Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:

triple sulk posted:

i had a mcdonald's coffee last week for the first time in forever and it is objectively far better than wawa's. it's actually also better than dunkin or starbucks.

Star War Sex Parrot posted:

Like a thermos except it actually keeps coffee hot

JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:

is aplain ole bodum french press a good french press to get

i'm tired of doing long pour overs to fill my huge thermos

bonus points if it looks cool

Flat Daddy posted:

Loose Leaf Jade Oolong in Resistence Mug

Chris Knight posted:

the olds in maine lived there already, the olds in florida moved there on purpose

Captain Foo posted:

that sounds extremely good

angry_keebler posted:

i've been thinking about it and i can't remember ever buying a cup of coffe like from a starbucks or a bottled/canned coffee or w/e

Knuc U Kinte posted:

For some reason only one of the toilets at my work sprays warm water while the other sprays cold.

akadajet posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTfs5Hh1IAQ

Sniep posted:

c afternoon coffee s:



having coffee at 4:30pm on a saturday

this time i did it in a percolator tho just prepping for camping trip next weekend, worked out p good i gotta say

not as harsh as i thought it'd be, but, im mad it was silent - it's the first time i ever did perc coffee in my life and i expected it to make the sound in that song

Captain Foo posted:

had some dunk's iced but accidentally left it at home when I went to get on the T

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

Cat Face Joe posted:

i decided to significantly cut down on alcohol and i have replaced it entirely with iced coffee

at the date posted:

A tea drinker would never heap such indignity upon himself. He would embark on a refreshing constitutional or swoon fetchingly on the divan.