Ed Bourgeois built one of the finest home roasters I’ve ever seen. Here is a list of his requirements: 1kg.+ electric roaster My goal was a roaster that could do at least 1kg green. with electric convection heat. I mainly wanted the abilities to: control and monitor every function remove the chaff as produced into […]
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If you’ve ever tried to tamp espresso in a single spout portafilter, you’ll know that it tends to wobble around, due to the single, offset contact point with the surface you rest it on. CoffeeGeek forum member Juanjo Viagran shows off his ingenuity and woodworking skills with this beautiful portafilter holder.
Continue ReadingHere’s a follow-up to my backyard coffee roasting post. All around great makers Mikey Sklar and Wendy Jehanara Tremayne made this video showing how to roast coffee with an airpopper. It doesn’t get any easier than this! They used an unmodified West Bend Poppery II, which is a somewhat legendary machine in home roasting circles. […]
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I’m pretty predictable. I couldn’t wait 2-3 days to try the new batch of coffee I roasted yesterday. These are some photos of me making a shot of espresso. It was a bit overroasted, yet grassy at the same time! This points to my temperature being a bit high and my guess is the grassy […]
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My supply of decent roasted coffee is at dangerously low levels, so my daughter and I spent a short time roasting coffee today. There are some great books and online resources for coffee roasting, but in a nutshell, here’s my simple method (purists will cringe; you can be much more precise about all of this. […]
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John Edgar Park writes on his blog: I love coffee and I love laser cutters, so I was thrilled to read about this collision of the two on Tonx’s blog. jpixl.net
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When I was working for Wired, we coined the term jitteratti (what the digerati become after too many cups of coffee). Caffeine and tech journalism (all journalism, for that matter) seem to go hand-in-hand. So it’s sort of fitting that Wired is doing a Starbucks art contest. The idea is to make something cool and […]
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