If you are a regular visitor to any of the high street coffee shops you will have noticed that they have added “flat white” to the menu and even Mcdonalds have gotten in on the act. The thing is that the big coffee shops will charge you around £3 for a flat white that…
You are sick and tired of paying upwards of £3 for a cup of coffee at Starbucks or Costa Coffee or Café Nero. However, you really like the coffee that you get there but you don’t want to pay a fortune to make your favourite cappuccino or latte at home. In this article, we…
When choosing a coffee grinder you are presented with literally hundreds of choices across the different grinder types and trying to select the best coffee grinder can be a bit like finding a needle in a haystack. The vast majority are poor and/or they represent terrible value for money. Only a handful do what…
Filter coffee is in our opinion an underrated method to make a good cup of coffee. There has been an explosion in coffee consumption over the last 20 years and it’s easy to think that the only way to create a great cup of coffee is by emulating what you see in the high…
As an owner of a number of different Nespresso machines over the last 5 years and as a coffee lover that spends a good chunk of every day thinking about coffee, I believe that qualifies me to be in a position to impart the knowledge I have gained to guide you through all of…
Coffee beans beat ground coffee and ground coffee beats instant coffee every time but in order to understand why we need to understand a little about the history of the world’s favourite beverage in order to understand the difference between the different coffee types. Coffee has been around and drunk as a beverage for…
There can be a significant amount of confusion over the ingredients of different coffee-based drinks and more importantly what the different proportions of each ingredient should be. You will be confused no more over the difference between Cappuccino and Latte. I will break down for you exactly what each coffee-based drink is, what it is…
A quick search on Amazon for “Espresso Machine” returns over 1000 results so how on earth do you navigate your way through the mind-boggling choices on offer. Coffee is now being treated in the same way as fine wine with Nespresso even naming their coffee capsules as “grand cru”, the name given to only the…
