Sugar?

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Sugar or no sugar?

Are you crazy? No sugar!
6
43%
One spoon is ok.
7
50%
I need at least two spoons.
1
7%
I heap it up big time: to get "syrupy" espresso, just add lots and lots of the sweet stuff!
0
No votes
Just some salt to reduce the "ki" in my kidneys, please, I'm a macrobiotician!
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No votes
 
Total votes : 14

Postby HughF » Sun Feb 15, 2004 10:27 pm

moccafaux wrote:Lots of factors influence this.
With Hughs blend I had to add a good heap of sugar, phils samples I mixed into a blend based on the brazil and I needed almost no sugar.

It's not my blend! I just twisted a Jim Schuulman blend to fit my remaining stash....
Thanks for the info.

Cheers,

Hugh
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Postby carolynb » Mon Feb 16, 2004 12:59 pm

I never have sugar otherwise I can't tell how good the extraction was. Just one notch on the grinder is enough to throw a shot from "Yuk needs 6 spoons of sugar" to "Oh wow, that's awesome needs nothing"!
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Postby Raf » Mon Feb 16, 2004 1:01 pm

carolynb wrote:I never have sugar otherwise I can't tell how good the extraction was. Just one notch on the grinder is enough to throw a shot from "Yuk needs 6 spoons of sugar" to "Oh wow, that's awesome needs nothing"!


I'm fairly confident I'll be like that when my MM-"E" arrives next week! ;) (sorry, couldn't resist!)
This week I am eagerly anticipating the first god shots from my La Spaziale machine....

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Postby carolynb » Mon Feb 16, 2004 2:25 pm

OK, OK, I had one - but sold it to a deserving customer! :(
Hope to get some more shortly though so maybe I'll experience a slight stock shrinkage ;)
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