...to find living with a newly-minted coffee snob a pain?

[MitheredAndFrazzled]

The freezer is full of little foil packets of coffee beans (varying caffeine levels, roasting temperatures, countries of origin), there's a set of super-accurate scales, a deconstructed mini-grinder and Aeropress on the table, partially ground beans have shot off all over the kitchen side and floor...

Earlier he was putting a thermometer in the kettle. And then when it's finally poured into the Aeropress (from a Pyrex jug), he sets a timer. I think he drinks it faster than he makes it!

I usually use a cafetière, but I'm suddenly tempted to plonk a jar of Nescafé on the side in protest.

Does he watch James Hoffman on YouTube? I thought this guy was a parody to begin with!

A new hobby is fun but if it's too much for you then I think you should LTB

@FOJN
he is known as the coffee wanker in this house. The sound of his voice makes me leave the room.
Anything that costs less than £200 is utter shit in his eyes, god forbid anyone is on a budget

Stuff the Nescafé; get out the Mellow Birds.

The fact that you don’t have a kettle that can be heated to different temperatures astounds me. Is this coffee snob an amateur or what!?!
We like our coffee, but we do it the old fashioned way: mokka pot on the hob.

OP, think of it this way....

His new hobby could be cycling....

The beans on the floor would annoy me a OK somewhat I admit.

*No idea where the random OK came from

Bottle of camp?

Doesn't sound so bad really. My husband got into homebrewing last year and there are boxes of empty bottles, boxes of bottles of beer in varying stages of the brewing process and all other types of equipment clogging up my kitchen and utility room. Hoping it's just a phase but it's been around 9 months and he hasn't lost interest yet.

My DH went from one of those machines that require coffee pods to Nescafé. He de-snobbed 😆

So what does him recently coming into money have anything to do with it?

"newly minted" means just made, it's nothing to do with being minted as in having lots of money (though, obviously from the same origin of minting making coins).

My one is currently obsessed with spiders. I miss the coffee days.

Mind you beats the time he was determined to perfect the art of baking. I could have gave them to the local yobs to smash windows with.

Bear with it and introduce the idea that he brings you a cup in bed every weekend morning. This strategy has served me well 🤣

Tea drinker here. I buy sencha green tea from Japan. Have a kettle that I can choose the temperature. Always use my favourite mug. If I liked coffee I'd probably be as annoying as your husband.

@haba

"newly minted" means just made, it's nothing to do with being minted as in having lots of money (though, obviously from the same origin of minting making coins).

Oh dear lord!! I feelso stupid now. Thankyou haba. I was so confused. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️😂🤣😂🤣

And I thought only drinking Nespresso and Yorkshire Gold meant I was a bit of a snob. I will buy my regulars without turning a hair now and consider myself suitably common.

Forget the Nescafé, get a box of those awful coffee bags.

I love coffee and my stovetop pot, because aside from the brief ritual of making, pouring and drinking, there’s not much more too it. DP thinks loving coffee is the same as having a personality, and has a noisy grinder and hateful counter-squatting machine, both of which are black, like horrible Daleks, and bought while living abroad, so require adaptor plugs, so stick out even further onto the counter. Little trail of fucking coffee grounds under both. I long for the day when he gives up caffeine.

I have cold brew made weekly for my morning cuppa, my DH then packs me an aeropress in my contigo mug, and I get lattes at the weekend. It isn't ALL bad, but he knows I better not see grounds on the worktop.

Get yourself a tassimo pod machine on marketplace (pick them up for £15 second hand)

That would be far more insulting than instant 🤣

Well, you don't store coffee in the freezer so you can pop his bubble with that bit of info...

@Pedalpushers

I hate snobs in any area, if you don't like a single cheaper or less 'exclusive' version of something then you're not being an expert, you're just being pretentious. That said, I do get what it is like to be wrapped up in a new hobby, it's fun!

He’s not being a snob unless he is being snotty about other people’s choices and preferences.

I LOVE James Hoffman. He’s really funny and knowledgeable. He’s my weird crush. I’m not a coffee snob and I don’t have a fancy coffee machine, but the Aeropress is so easy (once you work out what to do) and makes great coffee, (and I just use Lidl’s ground Columbian which is £3.49 for a big bag) almost as easily as making a cup of instant.

Send him to me!

I would love to taste his different versions, but am too lazy / mean to undertake the faff.

It's sad that so many of these men can't seem to clean up after themselves. XH's obsession was making bread. God the mess!

The good news is that the initial infatuation phase tends to subside ... whatever "it" is.

I try and be generous with new converts and allow myself the occasional secret chuckle when they're over-doing stuff.

Friend going vegan was pushing the boundaries of my tolerance for a while (the eating would have been fine, the missionary zeal was annoying). Colleague's repeated, unsuccessful but increasingly creative attempts to stop smoking, on the other hand, are comedy gold (I like him a lot and do, genuinely, wish him every success - but while it eludes him, I've got to admit that 'mindful smoking' et. al. deserve a sitcom of their own).

He'll get over his love-struck teen phase of coffee snobbery eventually!

On a more practical level: demand that he cleans his beans up when he spills them all over the place!