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Postby the_trystero on Fri Sep 23, 2011 4:47 pm

Yep, for a site named home-barista.com many of the participants here provide rigorous and informative testing well beyond many professional operations. I've been blown away.

And I personally highly value the efforts to debunk myth and legend. Something I saw too often with bicycle "engineering", design, and mechanics. The spirit of guys like Sheldon Brown and Jobst Brandt on the Usenet newsgroup rec.bicycles.tech is alive and well here.
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Postby the_trystero on Fri Sep 23, 2011 4:50 pm

Bob_McBob wrote:It bothers me when roasters intentionally bag their coffee like this to prevent customers from freezing. If I am ordering from somewhere that doesn't have free shipping, then shipping charges start to add up, which means I have to order more to make it worthwhile. If I don't have the option of freezing to control my coffee usage, then I will end up drinking stale coffee. What usually happens is I waste a bunch of time and probably compromise the freshness by having to open every bag and transfer it to my own foil bags.

There is at least one roaster I probably won't order from again because of this issue.


Most of my favorite roasters ship in lined kraft bags, I doubt they do so to intentionally add a step for their customers to freeze the beans.
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Postby Marshall on Fri Sep 23, 2011 5:01 pm

Bob_McBob wrote:It bothers me when roasters intentionally bag their coffee like this to prevent customers from freezing.

Are you serious???
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Postby Bob_McBob on Fri Sep 23, 2011 5:17 pm

Marshall wrote:Are you serious???


...yes?
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Postby Bob_McBob on Fri Sep 23, 2011 5:20 pm

the_trystero wrote:Most of my favorite roasters ship in lined kraft bags, I doubt they do so to intentionally add a step for their customers to freeze the beans.


I didn't say most roasters do it intentionally. The OP certainly seems to have a problem with foil lined bags because of freezing, and the roaster I actually referred to in my reply has specifically stated he uses kraft bags because he does not want his coffee frozen.
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Postby the_trystero on Fri Sep 23, 2011 6:00 pm

Wow, misguided AND anti-customer.
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