I was looking up a recipe on the food network web when I saw this. He visits Sumptown, Terroir Coffee and even roasts some green from Sweet Marias in an air popper with a dimmer for temp control.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/show_et

Good to see how home roasting and the importance of fresh roasted beans may be getting greater exposure. Dave definitely needs to replace that blade grinder with a quality burr though...

cannonfodder wrote:I was looking up a recipe on the food network web when I saw this. He visits Sumptown, Terroir Coffee and even roasts some green from Sweet Marias in an air popper with a dimmer for temp control.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/show_et

Although one can nit pick a few things (such as using a whirlyblade at the end of the piece, to make "espresso" in an Aeropress), the piece is one of very few intelligent mass market presentations on coffee, in any media, that I have ever seen.

Great find and great piece.

ken

I was sitting in my office watching it thinking, yup, yes, got that one correct, then I see him dump beans in the whirling blade of death grinder and mentally scream NO!! For the love of god not a blade grinder!!

The fact that no mermaids or preground red cans were involved was a definite step in the correct direction.

cannonfodder wrote:I was sitting in my office watching it thinking, yup, yes, got that one correct, then I see him dump beans in the whirling blade of death grinder and mentally scream NO!! For the love of god not a blade grinder!!

Not to mention brewing with beans straight out of the roaster. That closing performance was quite discordant with the rest of the presentation, which had been quite good.

Darryl

darrylr wrote:Not to mention brewing with beans straight out of the roaster. That closing performance was quite discordant with the rest of the presentation, which had been quite good.

Darryl

I thought the same things. Oh well, I guess Food Network doesn't know everything food, at least not coffee.

Len