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Chaff from coffee roasting for McD's will be used to make headlights for Ford.
https://canada.autonews.com/technology/ ... headlightsAtul said it takes the skins of 392,000 coffee beans to make one housing unit. McDonalds throws away 1.2 million pounds of coffee bean skins each week.
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baldheadracing wrote:Chaff from coffee roasting for McD's will be used to make headlights for Ford.
https://canada.autonews.com/technology/ ... headlights
I see all sorts of cool, odd materials being cast into resin and then shaped into things like chef's knife handles or pocketknives. It would be cool to see someone make a coffee roaster's tryer handle out of resin impregnated chaff. Wouldn't be too hard to do. Well mixed, then into a weighted mold, then turned on a lathe. Probably would look pretty cool too.
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I'm going to make one out of roasted coffee beans that are stale and otherwise destined for the trash. Whole coffee beans will look even cooler than just a brown homogeneous material. And for light use at home, it's strength shouldn't be a major issue. If it turns out ok, I'll share a comment in the Roasting forum about it.
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Nestle is starting a roasting service. If I am reading this press release correctly, Nestle will partially roast the beans and then your local shop finishes the roast. (Greece & Scandinavia to start.) Looks like a Fracino Roastalino (tabletop UK air roaster) is being used.
Press release:
https://www.nestle.com/media/news/nestl ... ut-of-home
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Press release:
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Error of two days ago:
My takahira kettle glowed red atop the induction portable element I have. I had checked to be sure there was water in it. But the light was dim and so was my brain.
That would be a stupid way to ruin a nice pourover kettle or start a kitchen fire.
Do better induction plates have a safety feature to prevent heating metal to over 900 deg F?
My takahira kettle glowed red atop the induction portable element I have. I had checked to be sure there was water in it. But the light was dim and so was my brain.
That would be a stupid way to ruin a nice pourover kettle or start a kitchen fire.
Do better induction plates have a safety feature to prevent heating metal to over 900 deg F?
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Shouldn't all induction plates have such safety featureChert wrote:Error of two days ago:
Do better induction plates have a safety feature to prevent heating metal to over 900 deg F?
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I've seen timer and motion detection based auto shutoff devices for stoves. A temperature based shutoff might be tricky. Would you have to disable it to stir fry?
When I was 18 I came home after being up all night at my high school graduation party and decided I needed a snack. I put some food in a pot of water on the stove and thought that lying down on the couch while it heated up made good sense. I became aware sometime later of my mother's screams and the fact that the room was filled with smoke. It wasn't enough to rouse me. Hours later I awoke to discover the blackened wall behind the stove and a steel saucepan that had melted.
I still leave the stove on low by accident now and then, sometimes for hours. It does worry me a bit...
When I was 18 I came home after being up all night at my high school graduation party and decided I needed a snack. I put some food in a pot of water on the stove and thought that lying down on the couch while it heated up made good sense. I became aware sometime later of my mother's screams and the fact that the room was filled with smoke. It wasn't enough to rouse me. Hours later I awoke to discover the blackened wall behind the stove and a steel saucepan that had melted.
I still leave the stove on low by accident now and then, sometimes for hours. It does worry me a bit...
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yeah houses still burn down due to similarly unattended frying pans put on a stove for some late night snacking, for direct gas fire and open flame it's not common and not that easy to have any safety but for a new and electronic device such as an induction stove I somehow expected that there would be a mandatory failsafe imposed by regulations, it should be possible to add a Max temperature protection, that glass surface can only become X degrees before it goes...for anything else there are smoke detectors (yet having those in a kitchen means you cannot do any serious stir frying).
My Pizza oven is a first gen, which can go all the way up to 400"C, not a great idea as the plastic knobs fall off at that temperature, and I surely don't ever leave it unattended. later models have been restricted to only get up to somewhere like 300 'C supposedly because of a new EU regulation.
My Pizza oven is a first gen, which can go all the way up to 400"C, not a great idea as the plastic knobs fall off at that temperature, and I surely don't ever leave it unattended. later models have been restricted to only get up to somewhere like 300 'C supposedly because of a new EU regulation.
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Marcelnl wrote:yeah houses still burn down due to similarly unattended frying pans put on a stove for some late night snacking, for direct gas fire and open flame it's not common and not that easy to have any safety but for a new and electronic device such as an induction stove I somehow expected that there would be a mandatory failsafe imposed by regulations, it should be possible to add a Max temperature protection, that glass surface can only become X degrees before it goes...for anything else there are smoke detectors (yet having those in a kitchen means you cannot do any serious stir frying).
My Pizza oven is a first gen, which can go all the way up to 400"C, not a great idea as the plastic knobs fall off at that temperature, and I surely don't ever leave it unattended. later models have been restricted to only get up to somewhere like 300 'C supposedly because of a new EU regulation.
I don't mind setting off a smoke detector, as long as it is just the pizza making process. Better to have them and lots of false alarms.
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