Wanted-Viable Coffee Beans
Brandon Sturkie
7 years ago
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Comments (4)amylilac7 - I just sent another email, hope it reaches you this time. If not please try emailing me with your mailing address, and I will try the reply to sender option with mine(maybe your email will recoginze an address it has sent out to). Orcascove@aol.com thanks! - Barb...See Morewanted: dwarf orange tree and coffee bean seeds
Comments (2)Hey peaches20, I dont know anything about coffee plants, but there are no genetically dwarf citrus trees. The "dwarf" factor is due to one citrus being grafted onto another citrus root stock. And even then, having a dwarf tree doesnt mean it wont grow to normal size, it just means that it will take considerably longer to rech that size. But if you will be growing these indoors, since i see you are in zone 6, they might stay at a small-ish size. Having said that, i have some mandarin orange tree seeds that i can save for you. My dwarf (grafted) tree is fully loaded with fruit right now. I will also have some mexican sweet lime seeds (also known as key lime) in a couple of weeks. Notice the graft union about half ways up the trunk. This is what is classified as a dwarf citrus tree. It will EVENTUALLY grow to the size of a normal, ungrafted tree, but that will take many, many years....See MoreWhere do you order your coffee beans?
Comments (45)Don't get me wrong - we adore Peet's, but their specialty has always been dark-roasted coffees. We get the French or Italian in a just-up-from-powdered-Turkish grind, brewed through Chemex filters. I long ago broke the Chemex glass pot and realized it's the filters and the cone shape that make the difference. A cheap plastic cone works just as well, but the Chemex bonded filters are a must. Compare side-by-side with a paper filter and you can tell the difference immediately. We filter into a vaccuum pot if we're not going to drink it right away; it holds it very well for about 4-5 hours. On the Left Coast we are passionate about coffee and Starbucks fans are regarded with smirks. As you enjoy medium roasts with a lower acidity than dark roasted coffees - and many people do, I do myself on occasion - I'm wondering if you have tried the national brands of Chock Full o'Nuts (which ranked quite high in a Fine Cooking taste test a few years ago) and....Dunkin' Donuts. DD is making big ripples in the San Francisco Bay Area with a report by a Millennial blogsite that was just published yesterday. They included DD for a joke in a taste test against three of the highest-regarded new artisanal coffee roasters (so new they are post-Blue Bottle, who has gone from coffee cart to Establishment specialty in less than 3 yrs). DD came in second - no small feat! I've had all three artisanal coffees, and they're very good indeed. The short column from Eater SF is linked below. (btw, PS to johnliu - we loved Stumptown on our 2010 swing through the PNW. Have heard good things about Catahoula in Richmond. Do you have access to Highwire in Oakland? They're doing some good blends over there) Here is a link that might be useful: DD embarrasses Bay Area foodies...See MoreGrinding coffee beans
Comments (19)Correction: I use HALF a cup of beans to grind coffee for 3 cups of coffee, not a whole cup of beans. I would prefer a glass container for the ground coffee, but don't find the plastic on in the Cuisinart a big problem so far. The plastic container for the whole beans is of no consequence to me. It's grinding evenly, and a setting just south of "Medium" grinds fine enough for me. The roar is a waker-upper. Think of an old cartoon where a character has upset a hive -- only *louder*. The most important feature of any drip coffee maker is its' ability to heat the water to the right temperature and keep it there to the finish. You also need good water. Our tap water is great, but I still draw from the filtered water dispenser in our refridgerator door. I only want coffee brewed NOW, not an hour later, and not 'kept hot' on a hot plate. My old Krups drips into a pre-heated thermos carafe that I can then seal tight. I don't find that feature on any 'grind and brew' makers. (Some have thermos carafes, but they don't seal.) We would probably be good candidates for the single cup capsules, but I'm too cheap to pay more for the maker or the capsules!...See More
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7 years agoI was also looking for coffee seeds, my husband found small plants at Walmart. Love the shiny leaves!
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