what is that man doing to his coffee maker

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triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

buy a bonavita. they're cool and good

# ¿ Jun 16, 2016 00:14

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 22:42

triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

drinking coffee

# ¿ Jun 20, 2016 14:41

triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

la colombe, corsica, as god intended

# ¿ Jun 20, 2016 14:41

triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

drinking coffee

# ¿ Jun 21, 2016 14:41

triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

drinking coffee, will probably have a second cup

# ¿ Jun 22, 2016 14:44

triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

Captain Foo posted:

afternoon coffee!

# ¿ Jun 23, 2016 18:01

triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

CrazyLittle posted:

how long before they just start filling kcups with folgers crystals or sanka

already exists

http://www.folgerscoffee.com/coffees/k-cup-pods

# ¿ Jun 26, 2016 23:53

triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

brewing

# ¿ Jun 27, 2016 14:30

triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

drinking coffee

# ¿ Jun 27, 2016 15:20

triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

drinking coffee

# ¿ Jun 30, 2016 16:11

triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

BONGHITZ posted:

Diet Coke from Burger King

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

justice has been served

# ¿ Jul 1, 2016 01:47

triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

might make some coffee out of respect

# ¿ Jul 1, 2016 01:47

triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

Glans Dillzig posted:

coffee

# ¿ Jul 4, 2016 14:14

triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

bump_fn posted:

whats a good but cheap espresso machine

Fayez Butts posted:

lol

# ¿ Jul 8, 2016 03:25

triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

drinking coffee

# ¿ Jul 8, 2016 15:58

triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

illy is good big brand coffee, along with lavazza. gevalia is half decent too.

# ¿ Jul 13, 2016 19:28

triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

need coffee

# ¿ Jul 14, 2016 21:20

triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

local coffee shop coffee

# ¿ Jul 15, 2016 15:25

triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

BONGHITZ posted:

diet coke doesn't present these problems

uh, smythe??? can we do something about this soda drinking scum????

# ¿ Jul 15, 2016 20:25

triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

drinking la colombe corsica as god intended

# ¿ Jul 20, 2016 20:16

triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

actually that looks like a piece of paper, i think u have been hoodwinked

# ¿ Jul 25, 2016 16:32

triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

drinking la colombe. corsica. loving smooth.

# ¿ Jul 25, 2016 16:32

triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

gonna pour another cup

# ¿ Jul 25, 2016 18:19

triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

latte from the nearby cafe.

# ¿ Jul 27, 2016 14:11

triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

latte

# ¿ Aug 1, 2016 15:22

triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

triple sulk posted:

latte

# ¿ Aug 3, 2016 16:41

triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

Captain Foo posted:

Enjoy sleeping

lol if late night coffee has any effect on you being able to sleep

# ¿ Aug 4, 2016 04:56

triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

another latte

# ¿ Aug 5, 2016 16:45

triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

Fayez Butts posted:

status update

philly?

# ¿ Aug 9, 2016 23:21

triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

Fayez Butts posted:

yes. elixr owns, especially if you want to wait 10 minutes for a $4.50 pour over

was in there once or twice when the new place wasn't 100% open yet. nice in there but not always around walnut st.

i miss philly tho. lots of good brews

# ¿ Aug 10, 2016 03:46

triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

Visual GNUdio posted:

Here's the roast console. The software is a general-purpose interface for controlling roasting equipment, from home-brew heat gun/bread machine setups to large-batch commercial roasters from Probat/Diedrich/Ambex/etc . As such, you need to do a little setup to get everything working with your own gear. I've added buttons and sliders to let me control the various components of my particular roaster which you see along the left side (heat & fan) and along the bottom.

When the roast is actually running another line of standard buttons appear along the bottom, all of which (my custom ones you see and the standard ones that only appear during an actual roast) are fully programmable. For example, I have programmed the "DROP" button to leave the drum motor running, set power to 0%, set the fan to 100%, open the bean ejection door solenoid, and engage the agitation arms in the cooling tray. I've then programmed an alarm to shut everything down after 5 minutes of cooling.

The alarms allow you to program basically everything on this machine from the point when you add the beans to the end of the cooling cycle. Every bean is going to react differently so the general approach is to tune the alarms to program your way through a particular bean using a combination of alarm points for temp/time/etc to adjust the heating elements and/or fans.

The latest thinking in the coffee roasting world suggests that a steadily declining Rate of Rise (ROR) is the key to roasts that don't suck. The navy blue line above is the Bean Temperature (BT) which comes from a thermocouple sticking into the pile of beans as they're tumbled around in the drum. Once the roast gets going, you want the BT to rise at a steadily decreasing rate. The blue line in the graph labeled DeltaBT (starting at around 40 seconds at the bottom) tracks the first derivative of the navy curve, showing the rate of change of the BT indicated above. This curve should shoot up after the turning point (labeled TP here) and then slowly, smoothly decline until the end of the roast. With a little smoothing of the data and some squinting this roast almost looks good (it isn't, the beans are terrible).

More recently, it has been posited that the ideal rate of rise should itself look something like a natural log curve. You can enter math expressions directly and have them plotted, or just use a previous roast that tasted good and skip all this dumb math, then set it as a "background" curve to try and match it with your current roast. Once you have a curve you like, you can also configure the software to engage a PID algorithm to control the heat/fan/etc in an attempt to fit the desired curve. I haven't quite gotten this far with the software, but it promises to provide a consistent, repeatable roast which is something I couldn't really accomplish without being able to track the bean temperature.

I have some beans that should be ready for pickup today and I'll finally get a chance to roast something I intend to drink.

edit: sorry cats but I've taken over your tree

# ¿ Aug 10, 2016 16:40

triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

about to make coffee

# ¿ Aug 11, 2016 16:08

triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

drinking aforementioned coffee

# ¿ Aug 11, 2016 17:03

triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

a little late into the evening but gently caress, i'm thinking about those beans

# ¿ Aug 14, 2016 04:52

triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

made coffee

# ¿ Aug 14, 2016 05:06

triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

computer molester posted:

no don't

already too latte for that

# ¿ Aug 14, 2016 07:14

triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

about 2 make some coffee

# ¿ Aug 23, 2016 15:50

triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

drinking coffee

# ¿ Aug 23, 2016 16:20

triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

could use an afternoon latte rn. might get one at the cafe nearby and run an errand or two.

# ¿ Aug 23, 2016 21:31

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 22:42

triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

about 2 make some coffee

# ¿ Sep 9, 2016 20:29

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