Breville presents the Art of Coffee – The Perfect Cappuccino with Amanda Byron Joe Art of Coffee Started in 2003, local family-owned Joe Coffee “is perhaps the best all-around coffee shop in New York City (Eater 2012)” with “some of the best-trained baristas in the biz (Imbibe Magazine 2012)”. Joe is dedicated to making flawless coffee served with warm hospitality. Joe has been named one of the “Best US Coffee Bars” by Food & Wine, listed as one of “10 outstanding coffee bars in New York City” by The New York Times, and has had countless articles, mentions and awards besides. About Amanda Byron And now a brief interview with Joe’s right hand lady, Amanda Byron, Joe’s Director of Coffee, barista trainer, coffee educator Hey Amanda, you look good. now tell me, what’s your background? “well, I grew up in Seattle and I’ve always been obsessed with coffee. I remember taking pictures of drinks that I made on my mom’s shoddy Gaggia espresso machine because I thought that foam on top of coffee looked so cool. Amanda, what’s your fave drink? ” I love a pair of hot ones in a glass just barely half full of ice water. i’m obsessed with that bevvy right now.” That sounds yummy. Speaking of faves, what’s your fave thing about Joe? “um, the coffee. and the fact that we make it taste real good.” Nicely put. Who are your influences? “uh…geez…i’d have to say that Schomer, Barth, Gregg, and my fellow baristas are my biggest coffee influences. But my daily influences are Josh(my fiancé …

Good morning folks. After over a year of owning my awesome La Pavoni Europiccola espresso machine, I am happy to make my first demonstration of it. Certainly when I watch this I will realize better ways to shoot it to make the demonstration better and more self explanatory. In that case I will happily replace this video. (And yes, I am in my pajamas. What of it?) I bought my machine from Christopher at Thomas Cara, Ltd. in San Francisco. He’s a good dude and really pulled out the stops when I came by to make my purchase. But I warn you, he can be difficult if you’re not on your best behavior. Just buy it online somewhere if your spirit is weak. In any case, I’m using 14 grams of Sightglass’s Owl’s Howl espresso beans ground in an Ascaso I-Mini Conical dedicated coffee bean Burr Grinder. The reason I call it dedicated is because adjusting anything beyond subtle adjustments is a ridiculous endeavor as you need to crank the knob so many times that by the time you get to a French press grind, for example, you come down with a severe case of carpal tunnel. I only use it for espresso grinds. I think I need to rebuild it as when I’ve been grinding beans for the last 3 months or so, it blocks up and sometimes stops. That’s a disaster in the middle of the process as you gotta dump out the beans, grounds and beans get everywhere, you lose some of the 14 grams, you get anxious, and etc. I only paid about 0. for it so I am not sure if I could expect any better performance or not …

I have a Krups XP5020 consumer semi-automatic Espresso Machine. It has served me well for over a year. But I am toying with the idea of upgrading to a better semi-automatic like a Gaggia or such-like. And yet I balk at paying for a new one.

Does anyone know where I can get a good second-hand machine? And maybe a grinder? At an affordable price?

Thank you.

I am planning to sell espresso coffees at my deli shop and I just bought a la pavoni espresso machine and grinder, it is used, bought it off ebay ad it looks good, it’s not installed yet, my question is if anyone out there who has had experience with this brand please let me know how well these performs and also is it easy enough for me to install it or qwould it be wiser to have someone else install it. It is 2 group espresso machine PUB 2, also is there a particular water softerner that works best for this or could I use just whatever is available. Any input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

This is how I make my Cappuccino with my Rancilio Silvia. I grind my Black Cat Coffee Beans fresh in my Solis Maestro Plus Burr Grinder…then I pull 2 shots of espresso into a nice round cup, topped with fine foam and milk…ahhh the Perfect Drink for me.

I have some coffee beans, but no grinder. What’s the best way to make coffee with just beans. At best I can probably smash them up a bit by hand. To make the coffee I can boil water on the stovetop, but I don’t have an fancy coffeemakers either.
As you’re wondering: no, I didn’t buy the beans myself. No, I don’t have a blender or other fancy kitchen devices, and I don’t want to buy any for the sake of a handful of free coffee beans.

I have some starbucks coffee beans I need to grind, but I dont have a grinder. How can I grind them without buying one?