I want some coffee!

Wednesday worked out as a good day to do some roasting and I managed to get through 7.3 lbs of green beans. 7.3 lbs of greens translates into 6 lbs of roasted coffee which is enough to keep the coffee drinkers we know from having caffeine withdrawals.  6 lbs ready to go plus a spare plus a pound of Liquid Amber for Will Roasting these recent 6 pounds of coffee was the easiest roast session I've ever had. The new Recipe for these organic beans from Chiapas, Mexico makes it a breeze! Went very smoothly and each roast ended as expected instead of the frequent 'anyone's guess' I often encounter. And this current lot of Organic Chiapas from Mexico (via Coffee Bean Corral in Jackson, MS) is still a remarkable favorite. It's so good I've stopped roasting anything else. And that appears to be pretty much the opinion of the others I'm sharing this with. So today or tomorrow the Admiral will drop off a few chocolate Santas as Christmas treats and I'll deliver cof...

Life has been a little off balance for this scribe. Rehab continues to demand the focus of most of my activity by either demanding I get ready to go to the clinic or return and try to remember what I was supposed to be doing or do the exercises I'm required to do daily. On top of that we changed 'laundry day' back in August from Thursday to Tuesday cuz we had run out of clothes when we returned from our brief trip to New Mexico and that discombobulated everything that requires repetition. Take your pick for a cause- it requires very little for a person who needs daily repetition to maintain a habit to keep it from falling to the wayside.  And the exercise from rehab must absolutely not be tossed aside. According to the Admiral my posture is actually improving a little and I'm walking further. When I started rehab in early Dec I was able to walk about 1/4 mile max. Michael-the-rehab-tech told me to start increasing that distance so I gave it a try on Friday morning (16 D...

I just roasted a bunch of coffee. To try to keep the roasts consistent using what RT3 (the roasting software) refers to as Recipes. Recipes are a set of button pushing commands to the roaster that can be based upon Time (the default) or Temperature AND Time (that's the logical AND meaning both). They provide consistency that seems to be lacking when I just follow the button pushes of an earlier roast. Easy-peasey. But the results have been inconsistent and I end up with roasts that have a graph that varies a lot. And I mean a lot . Thru some odd accumulation of good fortune I did a roast that seemed to have all the right shapes to the curves that are recorded during the roast. At the same time I needed to answer a few questions from the software developer about how the Recipe feature works in RT3. So... I decided to create a new version of the Recipe using the roast that had come out *looking* like I wanted. But instead of using the in-built roast-to-recipe conversion which is mech...