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  • #16
    Re: Coffee in the office

    +1 aeropress, my dad has one also. We went camping over new years and obviously no espresso machine, so Aeropress saved the trip!
    My gf takes the aeropress to work, I grind her up fresh stuff and she makes it at work. I used to take it to work with me too.

    My dad only uses Aeropress, he thinks machines are too fancy and aeropress does just as good of a job!
    I disagree, but it does make good coffee, but only if your grinds are good too

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    • #17
      Good 'ol plunger for me with freshly ground coffee from a Hario Mini mill, just because I'm often rushed in the morning

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      • #18
        I have an AeroPress, but I prefer the Clever Coffee Dripper for work, its cleaner and easier and delivers at least as good in the cup. I use it with an OE Lido hand grinder.

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        • #19
          I bought a used Gaggia Classic for work, and took my old Sunbeam EM0480 grinder in. then I upgraded the grinder to a Gaggia MDF (new). Then I took in my clever coffee dripper, then my 3-cup syphon, then my aeropress. Now I have equipment sitting in the kitchen, and a desk covered in brewing devices and coffee's...

          I brew espresso-based drinks in the morning for myself and a colleague, and filter in the arvo's. On Fridays I brew anyone in my team (of six) a filter drink.

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          • #20
            I have a Lelit Combi sitting on a bench in the corner of the office as well as a Vietnamese Phin. The Lelit Combi grinder is easily adjusted for a coarser grind when I feel like using the Phin and can be quickly adjusted back for short blacks. I usually take two short blacks around midday to pick me up again for the rest of the day. I find the espresso I have at home in the morning usually lasts me until midday.

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            • #21
              Originally posted by saoye View Post
              ... as well as a Vietnamese Phin....
              i have a Phin as well, very handy for a quick coffee, but mine is a bit on the small side. recently bought a Clever coffee dripper for work
              and this plus a hario skerton do the job nicely. CCD is a lot easier to manage mess wise as well. It makes for a nice conversation too when people ask why i go to the trouble of using the handgrinder.

              I do feel a bit guilty using the filter papers for the CCD though.

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              • #22
                I have this in my office: Gusto Electric Coffee Maker (an electric moka pot)
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                • #23
                  Originally posted by Rukudo View Post
                  i have a Phin as well, very handy for a quick coffee, but mine is a bit on the small side. recently bought a Clever coffee dripper for work
                  and this plus a hario skerton do the job nicely. CCD is a lot easier to manage mess wise as well. It makes for a nice conversation too when people ask why i go to the trouble of using the handgrinder.

                  I do feel a bit guilty using the filter papers for the CCD though.
                  nice rig. I love the CCD, but honestly, it's less consistent than the aeropress (for me) with regards to a great brew every time. I still love using it every now and then. I've recently ordered a metal filter disk for my aeropress too

                  It's interesting checking out everyone's brewing devices at work, stove-tops, turkish grinders, french press (lots of these). Plenty to mix it up. One fellow has a nespresso machine on his desk. Why not I guess.. not for me, but if he enjoys it then great I spose.

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                  • #24
                    I have a plunger at work and am spoilt with a Mazzer Major for a grinder at home so take a small supply to work. I am sure they were trying to poison me with their coffee

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                    • #25
                      I started making Turkish coffee when we had no decent machine at work. Just one of those cheap copper plated tin brikis and a butane burner from eBay.

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                      • #26
                        brilliant! It's awesome reading what people are doing on the go or at work.

                        I recently sold the Gaggia Classic and upgraded to a Silvia for work. The Gaggia still a cracker of a machine, just needed some more steam power for some of the lads at work. Brewing a lot of 'clever dripper's too for filter.

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                        • #27
                          Jealous.... My work don't allow me to have a espresso machine at work, yet allow me to have a drip machine. Which i find to be suitable for myself and the gathering numbers of fellow workers wanting a cup of coffee as well..

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                          • #28
                            Coffee in the office

                            Go an aeropress or something for your desk!

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                            • #29
                              I actually HAD one at my desk, but after so many work mates commenting and wanting to try it i bought a Kitchenaid coffee maker so i could make enough for now 12 people at 2-3 cups a day. i don't have much time now to use the Aeropress, which i ended up taking home after a few weeks of having the coffee maker. When i stop and think about it the taste from the aeropress is far superior IMO, which really cant be compared anyway...

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                              • #30
                                I believe I have a very effective solution here - ban milk based drinks at work and just drink espressos! With my old Gaggia and old Rocky myself and a fellow snobber produce great espressos from our home roasted beans. In a convenient kind of way the Gaggia's (or mine) poor performance at steaming milk restricts us to our beanbay espressos. Meanwhile the rest pop over the road for their $4 milk schmilk lattes and tut tut at us as we discuss the current bean or our rigs at home (coffee that is). It's an elite club ours, just 2 members and a waiting list similar to that of the MCC Members. Meanwhile the latte buyers in the outer turn their nose up at us with mutterings like "Felix and Oscar are at it again" or "they're like those 2 old guys on the balcony in the Muppets"....... and they wonder why they call this site Coffeesnobs? Beats me.....

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