I started watching Stranger Things yesterday, and this moment from s1e1 spoke to me on a deep level. And the soundtrack is pretty rad, too.
Tag: coffee
First Alan Adler Invented the Aerobie. Now He’s Created the Perfect Cup of Coffee
At first I was stirring it in a cup and then pouring the slurry into the AeroPress. Later on I learned that I could stir it right in the AeroPress.
I love that in the early, prototyping days even the inventor didn’t know how to use his invention.
First Alan Adler Invented the Aerobie. Now He’s Created the Perfect Cup of Coffee
So Jerry Seinfeld Called Us To Talk About Coffee : The Salt : NPR
I got married and I had a family and my entire day was not free for social interaction. And eating is annoying and difficult to arrange, [and it’s] hard to choose places. And meeting someone for coffee suddenly seemed like a wonderful, compact, accessible and portable social interaction. You don’t even really need a place. But you feel like you’re doing something. That is what coffee is. And that is one of the geniuses of the new coffee culture.
Shortly before reading this, I invited a friend to meet for coffee and not talking:
ELAINE: Come on, let’s go do something. I don’t want to just sit around here.
JERRY: Okay.
ELAINE: Want to go get something to eat?
JERRY: Where do you want to go?
ELAINE: I don’t care, I’m not hungry.
JERRY: We could go to one of those cappuccino places. They let you just sit there.
ELAINE: What are we gonna do there? Talk?
JERRY: We can talk.
ELAINE: I’ll go if I don’t have to talk.
So Jerry Seinfeld Called Us To Talk About Coffee : The Salt : NPR
Julian Baggini – The art of coffee
The logical consequence of molecular gastronomy is haute-mechanisation. If the best way to cook meat, for example, really is to vacuum-seal it with some herbs and spices and cook in water at 55 °C (131 °F) for 48 hours, then as soon as a suitable, cheap sous-vide cooker is available, there is no reason why a novice chef in a local pub, or anyone else for that matter, couldn’t collect it from the butcher and do as good a job as anyone else.
The Iced-Coffee Economy: Why the Cold Stuff Costs More
Guest Blog: Science in the neighborhood: How to make really good coffee
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Coffee Break. A 1958 film about lost time in the workplace. From the Prelinger Archives.
How To Make Cold Brew Coffee
It’s June in Texas, which means my wife just made me my first mason jar full of cold brew coffee.
Cold-brewed coffee is actually dirt simple to make at home….But you can also bang it out with a Mason jar and a sieve. You just add water to coffee, stir, cover it and leave it out on the counter overnight. A quick two-step filtering the next day (strain the grounds through a sieve, and use a coffee filter to pick up silt), a dilution of the brew one-to-one with water, and you’re done. Except for the time it sits on the kitchen counter, the whole process takes about five minutes.
Bonus: recipe for New Orleans Cold Drip coffee.
This is also the season for cold-brew iced tea. Same method, folks. Just sayin’.
The sad/hilarious collection of unsatisfied coffee cups in our office right now.
Can a coffee really have as many calories as a Big Mac?
The answer is “yes”, if you make it no longer “coffee” but rather some strange liquid dessert/hot smoothie beverage.