Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/04/15

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Subject: [Leica] Tea in England
From: mail at gpsy.com (Karen Nakamura)
Date: Thu Apr 15 06:11:13 2004
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>As for decent coffee, that is becoming as hard to find as tea and I am
>now paying $4 for a latte at our local shopping mall! If I want biscuits
>with it, they are around $5 for 6! Thank God there is a decent cafe down
>the street who use Freetrade organic products at half the price of the
>local mall.


I've gone the deep-end, the Leica-M equivalent of coffeemaking.

We buy our coffee beans green from SweetMarias.com. It's less than 
half the price of roasted beans and green  beans can store for over a 
year. You can also blend to your heart's delight.

We then roast in a popcorn popper. We had a dedicated coffee roaster 
(round ~$200) but it melted down, so we do it in the popper, which 
actually gives us more control.

We grind in a Rancilio Syvia  and produced the espresso in a Rancilio Rocky.


This is the coffee equivalent of coating your own film emulsion and 
doing all your own darkroom work, but it's worth it!

Karen

-- 
Karen Nakamura
http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/

Replies: Reply from ericm at pobox.com (Eric) ([Leica] Re: Tea in England)
Reply from n.wajsman at chello.nl (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] Re: coffee (WAS: Tea in England))
Reply from philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent) ([Leica] Tea in England)
In reply to: Message from Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com (Frank Dernie) ([Leica] Tea in England)
Message from gwpics at aol.com (Gerry Walden) ([Leica] Tea in England)