Coffee ☕

I like my Smidge cup - the screw-on lid is pretty much leak-proof when closed; you can drink through it; and it comes apart for cleaning.

My only issue with it is that the inside is a bit tea-stained, but I think that’s a problem with tea, not the mug.

(They also do nice water bottles)

Of the million other reusable cups we have in the house, I think KeepCup are probably my other fave - I see they’re now doing Chillys-style mugs too.

Thoughts were “when did monzo did condoms?” :joy:

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Been enjoying these a lot recently: Coffee – Dark Arts Coffee

Wow the designs on the packs are amazing!

It’s a shame they don’t show the roast level for their beans. As someone who drinks their coffee with milk I need darker roasts, otherwise it doesn’t taste of anything.

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Yeah, they’ve recently updated the packaging and it looks really good.

For speciality coffee, not including the roast is quite common. You’re supposed to get an idea based on the tasting notes. But I agree, would be so much easier if they just wrote it on the packet!!

Light roasts tend to have citrus, floral, tea-like flavours. e.g. Lemon, jasmine, berries etc
Medium roasts usually have flavours like caramel, chocolate, nuts, mild fruit
Dark roasts will have mentions of dark chocolate, burnt flavours, cocoa, tobacco etc

Also, bit of a generalisation, but lighter roasts are typically more likely to be from Africa, whereas dark roasts from South America.

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Looks interesting:

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Coffee is dangerous for you, warns EU

Your link is just as clickbaity as the article itself!

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this absolutely stinks of ‘eu regulates how bendy bananas can be’ levels of the telegraph making stuff up about the EU :laughing:

Out of interest, what kind of water do you guys use in your coffee machines? London tap water is pretty bad for limescale buildup and not ideal for coffee making. I’ve heard that Evian etc also high in minerals and not ideal. Tesco own brand js apparently quite good. Curious as to what you use.

Currently I use tap water because it’s a bean to cup espresso machine which cost me £200 but produces excellent coffee. So if it breaks I can live with that.

I suppose this might change depending on the machine, I used to have an automatic bean to cup machine and that had to go back to have its filter changed even with cleaning. If I had that again I’d likely use bottled water.

Whereas this one manages fine, just have to keep on top of cleaning every so often.

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I use tap water in my bean to cup but it goes through a filter in the water tank.

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Tap water filtered in a brita filter

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My machine also has a water filter within in, so tap water is used.

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I always ran the water through a Brita first. Same with our kettle.

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I never use a water filter :sweat_smile:

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I never ever had to use a filter when I lived in Birmingham, which has water as soft as water is getting. It’s gravity fed via the Elan Aquaduct direct from Wales.

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I never have. It just comes integrated in the machine and then it shouts at me to replace it every so often :sweat_smile:

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