For the last couple of years I have been making cold brew coffee. My current process is mixing cheap grounds with water in my French press and setting it in the fridge over night. In the morning I then filter it using a traditional cone filter. I absolutely love my cold brew coffee. But I also use folgers and creamer. So not exactly high quality brew. And way to improve my process? In quality or ease of use? I hate cleaning my French press and basket thing that holds my cone filter. But I also can't tell a big difference in folgers and much nicer beans at least in cold brew. I can tell when I use a dark roast as I'm not wild about that.
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So there's this new bean-to-cup brewer I've been seeing around for a while now, and it's finally out (sort of). The xBloom is an automated pourover machine that does it all. If you like pourover but don't have the patience to spend 10 minutes pouring a 4:3:3 or whatever every time you want a coffee, especially at 5AM, this lets you dial in your brew and it does all the work for you.
Here's what daddy Hoff has to say about it:
His conclusion is that the auto-detection of brewing settings is the one, key feature of the device, that the machine is for people who don't want to do any tweaking or dialing in, and that they will stick to pods. Would you agree? I thought the main feature of the device is that it was a programmable bean-to-cup pourover brewer.
Thoughts?
Does the French press play any part other than a jug to hold the mixture while it's brewing?
Could you add the paper filter to the press plunger and filter and strain at the same time?
Here's what daddy Hoff has to say about it:
His conclusion is that the auto-detection of brewing settings is the one, key feature of the device, that the machine is for people who don't want to do any tweaking or dialing in, and that they will stick to pods. Would you agree? I thought the main feature of the device is that it was a programmable bean-to-cup pourover brewer.
Thoughts?
Does the French press play any part other than a jug to hold the mixture while it's brewing?
Could you add the paper filter to the press plunger and filter and strain at the same time?
Honestly, I only watched a few minutes of the video, enough to see the mechanics (and his terminology is a little off here and there). Impressive. But what's most impressive is the idea of having those little containers with the beans, the weighing process, and it formulating a recipe with that information.
What's not impressive is the grinder built in. I get that the whole idea is for you to just be able to get up, throw a "pod" on there, walk away, and bodaboom, bodabing, amazing-level coffee. But you're gonna, at some point, have to clean out all that grind build up inside the grinder. FUCK. THAT.
It's a pretty device. Out of the box, with his fancy, schmancy studio set, it's quite attractive. But it looks like it will turn into a begrudging mess after a week.
As an aside, the wiggle and water spout mechanics (and they are mechanics, in spite of what he says) are very inventive ideas.
You have to clean out the grinder from time to time but not more often than any other grinder.
This is supposed to be a "no retention" (technically just low retention) grinder so you can get by with just blowing it out with bellows for quite a while but yes, every once in a while you will have to open it up to clean it more thoroughly, just like any other grinder.
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The spout has no moving parts, and the water flow is directed electrostatically, so it's referred to as "solid state" as opposed to "mechanical". A lot of the "solid state" components out there are also technically mechanisms but we let them slide.
There's a French press "hack" if you want to filter more finely than what the metal mesh does, and that is to add a paper filter to the plunger. If the seal is good enough and you press lightly enough, it should work and maybe you can skip the cone filtering step. You could give it a try.
Wow. Actually yeah that is exactly what I'm talking about. Something simple and easy to work into my normal routine. I'll definitely try it out.There's a French press "hack" if you want to filter more finely than what the metal mesh does, and that is to add a paper filter to the plunger. If the seal is good enough and you press lightly enough, it should work and maybe you can skip the cone filtering step. You could give it a try.
French press for me, I usually make 1L of ole bean juice to leave overnight in my fridge for some delicious cold brew the next morning.
How have I not thought of this?? So simple yet genius.
How have I not thought of this?? So simple yet genius.
Cold brew and instant coffee for me.
Sometimes I drink em americano style or I add some low carb milk and sugar free syrups.
Sometimes I drink em americano style or I add some low carb milk and sugar free syrups.
How is it a machine called "Mr. Coffee" is the biggest piece of s*** coffee maker I've ever owned? Just over a month old, and it won't shut off anymore. I have to unplug it if I don't want to burn my house down.
Delicious, but for my old noggin, it's like tequila, a once in a great while thing. My brain would overload fast.
"Caffeine, which is present in coffee and other drinks such as some teas and soft drinks, stimulates the gastric secretion of components such as gastrin and hydrochloric acid, which may aggravate stomach ulcers." https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/what-drink-is-good-for-ulcers
Cause? Doesn't seem like it, but make worse? Probably.
Here are results from a government study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8778943/
I have no idea what caused my ulcer, but during the ulcer treatment you can't drink coffee at all.
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Absolutely not. While those spices work great in a pie with, you know, actual pumpkin, putting them in coffee does not taste like pumpkin spice ANYthing. I've tried it and you're completely wrong.
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