The craziest %#*$ing thing I've seen all day... - Page 312

#3111: Post by **happycat** » August 3rd, 2021, 7:41 pm

baldheadracing wrote:This has been out for a few years ... but Salvatore demonstrating "Thermal Reserve brewing" i.e., steam pressure percolation coffee brewing like you see in pictures of 1950's Italian coffee bars. I've never seen a working one.
video

Thanks, v. cool to watch.

#3112: Post by **edgndg** » August 4th, 2021, 8:38 pm

I want a better look at the bike hanging in the background - but I like the video too...

#3113: Post by **yakster** » August 5th, 2021, 12:05 am

Here's another video with a better look at the thermal reserve. I've heard these called hotel groups.

#3114: Post by **Jofari** » August 5th, 2021, 8:21 pm

baldheadracing wrote:This has been out for a few years ... but Salvatore demonstrating "Thermal Reserve brewing" i.e., steam pressure percolation coffee brewing like you see in pictures of 1950's Italian coffee bars. I've never seen a working one.
video

Very cool to see. I had never heard of this before.

#3115: Post by **IamOiman** » August 5th, 2021, 8:34 pm

Orozco espresso used to be ABC espresso, which pimped all of those machines like the 'gaggia orione UG-1'

fun fact

#3116: Post by **RobAnybody** » August 19th, 2021, 2:49 pm

apparently Beretta produced other things besides firearms

August 19th, 2021, 2:55 pm

Gotta grind your gunpowder, just watch out for sparks.

#3118: Post by **yakster** » August 19th, 2021, 3:53 pm

There was a coffee flavored Jello.

https://11points.com/used-celery-jell-o ... o-flavors/

August 31st, 2021, 2:48 pm

Coming ... soon?

Coffee made without coffee beans.

... Founded in 2020, Compound Foods uses synthetic biology to create coffee without coffee beans by extracting molecules. Saenz said the company spent a lot of time examining what makes coffee, well coffee, and then trying to correlate flavors and aromas in certain ways.
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They use food science to recreate a base formula using sustainable ingredients ... The company is also working toward a goal of being able to recreate coffee inspired by flavors that you would get from different areas of the world, like Costa Rica, but also the chocolate notes from a cup of Brazilian coffee. ...

https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/31/compo ... hout-beans

#3120: Post by **jpender** » August 31st, 2021, 5:57 pm

"We want to recreate it, and even drink it on Mars one day, and we want to bring the coffee farmers and the industry with us on the journey."

So, probably not too soon.