Mark wrote:

get well soon elephant ....

Jeff wrote:

Unfortunately my doc has told me to eliminate caffeine,

 A morning without a nice coffee  😠

Get a new doctor !

valve1 wrote:

Jeff wrote:

Unfortunately my doc has told me to eliminate caffeine,

 A morning without a nice coffee  😠

Get a new doctor !

Get well soon!

I've just bought a pair of smaller cups to go with my mountain bike with a view to reducing our Lavazza triple shots to a macchiato now and again!

(The smaller one )

Simonbeo wrote:

valve1 wrote:

Jeff wrote:

Unfortunately my doc has told me to eliminate caffeine,

 A morning without a nice coffee  😠

Get a new doctor !

Get well soon!

I've just bought a pair of smaller cups to go with my mountain bike with a view to reducing our Lavazza triple shots to a macchiato now and again!

(The smaller one )

Thanks for the good wishes! As for changing docs, well, unfortunately what he has suggested, dropping caffeine, has definitely improved the migraines. I used to get rebound headaches from the morning caffeine every late afternoon or early evening which put me down for the count. Now that doesn't happen, so it's eliminated a lot of headaches, so as much as I hate to admit it the doc apparently knows what he's doing!😎 I also seem to sleep better at night. So if you're bothered by late afternoon/evening headaches I'd say give this a try. I was chicken, knowing how bad the headaches are when in withdrawal, so I went off caffeine slowly, first full strength, then 80/20, then 60/40, etc. Did each for about 3 or 4 days, no withdrawal issues.

Getting old is not for sissies.

I do miss the caffeine jolt in the morning though. Since I'm retired there's usually nothing I need to be up and awake for at any particular hour, if I was still working this would really be tough. And decaf just does not satisfy as much with respect to taste. I watched Alton Brown's Good Eats show on coffee and he pointed out that to meet the same price points while paying for the cost of decaffeinating the beans they wind up using cheaper coffee beans, so in addition to any damage the process causes to the flavor, starting out with cheaper beans makes it even worse. So far I've found that true.

Today we were out of my Peet's coffee, so we had a container of Folger's decaf my mother-in-law had given us. Dreadful, I mean totally awful. Bitter without it being a good bitter, if you understand. A dark roast coffee will be a tad bitter, but complex and earthy tasting, this was just bitter and flat tasting. I guess paying the additional price for Peet's makes up for some of the things Alton Brown talked about, it's better beans than the mass market stuff even if not as grand as you can get.

Has anyone got a scanomat topbrewer?  See http://www.scanomat.com/int/topbrewer/introduction

Thepuma wrote:

Has anyone got a scanomat topbrewer?  See http://www.scanomat.com/int/topbrewer/introduction

Starting price of £5,000!  It looks really nice but the video only shows you endless cups being poured (and a nice pair of legs at about 2 mins 20 secs - a bit of a Sharon Stone moment).  It shows nothing about how it is installed, refilled, cleaned, maintained etc.  The stand alone unit is large so I guess an enormous amount of cupboard space is needed for this.  Great in Hotels etc but I'm not sure for home use unless you're loaded.  Very nice looking system though.

Dave.

The system works out about £8k and takes up a normal 600ml unit I believe.  Nice looking system which I would go for if I was convinced that it was reliable but I have heard rumours that it is not.  An extended warranty is circa £1,200 pa which further suggests that it is going to be unreliable.  Which is a real shame because it is the best looking system I have come across.  Just wondered if anyone else had tried it and could reassure me.

It's Saturday . Using the Starck Alessi cups for the morning coffee.