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Mornings just got a whole lot better at my house.

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My Nuts Are Flat
Apr 18, 2002
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Towing the party line.
TN said:
So you got one of those plug-in doorbell things too, huh?
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Oh ya. House is form 1890 something. no real way to run a doorbell without making one hell of a mess, so battery powered wireless doorbell it is.

Also, I used to be crazy about manually taking care of my coffee, but it just grew too rushed in the mornings and now I want 1 button press perfect cappuccinos. This thing makes terrific coffee, so stoked.
 
xy9ine

xy9ine

Turbo Monkey
Mar 22, 2004
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jonKranked said:
what, you're not growing your own beans? :plthumbsdown:
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i was buying green beans & home roasting for a bit. it's really amazing the difference a fresh roast makes -ie, the degradation after a couple weeks is significant, which means pretty much everything that's not locally roasted &/or date stamped is stale. it's a bit of a tedious process though, and i've since reverted to buying from a local roaster.
 
laura

laura

DH_Laura
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Glitter Gulch
xy9ine said:
i was buying green beans & home roasting for a bit. it's really amazing the difference a fresh roast makes -ie, the degradation after a couple weeks is significant, which means pretty much everything that's not locally roasted &/or date stamped is stale. it's a bit of a tedious process though, and i've since reverted to buying from a local roaster.
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What kind of roaster? We roasted for a couple of years out of a popcorn machine. It was tedious and messy but we kept the coffee spending low and had fresh roasted coffee.
 
xy9ine

xy9ine

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laura said:
What kind of roaster? We roasted for a couple of years out of a popcorn machine. It was tedious and messy but we kept the coffee spending low and had fresh roasted coffee.
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popcorn machine also. works surprisingly well, but yeah, batch size is small, so keeping up with consumption was allot of work. i've got a kickass local roaster only a few blocks away, so the laziness won in the end. i imagine things would be different if i actually bucked up for a proper home roasting machine. green beans are surprisingly cheap in comparison.
 
Secret Squirrel

Secret Squirrel

There is no Justice!
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xy9ine said:
popcorn machine also. works surprisingly well, but yeah, batch size is small, so keeping up with consumption was allot of work. i've got a kickass local roaster only a few blocks away, so the laziness won in the end. i imagine things would be different if i actually bucked up for a proper home roasting machine. green beans are surprisingly cheap in comparison.
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I've gone through two Zach & Dani's roasters (they do about a quarter to half pound of green beans in a batch...) in the last 3 years...I and my wife drink a lot of coffee...The machine was pretty easy to clean up though...so that was nice.
 
CBJ

CBJ

year old fart
Mar 19, 2002
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Funny thing I have found is that the better coffee you drink the less your drink. There is just so much flavor in good coffee that you just can't drink it in buckets.
 
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My Nuts Are Flat
Apr 18, 2002
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Towing the party line.
CBJ said:
Funny thing I have found is that the better coffee you drink the less your drink. There is just so much flavor in good coffee that you just can't drink it in buckets.
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Yup, here i can drink massive cups of tim hortons / starbucks (yuck) etc. coffee. In Europe I am more than happy with a small cup of cappuccino every morning.
 
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