http://www.bartechco.com/filerepository/flojet.jpg" height="500" width="500" /> Recently I have been blogging about plumbing in my Nuova Simonelli Musica (http://www.roaste.com/CoffeeBlogs/sontondaman/Plumbing-Nuova-Simonelli-Musica-well-sort ) But eventually I decided that using a Flojet setup is the best. I was able to buy a flojet unit for a very...
Comparisons on two great frothing pitchers in two very different price ranges I have two very nice milk frothing pitchers. My favorite size is the 12 oz size because I can froth for anything from a macchiato in it up...
This is kind of a two fold observation and question about using light roasts for espresso. As I wrote in a previous post I picked up a bag of Costa Rica Hernan Solis roaster by Flying Goat Coffee, it's a...
Why yes, that is a pork chop on a coffee blog. To be more precise, it's a country style two-blade spare-rib glazed with ancho-infused coffee syrup. It was dinner tonight, and it was good enough to go into my regular...
Yikes - flirting with disaster. After a swim lesson for my daughter we came home to make hot chocolate. The pool’s heater was not fully functional, so a hot chocolate bribe was in order. use my coffee maker’s steam wand...
For fun, now that the Nevada Republican presidential caucus is over, let's say that the candidates have a few days to prepare for the next caucus in Maine. So if they called us up at ROASTe and asked us to...
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7162/6830325309_37d7575850_m.jpg" alt="cooking with coffee" height="219" hspace="10px" vspace="10px" width="240" align="left" />I went looking this morning for a good cookbook of recipes using coffee. What I found was kind of discouraging... lots and lots of books on making coffee drinks and coffee...
Once again, I had to share a video that made me laugh. These guys from an Italian machine shop had to deal with an electrical outage when coffee break time rolled around. Sometimes ingenuity pays off really well. Sometimes... see...
I have been really enjoying the posts that others have placed with the voting widget, so I thought I would put one up. That was fun so I decided to go for broke and put up another today. What I...
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7166/6822945943_ce85032f50_m.jpg" align="left" hspace="5px" height="180" width="240" alt="Coffee syrup" /> Inspired by Avarsefi's recipes for vanilla and autumn spice syrups, I figured I'd add my own smoky coffee syrup recipe to the collective blog cookbook. I originally worked this one up to...
I have been experimenting with the syphon coffee maker in the past two week (http://www.roaste.com/CoffeeBlogs/sontondaman/My-Approach-Siphon-Coffee-... ) or so and I think I might have reached a little road block or so. In the first few tries or so, I made...
Another of my syrup recipes which I make for my wife and guests. Well, two (sort of). This time it is especially easy. In fact it probably should have come before the post on my autumn spice recipe. This is...
I was out today at a coffee shop and picked up at random a bag of coffee, and did a quick check of the roast date before I bought it. It was roasted on the 31st of January and for...
I have a friend who lives in North Carolina, but is originally from Michigan and she was lamenting to me that she did not understand why every state had famous great roasters except she had never heard of any great...
Chamie’s recent post about beautiful espresso machines got me thinking about what kinds of machines were out there if we just focused on looks. http://www.roaste.com/CoffeeBlogs/Chamie/Another-Pretty-Machine One of the cooler ones I found was the space age looking Saeco Etienne Louis...
Today morning, after rushing out of the door, I have done it again! Yes, just a week earlier, I leaved the Pavoni on acidently for an extended amount of time and today, I did that also. Thankfully, no damage was...
Did you know that green coffee beans are trading near their 16-year high? Here's all the gory details in a spreadsheet from the International Coffee Organization. For instance, in 1998 a blended pound of green beans from around the world...
We are told time and again that fresh coffee is what you need to get good results and anything less is pretty much unacceptable. This line of thinking was really prevelant in a recent discussion that i read and was...
A week and three days ago I sold my grinder expecting to receive its replacement shortly thereafter. Around the same time, unbeknownst to me, Baratza was in the middle of a shortage on the Vario I ordered two weeks prior....
When I first started out my espresso journey, the first coffee that I tasted was a Starbucks brand ground coffee, that was advertised as X-tra bold and smooth. At that times, I thought it was pretty good and it has...
