[NTLK] [OT] Coffee & the Newt [was "Re: 2010?"]

From: Frederick Bauman <fbauman_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu Aug 31 2006 - 21:44:21 EDT

> I use the time to gently
> stir the coffee, and as the first line is sung I tap the minute
> timer to do
> 4 minutes. It never misses, and I'm pouring the coffee to the
> strains of
> the song's climactic refrain at the end.
>
> No one's ever refused a 2nd cup... :D
That is one amazing brew method. My hat's off to you.

> Anything else is an insult to our taste buds. Right Frederick?
AMEN!!!!
Spoken like a true coffee geek.

> For information, I've worked out a series of equivalencies of the
> amount of
> coffee per cup, which varies according to the particular cofffee
> and roast
> I'm using, so that I can always time the coffee for 4.5 minutes.
> In my
> experience, with most coffees this is optimum to get all the
> flavour but
> none of the nastiness. This has made it possible to teach my wife
> and son
> how to make and enjoy coffee as well. And of course, all my
> experimental
> data was carefully copied over into my Newton for posterity.
Christian, I would be curious to see some of this info. (If it's not
a family secret now ;-))

Fred Bauman
fbauman@gmail.com
www.avweb.biz
Grand Rapids, MI
  42°50'45.41"N
  85°39'41.17"W

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