My approach would to be use Italian water ice.

Fill the basket to the brim with the cold slush, level it off, and then place it inside a vessel and allow it to melt. Lift the basket out and pour any liquid in the basket into the vessel. Then pour the contents of the vessel into a graduated cylinder.

Rinse thoroughly in hot water

Regards
Timo

P.S. Be sure to pack the baskets tightly with the slush to remove any voids..
P.P.S. Use good quality Italian water ice, not the aerated stuff.

timo888 wrote:My approach would to be use Italian water ice....Use good quality Italian water ice, not the aerated stuff.

Ha ha. "Tools found in a usual kitchen."

I know I've got good quality Italian water ice around here somewhere.

Location: NY

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Regards
Timo

I'd use the same tool I use as an emergency flat repair tool on the bicycle. The phone. "Hello, manufacturer of espresso machine basket 'X'? Yeah, what's the volume of the basket? Oh.... yeah... and the single basket? To the top, yeah... OK, thanks! Have a nice day!"
What could be easier?

Psyd wrote:I'd use the same tool I use as an emergency flat repair tool on the bicycle. The phone. "Hello, manufacturer of espresso machine basket 'X'? Yeah, what's the volume of the basket? Oh.... yeah... and the single basket? To the top, yeah... OK, thanks! Have a nice day!"
What could be easier?

But what if the phone were not in the kitchen?
Regards
Timo

Andy's idea is great, but Dan came up with a more elegant solution. So I say send the handle to Andy and the base to Dan ;P

Cheers,

Luca

timo888 wrote:But what if the phone were not in the kitchen?
Regards
Timo

The kitchen is still the center of the home. All life exudes from the kitchen. The kitchen is the most common room in the home with two doors to the outside to have its own, behind only foyers. If you do not have a phone in the kitchen, you have a cordless that goes in there quite often, I'm sure (and you are a neanderthal! No phone in the kitchen?!? I've never heard of such a thing!) or a cord that reaches generously to the far end of the kitchen.
I just did the awards ceremony for the designers and architects of North America (mostly US), and the kitchen played a HUGE part in the winning designs, re-designs, and renovations. While phones weren't on the designs, I cannot imagine any modern home being designed without one. And anyone that designs a home today without CAT 6 (at least one) going to the kitchen is going to be re-wiring in very short order.