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My brand-new Bialetti 6-cup moka pot (tricolore) arrived two hours ago. I washed it, ran two water-only loads through it, then one with ground coffee (30g of leftover, months-old, Eight O'Clock 100%...

:rofl2: I love this! :rofl2:

I remain terrified of going down that "rabbit hole". Still, it's a gorgeous machine and a beautiful piece of art. Enjoy!

Innit? For some reason, it reminds me of trains... especially locomotives (if you like "O"-gauge model trains, there's a great series on WHDT, Wednesday evenings, called Steel Wheels; yup, 30 minutes...

I overcame my "fear", and inquired: $10,500 + S/H (with a 9-week lead time)

Perhaps you're thinking of The San Franciscan Roaster SF-1.

In a previous post, I wrote about roasting a few 110g batches of the last two beans; this time, I roasted five 120g batches of the first (I'd roasted three 110g batches -- one peanut-butter...

I just finished roasting, as is my custom, three 110g batches of the single-origin beans: The first (Brazil Santa Luzia), to Full City+; the second (Kenya Nyeri), to City+; and the third, a 50:50 mix...

My latest order of green coffee beans from Sweet Maria's arrived late yesterday afternoon:


Espresso Workshop #40: Cafe de Mille Collines (5lbs)
Brazil Santa Luzia Yellow Bourbon (2lbs)
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Lovely grinder! Resembles mine (although mine's got straight sides, metal drawer, and a grind-adjustment knob, top-rear) -- it's a late-1960s/early-1970s Zassenhaus, and it's my "daily" grinder. A...

You might be interested in "Hawaij" (חוואיג, in Hebrew); the second mixture for coffee -- ginger, cardamom, cloves, and cinnamon -- is what's most-commonly used in Israel. We would add it to...

Some pretty sweeping statements. For anyone who wants to know what the folks at Sweet Maria's have to say about Robusta beans, here's a link to their "Blending Basics" article:

Sweet Maria's...

It's not... not necessarily. Once upon a time, unscrupulous coffee merchants (we're talking large-scale operations) used to add Robusta beans to their blends -- if properly roasted (and even if not)...

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My senior year in high school (1968/69). It was year-round, crack 'o dawn breakfasts in a turn-out on the Mt. Kisco Dam (Kensico Reservoir), next to Valhalla, NY. Green 1968 VW bus (the VK twins...

I've been home-roasting my beans since 2006, grind 'em with a Zassenhaus manual coffee-mill, and fresh-brew in a Bodum press-pot. I enjoy the hobby, and the near-ritual of preparing my morning 20oz...