Is it the mineral content of the water or the chlorine I wonder
I read somewhere, probably on here, that you should never use boiled water or re-heated water for coffee.
I donāt know the science of it.
Boiled water burns the beans and reboiled water has less oxygenā¦i think.
Those proper italian coffee machines all have heavy brass portafilters and group heads. The portafllter is the thing that holds the ground coffeeā¦the group head is the thing it twists into on the machine. They act as heat sinksā¦to give excess heat in the water somewhere to go before it runs into the coffee
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Iām having a cold brew in starbucks. And Iāve got the window seatā¦unrale
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Local coffee shop gone to ā¬3.70 for a short Americano.
Thatās cheap for a sit-down.
Out the latte side of town I gave up checking the prices. You either pay it or you donāt.
Coffee shops must be some cash cows all the same. If youāve one customer buying one coffee per working day, thatās a grand a year minimum in turnover. A hundred customers and you are turning over a hundred grand. Get them to buy the odd cake with a long shelf life like a brownie and you are raking it in.
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The owner is fond of the social media, and Iām sure heāll be on playing the poor mouth. But if itās such a struggle why does he keep pumping money into new outlets?
We stopped paying. Bought a coffee machine. Now we get ripped off only half the money by george clooney and co for our addiction rather than helping lots of independent coffee outletsā¦(not PĆG)ā¦when i do buy out of the gaff its either from the good people of aventura (portmarnock dart/paddys hill) or the shittest coffee on earth out of spar portmarnockā¦
I feel worse but Iām saving a fortune.
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I always go to McDonalds.
In tanland itās 1.19 for a coffee, black or white, and 1.99 for a cappuccino. Both have risen from 99p/1.69 respectively but reasonable. Ireland is about 50% dearer.
They donāt have wankers like in Nero who spend the day hogging a table though.
Edit I go to Nero sometimes in alderley edge, as itās good for celeb spotting and handy, but it seems anachronistic having to queue up, when you can just order on the app in maccys, and itās delivered to the table
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2.80 for a MacDonalds coffee in Ireland
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https://x.com/LFJIreland/status/1725305648118718868?t=EpAITAdabcaFDSOH_eKllg&s=09
3fe is the new Satan I see
buy a bag of Velo beans for 3.99
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This Lawyers for Justice crowd seem to be just another bunch (or even a single one) of far right anti vax headbangers
Edit: I should add that they are also anti self service checkouts
I can smell the sanctimony from here
Wafflers for Justice.
I would hazard a guess and say that Sweden is one of the most, if not most cash free countries in the world. My barber is ācash onlyā which is a rarity here, but they do exist and almost exclusively viewed as tax dodgers, and/or money launderers. Thereās no real downside or valid arguement against going cashless. One of the issues which has Ireland behind the curve IMO is our slow take-up of tech, especially with the older gen. I think we, as a nation are very quick as we get older to not learn something new. My father would be an example. He has point blank refused to learn how to use a TV remote since their inception and refuses to learn how to send an SMS despite owning a mobile phone for well over two decades. I remember working for Vodafone, and huge numbers of people throughout the country in their 30ās and upwards refusing to graduate to a smartphone, and arriving in Sweden to see those in their 80ās and 90ās conducting their lives seamlessly on their smartphones. Thereās definitely a national stubborness, when it comes to new tech and change. Itās time to get rid of the cash. If anything, itāll bolster the coffers of the exchequer and squeeze the options of the drug dealing fraternity when it comes to money laundering.
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I agree with all of that.
Learned ignorance is a massive thing in Ireland.
It affects the weakest in society.