Futher adventures in coffee!

[bladespark]

My new grinder arrived today.

I may officially be a coffee hipster. :D

Although I haven't gone full coffee snob, because it was only a $25 grinder. But it is a ceramic burr grinder! Just a little, basic, hand-cranked one. So now I can spend about ten minutes frantically cranking, and get a lovely even grind that makes a much richer cup of coffee with less bitterness. Or I can (and I'm sure I often will) spend literally six seconds using the cruddy electric blade grinder and get a quick and dirty cup. Options!

I did take a glance at electric burr grinders, because six seconds to perfect grinds sounds nice, but not $140 worth of nice, which is where the "good" ones apparently start in price. (Hmm. At 5-10 minutes a cup, how many cups would I have to drink for $140 to be worth paying for the time saved, at minimum wage, say? I don't feel like doing the math now, maybe I will later.)

I know I'll eventually fall out of coffee as an obsession, and I don't feel it's worth investing that much money in, in any case. At least not just now. Maybe in a few years, if I'm still frequently making coffee, and my finances are a bit better, I'll go ahead.

I've dipped in and out of being super into tea over the course of my life (tea, earl gray, hot, but I take mine with Bailey's) so I'll probably dip in and out of coffee too. Right now I'm in the blooming excitement of a totally new thing, and also kinda enjoying the tiny little "fuck you" to the Mormon church and their coffee ban. :D Yes, I am petty. But coffee is also delicious.

P.S. Anybody want a nearly full bag of cocoa nibs? Or have a good idea of what to do with a lot of them? I'm not loving the flavor profile of this brand, it's got that acidic, "fruity" quality which I frankly dislike in chocolate. Some people seem to like it, people actually pay money for Lindt dark chocolate! :3 I wish I could sample the other brands for sale and find out if I like them or not too. I know I like the by-the-pound bulk nibs from the posh grocery store, so I may end up sticking with those even though they cost more than the bagged kind.

Comments

[hitokage]

a moment of silly: at first glance, I thought this opened with "my new gender arrived today" and wondered what that had to do with coffee.

[bladespark]

Hah! I don't think you can buy gender on Amazon. Though it would be interesting if you could.

[hitokage]

I mean, you can buy just about everything else on Amazon! XD

[adafrog]

$140 for a grinder?!

of course!

[daryl_wor]

Thank you for mentioning this. I have this electric grinder I got from a friend years ago that I was a bit worried about. We shopped around for another grinder and came up a bit empty. I completely forgot about the hand-crank ones. I used to use one of those at a pal's house years ago. They can be very fun. Pretty sure that's something that will come around at my new favourite antique shop. I'm often looking for something useful to purchase there. We'll see. Can't believe I forgot about those types of coffee grinders.

(And yes, I've often wondered if any coffee chains ever made much headway into Utah.)

[conuly]

Assuming a $7 minimum wage, you'd have to grind for 20 hours straight to pay off $140. But of course, let's subtract the cost you actually spent. You'd have to grind for about 16.5 hours to pay off just the difference.

16.5 hours is 990 minutes. At more or less 7.5 minutes per cup, that's about 132 cups of coffee. How many cups do you drink per day?

[bladespark]

I have one roughly every other day, though it's a bit irregular.

[conuly]

Then it'll take you just about 9 months to pay off the more expensive grinder, assuming you use it for every cup.

[bladespark]

Shorter than I would have thought! :D Still not in the budget, in that I just plain don't have the money right this moment, but that does make it quite tempting, really.

[dogstar]

I'll trade you peppers for the cocoa nibs; the fruity ones go GREAT in my raspberry chocolate truffle recipe that I'm working on.

[bladespark]

Ooooooooooooooo. Sounds good to me. What kind of peppers?