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To Catch a Pisser
In the early morning a few days ago I saw that someone had peed in our staircase. Luckily this doesn't happen very often but this time it happened for the second time in a week. There's trees and a...
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Zes hoeden
Bijna iedereen zit al binnen op de banken van het Groene Kerkje in Oegstgeest. Alleen oom Wim is nog buiten, in zijn kist, met zes jonge mannen die wachten tot het tijd is om de kist naar binnen te...
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Pillendoosrecensie
Ook deze week bespreken we weer een pillendoos. Hoewel de Anabox is bedoeld voor mensen die door de dag heen veel te slikken hebben kun je hem ook anders gebruiken. Een vakje voor de pillen van de dag,...
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Deadontime
The DeadOn RTC breakout board keeps the time so very accurately, with a crystal oscillator on board and even a temperature correction in case its warm heart would beat a little faster than the rest of...
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Espresso brew pressure profiling: dual OPV on the Rocket Giotto
Yesterday morning I took my Rocket Giotto to visit Peter van der Weerd from http://www.kafko.nl in his espresso machine workshop.He has made me a temperature probe to fit in a portafilter basket: (I...
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Soldering Pipo
A friend handed me a Pipo M3 tablet that's gone into some kind of screen freeze and asked me if I could fix it. Although I do have a soldering iron, I'm not really good at such things but I was willing...
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Cleaning Mahlkönig Vario
The little Mahlkönig grinder needed te be cleaned as it hadn't been for a few months. I'm playing with the idea to have it modified and if I take it to a workshop, it should not be clogged up with...
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Modifying the Mazzer Mini
The hopper on my Mazzer Mini is a bit big for my method of single dosing. I typically grind just 14 to 20 grams of beans at a time, enough for one cup of espresso. This way the beans stay as fresh as...
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Voel de autoklaaf
De probe die met z'n vinger in het koffiefilter zit tijdens het koffiezetten is stuk en het was lastig er een vervanger voor te vinden. Idealiter is het maar een kort staafje, maar liever geen draad...
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HG One travel chest
Over the past weeks, Willi Egger has been building and finishing a travel chest made out of elm wood which he designed for my HG One grinder. No nail has been used, all wood-on-wood connections, just a...
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Mahlkönig Vario Home Modhopper
The guys at http://www.aluminium-centrum.nl/ made me a fun mod, replacing the plastic hopper with something more industrial looking. The hopper is replaced by an aluminum tube in a ring, actually cut...
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'Frank Zappa made the best fucking coffee I've ever tasted in my life. I've never before or since tasted coffee as good as I had at Frank's house. I asked him about it and he said it was some European...
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Trakteren comes by for some test roasting
Erik Oosterhuis& Edward from Trakteren Koffie Thee Chocolade bring along two test batches of green beans which they want to test roast. The greens look marvellous, satin skinned jade. We decide on...
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Cupping @ Trakteren
A tasting session of the sample roasts we did last tuesday night: cupping and espresso.The beans are very freshly roasted so we need to taste again in a few days but we couldn't wait any longer.The...
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Een Incident met Wit Poeder
Telefoon des ochtends in alle vroegte. "U spreekt met XX van de Amsterdamse Recherche. Bent u Frans Goddijn, eigenaar van een Renault Clio met kenteken [...]? Er heeft zich afgelopen nacht EEN INCIDENT...
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Roasting Finca Tamana
About these beans:http://nordicapproach.wordpress.com/2012/12/12/finca-tamana/Quotes from that blog:"This is the coffee from the farm Finca Tamana that Tim has been working with closely in order to...
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Sunday morning roasting & cupping at Lot Sixty One
Roastmaster and barista Onno van Zanten hosted a meeting where he told the guests about coffee plants, farming and trading coffee, singe origins, blends and cupping. He roasted a sample in the small...
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Sorting beans from Los Lajones, Panama
The beans that smelled most delicious for me at yesterday's Lot Sixty One workshop are from the Los Lajones farm owned by Graziano Cruz:http://www.loslajonesestate.com/eng/farmer/"Graciano Cruz is a...
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