The AH Coffee Shop and Reading Room 02: A Comma (is a Restful Pause)

[ishtat]

Friday 13th?

I was driving back from our week away but there was a traffic accident on the South side of the Dartford Bridge. What should have taken ten minutes to cross the bridge and peel off the M25 motorway took an hour and a half of crawling a few yards at a time.

You have my sympathies Og. Our best friends in UK live in Keston Kent and on the northern edge of the North York Moors respectively. We visit both at least annually and it has involved all too much familiarity with Dartford - though if pressed the Tunnel northwards is preferable to the Bridge south.

 

[_Lynn_]

With a tea option please!

Tea?? That's worse than coffee. No, wait, nothing is worse than coffee.

 

[litfan10]

Tea?? That's worse than coffee. No, wait, nothing is worse than coffee.

When I was in high school, I was a soccer player not football so during football games we worked the concession stand to help out. We served the most godawful sludge imaginable. That killed me from coffee for life.

 

[_Lynn_]

When I was in high school, I was a soccer player not football so during football games we worked the concession stand to help out. We served the most godawful sludge imaginable. That killed me from coffee for life.

My parents drank around twenty cups a day, each, but I never could stand the flavor (or the after-taste).

Dr Pepper has been my beverage of choice since before my son was born and he will be 44 this year. Of course, as with coffee, many people hate the taste of DP.

 

[litfan10]

My parents drank around twenty cups a day, each, but I never could stand the flavor (or the after-taste).

Dr Pepper has been my beverage of choice since before my son was born and he will be 44 this year. Of course, as with coffee, many people hate the taste of DP.

I find I have an addiction to soda (or the caffeine therein.) As a fairly recent diabetic, I am staying away from soda but man is it hard. I'm well past the headache stage but the craving is still powerful.

Water and tea are my poisons of choice these days.

 

[Handley_Page]

You were asking about hurricanes over here. Be careful what you ask about. Now you'll be able to see one up close and personal. Please be careful, those things are dangerous in so many ways. Rain and flying debris are at the top of the list. They are talking 75-100 mph winds across Ireland, Scotland, and parts of Britain.

Yeah, Friday the 13th is hell on coffee pots, among other things.

Until the BBC Weather man said "no chance" (1987), we'd not had a lot of problems with Hurricanes. Then we got one that damaged a million trees (It's very strange seeing a forest where the trees are sliced half-way up the trunk).
But since then, we are a little more prepared and knowledgable.

I think I put my aerials up in a solid manner. . . . .
Coffee, I think.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Tea?? That's worse than coffee. No, wait, nothing is worse than coffee.

Lynn - how can you say that! Coffee is the....

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[ChloeTzang]

Tex, Tex, can you give me a hand. I got a brand new coffee machine for you to put behind the counter. Cold drip, it won't explode....3-liter water tank, three coffee tanks for 100 to 150 grams of coffee grounds, and three coffee servers

https://www.designboom.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/dutch-lab-akma-devil-steampunk-coffee-machine-supervillains-designboom-01.jpg

 

[Handley_Page]

Tex, Tex, can you give me a hand. I got a brand new coffee machine for you to put behind the counter. Cold drip, it won't explode....3-liter water tank, three coffee tanks for 100 to 150 grams of coffee grounds, and three coffee servers

https://www.designboom.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/dutch-lab-akma-devil-steampunk-coffee-machine-supervillains-designboom-01.jpg

Looks a bit like something from a 50s Sci Fi comic, Chloe.
Does it take-off under its own power or does it require some sort of 'booster' ?

 

[MagicaPractica]

Work day. Filling a regular travel mug AND my thermos mug for this afternoon.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Looks a bit like something from a 50s Sci Fi comic, Chloe.
Does it take-off under its own power or does it require some sort of 'booster' ?

You'll love this shot then. Reminds me of Sauron's tower in Lord of the Rings.

It uses a cold-brew process for making coffee, where time replaces heat. High temperature facilitates the release of undesirable flavor elements. Apparently a roasted coffee bean contains some compounds, including certain oils and fatty acids, that are soluble only at a high temperature. During the cold brew process, coffee beans are never exposed to high temperature (this only occurs after a rich liquid coffee concentrate has been produced).

In a cold brew process, coarse-ground beans are soaked in water for a prolonged period of time, usually 12 hours or more. Slow-drip cold brew, also known as Kyoto-style, or as Dutch coffee in East Asia, refers to a process in which water is dripped through coffee grounds at room temperature over the course of many hours which is what this machine uses.

Cold water brewing extracts the flavor compounds (and some of the caffeine) from coffee beans, but leaves behind myriad bitter oils and biting fatty acids, including undesirable elements such as ketons, esters and amids. These are the same bitter acids and fatty oils that surface to the top of your hot cup of coffee, and give hot-brewed coffee that familiar ‘bite’ (the reason that 8 out of 10 people attempt to soften the acidic taste by adding milk or cream to their coffee).

Way to slow for me, but the machine looks amazing. Imagine having that on your counter! They have a whole range of them. That machine is from a company called Dutch Lab that specialize in these.

http://www.dutch-lab.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/k11.jpg

 

[NotWise]

You'll love this shot then. Reminds me of Sauron's tower in Lord of the Rings.

That's a really pretty piece of work, but have you had cold-brewed coffee before? It tastes like coffee extract instead of coffee.

 

[TxRad]

I vote for no coffee machines at all.

I'd keep an eye out for ropes around here.

No coffee makes a lot of these people very grouchy.

 

[TxRad]

Tex, Tex, can you give me a hand. I got a brand new coffee machine for you to put behind the counter. Cold drip, it won't explode....3-liter water tank, three coffee tanks for 100 to 150 grams of coffee grounds, and three coffee servers

https://www.designboom.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/dutch-lab-akma-devil-steampunk-coffee-machine-supervillains-designboom-01.jpg

I'm with HP, this thing needs a booster to put it back in orbit where it belongs. Cold coffee needs a hot refill. Cold brew might keep some of the bitter and such out but sooner or later it needs to be hot.

 

[TxRad]

That's a really pretty piece of work, but have you had cold-brewed coffee before? It tastes like coffee extract instead of coffee.

Mr Coffee isn't pretty but it works 99% of the time and it's cheap.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Heck, the bitter is about a third of the reason for drinking coffee in the first place. I think 'cold brew' is a First World problem. However, Chloe, from a purely architectural standpoint, that beast is a wonder. From a coffee standpoint? Not so much.

 

[_Lynn_]

Lynn - how can you say that! Coffee is the....

I'd keep an eye out for ropes around here.

No coffee makes a lot of these people very grouchy.

I'm not afraid of ropes. And I can handle grouchy people.




Some of you will remember I lost my brother a year ago to cancer. Six months before his diagnosis, my brother-in-law received a similar diagnosis. The doctors at Mayo Clinic told him to go home and get things in order. They gave him a few months, tops. He passed away this morning. Middle fifties. Far too young. They were blessed to have the time they did (close to two years). He worked yet yesterday. They were on a color tour with family. My heart hurts for them.

 

[litfan10]

I'm not afraid of ropes. And I can handle grouchy people.




Some of you will remember I lost my brother a year ago to cancer. Six months before his diagnosis, my brother-in-law received a similar diagnosis. The doctors at Mayo Clinic told him to go home and get things in order. They gave him a few months, tops. He passed away this morning. Middle fifties. Far too young. They were blessed to have the time they did (close to two years). He worked yet yesterday. They were on a color tour with family. My heart hurts for them.

I am so sorry for your loss. Be well, sweet one.

 

[NotWise]

Some of you will remember I lost my brother a year ago to cancer. Six months before his diagnosis, my brother-in-law received a similar diagnosis. The doctors at Mayo Clinic told him to go home and get things in order. They gave him a few months, tops. He passed away this morning. Middle fifties. Far too young. They were blessed to have the time they did (close to two years). He worked yet yesterday. They were on a color tour with family. My heart hurts for them.

I'm sorry to hear that. Losing family is hard.

 

[ChloeTzang]

That's a really pretty piece of work, but have you had cold-brewed coffee before? It tastes like coffee extract instead of coffee.

I've never had cold brewed coffee and I actually like the bitter taste. As for waiting 12 hours... no. Just, no. I've drunk cold coffee, I've drunk yesterday's coffee cold, but I'd never even heard of cold-brewed until I saw that thing. It's not a coffee machine, it's a work of art. I'd put something like that on display.

 

[ChloeTzang]

I'm not afraid of ropes. And I can handle grouchy people.

Some of you will remember I lost my brother a year ago to cancer. Six months before his diagnosis, my brother-in-law received a similar diagnosis. The doctors at Mayo Clinic told him to go home and get things in order. They gave him a few months, tops. He passed away this morning. Middle fifties. Far too young. They were blessed to have the time they did (close to two years). He worked yet yesterday. They were on a color tour with family. My heart hurts for them.

Hugs and more hugs. It hurts to lose someone close.

 

[sr71plt]

I'm not afraid of ropes. And I can handle grouchy people.




Some of you will remember I lost my brother a year ago to cancer. Six months before his diagnosis, my brother-in-law received a similar diagnosis. The doctors at Mayo Clinic told him to go home and get things in order. They gave him a few months, tops. He passed away this morning. Middle fifties. Far too young. They were blessed to have the time they did (close to two years). He worked yet yesterday. They were on a color tour with family. My heart hurts for them.

Condolences, Lynn.

 

[NotWise]

I've never had cold brewed coffee and I actually like the bitter taste. As for waiting 12 hours... no. Just, no. I've drunk cold coffee, I've drunk yesterday's coffee cold, but I'd never even heard of cold-brewed until I saw that thing. It's not a coffee machine, it's a work of art. I'd put something like that on display.

I don't know why it is, but it seems like a lot of cold brew setups are very fancy, with blown glass and valves and polished frames and such. The very basic one we used 30+ years ago is still on the market. It consists of a white plastic bucket with a hole in the bottom that can be covered with a thick felt filter pad.

You plug the hole with a cork, fit a filter over it, dump in a pound of ground coffee and fill it with water. Let it sit overnight and drain it into a carafe in the morning. Actually, it usually took all day to drain.

The extract is strong but very smooth. You use it like espresso. You can refrigerate it and make "Americano" coffee for a week or so, depending on how much you drink.

The method is a waste of coffee. You don't get as much from a pound of coffee as you would brewing it normally.

 

[Hypoxia]

I need another coffee.

The lonely K-Mart down in the county seat, right across the road from the WalMart with the always-full parking lot, is finally closing. Everything must go -- heavy discounts. Those 10oz bricks of Café Bustelo Espresso Grind were only two bucks each. Yowzah!

This may be my last post of the day. Or not. We definitely leave for Sacramento in 1.5 hours. Then we decide whether to continue to San Francisco. Current AQI (air quality index) is over 150, Unhealthy. We'd be breathing unfiltered smoke for 3 days. Hmmm... I'll check AQI again just before departure.

I need another coffee.

 

[Handley_Page]

That's why I use a microwave to heat things; especially cold coffee.

Time for tea, I think