raised my awareness. I've had it once or twice and can't really remember it so must have been unremarkable. Won't be buying it anymore and will share with others.

I have a Philips bean to cup machine (used to be called Saeco) and it is absolutely wonderful. You can adjust the grind of the beans, strength of the coffee, size of coffee, integrated milk foamer... Totally changed my taste aswell, I used to think I enjoyed the spoon standing up style coffee strength when that is just the taste of burned beans. I like a really mild blend of it.

Quite partial to the Kenyan beans at my local supermarket. Instant coffee isn't really a thing here so everyone has a machine be it drip, filter, Nespresso, Senseo or bean to cup like me. I got mine because I don't like instant coffee or pre ground, but also don't like the amount of packaging wasted in Senseo, Nespresso etc.

Absolutely nothing worse than a coffee bore. I was in Mexico recently with a mate and for the first hour of every day all he did was b*tch about “needing a proper coffee” and how he “couldn’t function” without it. Insufferable stuff, we couldn’t even go for breakfast in some gaffs because they didn’t have “proper coffee”.

Nothing more effete and sad than grown adults having strops in the morning because they can’t have a warm drink.

FTA69 wrote: »

Absolutely nothing worse than a coffee bore. I was in Mexico recently with a mate and for the first hour of every day all he did was b*tch about “needing a proper coffee” and how he “couldn’t function” without it. Insufferable stuff, we couldn’t even go for breakfast in some gaffs because they didn’t have “proper coffee”.

Nothing more effete and sad than grown adults having strops in the morning because they can’t have a warm drink.

Have a friend who is the same and uses the "cant function" line all the time. I love coffee as much as the next person but Im not going to let it convince me that my body cannot operate without it.

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

I have a part share in a coffee business that imports/ sells/ serves Bolivian coffee.

Where can we buy your magic beans Tyrant?

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

On a side note, I was in a little 'coffee shop' (using the term loosely) in a small village and asked for a coffee. I just happened to catch sight of the gril behind the counter making coffee from what looked like an Aldi own brand instant coffee jar. When she brought over my coffee I asked if it was instant coffee from a jar and she confirmed it was. I asked it was that jar sitting behind the counter on the shelf and she confirmed it was. I asked how they could charge €3.50 for a coffee that costs around €1.50 in Aldi and she went red in the face at which point I got up and left.

Look at the big man here with the big balls.

Did you feel good beating up on some girl on minimum wage in a small village cafe? Can I infer you didn't even pay for it. It may cost €1.50 in Aldi but what is paying for your ass to sit in the cafe and pay for everything around you? Clearly you do not run a business.

That's like ordering a pint in the local pub and then bitching about it because tins cost half the price in the local off licence. Just makes you look like a complete miserable gob****e.

Classy guy and hard man to boot...

Graces7 wrote: »

You don't use 'cat' as an expression for lousy or crap in your neck of the woods?