Coffee

My current coffee setup. Here’s what’s shown, from left to right:

“It’s always tea time” Alice in Wonderland themed kettle decoration/sign. My wife bought it for a party or something I think years ago, now it’s hanging out with the coffee gear as we don’t drink much tea.

Two-tiered shelf for smaller coffee equipment:
Top shelf:

• White bar towels.
• Coffee Water. Half the price of Third Wave Water so I thought I’d give it a try. It does the job.
• Hario Switch. Just a glass V60 with a stopper on the bottom but way more fun and better results than a standard V60.
• Timemore Black Mirror Mini. Just barely poking out is my scale.
• Not visible: coffee dosing tray.

Bottom shelf:

• Bialetti Moka Express 3-cup moka pot. This is what got me into this hobby. It doesn’t get used much anymore but it holds a special place in my heart.
• Clear plastic bag holding V60 papers. Barely visible, but that’s what’s in it.
• Clear resealable plastic bag holding Robot filters. Same deal, barely visible, but that’s what it’s holding.
• Timemore Chestnut S3. My first grinder and a great little hand grinder. I still use it for pour overs. Not great for espresso though.
• White cleaning brush. This is for my electric flat burr grinder, to clean the exit chute.
  Note visible: AeroPress filters for the moka pot, stopper for preheating the Robot, 54mm dosing funnel for the moka pot, tamper for the Robot.

Gaggia Classic Pro. This was my first espresso machine and I still love it. It doesn’t get used as much anymore but I still use it for darker roasts, milk drinks, ~~americanos~~ Canadianos, and when we have people over. On top of the GCP is:

• WDT tool
• magnetic 58mm dosing funnel
• Milk pitcher
• Self-leveling 58mm tamper

Fellow Stagg EKG Pro. The best kettle I’ve ever used. It looks great, lots of features, and pours really nicely. It gives me tons of control (both pouring control, and also temperature control, being accurate to 0.5°C).

DF54 V4. This is the newest addition, and I’m totally in love with it. It’s a great electric flat burr grinder. The shop I got it from offers two different burrs, either the stock burrs or their own custom red titanium burrs that are basically imitation SSPs. The nicer burrs are only $30 more than the stock ones so I went with that. I don’t have the stock burrs to compare it to, but I’m very happy with my purchase. This thing is weighty (11lbs) and works great. If you saw my post when I first got it, I mentioned it grinds slow, but that’s actually improved with time. It’s now giving me 18g espresso in around 10-15 seconds. There’s also zero retention thanks to the improvements in V4 so I’m super happy about that.

Cafelat Robot. This manual espresso maker is incredible. I can easily get the best espresso of my life every single morning even when I’m half asleep. It does such a consistently good job, even if you don’t nail your grind size. If I lost all my coffee equipment and had to start from scratch, this would be the first thing I’d buy again. It’s the best coffee purchase I’ve ever made, easily.

There’s other coffee stuff not pictured, such as a 6-cup moka pot, a french press, and obviously bags of coffee and mugs and stuff, but this is the equipment I use on a somewhat regular basis.

If I had to get rid of most of it and only keep the minimum, I’d easily choose to just keep the Fellow Stagg, DF54, and Robot. The rest gets used too but those three are my core coffee drinking equipment. I’d like to keep the Switch too, mostly for my coffee thermos, but I could go without if needed. I could always do Canadianos for my commute to work I suppose.