Want An Espresso Drink With Milk But No Steam Wand?
Wake up, feel like having an espresso. Get to your kitchen, sun streaming in, decent temperature outside, "you know, today might not be so bad" you say out loud to yourself. You have an espresso machine (good on ya) and are feeling like making a milky espresso drink....
How To Clean Your e-61 Group Head (Exciting! Fun!)
So you have your espresso machine, and everything is working great. You have that going for you, which is nice. But sometimes you have to take care of things simply because. A li'l maintenance goes a long way in maintaining the life, and happiness of your machine....
The Choices You Make, Make You…
What is your taste in coffee? Black? A giant cup first thing in the morning? Lots and lots of milk and sugar (although this basically renders the coffee useless, and you might as well just concede you don't LIKE the taste of coffee). What do you imagine with the...
Clogged Steam Wand!?!? Well Come On Let’s Fix it!
You've been making tasty, steamy, milky coffee drinks for a while now, getting things right, making new friends, but all of a sudden your steam wand is behaving strangely. It's CLOGGED! Oh no's!!! But a fix is inevitable. What, you just gonna have straight espresso...
Sometimes you gotta just take a step back, and look…
Sometimes you just gotta take a step back, and try something different. No no no, I don't mean don't pick your kid up for the weekend, don't wear aftershave, don't drive in the opposite lane, don't get another job, don't style your hair differently, don't act...
Your Favorite Cold Weather Coffee Is…
You're hunkered down inside because the weather is about to turn, or perhaps it is already miserable as you read this. You needa coffee and straight-up black just won't cut it. What are you gonna do? You could take it super easy and just go Swiss Miss style and have...
What To Do When You Don’t Know What To Do
You wake up, have a coffee, go about your morning, put together a plan for what you want to do or accomplish, then...you get stuck. Is that really what you want to do with your day? Is that the way to have any sort of Life Progression? Nah. So you come up with a New...
What Type Of Coffee Shop Music Do You Like?
When you walk into a cafe, what type of music do you want to hear? Totally subjective, but we all have our preferences. You want smooth jazz, urban bluesey sounds, '90's Hits (what I refer to as "Dental Office Music"), classical, international randomity (like you...
A Different Kind Of Coffee Maker…Should you experiment?
You ever go to a cafe and see something on one of their shelves of stuff for sale and feel a sense of wonder? Yeah, me too. I've had that feeling many times. There's always something there that you've never seen before or have only seen online and all of a sudden out...
How To Make Eggs In An Espresso Machine. WHAT!?!?
Jump into the Wayback Machine... Let's talk eggs. Wait...what? I thought this was a coffee-blogpost-gear-review site. Yep! But today, a departure to an earlier (and easier) time, when the internet was in its infancy and life was slower and more simple. Storytime,...
The Americano Is The Perfect Drink. Change My Mind.
How do you start your morning? Do you grab the newspaper (Ha! What year IS IT?!?!), sit at the table with a cuppa coffee and then immediately regret your beverage decision? Yeah, that is no way to start the day. Miserable. So many options: Aeropress, Handpresso,...
Want to improve a Mocha? Add Cereal Marshmallows!
So you're already aware that a mocha is the best coffee drink ever right? Oh, you're drinking one right now? Good on ya. But what can we do to improve on this beverage? Bigger cup? Yes, that is certainly one way. Upgrade to a higher percentage of chocolate? Say, 71%?...