Now that's just decadent
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Earlier this year I was half way up a Welsh mountainside taking shelter from the driving rain under the hideous looking overhang that was to be the next pitch of our climb and my climbing partner pulled one of these out of his bag. I'd never even believed that such a thing existed. http://www.handpresso.com/[^] Legend :thumbsup:
Wired tested a couple of hand espresso gadget and that one turned out to be the worse of the bunch... Review: http://www.wired.com/reviews/product/pr_handpresso_wild_domepod[^] have a look at : http://www.wired.com/reviews/product/pr_aerobie_aeropress[^]
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Wired tested a couple of hand espresso gadget and that one turned out to be the worse of the bunch... Review: http://www.wired.com/reviews/product/pr_handpresso_wild_domepod[^] have a look at : http://www.wired.com/reviews/product/pr_aerobie_aeropress[^]
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I don't know if the quality of the final brew is different but he had the version that takes little packs of coffee rather than ground coffee. The stuff tasted awesome at the time, but that may have been because I was shaking due to a combination of adrenalin and cold and any cup of coffee that was above average strength and decently hot would have tasted good
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It always annoys me when our European colleagues visit and bitch about the coffee. Yeah, we get it, your coffee's better. Now STFU.
- Espresso is not coffee, its Espresso. 2) Kona coffee from Hawaii, Dominican Coffee, and Kenyan coffee are all better than typical European coffee.
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We have a European engineer visiting us. I just walked through the lab, and he brought an espresso machine with him. I don't know whether to be insulted or to beg a cup.
Software Zen:
delete this;Take the cup, you have the chance to enjoy a real coffee! While visiting the US, I always bring with me the wood-burning oven... :-D
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Take the cup, you have the chance to enjoy a real coffee! While visiting the US, I always bring with me the wood-burning oven... :-D
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
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- Espresso is not coffee, its Espresso. 2) Kona coffee from Hawaii, Dominican Coffee, and Kenyan coffee are all better than typical European coffee.
Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:
Unpaid overtime is slavery.
Trollslayer wrote:
Meetings - where minutes are taken and hours are lost.
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<blockquote class="FQ"><div class="FQA">Wjousts wrote:</div>It always annoys me when our European colleagues visit and bitch about the coffee. Yeah, we get it, your coffee's better. Now STFU.</blockquote> But, I'm not European...
Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:
Unpaid overtime is slavery.
Trollslayer wrote:
Meetings - where minutes are taken and hours are lost.
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We have a European engineer visiting us. I just walked through the lab, and he brought an espresso machine with him. I don't know whether to be insulted or to beg a cup.
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There's a lot to be said for traveling light. :omg:
BDF People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous. -- Moliere
Queen Latifah[^] says it best.
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Earlier this year I was half way up a Welsh mountainside taking shelter from the driving rain under the hideous looking overhang that was to be the next pitch of our climb and my climbing partner pulled one of these out of his bag. I'd never even believed that such a thing existed. http://www.handpresso.com/[^] Legend :thumbsup:
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Take the cup, you have the chance to enjoy a real coffee! While visiting the US, I always bring with me the wood-burning oven... :-D
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke
[My articles]Come to SA, they're very common in even little pizza chains.
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Come to SA, they're very common in even little pizza chains.
Two SA people, now living here in Italy, told me SA pizza is like the US one: a lot of ALL (cheese, tomatoes, red peppers, zucchini, salami, etc...) on it. I don't like pizza the US way. Anyway one day I'm going to come there and I'll taste something local. What do you suggest? :)
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That is pretty cool and I can't believe such a thing exists.
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We have a European engineer visiting us. I just walked through the lab, and he brought an espresso machine with him. I don't know whether to be insulted or to beg a cup.
Software Zen:
delete this;Ask for a cup :) Don't beg... :) And to the guy who said espresso isn't coffee: WATER + Coffee Beans = Wet Coffee Beans and Dirty Water. Same stuff, flavor varies, all AWESOME! I love this stuff my wife found now: Toddy or Toddi coffee... it's STRONG... but to tase. It's a cold brew so your cafience not get burned up - takes 6-12 hours... coffee, cold water.. long time wait... then you drain this BLACKKKKKK concentrate... then add milk, water, sugar to taste - heat optional. I just do like 2 inches toddy, 5 sugars, 5 inches of milk and it takes like those starbuck frappachinos for MUCH MUCH less :)
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Where abouts were you climbing? At a rough stab in the dark probably Snowdonia somewhere if it was climbing on a mountainside. Might be completely wrong though...
Yep, we were down in the South of Snowdonia on Cadair Idris.
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Yep, we were down in the South of Snowdonia on Cadair Idris.
I've always wanted to go up there, even if just for a walk rather than a climb. Funny that I've driven over most of Wales and to be honest the rest of Britain and done plenty of hikes / expeditions but have yet to venture to Snowdonia. Still we (ICMC - Imperial College Mountaineering Club) are probably going to be doing winter tour up there this year in early January so will finally get the chance.
I doubt it. If it isn't intuitive then we need to fix it. - Chris Maunder
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I've always wanted to go up there, even if just for a walk rather than a climb. Funny that I've driven over most of Wales and to be honest the rest of Britain and done plenty of hikes / expeditions but have yet to venture to Snowdonia. Still we (ICMC - Imperial College Mountaineering Club) are probably going to be doing winter tour up there this year in early January so will finally get the chance.
I doubt it. If it isn't intuitive then we need to fix it. - Chris Maunder
I learnt to trad climb at Plas-y-Brenin and got a taste for the area. There are some awesome crags in north wales, the biggest problem being deciding which one to climb. Whatever climbing you like - Mountains, sea cliffs quarries it's all there and there are so many different types of rock to choose from. I guess the only style of climbing that isn't well catered for is beginner sport climbing but there's so much other good stuff that as long as you've got a couple of trad leaders in a group you wouldn't care too much. The walking is awesome too, either on the way in or out of a climb or just for its own sake.
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I learnt to trad climb at Plas-y-Brenin and got a taste for the area. There are some awesome crags in north wales, the biggest problem being deciding which one to climb. Whatever climbing you like - Mountains, sea cliffs quarries it's all there and there are so many different types of rock to choose from. I guess the only style of climbing that isn't well catered for is beginner sport climbing but there's so much other good stuff that as long as you've got a couple of trad leaders in a group you wouldn't care too much. The walking is awesome too, either on the way in or out of a climb or just for its own sake.
Well I'm smack-bang in the middle of the climbing in Pembrokeshire so I'm "attempting" to work my way through the stuff there. I've also just been told a friend of mine said he knows how to get hold of a pass so I can climb with a friend inside the MoD range in Castlemartin (all routed / graded but hardly climbed). Although Winter tour will probably have the majority being experience trad / sport leaders so we're not going to have too much of a trouble there. I suspect that the others wouldn't be that interested in walking for walking's sake...
I doubt it. If it isn't intuitive then we need to fix it. - Chris Maunder