An "I" product that doesn't come from Apple
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I just ordered one of these babies: http://www.sweetmarias.com/prod.hearthwareiRoast2.shtml[^] That website sweetmarias.com is an excellent resource for any serious hard core coffee lover. Green beans are super cheap and if anyone has ever had fresh roasted coffee you know how many orders of magnitude better it is than anything else. Sweetmarias and the separate forum site http://www.coffeegeek.com/[^] with it's excellent forums are like CodeProject for coffee lovers. Best part is green beans store for years so I can order a huge sack of green beans (once we decide on the kinds we like) and roast 'em up fresh as needed. I could have used a hot air popcorn popper (that website has a *lot* of info on that as well), but the inner geek in me couldn't resist the IRoast.
"110%" - it's the new 70%
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I just ordered one of these babies: http://www.sweetmarias.com/prod.hearthwareiRoast2.shtml[^] That website sweetmarias.com is an excellent resource for any serious hard core coffee lover. Green beans are super cheap and if anyone has ever had fresh roasted coffee you know how many orders of magnitude better it is than anything else. Sweetmarias and the separate forum site http://www.coffeegeek.com/[^] with it's excellent forums are like CodeProject for coffee lovers. Best part is green beans store for years so I can order a huge sack of green beans (once we decide on the kinds we like) and roast 'em up fresh as needed. I could have used a hot air popcorn popper (that website has a *lot* of info on that as well), but the inner geek in me couldn't resist the IRoast.
"110%" - it's the new 70%
The iRoast looks pretty nice. Did you just buy it or have you been using it? I've been using a modified hot air popcorn popper to roast beans for about 3 years now and I am just about ready to spend some cash on something a little better.
John Cardinal wrote:
Best part is green beans store for years so I can order a huge sack of green beans (once we decide on the kinds we like) and roast 'em up fresh as needed.
Same here, nothing better. I roast a batch or two about once or twice a week and have fresh coffee all week.
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The iRoast looks pretty nice. Did you just buy it or have you been using it? I've been using a modified hot air popcorn popper to roast beans for about 3 years now and I am just about ready to spend some cash on something a little better.
John Cardinal wrote:
Best part is green beans store for years so I can order a huge sack of green beans (once we decide on the kinds we like) and roast 'em up fresh as needed.
Same here, nothing better. I roast a batch or two about once or twice a week and have fresh coffee all week.
My Blog A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. - -Lazarus Long
Just ordered it, but I've had a lot of fresh roasted coffee in the past. I used to live in a city with a roaster in a market square area and they sold coffee and roasted in their shop. Fresh roasted coffee is really special. The popcorn popper method seems good, the modified one even better. Some of the modified roasters are pretty cool. I've seen a lot of snaps and descriptions of them on the web the last few days. The heatgun/dogbowl method is pretty interesting. Lot's of them here: http://www.sweetmarias.com/homemade-homeroasters.html[^] There seems to be as big a group modding their espresso machines and roasters as there are computer modders. How did you mod yours?
"110%" - it's the new 70%
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Just ordered it, but I've had a lot of fresh roasted coffee in the past. I used to live in a city with a roaster in a market square area and they sold coffee and roasted in their shop. Fresh roasted coffee is really special. The popcorn popper method seems good, the modified one even better. Some of the modified roasters are pretty cool. I've seen a lot of snaps and descriptions of them on the web the last few days. The heatgun/dogbowl method is pretty interesting. Lot's of them here: http://www.sweetmarias.com/homemade-homeroasters.html[^] There seems to be as big a group modding their espresso machines and roasters as there are computer modders. How did you mod yours?
"110%" - it's the new 70%
John Cardinal wrote:
How did you mod yours?
The best thing I did was gut it and attach a 20A variable transformer to control the heater. This helps me get a variety of roasts. My next mod, if I don't buy a roaster will be to attach a seperate fan controller. :) I've even read of people using serial ports or a plc to program entire roasting recipes.
My Blog A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. - -Lazarus Long
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I just ordered one of these babies: http://www.sweetmarias.com/prod.hearthwareiRoast2.shtml[^] That website sweetmarias.com is an excellent resource for any serious hard core coffee lover. Green beans are super cheap and if anyone has ever had fresh roasted coffee you know how many orders of magnitude better it is than anything else. Sweetmarias and the separate forum site http://www.coffeegeek.com/[^] with it's excellent forums are like CodeProject for coffee lovers. Best part is green beans store for years so I can order a huge sack of green beans (once we decide on the kinds we like) and roast 'em up fresh as needed. I could have used a hot air popcorn popper (that website has a *lot* of info on that as well), but the inner geek in me couldn't resist the IRoast.
"110%" - it's the new 70%
Just wait till apple finds out, they patented naming things with the first letter i...
Matt Newman
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John Cardinal wrote:
How did you mod yours?
The best thing I did was gut it and attach a 20A variable transformer to control the heater. This helps me get a variety of roasts. My next mod, if I don't buy a roaster will be to attach a seperate fan controller. :) I've even read of people using serial ports or a plc to program entire roasting recipes.
My Blog A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. - -Lazarus Long
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Just ordered it, but I've had a lot of fresh roasted coffee in the past. I used to live in a city with a roaster in a market square area and they sold coffee and roasted in their shop. Fresh roasted coffee is really special. The popcorn popper method seems good, the modified one even better. Some of the modified roasters are pretty cool. I've seen a lot of snaps and descriptions of them on the web the last few days. The heatgun/dogbowl method is pretty interesting. Lot's of them here: http://www.sweetmarias.com/homemade-homeroasters.html[^] There seems to be as big a group modding their espresso machines and roasters as there are computer modders. How did you mod yours?
"110%" - it's the new 70%
Just wondering, but after the beans have popped, do you add butter and salt for flavour before you eat them? ;P
Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar]
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Just wondering, but after the beans have popped, do you add butter and salt for flavour before you eat them? ;P
Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar]
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I just ordered one of these babies: http://www.sweetmarias.com/prod.hearthwareiRoast2.shtml[^] That website sweetmarias.com is an excellent resource for any serious hard core coffee lover. Green beans are super cheap and if anyone has ever had fresh roasted coffee you know how many orders of magnitude better it is than anything else. Sweetmarias and the separate forum site http://www.coffeegeek.com/[^] with it's excellent forums are like CodeProject for coffee lovers. Best part is green beans store for years so I can order a huge sack of green beans (once we decide on the kinds we like) and roast 'em up fresh as needed. I could have used a hot air popcorn popper (that website has a *lot* of info on that as well), but the inner geek in me couldn't resist the IRoast.
"110%" - it's the new 70%
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Just wait till apple finds out, they patented naming things with the first letter i...
Matt Newman
Matt Newman wrote:
they patented naming things with the first letter i...
iDiots :laugh:
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I just ordered one of these babies: http://www.sweetmarias.com/prod.hearthwareiRoast2.shtml[^] That website sweetmarias.com is an excellent resource for any serious hard core coffee lover. Green beans are super cheap and if anyone has ever had fresh roasted coffee you know how many orders of magnitude better it is than anything else. Sweetmarias and the separate forum site http://www.coffeegeek.com/[^] with it's excellent forums are like CodeProject for coffee lovers. Best part is green beans store for years so I can order a huge sack of green beans (once we decide on the kinds we like) and roast 'em up fresh as needed. I could have used a hot air popcorn popper (that website has a *lot* of info on that as well), but the inner geek in me couldn't resist the IRoast.
"110%" - it's the new 70%
Among the various methods of brewing, have you tried the one cup at at time approach? You can usually get little filter holders that take a #2 cone, which sits right on your coffee cup. Although it doesn't make as strong a cup, it really brings out the character of the bean. Particularly those beans that like a light or medium roast (no, Seattle, not every bean needs to be charred into submission) such as Jamaican or any of the Carribean & Central America stuff. Because you're not overextracting the bean, you don't get the bitterness that can sometimes occur with even a high quality "by the pot" machine. And when you couple this approach with freshly roasted beans, oh my... :-D
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes www.PracticalStrategyConsulting.com
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Among the various methods of brewing, have you tried the one cup at at time approach? You can usually get little filter holders that take a #2 cone, which sits right on your coffee cup. Although it doesn't make as strong a cup, it really brings out the character of the bean. Particularly those beans that like a light or medium roast (no, Seattle, not every bean needs to be charred into submission) such as Jamaican or any of the Carribean & Central America stuff. Because you're not overextracting the bean, you don't get the bitterness that can sometimes occur with even a high quality "by the pot" machine. And when you couple this approach with freshly roasted beans, oh my... :-D
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes www.PracticalStrategyConsulting.com
Yup, I've made coffee that way many times, it does make an excellent cup of coffee, but our day to day drinks are espresso. It takes 3 minutes and 22 seconds to make a latte or americano any time during the day that I feel like it. Just way easier when I'm working.
"110%" - it's the new 70%
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Yup, I've made coffee that way many times, it does make an excellent cup of coffee, but our day to day drinks are espresso. It takes 3 minutes and 22 seconds to make a latte or americano any time during the day that I feel like it. Just way easier when I'm working.
"110%" - it's the new 70%
Yeah, these days I'm scarfing down double espressos during the day rather than coffee. Which leads to a curious story. The past few years, I've been having problems sleeping. When I was younger I used to drink coffee all day long, but I'd shifted to only a cup or two in the morning, and if I drank any caffeine after about 2 in the afternoon, I'd be totally screwed, tossing and turning all night. Then, a couple of months ago (on a deadline as ever) I said screw it, and went to drinking espresso all day long, sometimes up to 8 or 10 in the evening. And now I sleep like a baby. Go figure. :rolleyes: I guess it just comes down to whatever the machine is optimized for. :-D
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes www.PracticalStrategyConsulting.com
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Yeah, these days I'm scarfing down double espressos during the day rather than coffee. Which leads to a curious story. The past few years, I've been having problems sleeping. When I was younger I used to drink coffee all day long, but I'd shifted to only a cup or two in the morning, and if I drank any caffeine after about 2 in the afternoon, I'd be totally screwed, tossing and turning all night. Then, a couple of months ago (on a deadline as ever) I said screw it, and went to drinking espresso all day long, sometimes up to 8 or 10 in the evening. And now I sleep like a baby. Go figure. :rolleyes: I guess it just comes down to whatever the machine is optimized for. :-D
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes www.PracticalStrategyConsulting.com
My dad came to visit last fall and we actually switched to decaf over a year ago. I know, I know, but there are some really excellent tasting decaf beans these days if you put the effort in to find them. Anyway, he's a complete caffeine addict and had actually brought his own coffee and was drinking it all day and late into the evening. He says he drinks strong coffee like that at all hours all the time and it never keeps him up. Seems weird to me, but I guess your body can get used to anything. Personally I was getting way to strung out from the caffeine and now with the decaf I get the equivalent of 1 regular caffeinated coffee for every six decafs I drink. I was reading a thread on some uber geek coffee forum for professional barristas and they were discussing the so called 3W (third wave) of coffee that is supposedly happening now and the pros and cons of modern espresso service. One guy had a point that they are not only selling a beverage but a drug as well and they are so used to the regulars demanding triple shots etc that nearly all the speciality espresso places are making the equivalent of triple shots in their standard drinks with blends containing beans actually chosen for their higher caffeine content (like robustas etc). The problem being that when people who are not accustomed to it come in and have one they have no idea how much caffeine they are getting and it can seriously affect the average person who hasn't built up a tolerance to it.
"110%" - it's the new 70%
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My dad came to visit last fall and we actually switched to decaf over a year ago. I know, I know, but there are some really excellent tasting decaf beans these days if you put the effort in to find them. Anyway, he's a complete caffeine addict and had actually brought his own coffee and was drinking it all day and late into the evening. He says he drinks strong coffee like that at all hours all the time and it never keeps him up. Seems weird to me, but I guess your body can get used to anything. Personally I was getting way to strung out from the caffeine and now with the decaf I get the equivalent of 1 regular caffeinated coffee for every six decafs I drink. I was reading a thread on some uber geek coffee forum for professional barristas and they were discussing the so called 3W (third wave) of coffee that is supposedly happening now and the pros and cons of modern espresso service. One guy had a point that they are not only selling a beverage but a drug as well and they are so used to the regulars demanding triple shots etc that nearly all the speciality espresso places are making the equivalent of triple shots in their standard drinks with blends containing beans actually chosen for their higher caffeine content (like robustas etc). The problem being that when people who are not accustomed to it come in and have one they have no idea how much caffeine they are getting and it can seriously affect the average person who hasn't built up a tolerance to it.
"110%" - it's the new 70%
Well, as they used to say in the 70s, "The first one's on the house, kid." :-D
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes www.PracticalStrategyConsulting.com
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My dad came to visit last fall and we actually switched to decaf over a year ago. I know, I know, but there are some really excellent tasting decaf beans these days if you put the effort in to find them. Anyway, he's a complete caffeine addict and had actually brought his own coffee and was drinking it all day and late into the evening. He says he drinks strong coffee like that at all hours all the time and it never keeps him up. Seems weird to me, but I guess your body can get used to anything. Personally I was getting way to strung out from the caffeine and now with the decaf I get the equivalent of 1 regular caffeinated coffee for every six decafs I drink. I was reading a thread on some uber geek coffee forum for professional barristas and they were discussing the so called 3W (third wave) of coffee that is supposedly happening now and the pros and cons of modern espresso service. One guy had a point that they are not only selling a beverage but a drug as well and they are so used to the regulars demanding triple shots etc that nearly all the speciality espresso places are making the equivalent of triple shots in their standard drinks with blends containing beans actually chosen for their higher caffeine content (like robustas etc). The problem being that when people who are not accustomed to it come in and have one they have no idea how much caffeine they are getting and it can seriously affect the average person who hasn't built up a tolerance to it.
"110%" - it's the new 70%
John Cardinal wrote:
He says he drinks strong coffee like that at all hours all the time and it never keeps him up. Seems weird to me, but I guess your body can get used to anything.
Just a matter of tolerance like any other addiction.
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