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Wiles of the Wile
In my recent blog about moisture meters, I described purchasing one on Alibaba.Today a friend came by, visiting me in my vacation "home away from home" in Bad Kohlgrub and he brought along his Wile55...
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Sunny stroll around Bad Kohlgrub
When the sun shines over the snowy hills it does so with almost blinding intensity. Some tracks indicated by my little Garmin Oregon GPS were illustrated around me by animal footprints, confirming that...
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Coffee Night at the Torpedo Kitchen
Yesterday night, Foodtube's Ronald Hoeben hosted a discussion about coffee in the miniature Torpedo Theater in Amsterdam.His guests were Edward Beumer and Erik Oosterhuis from specialty coffee place...
View ArticleWaterspel / Playful Water
(English translation below the video)Buiten de vrije natuur zie je maar zelden water dat nog werkelijk weet wat “spelen” is. Het meeste douche- en badwater is vandaag de dag levenloos, het spuit of...
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When to change the Brita cartridge?
100% to 0%The Rocket Giotto espresso machine at my girl friend's place uses water from a Brita filter. This filter has a timer that counts down from "100%" to zero over a number of weeks but that time...
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Israeli coffee site featuring my "on the road" setup
http://www.htcafe.co.il/vt226368.htmlThe current, expanded version of the rig is better ;-)
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Getting a Bestmax Premium water filter
Last week a friend brought me a BWT Bestmax water to replace the DV8 that I had. The advantage of this new filter was that it has a built in bypass so some amount of Ca minerals that the resin in a DV8...
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Tamper Base: Flat or Convex best?
In august last year I posted a blog about the difference, if any, between flat based tampers an convex based tampers:http://kostverlorenvaart.blogspot.nl/2014/08/tamper-base-flat-or-convex.htmlMy...
View ArticleSteam Poached Egg using an Espresso Machine
[A big thankyou to the editors of Daily Coffee News for writing a feature about this blog: http://dailycoffeenews.com/2015/03/05/could-steam-poaching-be-the-next-big-thing-in-eggspresso-perfection/]One...
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A New Model Button Tamper from Londinium
It has been in the making since last summer and was announced months ago. A new style tamper which allows 'nutating' better and deeper than most tampers. Straight walled tampers help you to tamp...
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Culling Roasting and Tasting Sumatra Mandheling
A friend brought me a few kilograms of green beans. Mandheling from Sumatra.Indonesian beans are not for everyone but I am fascinated by the tones that people call 'earthy'. This origin, if harvested...
View ArticleCup & Refract with your Roaster: Jeremy Challender video
I found it very revealing to watch the video (see below) of Jeremy Challender telling the story of him and his colleagues struggling for years to begin to understand how their roasters influence the...
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Who Triggered Varoufakis
A friend of mine, a psychiatrist, writes me:The new psychobabble word I hear is "trigger." I suppose it may have some genuine use in PTSD where intrusive thoughts are instigated by particular sensory...
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Sweet Lupin Coffee Roasting (hold your burrs)
Thanks to the editorial staff of Daily Coffee News for featuring this item on their news site!---Roasted lupin seed, photo by http://www.lupinfood.euFood DesignTwo young product & food designers,...
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Checking the La Pavoni pressure gauge
Using a pneumatic pressure calibration device, AKA a cheap bicycle pump:
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Fun and cheap scale
The new fantastic Lunar scale by Acaia is not available yet but there's another little scale that looks great I think. It's most likely not as water proof but it promises to endure some rough...
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Measure the Moisture, Glean the Bean [part 2]
After first trying out a fun Chinese copy (which was not very accurate) I got the Real Wile Thing now:
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Tasting a Roast Without 'Cupping'
Reading about cupping and attending a few cuppings with experts hasn't given me the confidence to do any of it myself. In a cupping company I am primarily concerned about avoiding someone else's mucus...
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Helium, Thermals and Tea Leaves Showing What Can't Be Seen
One of the frequent participants of international TeX conferences is Alan Braslau, an American researcher in physics. The first time I met him, he presented a project he had worked on, mapping and...
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