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by no means, specific to the Gaggia machine. They apply to just about any pump-driven espresso machine. OK, you need ground coffee, so how are you going to get it? if you've done your research, you will quickly find out that a high quality coffee...
- Type: Article
- Author: Corey S
- Category: Cafe Talk
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Gaggia's. The 3-way solenoid, when activated, de-pressurizes the portafilter and allows for a quick removal of waste coffee and prompt reloading of the portafilter for subsequent brews. When using the Gaggia Espresso, necessity dictates that you wait a...
- Type: Article
- Author: colin
- Category: Articles
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Making Espresso Coffee with the Salton-Maxim 450 Guide for Photo at right. 1.) Steam boiler cap 2.) Portafilter lock 3.) Power/Brew/Steam mode switch 4.) Coffee holder portafilter 5.) Steam wand 6.) Glass Coffee Carafe 1. Make sure the function knob is...
- Type: Article
- Author: salton-maxim co.
- Category: Lifestyle
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of joe has gone seriously by the wayside. This is where we pick up the trail. Toronto, thankfully, is a grab bag of chain coffee. Tim Horton's, Second Cup, Timothy's and Starbucks, between the four of them, have about 100 locations within the starched...
- Type: Article
- Author: colin newell
- Category: Lifestyle
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Wrapping up 2005http://coffeecrew.com/index.php/gear-equipment-coffee/lifestyle/342-wrapping-up-2005
2005 has been interesting… Oh, has it been interesting. We moved through the ten and eleven year mark of the coffeecrew website. This year we added stuff and took some stuff away. I certainly have tried to do a few things differently. Let’s start by...
- Type: Article
- Author: colin newell
- Category: Lifestyle
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team at Aerobie Industries (creator of the Aerobie Flying Disc) contacted me about testing and reviewing the Aeropress Coffee maker. Sure, I said. I will test anything. Anytime. Anywhere. I gave the Aeropress coffee maker a good going over and you can...
- Type: Article
- Author: colin newell
- Category: Lifestyle
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June 2005, I completed a three-week journey through China. Pictures downloaded and memories left, the readers of CoffeeCrew.com saw some insights of traveling through China. Along the way, I did some coffee (and tea) exploration, as well as an overall...
- Type: Article
- Author: David Reimer
- Category: Global
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One step beyond the Rancilio Silvia There are two distinct buying groups in intermediate specialty coffee and home espresso - the UNDER $1000 group and the over $1000 group... And the...
- Type: Article
- Author: colin newell
- Category: Articles
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out from the deep, cast iron skillet, the wood fire blackened the bottom of the pan as the heat blackened the crackling coffee beans. A long life of hard work and worry marked the face of Senora Pastora who had graciously allowed me to “help” her out....
- Type: Article
- Author: Kevin Flaherty
- Category: Creative
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we had meant to make a barely passable Americano. These days every shot is glorious, and instead focus on a more pleasant coffee-snob quandary: should I have a latte or cappuccino today? Photo right - the side by side on the venerable Rocky! There are...
- Type: Article
- Author: Jen Reiher
- Category: Articles
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Rabbits and coffee...http://coffeecrew.com/index.php?view=article&id=297:rabbits-and-coffee&catid=17
unlike the world the bunnies live in, especially on a day like today. As if overnight, sales of lattes, cappuccinos and hot coffee vanish only to be replaced with frosty iced drinks that, one would think, should quench the heat of the day. Young people...
- Type: Article
- Author: colin newell
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Most every kitchen in the western world has a coffee pot or brewer of some sort gracing the counter top. The most common item, without question, is the plastic shelled drip coffee brewer. The majority of these tend to have a burner or warming element...
- Type: Article
- Author: colin
- Category: Lifestyle
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Krispy Kreme Mehttp://coffeecrew.com/index.php/gear-equipment-coffee/global/148-krispy-kreme-me
least not the kind of doughnuts that turn up in our lab. I am the first to let everyone know, that in my lab, only the best coffee is being served. Word gets out. This is part of the problem in Colin's world and sadly, my colleagues have become...
- Type: Article
- Author: colin newell
- Category: Global
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- Type: Article
- Author: colin newell
- Category: Global
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getting there. We go there once, maybe twice a year on business. In case you were wondering, no, we do not go there for the coffee nor for any real coffee business. This is a ruse. My wife and I work for the local University and they often send my wife,...
- Type: Article
- Author: colin newell
- Category: Lifestyle
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journey inside the Braun KMM30 low-end burr grinder, a supposedly impregnable and therefore forever unclean appliance. Many coffee enthusiasts might run into this grinder in the midst of several epiphanies regarding good coffee. While not suited for...
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- Category: Articles
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This is the final entry of my three-part journal of my travels through China in June 2005. For the coffeecrew readers who missed the preceding articles, please read article 2 and article 1. The final leg of my whirl-wind trip through China was Hong...
- Type: Article
- Author: colin newell
- Category: Global
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we now have the distinct pleasure of choosing from a wide variety of medium and high quality espresso machines. Here at the CoffeeCrew website and in our test kitchens we are often challenged finding qualities, that are not necessarily obvious from...
- Type: Article
- Author: Colin Newell
- Category: Articles
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stovetop espresso maker. Although I have been distracted with other extravagent grinders and espresso machines from the CoffeeCrew.com team, this small unit does need recognition. Before I get started, my first piece of advice is this: only gas stove...
- Type: Article
- Author: Colin
- Category: Articles
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In almost 15 years of writing about specialty coffee, I used to think that I would have been better off writing about something else; like expensive cars... or space travel... or 5-star hotels. Because, the way I see it, for the last 10 years or so,...
- Type: Article
- Author: colin newell
- Category: Articles
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