Kitchen Stuff Review

Coffee Time

• carry-on limits, met.
  is this the world’s most compact quality coffee travel kit? this blog is positing the idea here, publicly, with full assurance that someone will come along to prove us wrong. the mini iron, of course, is so that the vest will be PERFECTLY PRESSED WHILE POURING. - porlex mini. - kantan drippers. - 4-inch, SK-2KG […]
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• that tamper thing i wrote a long time ago; yes
  this blog parted with its espressocraft tamper for a weekend. which, yeah. brings up all those weepy, effusive things we wrote about it lo these five-odd years ago. especially this: it would appear to this marveler that what espressocraft does is flout an assumption, generally held amongst tamper designers, that you want to relay the […]
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• CI auditions for in-flight barista
  flight back from london and monaco: ask the flight attendant for hot water, stealthily squeeze the porlex from the carry-on and start grinding a little stash of square mile coffee. in truth, a pack of kantan drippers was the only way we stayed sane in england. turns out, these tea-loving peoples stock an electric kettle […]
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• more obvious places where good coffee should be
  monaco: crazy place! more ferraris than fords, more obviously forced royal wedding photos that any public should be required to see. and such a fine (nonexistent?) line between “personal yacht” and “cruise ship.” and yet, it’s kind of amazing that for all the fine food, captive populace, french sensibilities and disposable income sloshing around in […]
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• coffee –> questions –> words
  counter culture’s ben helfen demonstrates the thing with the stuff, while coffee and crema‘s shannon hudgens slings siphon. this blog is skulking somewhere to the left. it turns out no one asked for just a cup of coffee. and out of many dozens of people (hundreds?) maybe four required sugar. perhaps it was because this […]
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• CI sometimes doesn’t know what to say to people about coffee
  a bartop is conceived. you don’t get very far in the previous thoughtstream on how we serve our coffee without coming to that vexing question of what you should, you know, say to people about it — and what you shouldn’t. the newly incorporated Handsome Coffee guys seem to be making a point in media […]
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