Julie's Boggle

One of the things we were both extra keen to rescue from storage in SA was our cappuccino machine. (Having done that, we are now in the position of waiting on the lovely people at Pickfords to actually put it all on a boat and send it over to us! )

Anyway, in anticipation of the cappuccino machine’s arrival, Tom thought it would be only right to have a decent coffee grinder ready and waiting for it. So he carefully checked out the many variations of grinders on the market, and picked himself an expensive Italian one for me to buy him for his birthday.

This one is a deluxe “burr-grinder” which is apparently far superior to the ordinary run-of-the-mill grinders… And it also has a funky little lever for measuring out the exact portion of coffee for one cup of espresso.

Of course it wouldn’t be much of a present without any beans to grind, so I headed over to our local Starbucks to check out their selection of DIY coffee accessories. It turned out that they do a great range of take-home goodies so the grinder was supplemented with caramel syrup, Starbucks coffee beans, and some very yummy stuff that they call Caramel Drizzle Syrup but which is more like barely-liquid toffee than anything else. Yum.

Although the grinder is still being used with the cafetiere for now, we’re getting really good use out of it. All round it’s turned out to be an excellent choice of birthday present, inspiring Tom to spoil us both with great coffee several times a week since then. Mmmm….

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