We’ve just taken stock of these Motta Tamping Sets that contain all the accessories you need to make tasty espresso at home. The sets cost £43.95 and come with free delivery.
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Archive for the ‘New Products’ Category
New Product: Motta Tamping Set
Friday, April 13th, 2012The Handpresso Hybrid has Arrived!
Friday, March 23rd, 2012Stock of the new Handpresso Hybrid espresso machines have now arrived and our available to order through our website. Priced as £89.95, they’re a little more expensive than the previous two incarnations of the Handpresso; but now you can use both ground coffee and E.S.E. coffee pods.
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New Products: Ascaso Coffee Grinders and Sagaform Travel Mugs
Monday, March 19th, 2012We’re now stocking the Ascaso I-Mini and I-Steel coffee grinders again. However, this time we’re carrying the i1 version of these models, which have a better spec than the i2 ones we used to sell.
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Handpresso Wild Hybrid
Wednesday, February 29th, 2012Probably (well probably not) the second most eagerly anticipated launch of the year, after the iPad 3, is the Handpresso Wild Hybrid. No longer will buyers have to choose between buying either the E.S.E or ground coffee version. The Wild Hybrid can brew coffee using both.
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Clever Coffee Dripper and Filtropa Filter Papers
Thursday, November 24th, 2011Pour-over or filter coffee makers have never been that popular here in the UK, which is a real same as they make great coffee that tastes quite different to coffee brewed in a cafetiere (which is the coffee maker of choice in most households).
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Gaggia Espresso Machines and Coffee Grinders
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
We are now stocking Gaggia espresso machines and coffee grinders. The prices are as follows:
Espresso Machines:
- Gaggia Baby £209.95
- Gaggia Classic £289.95
- Gaggia Baby Class £295.95
- Gaggia Baby Twin £369.95
Coffee Grinders:
- Gaggia MM £74.95
- Gaggia MDF £189.95
Tescoma Paloma Stove-top Espresso Maker
Thursday, August 18th, 2011
We’ve taken stock this week of some new stove-top espresso makers from a company called Tescoma. Their Paloma coffee maker looks set to compete head to head with Bialetti’s stalwart the Moka Express. They both look pretty similar; they’re both made from aluminium; but the Paloma is cheaper in price and comes with an amazing 3 year warranty (as apposed to 1 year on most Bialetti models).
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Aerobie Aeropress
Monday, August 15th, 2011We are now stocking the Aerobie AeroPress in our webshop. The coffee maker is £21.95 and the Micro-filters are £3.95 for a pack of 350.
What is the AeroPress
For me, the AeroPress has to be one of biggest breakthroughs in coffee making history since Achille Gaggia gave birth to the modern day espresso machine. I’m not the only one to think these coffee makers are great, a group of coffee professionals where so inspired that they started the World AeroPress Championship (WAC).
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Sagaform Travel Mugs
Thursday, February 3rd, 2011
Following on from the popularity of the Sagaform Takeaway travel mug, we’ve now decided to stock this mug in two additional designs: Pix and Flower. Some of you may remember me writing about these travel mugs back in March last year. I still stand by what a said back then. These mugs are great because as they’re made from porcelain there’s no metallic taste. One drawback though – if you don’t count only keeping drinks hot for around 45 minutes – when I make my partner a tea in mine, she says she can still taste coffee (she’s not a coffee fan – well not yet anyway). I’m not sure why, I think maybe the silicone lid absorbs some of the aromas.
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What’s the use of a Thermal Cafetiere?
Friday, May 21st, 2010We’ve just started stocking a range of thermal cafetieres (french press) and it got me wondering what’s the actual point of them? Yes, I know they keep your coffee hot for longer. This new cafetiere claims to keep it hot for 3 times as long. But if you leave your coffee in the cafetiere doesn’t it keep extracting?
This is something I’ve read and heard many times but never got around to testing for myself. Does coffee really keep extracting even when the plunger is down? So I conducted a test using a TDS meter, measuring some coffee immediately after I’d finished brewing and then again 5 minutes later. The results showed that the coffee which had been left in the cafetiere was indeed stronger, by 6%.
This might not seem a lot, but the aim of brewing is to extract all the desirable flavours from the coffee whilst leaving the undesirable ones behind. So if all the desirable flavours have already been extracted by the time the brew has finished, than this extra 6% of strength will be from the undesirable flavours.
Therefore, keeping your coffee hot for longer isn’t a good selling point for a cafetiere. If you leave your coffee inside it, it’s going to keep on brewing, and when you come back to it, it will taste darker, bitterer and will contain more caffeine.
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