It’s important to inspect the beans before throwing them in the roaster as there can be lots of junk tagging along in the bag. We decided to build a bean inspection table (a glorified bin with some mesh to let the small junk fall through) to make that step...
As much as we like to eat plain chocolate bars all day, we needed an excuse to try baking with our chocolate and seeing how well it worked in mousses, cakes, pies, pot de cremes, ice cream, etc. We decided on doing a dessertsum — it’s like dimsum, but...
Recently, my wife, Elaine, started taking a class at Stanford about the history and art of the book. The class spends their nights looking through ancient manuscripts and poring over type in Green Library. In the last class, the professor posed the...
We had fun and met some great people at the Homegrown Marin Market. I had missed the fresh stroopwafels at one of the previous markets, but I made sure to hit the Stroopwerks table early this time. Also, thanks to Jere of Biddy McCool’s for taking the...
After seeing the magra in action in Costa Rica, we ordered one and it was just delivered. We haven’t had time to do a systematic analysis of our beans, but we had to try it out:
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