New here
Posted: Sat May 01, 2004 11:51 am
Hello,
I'm a new french "home roaster". Well, at least I'll soon be. I just orederd my hearthware precision as I couldn't wait more for the new iRoast, wich, according to the sweetmaria's Tom review is very promising. You can't imagine how hard it has been to find a hearthware vendor on the net. Finally, I ordered it via http://www.sandalj.com/ and now I'm waiting for the invoice.
Next step was ordering green beans. As I felt in love with sweetmaria's website, I decided to order from them. I am particularly interested in their espresso blends. But the minimal order is $40 (which I understand) and the shipping cost are too high for a first test, so I entered "buying green coffee beans in Europe" in google, found hasbean.co.uk and from there found a link to this site... Finally exactly what I'm looking for, an european community !!!
In 5 minutes browsing I found 10 times more websites than in searching for hours via google or american coffee websites, so cool
To describe myself, I'd say I'm french but my parents are italian and go there every summer. My parent's didn't want me to dring coffee before I was 16 and I began drinking some when one of my brothers opened its restaurant and it was Yirgacheffe. Additcion grew and 2 years ago, I decided I couldn't live without a good lever machine, so I stopped by lapavoni website and ordered an EHL Europiccola with a JDL Jolly grinder. By chance, my first went very good. But then, catastrophy arrived cups after cups. So, I decided to look for instructions and tips. Weeks after weeks, my shots got better and now I'm happy to say that most of my shots are very good. Increasing my skills, I then understood that freshness of the coffee and roasting levels were very important. About the same moment, I found sweetmarias website and understood were the holly grail is A few days ago, my girlfriend offered my a Zassenhaus manual grinder and looking at my coffeegeekcorner in the kitchen I decided it wasn't possible anymore to wait for the iRoast and ordered the Precision model. I orederd my coffee from <http://www.berliner-kaffeeroesterei.de> as I read <a href="http://www.toomuchcoffee.com/index.php?module=ContentExpress&func=display&btitle=CE&mid=&ceid=81'>this article</a> but forgot to specify I was living in France and made an error in my email address... I sent them an email to correct my order but I don't know what's going to happen
Hoping to join you soon,
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Stephane Cataldi
I'm a new french "home roaster". Well, at least I'll soon be. I just orederd my hearthware precision as I couldn't wait more for the new iRoast, wich, according to the sweetmaria's Tom review is very promising. You can't imagine how hard it has been to find a hearthware vendor on the net. Finally, I ordered it via http://www.sandalj.com/ and now I'm waiting for the invoice.
Next step was ordering green beans. As I felt in love with sweetmaria's website, I decided to order from them. I am particularly interested in their espresso blends. But the minimal order is $40 (which I understand) and the shipping cost are too high for a first test, so I entered "buying green coffee beans in Europe" in google, found hasbean.co.uk and from there found a link to this site... Finally exactly what I'm looking for, an european community !!!
In 5 minutes browsing I found 10 times more websites than in searching for hours via google or american coffee websites, so cool
To describe myself, I'd say I'm french but my parents are italian and go there every summer. My parent's didn't want me to dring coffee before I was 16 and I began drinking some when one of my brothers opened its restaurant and it was Yirgacheffe. Additcion grew and 2 years ago, I decided I couldn't live without a good lever machine, so I stopped by lapavoni website and ordered an EHL Europiccola with a JDL Jolly grinder. By chance, my first went very good. But then, catastrophy arrived cups after cups. So, I decided to look for instructions and tips. Weeks after weeks, my shots got better and now I'm happy to say that most of my shots are very good. Increasing my skills, I then understood that freshness of the coffee and roasting levels were very important. About the same moment, I found sweetmarias website and understood were the holly grail is A few days ago, my girlfriend offered my a Zassenhaus manual grinder and looking at my coffeegeekcorner in the kitchen I decided it wasn't possible anymore to wait for the iRoast and ordered the Precision model. I orederd my coffee from <http://www.berliner-kaffeeroesterei.de> as I read <a href="http://www.toomuchcoffee.com/index.php?module=ContentExpress&func=display&btitle=CE&mid=&ceid=81'>this article</a> but forgot to specify I was living in France and made an error in my email address... I sent them an email to correct my order but I don't know what's going to happen
Hoping to join you soon,
--
Stephane Cataldi