A word about value
Gosh, ã5 for a bag of coffee, that’s rather a lot isn’t it? Well think of it this way, you should be able to make a cup of any kind of coffee with 20g or less of coffee, even allowing…
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Acid test
Not sure how good the coffee in your cup really is? Well make a fresh cup & don’t add milk sugar, or indeed anything. Leave it for an hour to go stone cold, then try it. Drinking your coffee when…
Xmas Update
Well we have achieved some of our objectives, but unfortunately not all, before our self imposed Christmas deadline. You will see we have our website up, and I am pleased to tell you that we have the Swissgold (1 cup)…
Coming soon…
Christmas is just around the corner, and so is our shiny new website. When we pull the covers off you will have the finest coffee money can buy, delivered right to your door. You will also be able to post…
Tornados prefer Londinium Espresso
The picture on the right was captured surreptitiously late last night at great risk to the camera man as he caught world exclusive footage of a tornado noisely slurping a freshly drawn Londinium Espresso before hissing off into the night.…
Swiss Gold Filter vs Paper Filter
Here at Londinium Espresso we have a rather egalitarian view of life. One of our founding principles is that great coffee should be available to everyone. However we recognise that not everyone is in a position to make a not…
My grinder made of some awful crunching noises, the jammed. What now???
Most likely a stone amongst the coffee beans has become trapped between the two burrs. Unplug the grinder from the electricity supply. Turn the grinder upside down to empty all the coffee beans in the hopper into a tray See…
What is a Burr Grinder?
Domestic coffee grinders are one of two designs. They are either a spinning blade (propeller shape), like an upside down lawnmower, or a tapered male and female burr design. A blade grinder will simply smash the beans up, rather than…
I have tried to set my grinder to a finer setting without switching it on and now nothing happens when I switch it on! What now???
Turn the grinder off immediately – this is the important thing to remember. Then simply turn the grind several settings coarser and turn the grinder back on and it should start working again If nothing happens after you have set…
Why can’t I make an Espresso like the one I had In Italy??? Now you can!
Italy is the country in which the espresso machine was invented by Achille Gaggia in 1929(?) for the FIAT motor empire who were looking for a way to reduce the amount of time that their employees took for each coffee…