I use Aeropress so grind quite fine.  Not sure I can get rid of the chaff by blowing without blowing away fine grounds.  That said, my grinder doesn't give much chaff - it seems to get left behind.  Or just mixed in really well and I can't tell... most likely that!

Will definitley sort beans next time and see.

If you use an electric grinder most of it gets stuck to the lid thanks to the static electricity generated.

Oooft. Goober dropping knowledge bombs.

Any decent travel mug recs that aren't stupidly expensive Stanley ones? Needs to be at least 500ml, have good thermals, and fit in a standard cup holder.

The best travel mug is probably an ammo pouch flask. It's insulated, has a secure lid, fits in a standard cup holder, is cheap and robust.

Something like this:

Hmm. This is where I get weird. I hate the lids on most.

My current is just really good at retaining heat I just go with no lid. Hate that feeling as if you're sucking coffee out. Plus I like the froth.

I'll probably hit up TK Maxx again. My current came from there, done me four years and cost like £8.

In a mug that maintains the hotness indefinitely?

Looks like a bluetooth vibrator. Pass.

(sorry, I'm very weird with this, dunno why I asked)

davyK wrote:

You know that feeling when you have wandered into a room full of hard core nerds doing their thing and just want to quietly back out again?

The shmup thread?

Frosty wrote:

Well I guess I'm doing this from now on. Watched this yesterday and tried it this morning and my coffee actually tastes better. Lance is suggesting that you take the time to remove the shitty beans from your dose before grinding then remove any of the papery chaff afterwards before brewing. A bit of a pain to do but I'm already hand grinding and brewing with a v60 so what's another few minutes I guess.

I ran out of nice coffee and ended up with a bag of Asda’s Javan Volcanic Island beans - a dark roast, which isn’t my thing but they had bugger all medium wholebean. So I thought I’d try this. Made one scoop of the biggest wholest beans and another scoop heavily adulterated with stuff that was filtered out of the first scoop. I was kinda surprised by how much stuff I had to filter out - I haven’t checked my nice roaster coffee before but I swear it’s more consistent than this supermarket stuff which is full of broken bits and weird shaped beans. Also, it is really boring sorting coffee and I don’t think I could be bothered with this all the time. I made both cups immediately one after the other and drank them together. The good scoop produced a cup of coffee that I didn’t love because it was dark roasted but behind the roastiness there was a kind of wholeness to the flavour, like a recognisable coffeeness. The bad scoop produced a cup of coffee that was very hollow and actually quite sour. I genuinely tried to make sure there were a lot of actual beans in there, albeit not the largest ones so it would have a chance of tasting like coffee but it tasted of not very much.

I guess this could help elevate very mediocrely produced wholebean coffee but it’s probably a bit too time-consuming to do if you already buy decent coffee from a good roaster.

Sorting beans is too time consuming for me, but I respect the dedication.

I have just bought some coffee scales for espresso, which initially I resisted, but it doesn't really add on much additional time/faff.

I never buy supermarket beans. I did have a chat with one roaster I've used and they were saying that they have pretty strict quality assurance on their beans. I have to take their word on it obvs, but happy to pay more for someone to do the work for me.

The beauty of coffee is having all these different processes you can add, take away, streamline or tweak to suit you. Everyone does it a little differently. It's great.

Hmmmmm.  Fucking investors and trying to make more money through changes.

What?