Last week I finally got my two shells.
And this is going to upgrade my humble coffee bar.
After measuring 18 times, having a run
out to get a new drill bit, accepting that I'll have to drill
a massive 5/8 inch of a hole because toggles.
I had it up and running
and it looks amazing.
how did this little project come about and does this help
with my coffee workflow or is this only for show?
2023 was a good year, made some cool videos, got some new gear,
and it's a new year, which means a new coffee bar tour
I did acquire some new coffee gear. But I do buy all my own gear.
And I also don't believe in buying things that are unnecessary.
since I'm so excited about my coffee wall, let's start here.
I have a humble sized
kitchen, but it's small ish and I don't have a dedicated coffee bar.
So my coffee gear is kind of spread out throughout my kitchen.
I was accumulating a lot of my coffee bags on my glass flat, stovetop,
it wasn't necessarily ideal.
So it got the wheels turning
how can I solve this problem with having my coffee bags
kind of a little bit everywhere, all over the place?
In my favorite little notebook right here in my project section,
I actually thought about having a dedicated coffee bar area
where this tech cabinet of mine
would be replaced by console or a side thing.
And putting all my coffee here.
See, there are a couple of problems with that. I have a lot of tech gear.
I don't feel like I could have fit everything I needed in that
it would be further away from my kitchen,
which would just kind of make it more annoying to refill water.
And it just didn't feel like it made sense in my living room,
as well as just having that much additional storage.
I feel like when I have more storage, I start filling it up with things
and I really am trying to reduce on clutter and things.
I'm constantly decluttering.
The positives was decor, which is cool,
but unnecessary decor, sometimes a little bit, you know, unnecessary.
And also if I wanted to do pour over, it would be more accessible
because I do currently have everything in the top shelf
But the problem is that I always have to get a stepladder out
and I don't really go up there that often to get stuff.
that's kind of like my excess coffee stuff.
So it's not really for quick access.
It's more like the once in a while things like my Aeropress
I pretty much just use it when I travel, so it's stored up there.
I thought, let's have this nice shelf right back here in this wall
that I've never used.
Now the problem is that this space right here is actually quite small,
four inches deep, there's also this door handle on my fridge it's eating up a bit
more space surprisingly, finding one with the really shallow
depth was really harder than I thought it would be.
I could just take a moment right now
to thank everybody that's been following me so far.
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By my estimations, I will be over 10k in 2024, so let's make that happen.
And also thank you to my Patreon subscribers
and everybody else
that's just following on this channel, because it really just keeps me going
and it does help me to buy more equipment, more gear.
Thank you.
I did play around with different ideas.
I play with wood, I played with metal, I played with white, I played with black.
I even asked my subscribers on the channel which color should I go for?
it was the two black shelves And y'all were right.
That was the best choice
I'll link these in the description down below if you want them.
They're really great.
They come at different lengths and it comes with all the installation hardware.
what I really like about this coffee wall is first of all,
I have a nice new backdrop now for coffee videos, which is fantastic.
I'm very happy about that. But that's just esthetics.
I mean, esthetics are important for me.
But yeah, it's not just beautiful, it is functional.
First of all, it houses
some extra coffee accessories and décor that I would normally not reach for.
For example, my brewer's log book.
I haven't reached for that for a very long time,
but I'm in a phase right now where I like having two,
maybe three different coffees on rotation and being able to keep track
of the different grind settings in a book would be helpful.
I mean, just doing them on a post-it.
But I'm back to books let me know in the comments down below
how your routine is, but I feel like I'm constantly changing
my coffee routine coffee system, how I do things.
Sometimes things will stick, sometimes they won't.
Sometimes I'll revisit them.
I feel like it just depends on what phase of life I'm in or how busy I am
or dedicated to coffee.
I am.
also because I have two of the world's most expensive grinders,
have my Weber Workshop Moulin and I have the Mannkitchen cannons
and I like both of them and I kind of switch between the both
this gave me a great place to put it that's still in my kitchen,
still very accessible and still visually there.
So I can remember sometimes out of sight, out of mind, I can't put one away
and I'm using both of them. So that's a little cuckoo.
But also I have both of them. Why not?
and for my coffee routine.
This actually is helpful
I sometimes forget to check my inventory of coffee and then I'm running low
and then I run to my roaster, they have fresh bags all the time.
But the problem is
that they're so fresh, they need to degas So this is going to be a shelf.
That is great because I could display those beautiful bags of coffee,
but I can also see when I'm running out of coffee
and that I should probably go out, get some new bags so that they can rest
for 2 to 3 weeks on my shelf and my display.
And I can just easily see what's going on in terms of my coffee inventory
or at least my fresh coffee inventory, so that hopefully
I don't end up in scenarios where I'm like running out again.
originally the art piece was going to be The flavor coffee wheel at that size
eight by ten it wasn't very big and you couldn't see the lines very well.
I have a much more minimalist decor, that I felt that the coffee
flavor wheel was a little too visually busy.
So what I did instead is I put it over here
so that I can have quick, easy access to it around my coffee area.
it would be more functional than it would be decorative.
So there's my little thing about the coffee will display.
I hope you enjoy that.
Now, what has changed in my coffee bar?
I've gotten rid of some stuff and I've acquired some new stuff.
So let's see.
in my kitchen, on the left side remains tamping section.
The Weber workshops key is still here. Nothing has changed.
I have my little coffee base here.
I did acquire this norm core
WDT tool, which I do sometimes use, but not always.
It really depends on if I feel the coffee is clumping and I need to declump.
It comes with different sized needles. You can adjust it. It's great.
It's also magnetic so you can stick it, you know, wherever it's magnetic.
I do have a little humidity reader here for reference
this force tamper that I got, I really like it.
I did say this was my end game temper, but I don't know.
I'm kind of in the mood to get another tamper.
So we'll see where I stand with that.
And then Lance Hedrick
did a video to where this does lower the extraction yield by a tiny bit.
But I do like that it was consistent.
I haven't really noticed any negatives with it.
So for now it stays. But you know what?
Who knows?
Then over here, as I said, I will have two different coffees right now.
I just forgot to fill the back one.
But these are single dose bean sellers
that are way cheaper than the Weber workshops and a CO2 valve.
And I did do a little test where I basically blew in and blew out
and nothing was going in but air was coming out.
So it does show that it is working in terms of like air
being able to get out, but not air being able to get in.
And I did go on a trip and had coffee that was already two, three weeks old in
here, went on a trip three weeks later, came back, the coffee still smelled
and tasted very fresh Still had crema There was an issue with one of the caps.
I glued it back together.
The manufacturer gave me a partial refund.
I think I was just unlucky, but so far the rest are doing just fine.
Over on this side we have my trusty Breville dual boiler, some new additions
as the Slayer mod, and also the vinyl
wrapping that I did on my channel.
And in terms of new gear, I have the shot mirror
that I put right here with a little magnetic arm.
And then I also got
a MHW-3 bomber puck screen
and I've been playing around with this just more recently.
And also from that same brand, I got this coffee scale that I
really like, got rid of my other one much slimmer, much smaller, a much sleeker
coffee scale from mh W three bomber, full review as well on my channel.
And then on the side here, I stuck my Pallo brush,
which I'm using every single day now, just because once it's
easy access, I use it get the coffee out of my bag.
Then over here I stuck a magnet on this, this and this go with my food saver bags
I have a video about how I store coffee
and I've gone back to freezing coffee.
Longer term, this is coffee that I already thawed
and need to actually put in the back row there.
I love these bags.
They work much better than the Sealvax bags
that I was starting to struggle with getting a good seal.
These work fantastic.
The valve is pretty sturdy. I've not had any issues with so far.
I also use it for other things.
I use it for all sorts of dried goods in my fridge and freezer
and it's so easy to use and it comes with this little vacuum
sealer thingy and then you just get the air out.
and now to my beautiful coffee wall we got the décor, we got a brew book,
we got a little mushroom cleaning thingy, my Mannkitchen grinders,
some coffee bags as well as hojicha powder and matcha powder,
because I just don't drink those enough.
But I have them and I like it, but I just forget to drink them
because they're in a drawer somewhere.
And then my Arco hand grinder.
But I usually use that just for traveling. But should I do pour over?
It's there then up here my excess coffee gear goes up there.
The extras that I don't really reach for very often but Kalita wave is here.
my Vietnamese coffee filters there, moka pot.
Some extra additional pieces are there.
Yep, that's where that lives.
That's it for my coffee bar. 2024.
If you're interested in the Force tamper, I did a full review right here.
you want to check out my coffee scale review, it's a great coffee scale.
You can check that out right here.
And there's a couple of other videos, too, that I talked about that
you'll see in the description down below.
And I hope to see you in the next video bye!