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REVIEW | FLAIR ESPRESSO MAKER - PRO
Have you ever made something with your own two hands? Maybe a bookshelf for your partner, a piece of art for a client, or a meal for your family. There’s a certain feeling of satisfaction and accomplishment that can’t quite be reproduced by any other means. Brewing coffee by hand gives me that feeling, but pulling espresso by hand is the zenith.
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REVIEW | BELLMAN STOVETOP STEAMER
I remember the first time I saw a Bellman Stovetop Steamer. It was on a shelf behind a café bar amongst all sorts of vintage coffee brewing equipment. As soon as I laid eyes on it, my inner barista screamed, “Of course!” It just makes sense: put some water in a steel canister, heat it up, add a steam wand and voila! That seemed too simple, though. “Surely it’s too good to be true,” I thought... until I got my hands on one.
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REVIEW | ESPRO TRAVEL PRESS
I ordered the Espro travel press because I wanted a quick, quality brew option for those mornings that I’m running late for class. I was excited and hopeful that this would fulfill those needs, but honestly also pretty skeptical as I figured it might turn out to be one of those “too good to be true” cases.
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ÉVALUATION | IT'S AMERICAN PRESS
Je suis toujours à la recherche de nouveaux instruments d’infusion pour préparer mon café car chaque produits proposent une façon différente de procéder. Certaines méthodes offrent un résultat avec plus de corps, d’autres plus "clean" et puis il y a le brillant mélange des deux; dont cet outil d’infusion qui a passé sous mon radar de Geek! Voici l’évaluation de mon expérience avec l’American Press.
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REVIEW | IT'S AMERICAN PRESS
I’ve had a few months to test this bad babe out now, and straight out of the box, I was honestly a bit surprised. It’s not like I didn’t have high hopes, but it’s easy to get caught up in the sparkle of new coffee technology and this pressy-thing seemed so simple and humble by comparison. I didn’t expect it to be quite so visually beautiful and well thought out.
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ÉVALUATION | KRUVE COFFEE SIFTER
Le tamis de Kruve a fait son apparition sur le site Kickstarter en 2016 et a réussi à amasser plus de trois fois le montant souhaité! Le principe de cet outil est fort simple: tamiser le café pour se retrouver avec différentes grosseur de mouture bien spécifique, en micromètre. À partir de là, il devient intéressant de jouer avec ces différents résultats pour tenter d’obtenir une meilleure tasse de café. Voici l’évaluation de mon expérience avec le Kruve sifter.
REVIEW | ROK ESPRESSO MAKER
The ROK Espresso Maker was my first ever home espresso solution, and four years later I’m still brewing with it. I’ve since upgraded to a dual boiler machine, but something always pulls be back (pardon the pun) to this manual lever machine. I can still remember the first shot I ever pulled on the ROK. I hand ground some beans using a Porlex Mini, tamped my bed, locked, loaded, and pulled.
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REVIEW | ROK GRINDER
Burr grinders differ from blade grinders by crushing the beans as opposed to slicing and chopping them, resulting in a much more uniform particle size. Because the beans are getting crushed between the burrs with each rotation of the crank arm, most manual burr grinders are a literal labour of love. It can be time consuming and even physically laborious to grind beans by hand, but the ROK Grinder does it faster and easier than any manual grinder I’ve ever used.
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ÉVALUATION | COMANDANTE C40 NITRO
Vous l’avez sûrement déjà entendu quelque part: l’achat d’un moulin est la pièce la plus importante pour réussir un bon café. Outre le fait que le grain sera plus frais et la tasse plus aromatique lorsqu’il sera moulu juste avant l’infusion, il est important d’avoir une constance et une uniformité pour la grosseur des particules. Voici l’évaluation de mon expérience avec le Comandante C40 Nitro.
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