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Well this is my first post after poking around for a while ......
I am now at a point where I am wondering if I want to become a coffee snob. It wasnt long ago that I would have been quite happy with an instant coffee ..... always liked a machine made coffee if the opportunity presented but never too fussed. Then about 4 years ago I started at an office with a semi-automatic coffee machine. It didnt make great coffee so we tended to stick to instant during the day. Gradually the machine coffee became the norm ...... and then it happened.
After taking six months off work to travel through Europe I found myself starting to drink more and more real coffee. It helped that the only Italian that I knew was "cafe doppio per favore". Before long I was enjoying all types of real coffee. During the morning, during the day, after a meal ...... it all worked.
On return back to Australia I started to take a bit of an interest in coffee ..... helped out by this site. Now I find that I am on the slippery slope to become a coffee snob.
I have already introduced my wife to the idea of spending $2000 on a machine (even when she doesnt drink coffee) and now I am finding I am assessing all takeaway coffee that I purchase to see if is under or over extracted, what machine was used, what the temperature was like, the beans used, what tamper was in use etc. I am now skeptical of supermarket coffee beans even thought I dont have a grinder ..... or anything to brew it in.
I dont know what I am doing but I am finding it quite enjoyable ...... I just explain it away as a hobby. I feel that it is only a matter of time before I start to take some sort of barista course and roast my own beans ..... I can see it happening.
Do I really need to become a coffee snob ...... is there any way back once you have started or is it too late?
Look forward to asking many more questions in the future!
Cheers
Stinky.
I am now at a point where I am wondering if I want to become a coffee snob. It wasnt long ago that I would have been quite happy with an instant coffee ..... always liked a machine made coffee if the opportunity presented but never too fussed. Then about 4 years ago I started at an office with a semi-automatic coffee machine. It didnt make great coffee so we tended to stick to instant during the day. Gradually the machine coffee became the norm ...... and then it happened.
After taking six months off work to travel through Europe I found myself starting to drink more and more real coffee. It helped that the only Italian that I knew was "cafe doppio per favore". Before long I was enjoying all types of real coffee. During the morning, during the day, after a meal ...... it all worked.
On return back to Australia I started to take a bit of an interest in coffee ..... helped out by this site. Now I find that I am on the slippery slope to become a coffee snob.
I have already introduced my wife to the idea of spending $2000 on a machine (even when she doesnt drink coffee) and now I am finding I am assessing all takeaway coffee that I purchase to see if is under or over extracted, what machine was used, what the temperature was like, the beans used, what tamper was in use etc. I am now skeptical of supermarket coffee beans even thought I dont have a grinder ..... or anything to brew it in.
I dont know what I am doing but I am finding it quite enjoyable ...... I just explain it away as a hobby. I feel that it is only a matter of time before I start to take some sort of barista course and roast my own beans ..... I can see it happening.
Do I really need to become a coffee snob ...... is there any way back once you have started or is it too late?
Look forward to asking many more questions in the future!
Cheers
Stinky.
Try your wife on some of the Cocoa and sell her on the idea of steamed milk to go with it
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