When did this espresso extraction go blond? [slow motion video]

by **ozzyymclaren** on Mon Apr 28, 2008 5:26 pm

I know there are lots of video showing "when the blonding starts". This is just another one.
I've shoot it with my cameras 50 FPS mode. Then play it with the half speed and this is the result, slow motion espresso shot with Beethoven.

I've used Yemen Moka Matari (6 days old). The shot begins at 8 seconds. The shot stopped at 28s seconds.
And the question... When?

by HB on Mon Apr 28, 2008 7:59 pm

Nice job on the video! It really puts my When did this espresso extraction go blond? video to shame. I've taken the liberty of adding a poll to this thread.

by **ozzyymclaren** on Tue Apr 29, 2008 6:01 am

Thanks Dan for your comment on the video. Actually the camera did the job.

It's not the cameraman, its the camera!

by **kahvedelisi** on Tue Apr 29, 2008 7:28 am

Great job Ozan and I "insist" it's the cameraman

Anyways, first time I saw this video I thought it's 53rd second (and beyond) where blonding starts. So I voted for 50seconds instead of 1 minute.

by **CoffeeOwl** on Mon May 12, 2008 7:16 am

I voted 1'10'', I think it's just slightly earlier then the real blonding starts.

And yes - the video is great! and the music... ;-)

by **barry** on Mon May 12, 2008 3:16 pm

two transient channels at :56 & :58, true blonding doesn't start until past 1:10

by **Psyd** on Mon May 12, 2008 7:45 pm

barry wrote:two transient channels at :56 & :58, true blonding doesn't start until past 1:10

I agree with Barry on this one, there were a coupla spurts, but I pulled the trigger mere seconds before you did, and called it good up until 1:20-22 on the video. I'm off to pull the last of the Toscano I snatched from murky. This is a bad video. Makes me do things I oughtn't ; >
Nice looking pull!

by HB on Mon May 12, 2008 10:56 pm

I voted for 1:30 and am surprised by the number of 0:50 votes (35%). Evidently some cut it off the extraction at the first hint of a blond streak, but I also pay attention to the viscosity of the pour. By my eye, the stream was looking thick as the timer sailed past the 1:10 mark, though the slow motion may have helped.

Yemen sure makes for nice looking pours... sadly it's been over a year since I've drank any.

by **IronBarista** on Tue May 13, 2008 12:51 pm

I like the song. The whole time watching the video I was envisioning A Clockwork Orange my fellow droogs.

by **ntwkgestapo** on Tue May 13, 2008 12:57 pm

I've got to agree with Dan here... 1:30 (the end of the video). NICE looking extraction (and great music!

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by **Jasonian** on Fri May 16, 2008 5:07 pm

It was somewhere around 1:13 when I hit "pause" to see the time.

So I voted 1:10.

by **TimEggers** on Fri May 16, 2008 5:18 pm

I voted :50 prior to reading any of the comments on this post. Sadly I'll admit that the perception of any blonding completely ruining a shot makes me shut off early. I blame the general Internet community for giving me that fear. I think all to often the impact of blonding is overstated (of course I could be wrong). In practice a little blonde flow doesn't hurt anything and in some cases can help mellow and balance out an otherwise intense aggressive shot.

Within reason of coarse.

by **barry** on Fri May 16, 2008 7:49 pm

TimEggers wrote: In practice a little blonde flow doesn't hurt anything and in some cases can help mellow and balance out an otherwise intense aggressive shot.

Yep.

by **hbuchtel** on Sat May 17, 2008 5:59 am

I voted for 50" 'cause that is probably where I would have stopped it. Cool to see all the recommendations for a much later cut!

Great video!

Henry

by **JimWright** on Sat May 17, 2008 2:19 pm

I voted 1:20, but my initial impulse was :50 - like Tim, I think I have been negatively influenced by what I've read on the topic.

The thing is, the whole "cut off at blonding" thing seems really overblown and blend dependent unless my consistency is just not good enough to see the real picture; some of the blends I've used seem to do better cut off way early (the :50 mark here, which was my initial impulse as I was watching), but others are really fine with a long pour.


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When did this espresso extraction go blond? [slow motion video]

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