Dry bean. wrote:
After 21 pages I'm trying to work out exactly what the current crop of posts has to do with Moons OP? perhaps a new thread in the roasted beans or blends is called for.
That OP was 15 months ago at the start of my coffee journey when I was looking for a coffee machine and grinder Since acquiring My PV Lusso and Compak grinder .. the vast majority of posts have bean about how to get the best out of the coffee beans purchased to make a quality cup of coffee .. where a rating system was introduced as a simple gauge to determine my ongoing progress. As you would be aware .. purchasing new different beans often requires an adjustment to the method used for the previous batch. As mycuppa has pointed out .. even a new batch of the same type of bean varies .. so an adjustment for these is often necessary. Although I've moved beyond seeking assistance from other members on this forum in regard to the actual use of the machine .. which I am most grateful for, the journey has moved on from the issues I was having in the earlier days .. and has moved on to trying different beans in the equipment, and if they are not resulting in the quaility in the cup that I may be expecting .. then it is a matter of altering my method and tweaking the grind. I see this journey as an interaction between the equipment, method used, and beans .. whereby each is dependant on the other .. meaning that when isolating one of these components in a discussion .. it is not going off-topic in my opinion. What would be going off-topic, and admittedly it has on occasions for entertainment value for the many followers of the thread.. is other members discussing their coffee machines. If they happen to be using the same beans as I am using at the time .. then I wouldn't view a rating of the coffee they made on their machine as off-topic if the rating was being compared to what I am getting using my PV Lusso. In the 15 months that this thread has existed .. it has attracted 107,112 views .. I daresay, most likely generating the most traffic of any thread on the forum over the past 15 months. Correct me if I am wrong. Considering that the forum is going through a transition .. and looking for more members .. i would tend not to throw the baby out with the bath water by deterring people from joining in .. as from what I have bean observing .. the forum is very quiet .. and this thread at least provides some much needed activity. I'm not sure how long I will keep this thread going .. as obviously my regular posts keep the ball rolling in here .. although I would much prefer more contributions from other members. Seeing fellow members don't have a Ponte Vecchio Lusso like mine .. or intending getting one .. the interest and participation is limited. If the discussion of beans moves to another thread .. then this thread will most likely go dormant .. and viewers will drop off.. as there would be no new content to catch up on. I understand .. and appreciate that with this thread .. I have bean allowed a very long leash .. and I have benefited greatly from all the contributions i have received over the journey since October 2013 .. only the flip side is that regular contributions are in short supply .. and should be encouraged. I have attempted to start other threads .. only they have not attracted much interest and have gone dormant rather quickly. This one, on the other hand, manages to bumble along and maintains some interest both from within the forum and abroad. Any suggestions of beans .. are for use on my PV Lusso .. and the information that is posted may still be of interest to those interested in one of these coffee machines .. or perhaps considering a lever machine generally.. even if it is of a different type. They are different, and I'm sure people considering one would like to know what they are like to use. I certainly would have liked to follow someone elses journey after they purchased one .. to see what problems they had and what results they got. Many problems aren't PV Lusso specific and are general difficulties regardless of the machine type .. i.e. method used and bean type .. resting, weather, tamp, grind, how the beans are stored etc. Maybe I should shoot off an email to the Coffee Shop in Italy where I purchased mine from .. to see how many orders they've had from Australia in the past year? I have had a few enquiries from people who asked where to get one .. and what was the process is. Crikey .. I haven't posted for a few days .. so I guess this makes up for lost ground Cheers Db and happy posting 😃 The end
