Coffee Experiment 1
Not like I'm going to post daily vlogs or anything, but the coffee thing had to be done and had to be documented for my science records. And the progress on my latest zine. And these are things I don't mind sharing with YOU, gentle reader! Secret humans only!
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towards the end of the video, i saw a kind of scrap book full of colors and graffiti . It felt exciting to see all that beautiful chaos.
Li-Yu, a former Ph.D. student who turned into an international rockstar leader in my discipline, served me coffee made from a teabag-like steeping device. It was O.K., but the idea of a fractal bag tickles me; I guess the ultimate would be to have each grain of consistently ground coffee ensconced in its own perfectly gossamer-thin layer of bag with water of the exact right temperature flow-floating all about it. Whoever makes the perfect cup of coffee will probably achieve satori, die, go to heaven, and be reborn so fast that she or he will not remember it upon return as a turtle holding up the Earth. So, it's more fun to pursue approximations to brewing that cup than to making it.
maybe grind coffee into pure powder, steep briefly, then apply the centrifuge to get the grounds out...
Ahhhh, boiling water is too hot! Please let it get to 190~195F. Also, baristas should wear shirts that say 'Coffee Chef' -- I'd totally tip more.
coffee chef! coffee chef!
Note on the barista/bar thing: in Italy (where much of the American coffee tradition is descended from), a small restaurant that serves espresso and related drinks, pastries and sandwiches in the morning and alcohol later in the day is a bar, and the employees are baristas.
This sounds good and efficient, as compared to using up twice the real estate to have coffee places that close in the afternoon and bars that open in the afternoon.
I'm following with interest. Teabag coffee doesn't sound so different from French press coffee, which is not just good on my uneducated tongue but also followers among those who can taste (and care about) subtleties in their coffee. I wonder whether using coarse-ground coffee in a metal tea ball and steeping it for the same 4-5 minutes as one would with a French press would work. I may have to go try this myself right now...
I think the big barrier to fancy coffeeness is that I use ground coffee instead of making sure I have fresh locally roasted extra great beans and grinding it etc... gotta see if my coarse ground doesn't escape my tea ball now!
I approve of this experiment. We need to find more ways to make coffee - for science!
what about more smaller teabags to increase surface area
fractal tea bags
Tasting notes might be anticipated, for science of course.
Agreed, but with the bar set at "coffee-like"...
This is scary. Amazon just notified me that *my* coffee experiment (a grinder and a new coffee maker) will be here tomorrow! We must be on the same coffee wavelength...
Yay congrats on the new coffee toys!
Yeah, that didn't look like the yummiest coffee. But doing coffee experiments before coffee is a bit putting the cart before the horse, I suppose.
yep, the unused footage definitely had lots of "uhhhh wait what is even an object or thing uhhhh need coffee object to do coffee object..." It's a big motivation for finding easier ways to coffee, because I don't know how anyone remembers how to coffee before a coffee