Coffee as plant feed

my partner used to splash used coffee water on a certain spot on the lawn because it was nearest the garden door and the last 2 years in autumn we had mushrooms growing there (shaggy ink cap). It is apparaently edible when still young and without ink dripping down, but we didn;t bother to try:WINK1:

 

I was just curious as to how people make coffee these days.

I really like fresh ground coffee, but it seems to be such a pain to make.
Kind of special occasion stuff, not like just put the kettle on.

 

Pete, t'other half just tried some special coffee sent by islandcassie from the DR .. he said he'll make comment when he tries it again!

It's very quick in these machines, just a lot of cleaning for one cup .. which he has to do and not me ..

 

one of the best coffee's is supposed to be Jamaican Blue Mountain

tried some, but I still prefer Brazilian Coffee (we used to have a chain of coffee shops in South Africa called 'The Brazilian Coffee Shop'

much better than starbucks and Costa ....

I have one of these:


and use Illy Expresso ground coffee, but the trick is to steam the milk (you only use water to brew the coffee, then top up with boiling hot milk)

I also have a Nescafe Dolce Gusto machine which uses those small coffee pods, and the expresso flavour pods makes a decent cup of coffee

in cambridge, the best coffee is made by AMT (they normally are at most train stations)

 

Which is my point,
I'd like to get away from that nasty instant stuff, but making the real thing seems to require loads of equipment, and lots of cleaning up afterwards.

 

As Italian I can`t live without coffee , of course expresso and freshly made every morning , the point is , to have a perfect expresso coffee you should never wash the cafettiera (expresso coffee machine), but just rinse with water after used , it usually take me 3 minutes ......but the taste worth , or like Dim suggest the perfect alternative is Nescafe Dolce Gusto but the pods are more expencive .
After all there`s never any coffee left to feed the plants , but I will sure try the garlic water and maybe try even with lemon grass like I`ve seen do it in Thailand.

 

I've got an expresso machine with pressure steam for cappuccino
Just bang the Arabica grounds in the holder, press the button, twenty seconds later, expresso (one or two cups) then just like in Italy Bang the grounds out into a pot
Jobs done, unless you want to froth the milk, then all I do is make sure I clean the pipe straight after, with steam and a sponge again less than ten seconds

Believe it or not Lidl's £1.29 Arabica ground coffee, is on par with Lavazza

Jack McH

 

Have you got one of those percolates like "Dim" posted? much less cleaning up than a Cafetiere or a filter machine. Put coffee into "strainer", and water in the bottom, and then stick on the stove. Pour when done. To clean bang the grounds out of the strainer (mine go into the compost bin, but I'm thinking I should be keeping them for specific plants ) and rinse the "jug" part. Chuck it in the dishwasher now and then.

They are very cheap too (unless you get a posh one). Can't remember the name of the brand, but I once saw how many they make and was staggered ...

Apologies if you know all that, do exactly that, and was looking for an easier way ... if so you need one of those machines that takes a capsule, but I find that level of commercialism abhorrently wasteful, ridiculously expensive - and you won't get any spent grounds for your plants :(

 

it's a pity that there are no milk steamers on the market ....

the stove top percolator makes the best coffee IMHO, is quick and easy, however, if you wish to add steamed milk (for cuppucino or latte), you have to use one of the expensive coffee machines just to steam the milk

I even checked amazon, ebay and asked at Lakeside, and Lakeside said there are no dedicated milk steamers on the market that they are aware of

and it does not taste the same with boiled milk, as the steamer adds bubbles etc

 

For the man who has everythign I bring you ...

... the solar powered milk frother !!

http://www.quantys.de/e/solar_products/solar_milk_frother/index.html

 

.... I have seen similar to that, but I'm looking at something that injects superheated steam into the milk as found on these machines:


those frother things are like stirrers .... by the time the milk is aerated, it's cold

 

When I lived in Italy a cheats way was to warm milk in a pan then add a shot/a few shots from the Bialetti then stick the mix in a blender for 30 seconds before serving.

Makes a nice frothahoola <Trademark