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[El Zorro]

inb4 it's all because them wind turbines.

Called it.

 

[Steve Dore]

Why didn't you bring your own coffee in instead?

It's not bringing the beans that's the problem, it is bringing the espresso machine and where to put it, and being allowed to use it (OHS), that's the issue.

At the previous place I worked I used to use one of these to make coffee but that is not practical at my current workplace;

 

[Lagooner]

It's not bringing the beans that's the problem, it is bringing the espresso machine and where to put it that's the issue.

Some mornings I'll make coffee with the stovetop percolator at home and bring it to work in a flask to use throughout the day. It's not as good as having an espresso machine but it's a shitload better than the Nescafe Blend 43 sachets in the tea room.

 

[Steve Dore]

Some mornings I'll make coffee with the stovetop percolator at home and bring it to work in a flask to use throughout the day. It's not as good as having an espresso machine but it's a shitload better than the Nescafe Blend 43 sachets in the tea room.

I did that for a while.

 

[NoddyHolder]

It's not bringing the beans that's the problem, it is bringing the espresso machine and where to put it, and being allowed to use it (OHS), that's the issue.

At the previous place I worked I used to use one of these to make coffee but that is not practical at my current workplace;

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I use a plunger. Not quite as good as the espresso machine but better than any instant/pods/something that's been sitting in a thermos all day.

 

[Magus]

It's not bringing the beans that's the problem, it is bringing the espresso machine and where to put it, and being allowed to use it (OHS), that's the issue.

At the previous place I worked I used to use one of these to make coffee but that is not practical at my current workplace;

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Ah yes, I'm all too familiar with everything needing to be tagged and tested. It's a major pain in the ass.

 

[chiwigi]

Moanreenu was sacked within 9 months too wasn't he?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/brutal-premier-league-sacking-ranieri-9806546

 

[ScooterBrother]

Get on the stovetop maganetta train for your coffee at work peeps. The old school Italians at my workplace opened my eyes. They're a bit tricky to get right - coarseness of the ground is critical, too fine and the water takes too long to get through it, burns the bottom and makes it too bitter, too coarse and the water goes through it like a siv and the oils don't escape, meaning it tastes weak. Anything in the supermarket is too fine - even if they say its OK on the packaging. Don't stomp the coffee in there, just loosely pile it in to the rim of the basket.

Ask your local coffee haunt for a blend ground for a maganetta - should be like saw dust consistency. And don't over-boil it - soon as the perc sound is audible take it off and let it stand for a minute.

Do all of that and they make a pretty great cup for a 10th of the price of pods and without needing expensive machinery.

 

[Steve Dore]

Ah yes, I'm all too familiar with everything needing to be tagged and tested. It's a major pain in the ass.

It's not just the tag and testing it is supplying the MDS for the coffee beans and having a documented safe work procedure for a machine that raises water to boiling point.

There are also restrictions on where it can be used.

I use a plunger. Not quite as good as the espresso machine but better than any instant/pods/something that's been sitting in a thermos all day.

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I tried a plunger for a while years ago before I went to the electric version of the stove top pot but it is very difficult to get decent strength coffee out of a plunger.

 

[Steve Dore]

Get on the stovetop maganetta train for your coffee at work peeps. .....

Refer previous posts.

maganette

 

[NoddyHolder]

It's not just the tag and testing it is supplying the MDS for the coffee beans and having a documented safe work procedure for a machine that raises water to boiling point.

There are also restrictions on where it can be used.

I tried a plunger for a while years ago before I went to the electric version of the stove top pot but it is very difficult to get decent strength coffee out of a plunger.

buy strong blends and load up. I like my coffee strong and manage to get a decent brew out of a plunger

 

[Lagooner]

Get on the stovetop maganetta train for your coffee at work peeps. The old school Italians at my workplace opened my eyes. They're a bit tricky to get right - coarseness of the ground is critical, too fine and the water takes too long to get through it, burns the bottom and makes it too bitter, too coarse and the water goes through it like a siv and the oils don't escape, meaning it tastes weak. Anything in the supermarket is too fine - even if they say its OK on the packaging. Don't stomp the coffee in there, just loosely pile it in to the rim of the basket.

Ask your local coffee haunt for a blend ground for a maganetta - should be like saw dust consistency. And don't over-boil it - soon as the perc sound is audible take it off and let it stand for a minute.

Do all of that and they make a pretty great cup for a 10th of the price of pods and without needing expensive machinery.

Everyone to Gaganis Bros stat!

 

[ScooterBrother]

Refer previous posts.

maganette

Yeah but that a fully electric one isn't it? You cant use a stove at work?

 

[Steve Dore]

Yeah but that a fully electric one isn't it? You cant use a stove at work?

I have a few stove top ones at home (different sizes) but can't use them at work and the electric one does exactly the same thing, it just has its own built in source of heat. I have no access to a stove top at work.

 

[ScooterBrother]

Everyone to Gaganis Bros stat!

http://javalifestyle.com.au/

 

[ScooterBrother]

I have a few stove top ones at home (different sizes) but can't use them at work and the electric one does exactly the same thing, it just has its own built in source of heat. I have no access to a stove top at work.

Ahhh ok that's ****ed then. My work banned under desk heaters last winter because they couldn't be tagged and tested often enough.

You want to piss off a group of women, take their heaters away my god. It was like they were being forced to work in a gulag.

 

[TeeKray]

It wasn't Ranieri's team that won (is the argument) and his first proper year he is getting relegated.
The last 3 winners have been sacked.

Meanwhile, at the Arsene Wenger Football Club ...

 

[Portia]

You want to piss off a group of women, take their heaters away my god. It was like they were being forced to work in a gulag.

http://www.vox.com/2015/8/3/9082541/office-cold-air-conditioning

If you work in an office, there's a good chance it's absurdly over-air-conditioned during the summer. But you might not be aware of one infuriating reason why: The formulas used to design and calibrate most heating and cooling systems are based on a single estimate of the metabolic activity of a 40-year-old, 155-pound male.

This formula for the human body's level of comfort, created in the 1960s, made no attempt to take women or people of different sizes or ages into account — and hasn't been touched for decades.

http://www.vox.com/2015/8/3/9082541/office-cold-air-conditioning

 

[manureid]

Went in to an optometrists yesterday and they had set the air con temp to the metabolic activity of a 15 year old, 1000 pound Polar bear.

 

[Far Kern]

Called it.
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Correlation = causation confirmed.

 

[Lagooner]

http://javalifestyle.com.au/

Phoar this one's a work of art!



At home I have a standard silver 6-cup and one of these for the lols (used it twice).

 

[ScooterBrother]

http://www.vox.com/2015/8/3/9082541/office-cold-air-conditioning

http://www.vox.com/2015/8/3/9082541/office-cold-air-conditioning

No doubt. Ours is particularly bad, we had people at their desk in snow jackets.

Problem is catering for individual preference. There is one woman going through menopause and anything other than artic and shes fanning herself like Cleopatra.

I reckon we allow men to wear shorts during summer in the workplace and then we can balance out the AC to match.

 

[Trewth]

I don't mind percolated coffee but those things are a campaigner to clean so I don't bother.

 

[chiwigi]

Men are wearing suits, whilst women are wearing a singlet and skirt, then complaining its too cold.

 

[ScooterBrother]

Phoar this one's a work of art!

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At home I have a standard silver 6-cup and one of these for the lols (used it twice).

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Yeah they have some cool stuff, they've got an espresso machine from way back in the 20s I think in the Newton store. All brass. It's beautiful.

I've got your bog standard Bialetti aluminium 2-cuppa (really a one for me) and a 6-cuppa for when someone else wants some.

In all honesty I was a coffee snob before I came up this way and had no idea the quality of the coffee you could make with some steam in a tin. Amazingly very few places actually use this technique commercially that I am aware of.