The Reading Room

A couple recent Roaste blog posts inspired this post. So, more on cooking with coffee.For me, cooking is one of the most cathartic and enjoyable experiences I can have. I love being in the kitchen, it does not matter if...

My adventures in cooking with coffee continued this week. It's been a fun week with lots of experimentation with coffee drink recipes: Irish coffee truffles, chocolate covered coffee fondants, fabulous Frappuccino fakes -- even a chai tea latte-ccino, but this...

The confession (that need not be) Chili was on the menu. Last night I decided to up my chili game and borrow a page from a friend of mine who heads a chili cook off team.  She won the people’s...

/files/u13866/2012-01-25_15_23_21.jpg" align="left" width="231" height="308" hspace="10" />About a week ago now I was really excited that Brown Coffee Co had decided to start selling on Roaste, while they may have had incident on twitter that caused a lot of grief it...

Just a few years ago, my wife would not really drink coffee. Well she would drink something with coffee in it, but other flavors often masked the flavor of the coffee itself. As I started making coffee every morning, seriously...

Reading Roaste blogs really pays off! I have always wanted the “Illy Nude cups” that came out a number of years back.  You often see photos of them in prominent places including on the cover of Illy’s famous coffee book...

Deep cello made my day I recently ordered my first bag of Deep Cello coffee.  I have read lots of good things on here and they have been active on Roaste.com, so I have wanted to order some for a...

Today, I have sometime to myself and decided to dig out in the coffee toy pile this, http://spacemaker.spacemaker-coffeemaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Yama-vacuum-coffee-maker.jpg" width="185" height="240" /> This is the Yama vaccumm pot coffee brewer (also known as siphon brewer) that I have purchase a while...

One of the New Year's resolutions that was raised by another coffee fiend was to try and sip their coffee in the morning as oppose to mindless drink the brew down as they get ready for their day. So I...

When I first got my La Pavoni Europiccola last March (almost our anniversary!), I was living with my parents while waiting to hear back about grad school. They live in one of the better suburbs of Syracuse, and have pretty...

I was looking back through my tasting notes today trying to see if there were some coffees I haven't had in a while which I should be ready to order as soon as my grinder arrives. One real stand out...

Why wait in line for coffee?Photo Credit: Poldavo (Alex) /Foter I used to work at a homeless shelter -- two of them, in fact, one for homeless vets and one for any homeless adult -- so I can tell you...

Morning is hardly my favorite time of the day mainly because I like to sleep in. It is precisely because of this that in the morning, I especially need coffee. Usually, when it comes to making coffee, the aeropress is...

I finally did it, using intrepid510’s walk-through as a guide (thanks, man). With all the encouragement here (X, Y) and elsewhere concerning the importance of giving yourself a little margin for error by bringing the pressure down, my resistance was...

One of my favorite places to get a cup of coffee is at a diner one busy morning. The reason being that not only is there something just nice about getting coffee with friends or family over breakfest, but also...

Starbucks aims to hit the mark, well the Target anyway. I blogged the other day about Starbucks starting to serve drinks like wine and beer at their shops and how this surprised me a little, but how it made sense...

Since we started ROASTe, I've sampled probably 250+ coffees and consumed about 2,000 cups of coffee.  Prepared by every conceivable method -- Aeropress, Chemex, Clover, hand-lever espresso machine, super-automatic espresso machine,  siphons, french presses, the ordinary drip coffee machine and...

One of my jobs is as a cook/butcher, but occasionally I'm asked to work our coffee bar. In the late afternoon, between the shift change for our baristas there is a small rush. During these times, I have been asked...

Anyway so today I saw that someone had lost the use of their auto-dripper, and unfortunately it was their only device for brewing coffee. However, one of the best things that a person can have to use to make coffee...

Yesterday I talked about my coffee learning experience thus far: Education through going to coffee shops, drinking and asking questions. Eventually, I also bought a Rancilio Silvia and Cunil Tranquillo to keep on learning and expand my repertoire. As I...