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Coffee Food

Roasty

Moka Kadir again. Took this one to Full City+ / maybe Vienna? Temps on this one are from the fancy new thermocouple I hacked into the roaster.

Vital Stats: 250g roasted, 77F Ambient, Target of Full City++ (447F). Post roast weight: 206g.

Time Temp Heater Fan Notes
0:00 229 100 0
0:15 243 100 0
0:30 256 100 0
0:45 269 100 0
1:00 282 100 0
1:15 294 100 0 Dropped Beans In
1:30 279 100 0
1:45 244 100 0
2:00 206 100 0
2:15 184 100 0
2:30 174 100 0
2:45 171 100 0
3:00 174 100 0
3:15 179 100 0
3:30 186 100 0
3:45 193 100 0
4:00 201 100 0
4:15 208 100 75 Quick fan kick to remove moisture
4:30 215 100 0
4:45 223 100 0 First Aroma
5:00 230 100 0
5:15 236 100 0
5:30 243 100 0
5:45 249 100 0
6:00 255 100 0
6:15 261 100 0
6:30 266 100 0
6:45 272 100 0
7:00 277 100 0
7:15 282 100 0
7:30 287 100 0
7:45 291 100 0
8:00 296 100 0
8:15 300 100 0
8:30 305 100 0
8:45 309 100 0
9:00 314 100 0
9:15 318 100 0
9:30 322 100 0
9:45 327 100 0
10:00 331 100 0
10:15 335 80 0
10:30 339 80 0
10:45 344 80 0
11:00 348 80 0
11:15 352 80 25
11:30 356 100 25
11:45 360 100 25
12:00 364 100 25
12:15 368 100 25
12:30 372 100 25
12:45 376 100 25
13:00 381 80 25
13:15 385 80 50 FC Starts
13:30 390 80 50
13:45 395 50 50
14:00 399 40 50
14:15 403 40 50
14:30 406 40 50
14:45 410 40 50
15:00 412 40 50
15:15 416 40 50 FC Ends
15:30 419 80 50
15:45 422 80 75
16:00 425 80 75
16:15 429 80 75
16:30 432 80 100
16:45 436 60 100 SC Starts
17:00 440 60 100
17:15 445 60 100
17:21 447 60 100 Stopped Roast
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Food Photography

Tomatoes are almost here

Brandywines

The tomatoes in our EarthBox are coming along nicely, though the plant has grown to exceed all expectation. It’s upper branches are not entangling the basketball net, about seven feet off the ground. It’s drinking about 2 liters of water a day (!!!) and though we had some problems with blossom end rot, a quick application of some lime seems to have fixed that up. I definitely want to try growing more in the EarthBox… Sheri put some basil in and said was just amazingly large. As a kid, I got to pick a few seeds to plant in our family garden and I always went for the tallest, biggest, fattest variety of whatever I could find: giant sunflowers, huge watermelon and pumpkin, tall corn. It rarely ended up being as large as the seed package claimed it could be, but I was all about growing the biggest thing I could. The EarthBox definitely delivers on growing stuff big and increasing yeilds.

Jalepenos

Our jalepeno plant is also doing pretty well in its standard container. It doesn’t drink quite a much water, but it looks like we’ll be making homemade salsa pretty soon…

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Food

Joel on Coffee: Starbucks vs. Customer

Joel has an interesting piece on Inc. Magazine’s site on how Starbucks’ policies are getting rather anti-customer. I think he raises a good point, that you have to be careful that the policies that allow you run a profitable business don’t get in the way of providing the best service you can to a customer, but I was sad to see that instead of getting his coffee from a decent coffee house, he just went up the block to another Starbucks.

Though as he says, Starbucks serves the “modern adult milkshake.” Maybe a decent coffee house wouldn’t fit his needs anyway.

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Food Shopping

KitchenAid Pro 600 Mixer for $290

kitchenaid-600-red

Amazon is running a great sale on the KitchenAid Professional 600 Series 6-Quart Stand Mixers for today only. It appears only certain colors are included in the sale: Nickel Pearl, Empire Red, Licorice & Meringue; choose carefully.

Update: The sale is over, but there’s often a substantial price break on certain colors. Check with Amazon to see the various options. The little preview you get when hovering on links here lists the price as $499, but that’s just retail. It’s usually much less.

We love our now-discontinued KitchenAid mixer (the old Williams-Sonoma model just above the current Artisan), but sometimes a bit more power and a bit bigger bowl would be nice…

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Food Photography

Pickin’ & Grinin’

Black Raspberries

Black Raspberries

Mandy & Jack headed out with some other folks from the playgroup yesterday and came back with these beauties from a farm just up the road from our house. We’re planning on making a cobbler and possibly some jam out of them, if they last that long. Next to mulberries, these are my favorite for pickin’ & eatin’.