The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.
I add a couple of scoops of finely ground French Roast to our regular grind to give our coffee a boost.
I would like to buy the coffee at a store rather than online.
The trick to real espresso is not only pressure, but having the water below boiling, which is just the opposite of what you want to do with tea. The espresso heads from Illy call the non-pressure brewed espresso ground coffee mocha. The little Cuban style two chambered aluminum sotvetop "espresso" pot is called a mocha pot in Italy. so so I have read. it still makes good coffee. A buddy of mine in Miami used to make his regular brewed coffee using Bustelo in a saucepan on the stove and when it had brewed long enough, he filtered it through a drip machine paper filter. He said that it tasted much better than any drip grind American coffee that he could find back then (1980's)Annr, you have to have pressure to create espresso, so having espresso beans won't cut it. Espresso is made at 8-9 bars. You can probably make strong coffee with espresso beans, but without pressure that's all you're getting.