I'm glad everyone seems to have made it through any threatened Tsunami's unscathed. From the few news reports I've seen, the death toll in Chile was pretty small, thankfully, for such a large quake. I'm just getting back to roasting, having reassembled my espresso machine after changing the gaskets and seals when the water flow started to slow... probably could have saved a lot of worry and trouble by just running some citric acid through it, but I'd never changed the original seals and gaskets and was worried that they were bad. I ended up stripping out a screw and having to drill it out and find a metric tap to get things put back together, but with the good directions I got with the seal and gasket kit I was able to make things right. I'm now roasting a Honey Panama in the Behmor. My last roast, Moka Kadir, I roasted for the espresso machine, but ended up tearing it apart and just drinking the Moka Kadir as coffee. With the Moka Kadir, I tried out an experiment where I brewed up cups at the same time with my two Clever Coffee Drippers, using a generic white filter in one and the new Melita white filters with the micro-perforations in the other to see if I could taste a difference... I couldn't. The Brix readings on them were the same and I tasted the same coffee / bakers chocolate flavors in both cups... maybe with a more floral or brighter coffee or lighter roast I could taste a difference, but not with the Moka Kadir. The spent grounds in the Melita looked better, like there was more drainage through the sides while the generic filter looked like more grounds were pulled down to the bottom. Maybe the immersion style of the CCD also nullifies any difference... a pour-over or coffee maker might see a difference. This was a follow-up experiment, I was reading a thread on CoffeeGeek about Stale Water affecting the flavor of coffee and decided to boil out the dissolved oxygen in the water and make two cups, blowing bubbles in one with a coffee straw... in this experiment, I did taste a difference with the one that I aerated having more flavor and the blueberries came out better and earlier with the aerated brew (on a Ethiopian with two days rest, a little early, but the peak would be during the week where I wouldn't have the time to experiment. Here's a link to the aeration experiment on CoffeeGeek:http://tinyurl.com/yc8x4pr.I've been enjoying the coffee experiments so far with dose, grind, aeration, etc. The CCDs seem ideal to do an A B comparison. Anyway, stay dry everyone, love to hear about any experiments anyone else has undertaken lately. - Chris Homeroast mailing list Homeroasthttp://www.sweetmariascoffee.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemIdx20">http://host.sweetmariascoffee.com/mailman/listinfo/homeroast_lists.sweetmariascoffee.comHomeroast community pictures -upload yours!) :http://www.sweetmariascoffee.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemIdx20 |