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Coffee cloths

Postby alans » Wed Mar 10, 2004 12:13 pm

Every time I make a shot I clean out the filter, group head etc with a tea towel and as most tea towels we've got are white they always end up looking very dirty. So my quest of late has been to find a coffee coloured cloth for doing this sort of cleaning but I've been having no luck at all, has anyone else had or resolved this problem or should I just give up and accept that it will look dirty?
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Postby phil » Wed Mar 10, 2004 12:25 pm

I just use paper kitchen towel
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Postby alans » Wed Mar 10, 2004 1:33 pm

Thanks Phil, sounds like a simple solution, I'll give it a go!
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Postby moccafaux » Wed Mar 10, 2004 2:18 pm

In our outdoor-shop we sell synthetic towels, made by cascade (=therm-a-rest). They are incredibly longlasting and hardwearing. In the holidays we even use them for stuff like cleaning bikes, canoes etc. And they are not white!
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Postby Sunnyfield » Sat Mar 20, 2004 6:43 pm

Waitrose (in the UK) has paper kitchen towels with coffee and espresso prints! (Yes I am sad)
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Postby phil » Sun Mar 21, 2004 12:40 am

That is so sad even I recognise it as sad
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La Spaziale Lusso grinder (espresso),
Macap MC4 shop grinder (brewed coffee)
Three Thor tampers
Two Hottops, first since Feb 2003
No partridge, no pear tree either
Conas, Zassenhaus hand grinder....
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Postby alans » Mon Mar 22, 2004 2:58 pm

I tried the paper towels but while mostly perfect there were a couple of jobs they weren't up to. Then I found some black tea towels so all's well now :D
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Postby phil » Mon Mar 22, 2004 3:32 pm

What jobs were they Alan?
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La Spaziale Lusso grinder (espresso),
Macap MC4 shop grinder (brewed coffee)
Three Thor tampers
Two Hottops, first since Feb 2003
No partridge, no pear tree either
Conas, Zassenhaus hand grinder....
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Postby alans » Mon Mar 22, 2004 3:47 pm

It's just because Ms Pavoni is so messy, I found that the majority of splatter I was getting in the coffee area was when from knocking the coffee out, so now I put a cloth over the spouts when knocking. The spouts would just poke through the paper when I tried.

I think the Pavoni's open spouts cause worse splatter than most and would love to replace the un-necessary double spout with an enclosed single. Does anyone know of any other PF spouts that would fit a Pavoni?
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