Coffee and TV

[Dr.Seuss]

Watching Coffee reviews and videos by James Hoffman on YouTube, you can’t help but sit there shaking your head thinking ‘what the feck is this guy on about’. I know people are into the technical side of coffee, but is it possible to take it too far to the point it just gets ridiculous? Those words and sentences shouldn’t be used to describe coffee or the process, it just sounds like a Harry Enfield sketch. Rant over.

[marksx]

I didn't know coffee reviews were a thing

[HTP99]

marksx said:

I didn't know coffee reviews were a thing

Same here, I love my coffee but an actual review!!!!

[Dr.Seuss]

HTP99 said:

marksx said:

I didn't know coffee reviews were a thing

Same here, I love my coffee but an actual review!!!!

Oh yes, it gets extremely snobbish and unrealistically technical. Some content is quite good, but when James Hoffman goes off on one it does sound naff.

[giblet]

I quite like his videos for the technical side of it. His career is based on coffee so it makes sense for him to be uber nerdy about it.

I’ve used his methods for my Moka and Cafetière and they both worked well. Rather watching his stuff than most of the automotive YouTube types

[Bert Cheese]

He's the James May of coffee as I see it...and then some.

I rarely drank "proper" coffee until fairly recently but suddenly myself watching hours of James Hoffmann on YouTube after a random recommendation came up...who knew such things existed?

I came close to spending over £200 on some fancy hand grinder at one point...luckily it was out of stock worldwide and in the days that followed reality took over and told me the ready ground stuff in the supermarket would most likely suffice.

[Motoring12345]

You're an uncultured swine, that's what you are!

[sgtBerbatov]

I feel like sending him a jar of Kenco and telling him to shove it up his coffee grinder.

[seefarr]

giblet said:

I quite like his videos for the technical side of it. His career is based on coffee so it makes sense for him to be uber nerdy about it.

I agree with this. He was World Barista Champion, started Square Mile coffee and has worked alongside producers of grinders and machines to make them better. He really inspired me to up my espresso game recently after 10 years of espresso machine ownership so that's gotta be good.

Plus I love nerds!

[irocfan]

seefarr said:

I agree with this. He was World Barista Champion, started Square Mile coffee and has worked alongside producers of grinders and machines to make them better. He really inspired me to up my espresso game recently after 10 years of espresso machine ownership so that's gotta be good.

Plus I love nerds!

a what now??? I suddenly feel quite old - I've no-where near 'filled my potential' but when I left edumacation a coffee pourer was not what you aspired to be. <shakes head like all grumpy old men>

[Tickle]

I love coffee and the pleasure of making a good espresso, not sure if this will be a level too far for me though.

Just followed him on Instagram. Will have a scroll through to see it it warrants sitting through the YouTube vids.

[andrewjamesroberts]

I got sucked into the black hole of YouTube for about 3 hours watching his videos!

I like coffee but I’m not into coffee.

But I do like it when some one gets all nerded out about something!