The Latest Distraction

My latest distraction is a Rancilio Silvia coffee machine with matching Rocky conical burr grinder. It arrived on Wednesday last week, purchased over the net from Coffee for Connoisseurs in Melbourne - these guys are great! Not only do they thoroughly test the machine before sending it out, they set the grinder to an appropriate setting, and include lots of free coffee to get you started. I'd certainly buy again from them!

Now is where all the fun starts - adjusting the grind, the tamp, temperature, volume of water, preinfusion, bean flavour, all in persuit of the perfect repeatable cup of coffee. Yum!

(BTW, good coffee certainly helps while reviewing the very large volume of wonderful paper submissions to linux.conf.au 2007 that I'm trying to wade through right now.)

coffee | 01 Oct 2006 | #