Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Collecting some data to illustrate some more advanced coffee roasting concepts and I just did an 8 minute roast to an end temperature of 502F (about 40F hotter than my darkest production roast). 22.4% mass loss, gourmet scale 20.5. I don't recommend replicating that at home (if you want it that dark, it's probably better to spend more time and get there at a lower temperature).

Income taxes are done. I have an estimated payment due in January.

@Taweret@octodon.social Do you eat the marshmallows with the fork or with the spoon?

Hug your cat

This was surprisingly hard. I couldn't find a link to the delete your account page anywhere except in a help page found through an off-site search.

Finally figured out how to delete my instagram account. I haven't touched it in ages but today I got email letting me know about my 23 "new" followers (some of which I know have been following the account for over a year) which provided some fresh motivation to just eliminate that. People can look at my cat pictures here instead.

This is how cats stack.

Can we have the Star Trek prequel that chronicles Morn's criminal exploits prior to DS9?

@gnomon
I don't own the ingredients right now but I'll try to remember.

I wouldn't mind an excuse to go back to New Orleans but failing that I should cook up some shrimp creole.

oolong tea time

Making tea.

Drafted book sections on roasting decafs, robusta, monsooned, and aged coffees. I decided that this was a good place to introduce doing bulk density measurements. Next up is a chapter on production consistency.

80% of the coffee in the previous espresso blend is either coffee that no longer exists or coffee that I expect to run out of soon so I spent some time today working on a new blend. Espresso with a roast date of today or later will be:

40% French Roast (Brazil Sul de Minas)
30% Timor L'este (medium roast, chocolatey)
20% India Seethargundu Estate (quite dark, boosts the body)
10% El Salvador (natural process, medium roast, increases sweetness)

This morning the cat woke me up with head pats. She ate all the food in her dish.

Opened a bag of banana chips and the cat came running.