I like a coffee. But being ignorant with close horizons, I have never had a "proper cup" - it's always just what you get in a café, or at home, we have a drip filter into which we place Taylor's pre-ground coffee. This is nice enough, and better than instant.
For irrelevant reasons, my sister has given me her old bean-to-cup Delonghi Magnifica with the caveat that it wasn't working. I took it for the "fun" of trying to fix it.
I have failed to fix it. And it turns out the cost to get it fixed back at Delonghi is nearly the price of new one.
I've read about oh, you need 28g of coffee that's only two days since roasting with no oily beans and then add 32g of water and then you want a pressure of fifteen bar for 19 seconds which you can only get with a hand grinder of a particular type and make sure the blades are...etc etc. And that fiddly stuff interests me not one jot.
So my question is - assuming that coffee, like everything, is one of those "diminishing returns the more you spend and faff" things, should I just stick with my fifteen quid drip filter, or blow a few hundred on a bean to cup machine (or something else)? Or would I in fact not really notice it anyway unless I'm trying to fool myself, not having a very sophisticated palate?
Last edited by: Crankcase on Sat 27 Nov 21 at 15:08
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