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Old coffee grounds

My house finds itself with a knockbox full of spent pucks of coffee at the end of every day. We would pull anywhere between six and eighteen double shots a day. That’s around 14g of coffee per puck, which would work out at more than 71Kgs of coffee grounds per year!
The question is what’s a good use for them?

| Posted: 1 June 08
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A Coffee Primer

The world of speciality coffee has been likened to that of fine wine. Well prepared coffee is a drink every bit as complex and intriguing as a fine wine.
Consequently, there is a huge amount of information and advice about coffee out there – way too much for this humble site. But what follows is some basic information that may flesh out some of the terms and jargon elsewhere on the site…

| Posted: 13 December 05
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Roasting at home - part 1

Roasting my own coffee has really been the watershed in appreciating the best that coffee has to offer.

While I enjoyed buying and drinking coffee micro roasters who really care about genuinely fresh coffee, I was still dependant on someone else buying a bean that I liked, roasting it the way they wanted, and then having to pay to have it shipped to me.
Aside from the lack of control over the whole process, it was expensive – around $32-36 per kilo plus postage. [more…]

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