GRIPES

[facthunter]

Did you pick them up with tweezers?  Nev.

[octave]

3 minutes ago, facthunter said:

Did you pick them up with tweezers?  Nev.

No, we used fingers.    I should say that if you asked, how do we take our coffee?  the answer would be "very seriously" We buy green beans and roast them ourselves.  

[facthunter]

My Daughter does things like that. I just make sure the water is really hot when I pour it on the instant coffee. 3 a day is supposed to be enough... Cups that is.  Nev

[nomadpete]

Oh, For a moment I thought you had a gripe.

 

[pmccarthy]

Don’t forget to put 43 beans in every cup.

[octave]

2 minutes ago, pmccarthy said:

Don’t forget to put 43 beans in every cup.

 

Ha you probably think I don't know how many beans go in each cup.    Coffee is my passion (yep waiting to be attacked) We do buy raw green beans and roast them ourselves.     Yes this may sound crazy but my wife and I gain considerable pleasure from this

[spacesailor]

I've Never even Seen, a " green " coffee bean , they must weigh more than the dried bean, So you have to get Less bean's per Kilo , than ' roasted ' bean's. .

How , do you ' roast coffee beans  ? .

spacesailor

 

[octave]

1 minute ago, spacesailor said:

I've Never even Seen, a " green " coffee bean , they must weigh more than the dried bean, So you have to get Less bean's per Kilo , than ' roasted ' bean's. .

How , do you ' roast coffee beans  ? .

spacesailor

 

 

OK, you have asked so you only have yourself to blame.    We roast coffee beans 200gm at a  time.   In the roasting process, you lose about 1/5th. Economically speaking green coffee beans are 1/2 the price of roasted beans. but as previously stated you lose 15% to 19%.   So this still results in a large financial saving.  What is more important to us is that we can control how our coffee tastes by manipulating the roasting profile. Yep, that may sound like a total wank but we get great pleasure in this.   Life is too short to spend it whining. For goodness sake, do what gives you intense pleasure (as long as it harms no one}  

[rgmwa]

Which beans do you use and what is a roasting profile? I assume there’s more to it than just whacking them in a moderate oven for 15 mins.

[octave]

Just now, rgmwa said:

Which beans do you use and what is a roasting profile? I assume there’s more to it than just whacking them in a moderate oven for 15 mins.

 At the moment we are in love with Ethiopian Yirgacheffe Special Prep beans. 

 

I could tell you the profile but it is probably only meaningful if you are using a Behmor coffee roaster.  We came across the ideal roast for this bean by a bit of fuck uppery. The first result was brilliant so we are compelled to follow the same "fuck uppery" although there is probably a more direct route My advice for coffee roasting apart from equipment is to keep a rigorous spreadsheet.

[octave]

By the way, we did have a coffee roast that we labeled "clusterfuck" it wasn't too bad.

[willedoo]

I only found out yesterday that coffee is good for the liver. It reduces the risk of hepatic steatosis advancing to liver fibrosis which can cause cirrhosis if severe enough.

[octave]

6 minutes ago, willedoo said:

I only found out yesterday that coffee is good for the liver. It reduces the risk of hepatic steatosis advancing to liver fibrosis which can cause cirrhosis if severe enough.

 

i enjoy roasting coffee beans and grinding beans and drinking long black coffees that if my doctor said coffee would kill me I would have to say, "I better go home and put my affairs in order"

[onetrack]

I can better the coffee disaster. Yesterday I pulled a crate of items out of the pantry cupboard, looking for a bottle of Pink Himalayan salt to refill a salt shaker (SWMBO likes putting everything in sizeable plastic crates, apparently, it's called "organisation"). She had recently acquired a new, unopened, 2kg plastic container of honey - and perched that on top of the items in the crate.

 

As I pulled the crate around and swung around to sit it on the island bench in the kitchen, the plastic container of honey did a neat somersault off the top of the crate and went, BOOM! - a headfirst dive onto the kitchen floorboards.

 

Now, I don't know if you know this - however, I do now - but those clear plastic 2kg lidded containers of honey are not expressly designed to resist falling on the floor.

It fell flat on its lid and it literally exploded. Lucky it's currently cold, so the honey didn't go everywhere - but I lost about 2/3rds of the container, despite moving fast to try and recover as much as possible.

 

What was worse, all the plastic shattered like glass and pieces went everywhere. I scooped up most of the spilt honey with a spatula and then had to try and clean the residual honey off the floor.

Despite my best efforts, and even after 3 tries at cleaning up the mess, the floor was STILL sticky!

SWMBO came in later and redid the floor twice with a wet mop - but even then, there was still some residual stickiness. I was quite annoyed about losing the honey, it was a gift from the stepdaughters partner, from an exclusive honey producer near Busselton.

 

Edited July 21, 2023 by onetrack

[willedoo]

One of the worst messes I know of, I heard about second hand, but I was the cause of it. I was away working and found a nice fresh emu egg. I was based out of my dad's place at the time and thought it would look good on the mantlepiece, so put it there when I got home. After another hitch at work, I got back and heard from my dad how he was sitting in the living room one night watching TV and the egg exploded like a hand grenade. I'd forgotten about that trick of drilling a hole in the emu egg to get rid of the contents. He said there was rotten emu egg up the walls and on the ceiling and all over the carpeted floor. I don't know if he copped any or not, but it took a lot of cleaning up.

[Jerry_Atrick]

sORRY @willedoo, but it did sound funny - looking back; not at the time, of course.

Edited July 21, 2023 by Jerry_Atrick

[nomadpete]

I'd bet after that,  Willie's dad got a bit cautious about any gifts his son left behind.

[old man emu]

11 hours ago, octave said:

my wife and I gain considerable pleasure from this

Bet you prefer the grinding than the roasting.

[nomadpete]

Good one OME.

Octave expected to get roasted about it.

[old man emu]

Fair go! Octave is the crema de crop.

[Bruce Tuncks]

When I spill somehing like that, I use the broom and a stand-up dustpan to put them in. Where they go next depends on whether the wife knows or not. If she doesn't know, I put them back.

[red750]

Grrrr. Knox Private Hospital. They added two floors of additional wards but no more car park. You join 10 others circling around and around looking for a parking spot, more than 20 minutes. Most of the half hour free parking wasted. 

[facthunter]

A lot of them are like that. I guess the land is too valuable to provide large car Parks.  Nev

[spacesailor]

Luckily, Westmead Hospital has heaps of PAY PARKING .

And walking distance to free parking .

spacesailor

[red750]

All parking is pay parking. The hospital is on the corner of two main rods, so no street parking for over 100 metres in any direction. First half hour free, then $9.00 for next hour. I used to be able to go to my oncologist and be back before the half hour was up, but not any longer.