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I found this product at Woolies. Tastes good. When you have no milk this will give you a morning coffee fix. No need to boil the water, just take it to drinking temperature.

http://www.moccona.com.au/public/products/caf%C3%A9-classics-range/strong-cappuccino.aspx



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I'm a coffee tragic, roast my own green beans weekly, have a home espresso machine domusgalateaweb.jpgBezzera Domus Galatea and grinder that cost waaaaay too much.

My better half gave me a Rosco and Rossa combination http://www.portaspresso.com/ for my 70th a few months back, great coffee on the road, bit of stuffing around though.confuse

Sorry people, messed up, now I cant work out how to delete the duplicate image, perhaps a friendly Mod can assist?

-- Edited by Santa on Thursday 1st of November 2012 09:37:29 AM



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I just use a good ol'fashion coffee plunger with a good quality ground coffee. Life's too short to spend any of it drinking instant coffee.wink



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We use a stove top expresso unit combined with a $20 aldi milk frother.. perfect coffee every time.

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Just got myself an espresso maker, the old fashioned ones - water in bottom, coffee, screw on the top - there is a funnel and the water comes up through the coffee to the top chamber.
Heat some milk - yumbo - very addictive though.

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Very flash Santa but it does make a great coffee. My daughter has one and I use it at their place. I'd still love to k ow why it smells much nicer than it actually tastes.
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 I'd still love to k ow why it smells much nicer than it actually tastes.
Tess

 Does it? I think the reverse.biggrin



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We use the Nescafé ones. Prefer the taste. Sachets are much nicer than stewed Themos coffee. Just carry boiled water and make up coffee when we stop. They are handy as you don't need to add milk.

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vk6tnc wrote:

I found this product at Woolies. Tastes good. When you have no milk this will give you a morning coffee fix. No need to boil the water, just take it to drinking temperature.

http://www.moccona.com.au/public/products/caf%C3%A9-classics-range/strong-cappuccino.aspx

 I have these at work and for when I run out of milk are a great alternative...BUT...I do love my Aldi Coffee machine and frother.....



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In answer to the original post, if I had to drink instant in any of it's guises I think I would give up.

SWMBO on the other hand is quite happy to drink Mocona when wer'e on the road.smile



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O'K I  for one love my morning coffee nescafe instant sitting their waiting

for me love the smell and the taste it is my wake up in the morning

the rest of the day it is tea (dilma) Had one of the coffee makers but

love my instantconfuseconfuseconfuse



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confuse It looks like there are only two of us I think coffee made in a plunger is much better than either the nescafe or mocona ones and I have tried both must say the boss loves the nescafe ones. There is a good range of already ground coffee's available and if I run out of milk a little extra sugar and go for blackwinkwink



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freshly ground coffee beans is the only way to go for great coffee, and my Breville machine goes everywhere with me, but we only have one coffee a day.

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_wombat_ wrote:

freshly ground coffee beans is the only way to go for great coffee, 

 Have to agree with you there Wombat, do you roast your own?smile



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Yep, sure do, have been roasting weekly for about three years.

Can be as simple and cheap or as complex as you want to make it, keeping it dead simple all you need is a stainless steel dog bowl or similar, a wooden spoon, a gas stove and about 20 minutes to spare.

Green beans are available online for as little as $8 a kilo and the  quality is streets ahead of the stale stuff offered by supermarkets.smile

 do you have a link to the online site please?

 This is the company I buy from http://www.beangreen.com.au/index.php orders over $50 shipped free.

If you go ahead and order some suggest the less expensive beans up to about $12 kilo, bit of a learning curve but not at all difficult, only too pleased to offer assistance/advice if required



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freshly ground coffee beans is the only way to go for great coffee, 

 Have to agree with you there Wombat, do you roast your own?smile

No I do not roast my own, just did a google on roasting your own, I will have to look into this a bit more, do you roast your own?



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Yep, sure do, have been roasting weekly for about three years.

Can be as simple and cheap or as complex as you want to make it, keeping it dead simple all you need is a stainless steel dog bowl or similar, a wooden spoon, a gas stove and about 20 minutes to spare.

Green beans are available online for as little as $8 a kilo and the  quality is streets ahead of the stale stuff offered by supermarkets.smile



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Yep, sure do, have been roasting weekly for about three years.

Can be as simple and cheap or as complex as you want to make it, keeping it dead simple all you need is a stainless steel dog bowl or similar, a wooden spoon, a gas stove and about 20 minutes to spare.

Green beans are available online for as little as $8 a kilo and the  quality is streets ahead of the stale stuff offered by supermarkets.smile

 do you have a link to the online site please?



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Yep, sure do, have been roasting weekly for about three years.

Can be as simple and cheap or as complex as you want to make it, keeping it dead simple all you need is a stainless steel dog bowl or similar, a wooden spoon, a gas stove and about 20 minutes to spare.

Green beans are available online for as little as $8 a kilo and the  quality is streets ahead of the stale stuff offered by supermarkets.smile

 do you have a link to the online site please?

 This is the company I buy from http://www.beangreen.com.au/index.php orders over $50 shipped free.

If you go ahead and order some suggest the less expensive beans up to about $12 kilo, bit of a learning curve but not at all difficult, only too pleased to offer assistance/advice if required



-- Edited by Santa on Friday 2nd of November 2012 10:21:01 AM

 Just a heads up Wombat, coffee roasting generates quite a bit of smoke and chaff, because of this it's an activity best done in a shed or outside, SWMBO would not be at all impressed with the results of a kitchen roast.biggrin



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thanks santa for the site info, this feels like Christmasbiggrin have you thought of growing you own tree?



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thanks santa for the site info, this feels like Christmasbiggrin have you thought of growing you own tree?

 Sadly not an option in Southern SA mate, they tend to like high altitudes near the equator.



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Hmmm, I was looking at a site this morning that sells the seeds but they do not post to WA that maybe a reason, I will look into getting the equator moved down a bit biggrin

thanks again for the roasting info.



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here we go ....just like the yanks, addicted to ya coffee first thing in the morning. Well I will stay true to my English herritage....A Cuppa Tea with Milk & 2 thanks.

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here we go ....just like the yanks, addicted to ya coffee first thing in the morning. Well I will stay true to my English herritage....A Cuppa Tea with Milk & 2 thanks.

 what a stupid world we would live in if everybody was the same, you can have your tea with milk & 2 if that is your choice biggrin



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Or maybe, a nice hot chocholate..........yyyuuuuummmmmm  biggrinbiggrinbiggrinbiggrinbiggrin  Decicions decicions, what to have



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I'll stick with Nescafe blend 45 (black with three sugar thanks). Used to love tea until I spent time in Sri Lanka adopting a couple of daughters. What we drink here doesn't even come close. Weird thing is, even the tea I'd been drinking over there that I bought back still didn't. Water, how it's boiled, who knows but I've given up trying to replicate a real cuppa.

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Ivan is 50 on Thursday and I have bought him a coffee machine they had in Woolies for $79 and a milk frother for $20. So I bought one for his birthday...Only a few more days and I can try one too ;)
I have heard the Aldi ones are great. Talking about coffee..Ivans making me one now...Only instant....(not for longgg). :) shhhh

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IvanJules wrote:

Ivan is 50 on Thursday and I have bought him a coffee machine they had in Woolies for $79 and a milk frother for $20. So I bought one for his birthday...Only a few more days and I can try one too ;)
I have heard the Aldi ones are great. Talking about coffee..Ivans making me one now...Only instant....(not for longgg). :) shhhh

 please send me Ivan's email because I want to spill the beans biggrinbiggrin



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All he does is surf the net.. No emails. No facebook. So unless he knew how to log on...he will never know ;)



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IvanJules wrote:

All he does is surf the net.. No emails. No facebook. So unless he knew how to log on...he will never know ;)

 bugga, ok just his phone number will do, but it must be before Thursday biggrin



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