CoffeeKid - A Home Roasting Primer (#)
„Still, we had the basic hot air popper, including the venerable West Bend Poppery (and it's successor, the West Bend Poppery II, or WBPII) were ideal for home roasting. Sure, you had to quench your beans manually (the act of rapidly cooling down beans after the roast, to prevent burning and charring), but some obsessed homebodies even found a remedy for that - they started the practice of modifying home poppers so that the heating elements inside could be switched off, leaving only the fan running.“
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CoffeeKid - Espresso Nirvana: Can it be Reached?
„From that period to the end of World War II, the world knew espresso coffee as something that was more about making coffee expressly for you (one cup at a time), than the beverage we know today as espresso. Machines like the Pavonis, the Victoria Ardunio and others ruled the day. The bar remained the same, and was not to rise again until 1946 when Gaggia developed the spring piston system that produced an amazing (for the time) 60psi of pressure, or about 4 atmospheres of pressure on the fine coffee grinds, producing the world's first authentic crema-based espresso beverage.“
http://www.coffeekid.com/espresso/nirvana
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„As I got out of university and struggled that first year to pay bills, I yearned to have a home machine again. With money being so tight, I bought a Krups Il Primo II machine from a refurb sale for something like 30 bucks. For a while this machine sufficed. Espresso was not something I made in this machine (steam powered espresso machines are dubbed "steam toys" by coffee aficionados because they don't produce true espresso), but I could make a passable cafe au lait or cappuccino.“
http://www.coffeekid.com/obsessions/progression/ gaggiayears
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CoffeeKid - So much news, it will make your eyes bulge
„My bean stock was getting low about two months ago (can u believe that???) so I went down and shopped. After hours (which was cool), and ended up going home with about 25lbs worth of beans, INCLUDING 2 lbs of JBM Wallenford Estate, for under $160 Cdn (about $105USD). Not too shabby. I got a good variety, including some Colombian, some Brasil (rare for me), some Kenya AA (this year's crop kinda sucks.“
http://www.coffeekid.com/cafetalk/12-02-2001
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CoffeeKid - Vacuum Brewer Hey Day
„So far all of my research leads me to believe that vacuum pot brewing was "da bomb" back in the WW II era and beyond. It seemed there were as many manufacturers of this device as there are today of drip coffee makers.“
http://www.coffeekid.com/coffee/vacpots/ vacpotheyday
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