Coffee Nomad

The Adventures of Wandering Coffee Fiend

Coffee Nomad header image 4

Entries Tagged as 'Coffee Accessories'

Coffee Buzz — Twitter/iPhone App

June 20th, 2009 · Comments Off · Coffee Accessories, Random

To stay connected with the coffee drinking masses on Twitter no matter where you are, consider installing the Coffee Buzz App on your iPhone.  It scours Twitter for anyone posting about coffee and it also lets you know who else “out there” is using the Coffee Buzz App. The Coffee Buzz App might be a [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:

Coffee For One, No Coffee Machine Needed

February 15th, 2009 · Comments Off · Coffee Accessories, Tricks of the Trade

A friend showed showed me a clever and efficient way to make a single serving of coffee without a coffee maker. All you need is one of these little plastic filters to sit on the top of your coffee cup.  Directions: First grind the beans: Then add grounds to this little, single-serving coffee filter holder, [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:

Bleached Vs. Unbleached Coffee Filters

January 18th, 2009 · Comments Off · Coffee Accessories, Coffee Science

What’s the difference between bleached and unbleached coffee filters? According to some, the bleached paper changes the flavor of the coffee. Does this mean that bleached filters actually bleed bleach into the coffee? So, instead of adding ground up wood flavor to the coffee (as I assume unbleached filters do) bleached filters add a useful, [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:

Caffeine Test Strips

January 1st, 2009 · Comments Off · Coffee Accessories

Sometimes I wonder why decaffeinated coffee exists. Buying decaf coffee is like buying a gallon of dehydrated water. Why would I continue to drink this bitter, acidic, murky diuretic, which stains my teeth and causes kidney stones, if it has no benefit to offset these things? Anyhoo, if for some mysterious reason you do in [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:

The Bialetti Stovetop Espresso Maker

October 21st, 2007 · Comments Off · Coffee Accessories, Coffee Makers

How it works: Put regular grind coffee in the inner grounds holder, no need to pack it too tightly. The grounds holder is full of little holes so that water can boil up from the bottom and percolate up over and into the top liquid containing half. This boiling occurs as pressure builds up from [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: