by Guest » Thu Sep 23, 2004 11:20 am
Thanks to all of you for your great response and support to my request, even though I'm no initiate in the exclusive coffee-insider-network!!!
Special thanks to joey. Unfortunately it wasn't possible to react to your very convenient ebay option, because my girlfriend and I went down to italy shortly after I posted my question. We've been freeclimbing and hiking in the midst of a gorgeous mediterranean flora and landscape, swimming in the well temperatured sea, exploring the narrow lanes of sleepy villages, which seem to be glued to the rock or carved out of it, enjoying ligurien delicacies underneath pregnant olive trees… And of course drinkink italien café, whole loads of it. If german bar and café tenders would be capeable of brewing such a good dope for 80 cent a cup, my history of addiction to the black nectar would've started much earlier.
Now back in Germany in the Frankfurt (Main) area everything seems to be not even as half as convincing. A well known phenomenom, but not really surprising, since two days ago my breakfast took place under the sun in shorts and t-shirt, today I've got a second compulsory shower on the bike way to my flat, freezing to death. But we all have to cope with that…
Joey, your suggestion made me reconsider my decision to go for a handmill. But still I'm not sure where I'll end up.
Meanwhile I'll check the ebay offers and drink excellent coffee with "Moccafaux", who gave the laudatio on my ambitions as a gourmet. He is the most educated and trained connoisseur of coffee I know of. And he knows at least as much or less as I do about good food. Thanks, Moccafaux!
Armed with a scale and stopwatch I'll try to come closer to the secret of real good espresso my Gaggia (beginner warehouse type model) has to offer.
Jan