Inspired by John Park’s Florence Siphon Brewer article in MAKE, Volume 17, Boris Legradic of Switzerland made this “cruder” version, mostly out of scrounged parts. In email, he says: “…it...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Friday June 19th, 2009 12:18 PM
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Dave’s Coffee in Charlestown, RI, has just shared an old-school coffee roasting technique: Straight from the mountains of Ecuador, we here at Dave’s Coffee recently came across a very old...
Posted by Brian Jepson | Monday February 16th, 2009 2:14 PM
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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...
Posted by John Edgar Park | Sunday January 25th, 2009 7:42 PM
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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...
Posted by John Edgar Park | Tuesday January 13th, 2009 3:22 PM
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Here’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....
Posted by John Edgar Park | Tuesday November 18th, 2008 8:39 AM
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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...
Posted by John Edgar Park | Sunday November 16th, 2008 7:52 PM
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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...
Posted by John Edgar Park | Saturday November 15th, 2008 8:42 PM
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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....
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Wednesday October 22nd, 2008 3:51 PM
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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)...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Wednesday October 22nd, 2008 12:11 PM
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By way of our resident coffee gadget guru John Edgar Park comes word of this… er… homebrewed temp-regulated, lever espresso machine, called the Robo-Pavoni. Robo-Pavoni ; learning to make an...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Monday September 15th, 2008 2:30 PM
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