Hush! We shall not even whisper of such things, or it will become the next!great!project. Mercy!
He’s got a buddy who is just as bad. He gets these calls, ‘The store is roasting X tomorrow. Do we want to make a run?’ (Tea people, *my* people, do *not* sound like drug dealers. There’s something to be said for it.)
He’s got two different IR thermometers he uses to make sure the water is at the ideal temp to add the coffee (freshly ground, of course, and weighed to the gram). There are a decidedly Snapean number of stirs involved, timed to the second, in getting it into the vacuum / siphon coffee brewer, or the French press. (The mocha thingie, however, is nicely passive.)
Oh! The one thing I do like is the Corning rod. There’s something sort of pleasingly eco friendly in having a glass rod as your filter, and it isn’t even hard to clean. (The French Press, by contrast, wastes a lot of water in the cleaning process.) But you do have to know exactly what kind of coffee you’re using with it and watch your settings on the grinder. Or cursing happens. (*Not* of the Snapean sort.)
That sounds amazing for a library! I swear we’re lucky ours has books. There’s one private maker’s club, but it’s on the other side of town, miserable to get to, and not cheap either, so I haven’t even been able to talk the other half into going to check it out.
What I really need are contacts. (I want something sprayed in car lacquer.) I keep searching for a place I could submit designs to to have them made. I trust myself with the measuring and software. But they aren’t quite there yet. They’ll do custom set ups of something that looks a lot like an IKEA billy shelf for ten times the money. Oddly I don’t see the incentive.
Well we’re motivated on that score because we haven’t got air conditioning. In the summer we basically melt. Or move into the basement... heh The next big project is to see if we can retrofit an electric Rollladen for a roof window. Given the angle, they let in a lot more light and heat for the size.
He’s got a buddy who is just as bad. He gets these calls, ‘The store is roasting X tomorrow. Do we want to make a run?’ (Tea people, *my* people, do *not* sound like drug dealers. There’s something to be said for it.)
He’s got two different IR thermometers he uses to make sure the water is at the ideal temp to add the coffee (freshly ground, of course, and weighed to the gram). There are a decidedly Snapean number of stirs involved, timed to the second, in getting it into the vacuum / siphon coffee brewer, or the French press. (The mocha thingie, however, is nicely passive.)
Oh! The one thing I do like is the Corning rod. There’s something sort of pleasingly eco friendly in having a glass rod as your filter, and it isn’t even hard to clean. (The French Press, by contrast, wastes a lot of water in the cleaning process.) But you do have to know exactly what kind of coffee you’re using with it and watch your settings on the grinder. Or cursing happens. (*Not* of the Snapean sort.)
That sounds amazing for a library! I swear we’re lucky ours has books. There’s one private maker’s club, but it’s on the other side of town, miserable to get to, and not cheap either, so I haven’t even been able to talk the other half into going to check it out.
What I really need are contacts. (I want something sprayed in car lacquer.) I keep searching for a place I could submit designs to to have them made. I trust myself with the measuring and software. But they aren’t quite there yet. They’ll do custom set ups of something that looks a lot like an IKEA billy shelf for ten times the money. Oddly I don’t see the incentive.
Well we’re motivated on that score because we haven’t got air conditioning. In the summer we basically melt. Or move into the basement... heh The next big project is to see if we can retrofit an electric Rollladen for a roof window. Given the angle, they let in a lot more light and heat for the size.
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