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Thanks very much! Yours in caffeine, Marc |
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And yeah - water temp has a huge impact on extraction. I used to work at an office with no kettle (incredibly unusual in the UK), but boiling water taps instead. My coffee always tasted sub par and lackluster. I took a thermometer to work one day and the water coming out was about 82c - and I was used to 95c+ at home, where the coffee tasted way better. |
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I don't want to get political, but there's a spectrum, right? If something is MiC so that's its dirt cheap and made in abhorrent working conditions then yeah - I don't want to support that either. But the most advanced manufacturing in the world is in China so it makes sense to buy stuff that is made there sometimes. I've had this grinder for 3 years and have used it daily. Grind consistency is as good today as it was the day I got it. And its bombproof. |
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So a lot of the time it is impossible not to buy something that was made in China but we can reduce the amount of things we get from them. And the way our legal FTC works "The Buy American Act" requires that a product must “be manufactured in the U.S. of more than 50% U.S. parts to be considered Made in the USA for government procurement purposes, which means the rest could be made anywhere and we would never know where that was. It's unfortunate that America and China can't get along because we are good for each other, but I can't support a bully who threatens America and small countries around them with nukes and war, I also can't support a country that steals intellectual property or has human rights issues, but human rights issues are more of an internal thing, I'm not sure if that's something outside nations should be involving themselves with. |
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I'm part way through my Atomic Coffee Roasters order; haven't found exactly what I want. I really liked the Whole Foods Vienna Roast, so I ordered a couple of Vienna roasts from Farm House...
Nice that they have a four oz option...it allowed me to build a nice sampler pack. |
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You'd hope so given they're one of the largest, if not the largest, specialty roaster in the U.S., but I received my first order from Onyx this week. Price to quality ratio is good. Think I was $58 down for these three 10oz bags shipped to my door. No taxes as they're in Arkansas. Have paid that much for two bags in before when buying from a local roaster.
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Or maybe I'll just cave and order some anyway because Dak particularly does sound right up my street. Its cliched, but my favorite roaster probably is Tim Wendelboe and Dak sound like they're on the same spectrum as him. |
I'm always screwing with temperature.
I've noticed if I go to high the coffee is more likely to upset my stomach. But there is a real delicate balance on flavor too. Been using 202F/94C lately for light roast pour over, 200F/93C for darker pour over, and going all the way down to 195F/90C for the fairly dark espresso stuff I have right now. Weirdly some coffee I can go higher on the temp without my stomach complaining. I think some of the "bad" cafe coffee that always makes me feel ill (e.x. Starbucks drip) must be brewed at a sky high temp for how burnt all that coffee already is in the roast process. |
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