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Posted by TheShot on 05 Jan 2011 | Filed under: Barista, Local Brew, Machine, Restaurant Coffee
This more informal, osteria sister to the Quince restaurant next door (its name is Italian for "quince") offers a mighty fine, albeit still somewhat pricey, Italian meal. (The old Quince relocated to Pacific Ave. here about a year ago.)
The space showcases many wide glass windows, exposed woods (everything seems brown in here), and a wood-fired oven (with spare wood surrounding the entrance). It attracts an older, old money Jackson Square set. But to remind you of their more modest aspirations, they offer dishtowels for napkins and an unusual wine menu where everything is priced at $40/bottle.
This is a very rare restaurant where the great attention to their very good food is matched by the attention they give to their very good coffee service. They've always been somewhat up on their coffee; when in their old Quince location, they used Barefoot Coffee when virtually no one else was in San Francisco. Back then Quince fell apart at the barista end, but not here.
They use a two-group Synesso — one of the few you'll ever find in restaurant service — behind a zinc bar. Cleverly, they also employ a doserless Mazzer grinder, enforcing good practices among their staff to ensure that everything is ground to order. But it's not like they would have to, as this restaurant seems to dedicate an employee to barista duties. In fact, they seem to do this more than just about any other restaurant we've ever visited anywhere.
Using coffee from Roast Coffee Co. in Emeryville, they pull shots with a richly colored, mottled, medium and lighter brown crema with irregular suspended bubbles. It's served a little high, but not overly so for a doppio. It has a good, solid mouthfeel, with a roundness to its flavor — which is more focused in the pepper and cloves area.
At $4, it's seriously expensive. But we like to reward good restaurant espresso service too, and there's a lot of good practices going on here. This is one of the few American places we've been to where the coffee doesn't give away that you're having it in a restaurant.
Read the review of Cotogna.
Posted by TheShot on 01 Jan 2011 | Filed under: Machine, Starbucks
In what's starting to look like a Spy-vs-Spy-like dance between a Starbucks acquisition and the unStarbucks set, Starbucks' Clover Equipment Company's latest move is the Precision Pour Over: Clover Pour Over « Why Not? Coffee. (Courtesy of Seattle's Why Not? Coffee.)
As we left off in our story, the once-independent Clover Equipment Company made waves with its brewer back in 2007. With its splashy introduction on the market, half lead by its fictitious price tag, lot of people bored with the espresso routine saw brewed coffee as fertile new ground for coffee exploration. But then Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz discovered it, got his hands on it in 2008, and said he was taking all the toys for himself and didn't want to share.
Many independent cafés were suddenly locked out of the device, and others still thumbed their nose at the machine's "sell-out" to Starbucks. In retaliation, many independent cafés replaced thoughts of the Clover brewer with an obsession over Hario V-60s drippers — essentially exhuming the 1908 invention of the Melitta coffee filter with a little spit shine.
Clover's latest move is a prototype that co-opts the Hario V60 in a new design that stay's true to Clover's hands-off, mass-production mission. Between that and even Williams-Sonoma now carrying the Hario drippers (a jump the shark moment?), we can only wait and see how the unStarbucks set will counter.
Any way it goes, there's still no end in sight for the filter drip faux arms race — with coffee consumers caught in the crossfire.
Posted by TheShot on 11 Dec 2010 | Filed under: Barista, Beans, Foreign Brew, Machine, Quality Issues
Call it coffee's version of Hubble's Law: the rate at which a local coffee scene evolves is inversely proportional to its maturity. What?!? Let us explain. Seattle and San Francisco are examples of well-established coffee cultures, and the rate of evolution and improvement we see in the coffee there tends to nudge along at a rather lumbering pace. Contrast this with what we've found on our recent return to Cape Town, South Africa. The local coffee culture there today is noticeably different from our last visit in July.
Cape Town may be much further along than, say, Dallas, Texas — where earlier last week we learned that a single new espresso machine in town is all that's required to "earn us a little gold star on the national coffee map." Cape Town boasts generally high espresso standards overall, plus a few exceptional cases such as Origin, TRUTH., and Espresso Lab Microroasters. But changes at just those three were significant enough.
So what has changed? Over at Origin, they've reworked their retail model so that customers can now opt for any variety of their roasted coffee, rotated every two weeks, in any of four (five?) ways. This is not unlike SF's recently opened Ma'velous.
They offer any of their coffees as plunger (i.e., French press, at R17, or about $2.50), Turkish (R17), pour-over (using a Hario V60, at R20), and siphon (also Hario, at R22). Additionally there's the espresso option (now R16, up from R14 a few months ago) — which can also accommodate any coffee as a single-origin or blend option through the use of their new doserless Compak grinders. Cup of Excellence coffees are additionally available for a R10 surcharge.
Origin's upstairs "dining" area is being reworked with a new La Marzocco GB/5 placed at a new espresso bar that's front-and-center, and downstairs they replaced their Linea with a three-group Synesso (Origin being South Africa's Synesso distributor).
Origin is also emphasizing their recent triumphs at Cape Town's 2011 regional barista championships, where Joanne Berry, Origin's barista trainer, won for the second year running. It inspired Origin to offer the signature drinks of their competing baristas on the menu for R25 — save for the spun sugar cups made for Ms. Berry's drink at the competition. Although we've always questioned the relevancy of the specialty drink category of barista competitions, Origin has at least created a retail outlet to make it more relevant.
Oh, and the Kenya Makwa AA 2010 here, made of a typical SL28 & K7 Kenyan cultivar mutation, was excellent.
David Donde is quite a local force of personality. He founded Cape Town's TRUTH.coffeecult and co-founded Origin (TRUTH. being part of the stereotypical local coffee scene "divorce," a la Ritual Roasters and Four Barrel) and the Specialty Coffee Association of Southern Africa. This when he's not doing a local radio program on sports cars.
We had missed connecting with David a number of times on our last visit, so we lucked out finding him having breakfast when visiting TRUTH.'s main location. David always has several different ideas going on in the fire — not all of them coffee related. But in our discussions about coffee, he was clearly obsessing over flavor. For one, he's adamant about getting the "roast flavor out of coffee" and having it rely more on acidity and body. He also expanded on some of the assumption-busting experimentation he's thought about since meeting James Hoffman in London to play with coffee — akin to how some musicians cross paths and hold a private jam session. (In David's words, he "spent day with James tasting bad coffee and trying to fix it".)
One big topic was the whole "crema is bad for coffee" debate that originated from the Coffee Collective guys in Copenhagen a couple years ago. Mr. Hoffman took a year to succumb to the idea, and just yesterday we had Eater interviewing Chris Young and touching on the subject.
The idea is that crema is a necessary by-product of good espresso extraction. But while we've all been indoctrinated that "crema is good," further inspection suggests that the crema actually makes espresso taste bad. That without crema, or even skimming it off as David demonstrated for me, your espresso is a cleaner, sweeter shot.
We still came to the conclusion that the idea is very subjective. Yes, the crema by itself was bitter, and the crema-less espresso was cleaner and sweeter. Not that we're big fans of bitter coffee, but we're much bigger critics of deconstructionism — i.e., the belief that the quality and integrity of the whole is merely an aggregation of the quality of its constituent parts in isolation. But even ignoring that we value deconstructionism as a barely more reputable cousin of homeopathy, the subjectivity of this evaluation is grounds enough to be skeptical: some people are clearly on a mission to make all of our coffee taste like berries, and not everybody thinks this is a good idea … us included.
Experimentation is high these days in coffee, and David is a major advocate. Still, we can't help but be a little jaded when people start bandying about the science word in relation to all of this, invoking misplaced implications of high technology. Lacking a basic control or null hypothesis, the simple act of measurement is no more science than a three-year-old who crawls the floor looking for things to stick in his mouth. Just because the Taiwanese chain 85℃ puts salt in their coffee, and experimenters learn that salt masks bitterness in coffee, should that honestly make 85℃ eligible for a future Nobel Prize?
Science or no science, experimentation and challenging assumptions still has merit. David also demonstrated how latte art was possible without crema, explained how he came to appreciate the caffè americano only when the espresso + hot water order was switched (a la the Aussie long black), and related that cold portafilter handles (frozen even, in his own test) do prove to make terrible espresso. We also saw very much eye-to-eye on things like the relevance of specialty drinks in barista competitions (what are you really judging?) and the limits of "cause coffee" when quality isn't your primary goal (Jo'berg's Bean There being an example).
Last but not least is Espresso Lab Microroasters. While still working with their four core sources for beans, they have expanded a bit of their small storage area for greens and even added an additional GB/5 for Saturday market traffic. Apparently their business nearby doubled since our last post, so here's to supporting good coffee.
But talk about a memory — the team remembered what we last sampled from them four months ago. They also follow a coffee buying strategy we've long advocated: buying runners up at Cup of Excellence competitions at a major discount to the winner. Should a couple of subjective points in CoE taste test really justify one coffee selling at multiples of its runner up? The Lab's organic-farmed Serra do Boné came in second in Brazil's 2010 CoE competition, and we missed nothing but a much higher price for a stellar, balanced coffee with a sweetness of fruit and honey.
Last week the Lab recently added an Xmas blend (35% Karimikui Kenya, 35% Adado Ethiopia, 30% Mocha Harazi Yemen) as a "dessert" coffee: it has a noticeable lack of body, by design, but with a brightness and lightness for finishing off a big holiday meal. Still, with the great number of South Africans who prefer the moka pot for home use (despite being able to buy every variant of Aeropress, Hario V60 dripper, etc., while here), we like the fact that they optimize some of their roasts for the underappreciated Moka pot.
And on the "is crema bad for espresso" controversy, btw, co-owner Renato thinks crema is integral but sets the stage wrong as the first taste on a consumer's palate.
We can only manage what we might find in Cape Town again next year.
Posted by TheShot on 03 Dec 2010 | Filed under: Machine
Today's Independent (UK) published a curious article on the history of the Moka Express pot: The Secret History Of: Moka Express coffee maker – Interiors, House & Home – The Independent.
Earlier this year, we noted how the original manufacturer named after its inventor, Alfonso Bialetti, was moving out of Italy. But this time we learn that the inspiration for its design came from Italian washing machines at the turn of the 20th century. There's also historical reason for why they are made of aluminum rather than stainless steel.
Posted by TheShot on 24 Nov 2010 | Filed under: Consumer Trends, Home Brew, Machine, Quality Issues
Thanks to friend of this blog, Shawn Steiman, for pointing out this somewhat amusing article from today's New York Times: Loving Coffee Without Being a Drip – NYTimes.com. In something of an ode to the Mr. Coffee automatic filter drip machine, the author — Times food critic, Frank Bruni — laments the many overly precious methods of coffee-making he experiences as friends try to raise his coffee game.
We're still at a loss for how someone could spray themselves in the eye with a Chemex brewer. The physics defies anything we can diagram and anything we have ever received in a college physics exam. (You know the kind: "Person A is driving a car at 55 mph on a surface with a coefficient of friction of 0.78. What color is his tie?")
But even if you can make the argument that your choice of brewing method should factor in proportionate personal risks of scalding and blindness, far be it from us to dispute that coffee has become too fussy for its own good. Mr. Bruni cites "just how much self-identity and self-definition go into every aspect of ingestion these days." He's singing our song.
Personal coffee travel suitcases aside, another telling example comes from a friend of ours who just returned after living a few years in London. He's no coffee slouch, having used French presses for decades and a manual La Pavoni Europiccola while in London. In asking me about a home espresso machine, we concluded that a standard Rancilio Silvia would be a good fit.
What made him hesitate about purchasing one? All the Web pages dedicated to Silvia owners who outfitted their machines with PID controllers. A simple Google search produces 256,000 results. Here the coffee geek ethos of graduating from temperature surfing to PID-fitting created a potential customer who believed something was horribly wrong with the Silvia machine's temperature control — something so defective that he wondered why it did not go through a necessary and massive product recall.
They say that good is the enemy of great, and that's certainly true if you're trying to improve your standards. However, that's not the same as having an intolerance for good — which ironically, by definition, isn't always a good thing. We love improved standards. But how enjoyable is a walk in the park when you're always measuring it against Olympic speed records?
Posted by TheShot on 11 Nov 2010 | Filed under: Beans, Café Society, Consumer Trends, Local Brew, Machine
The name is "Ma'velous". We're not sure if this is a New Yorker thing — like when Monday Night Football legend, Al Michaels, tries to pronounce the 'h' in the word "huge." But the owner, Phillip Ma, is a self-fashioned coffee geek with apparently enough money for high-end coffeemaking toys but no real prior training in a formal retail coffee environment.
Is this a liability? Definitely in the beginning, but it's hard to say in the long run, as Blue Bottle's James Freeman got his start as a coffee hobbyist. Even the legendary Alice Waters started her influential empire of local, organic California cuisine with no formal culinary schooling nor restaurant management training.
Located in a rough-around-the-edges neighborhood — just one block from SF's amputee panhandler Mecca along the base of South Van Ness Avenue — this spot is part night club, part wine bar, part coffee lounge. Among the many unusual things about this place is that it is a night-time coffee lounge.
Yours truly may recall fond memories of late-night, up-and-coming jazz acts at the long-since-defunct (and increasingly legendary) Ajax Lounge in San Jose, where I would down a couple of sub-par double espresso shots after midnight and still sleep soundly by 2am. But for most people, the caffeine jolt of the ideal coffee experience is decidedly a morning thing.
Coffee six ways? That's what they offer between an espresso machine, Hario V60 pour-overs, Chemex, French Press, a Japanese siphon bar, and a Kyoto slow-drip coffee maker. "This will allow aficionados to taste the full complexity of each coffee, its natural sweet, fruity, acidic or buttery finish without cream or sugar. No bitterness here," claims their Web site.
As for the coffees themselves, they offer everything from Intelligentsia's Black Cat, Intelligentsia's Bay Area acquisition of Ecco Caffè (their Kenya, Ethiopia, Honduras, Guatemala El Tambor, and El Salvador roasts, to name a few), and coffee from Tim Wendelboe. Which makes the opening of this café rather exciting for us: even if they have only three different grinders, this is the first notable espresso bar in San Francisco to offer coffees from multiple roasters since the untimely death of Café Organica in 2006.
As for the espresso machine, they spared no expense… calling it the "Musashi 4", it's a one-of-a-kind four-group La Marzocco customized by Olympia, WA's Espresso Parts. (We love their tampers, btw.)
Yes, they spared no expense here — down to the Dyson hand dryers for the staff behind the counter. The interior is dark with artistic murals, a few red leather booths, painted black wood walls, a high ceiling, red acrylic chairs, and a short bar seating area at the front entrance. They have a wine list and a cheese list in addition to their "caffeine list," and the table service even pours water out of a Chemex.
After a few dry runs on private media openings in the past couple of weeks, last night (Thursday) was their informal public opening night. So service was bound to be sketchy, and it most certainly was: six people squirming behind the tiny counter, customers trying to squirm past the narrow pathway by the front of the counter, limp-wristed espresso tamps, slow-moving lines, and a pre-infusion-controlled espresso machine that required a bit of time to calibrate and was only yet dialed-in for a handful of their available coffees.
Local street artist, Eddie Colla, whose mural decorates the wall and the staff T-shirts, was present for the opening event, adding to the mob scene. But even for all the confusion and early kinks, there's a lot here worth checking out.
For the most part, the Intelligentsia Black Cat is their default espresso (rated in the linked review at bottom). But as with these pressure-controlled espresso machines, don't think that there's only one flavor profile per coffee. Our first shot of the Black Cat was set at a 199-degree brewing temperature with four
pounds bar of pre-infusion pressure. The resulting shot was an even, lighter, medium-brown-colored crema with a nose that was slightly tarry.
The flavor was primarily sweet tobacco, with some edges across the flavor profile to remind you that this was a blend and not a single origin shot. Still, it is a far cry from the Black Cat shots we're used to at Chicago's Intelligentsia — with it's textured, darker crema that practically leaves a blackened ring around the cup and a pungency-heavy flavor to match.
But as if to prove a point, Phillip offered me a follow-up shot of Black Cat made at a different profile: a 200.5-degree brewing temperature with six
pounds bar of pre-infusion pressure. This shot was a bit closer to the Black Cat "at origin" we're used to: a much headier crema, more caramel flavors, and a more traditional, more rounded flavor and a slightly darker crema.
Their machine was also tuned for the Ecco Caffè Guatemala El Tambor single origin shot, which came with a mellow aroma, a lighter crema, and served sweet and bright with just a touch of sourness — very much in the tropical fruit vein. We originally thought they managed to manipulate a shot of Black Cat to taste like a Central American single origin shot until we discovered it actually was a Central American single origin shot. (Whew.) Served in classic brown ACF cups.
It's hard, and unfair, to judge a place entirely on its opening day to the public. There's a bit of tuning that's still needed in the espresso shots, and there's currently a high emphasis on tuning for brighter shots with coffees that sometimes perform better with greater fidelity at less acidic flavor profiles.
Sure, the place is overly enamored with coffee's gadgetry du jour. But just the ability to sample some Black Cat — forget even at different extractions, or even the yet-to-be-readied Wendelboe coffee or the five other brewing methods available — makes this worth a return visit if for no other reason. Then add that it's the rare coffee bar offering beans from multiple sources, the novelty of a coffee nightclub, and a decent opportunity to compare pressure profiling on the same coffees — even if it isn't necessarily making better shots.
Read the review of Ma'velous.
Posted by TheShot on 06 Nov 2010 | Filed under: Beans, Café Society, Consumer Trends, Machine, Quality Issues
Lately we've been thinking about quality coffee's current obsession with all-things-technology. While there's arguably more science than art to making good coffee, the current climate seems to have pushed any art aside. It reminds us of civilization at the turn of the 20th century, when society held a common belief that technology was going to solve all our problems. Right before the mechanized killing of World War I, the Industrial Revolution giving way to the Great Depression, and the invention of the atomic bomb.
So today we witness a lot of obsession over incessant measurement — sometimes merely in the pursuit of more measurement, and even to the level of confusing the act of measurement for actual science. This technological obsession also manifests itself by a holy-grail-like belief in the new espresso machine that will revolutionize coffee. All of which creates a lot of interest in coffee but has rarely created better coffee — or at least better coffee experiences.
As a result, quality coffee feels a bit soulless and sterile these days. This sterility has even gone mainstream in a mass-produced way, at least at the general consumer end, most notably in the form of espresso pods, single-serving coffee devices, and superautomatic espresso machines. Hence this reactionary article in last week's New York Times: In Defense of Old-Fashioned Espresso – NYTimes.com.
How might we overcome this clinical obsession and save the soul of good coffee? A few months ago, Ben over at Chemically Imbalanced proposed a very thought-provoking (and discussion-provoking) idea of Le Coffeeing — a sort of coffee variant on France's recent and reactionary Le Fooding culinary movement. Le Fooding may be a weak analog for what coffee needs, but the inspiration behind Le Coffeeing carries a lot of merit.
We've recently been thinking about the potentially constructive parallels between the wine and coffee industries (at least where they make sense), and today's coffee vanguard has a lot more in common with Napa winemakers than they do with the stodgy-but-vaunted restaurant establishment of France. This is why we caught a glimpse of potential quality coffee salvation in yesterday's Wall Street Journal article on Napa Valley Wine's Retro Dudes | Jay McInerney on Wine – WSJ.com.
The Retro Dudes of Napa are more than familiar with Napa's cathedrals to perfectly manipulated premium wines — for example, high-performance Cabernets that smack you in the face like a plumber's wrench made of fruit and oak. What makes the The Retro Dudes interesting is their "passion for quirky, individualistic, artisanal wines" — pursuing neglected wine varietals, blending their wines in Old World ways, keeping the skins on their grapes for natural fermentation rather than the modern technology of controlled yeast additions, and generally "rejecting some of the technological winemaking of the modern era in search of wine authenticity (and presumably, drinkability)".
Today coffee lovers are bombarded with hype about the pressure profiling technology of new $18,000 espresso machines, $20,000 Japanese siphon bars, $11,000 superautomatic Clover brewers (i.e., until Starbucks purchase of the company made them uncool), disproportionate fawning over $100-per-pound Cup of Excellence microlot winners that devalues all runners-up, and $400+ gadgets providing digital readouts of your total dissolved solids and extraction yields that risk making statistical gymnastics the ends rather than the means to better coffee. The pursuit of the mythical perfect coffee may be giving us more to learn and experience, but it's also sapping the soul and even the enjoyment out of the beverage.
Here's to hoping that a generation of Coffee Retro Dudes can come to the rescue before its too late.
Posted by TheShot on 30 Sep 2010 | Filed under: Consumer Trends, Foreign Brew, Machine, Quality Issues
It wasn't long ago that the word obsession conjured up much more negative connotations in society. Today obsession is practically treated like a virtue — something to aspire to — and it can apply to something as neurotically trivial as the cup of coffee you drink when you are traveling.
Case and point with an article posted today on Boing Boing: My quest for the ultimate travel coffee setup – Boing Boing. And you can overlook Boing Boing's nerd factor; it's not like they're the only ones covering obsessive travel coffee setups. (This also published today: How to Have Good Coffee While Traveling | Serious Eats.)
So when does obsession go from a cute hobby to seek out the "perfect" coffee to a Sisyphean road to Lithium treatment? One unhealthy sign is when you're carrying a suitcase dedicated to your home coffee.
A big reason why we've been quiet around here of late is that we recently spent a few weeks traveling in the remote Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. In particular, we spent the bulk of our time on the sleepy island of São Jorge — where, on an island about twice the size of San Francisco, there are less than 10,000 residents, more than twice as many cows, and Internet access barely exists beyond its tiny airport.
Friends planning to visit us while we were there asked, "Should we bring coffee?" Even in the middle of nowhere, this is still Portugal. And the typical coffee was better than anything you can typically get in the U.S. (Expect a coffee-related article on the Azores in the near future.)
This recent example illustrates what's lost when people insist on taking their lives with them everywhere. What happened to the joy of discovery in travel? Why go to places like the Azores to ensure that you have your daily supply of Chipotle burritos and Intelligentsia coffee? Why demand the same exact dining experiences you can get back home in your suburban backyard? Call it the "When in Rome, why seek out an Olive Garden?" rule.
Yes, a lot of coffee in the American backwoods, and the rest of the world, is terrible. But with a little research with this thing called the Internet, you can actually learn something new in the process. I may have stumbled on some of the most foul and unrecognizable coffee in the world when I was traveling outside of Prague's Vyšehrad back in 1995 — it was like large-grit sawdust suspended in boiling water. But the fact is I can still remember that experience. Fondly even (albeit comically). That's more than I can say for the hundreds of Intelligentsia shots I've had over the years.
But set aside any xenophobia diagnoses for a moment. Obsession over coffee travel setups also raises the question of whether these people actually like coffee to begin with. For example, we could argue that the author of the Boing Boing article doesn't really like coffee. Because when the only coffee you can tolerate is a very specific kind made a very specific way, reduced to an obsessed miniature slice of the wide spectrum of experiences that coffee has to offer, it's only that tiny bit that you actually enjoy. And that's not coffee — that's some other craving you're feeding.
Posted by TheShot on 03 Sep 2010 | Filed under: Machine, Quality Issues
Because public coffee knowledge is in such a state of transition these days, reading mass media articles about coffee can be a little like being in a parent support group. Sometimes you're new to a subject area, and you might find commiseration among other people going through the same new learning experiences. At other times you might already be familiar with a topic, and it's a bit like having a two-year-old and hearing your friends gush over the experience of being the first-time parent of a newborn. (Throw in a little patronizing bit of, "Oh, how cute…")
Now whether you're the parent of a newborn or of a teenager with a driver's license, we've often liked the no-nonsense, fad-skeptical coffee articles published by the Seattle Weekly. Today's piece explores the importance of coffee grinders: The 2010 Grinder Smackdown: Coffee Gets Combative – Seattle Restaurants and Dining – Voracious.
Comparing a La Marzocco Swift grinder and a Mahlkönig K30 Vario, the author discovers how much the choice of grinder can influence the quality and properties of the resulting espresso shot. We've always emphasized how a solid grinder is often more important than the quality of your espresso machine.
The author also reflects upon the wisdom of, "The more you know, the more you realize you don't know."
Posted by TheShot on 11 Aug 2010 | Filed under: Barista, Machine, Quality Issues
Today Tim Wendelboe — World-Barista-Champion-turned-microroaster (and major influencer of the recently reviewed Espresso Lab Microroasters) — posted a rather thorough first-thoughts review of the new La Marzocco Strada on his official blog: Tim Wendelboe » Blog Archive » La Marzocco Strada – first thoughts. Of particular interest are some of his insights about the machine's sensitivities and peculiarities regarding pressure profiling — the holy-grail-du-jour of cutting-edge espresso machine pushers and the people who fawn over them. To briefly quote him in the post:
"I think one needs to have a clear vision of what the espresso should taste like before one starts playing with profiles."
Recent coffee industry drooling over pressure profiling is just one of the latest examples illustrating how much the industry currently values experimentation over standards and convention. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it comes with tradeoffs. And conventional wisdom of the quality coffee industry did not always lean this way.
For example, I use a manual lever espresso machine at home — and have for many years. And for many years, even going back to the 1990s, many respected experts at the time told you that your best espresso — whether made at home or in a professional coffeehouse — should be made with a semi-automatic machine that controlled the pressure of the pulled shots. Use a pump; set it and forget it. The conventional wisdom back then?: allowing the machine to fix the pressure made for one less variable where the barista could screw things up.
This wasn't necessarily bad logic, considering that espresso is a notoriously fickle product of many steps where something can go terribly wrong at every turn. After all, it's for this reason we made espresso our yardstick for judging retailers who make coffee.
But more control always seems like a good thing until you might step back and question the results. The California Initiative System may have seemed like an awesome idea until you look back and see how it's made our state ungovernable. This philosophical flip-flop towards pressure control illustrates how much we've swung the pendulum in the opposite direction. Without question, at some point in the future, we will come full circle again.


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If you're considering hiring a personal trainer but are as yet undecided about whether such an option is going to be effective, then this guide walks you through the process; here we tell you about the benefits of working alongside a personal trainer, as well as the things that you need to look out for when considering which personal trainer you'd like to hire.
The Benefits Of Working With A Personal Trainer
The number one benefit of having a personal trainer is that they make up for waning motivation; whilst they can certainly help keep motivation levels up through interesting and effective workouts, you need to presume that you will be demotivated at one point or another. Your personal trainer is there to push you through these times, and ensure that you stay on track of your goals.
An innumerable amount of people give up on their fitness goals in the first few weeks; a personal trainer will ensure that, even if you want to quit, the embarrassment of giving up early will put you off.
Attaining your health goals can be hard, particularly if you're trying to lose weight; it can be exhausting and surprisingly emotional. A personal trainer will provide emotional support in bucket loads; depending on their approach you may find that this varies from a few kind words, to a little shouting!
Professional Expertise
For all the will in the world, people who work out with particular goals in mind are most likely not getting the most out of their workouts. A personal trainer holds expert knowledge on what does and doesn't work in a variety of situations for many fitness goals. This all means that with a personal trainer, you get where you want to be quicker.
What To Look For In A Personal Trainer
Do they need professional qualifications?
Many personal trainers may work without professional qualifications, and they may produce great results. However if you want to be certain that you're getting a professional's opinion, then opt for someone who is fully qualified.
It's not all about the money
Whilst cost most certainly is a factor in choosing a personal trainer, it shouldn't be the be all and end all; if a personal trainer can prove his or her worth through numerous client testimonials and a good reputation then it may well be advisable to compromise on the price. After all, what's the point in spending a lesser amount to produce no results, when a higher amount gives you the body of your dreams?
Male or Female?
This is really down to personal choice and who you're going to feel most comfortable with. You might assume that a male personal trainer might be better if you're looking to build muscle, or that they'll be more driven and a lot 'harder' on you. If you want to lose weight and are looking for a trainer with a more gentle approach, you might think a female personal trainer would be better. The reality it, there are male and female trainers that are capable of catering to all needs, and they will take the time to understand what you need and tailor their approach to suit you. Whether your trainer is male or female shouldn't really be important, what is crucial however is that you get on with them and they are capable of helping you achieve your goals.


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Ken and Sylvia Robinson of Goodyear came to check out the cars at the Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction, but they went home with a $250 table-top jukebox. There are 1,100 vehicles for sale this week at the auto extravaganza sprawled throughout WestWorld, 16601 N. Pima Road, in Scottsdale.
But nearly 400 vendors selling everything from $10 sandwiches to $1 million condos offer plenty of other shopping options.
"We come for the cars, but we always buy something," Ken Robinson, a collector car owner, said.
The priciest cars and the biggest spenders are expected to show up today at the weeklong event.
Those hawking neon signs and giant bronze sculptures hope the car lovers and those along for the ride will buy lots of other stuff too. The booths take up about half the auction tent space and spill out onto the pavement surrounding the car staging area and the polo fields where the hundreds of collector cars are available for up-close viewing before they go onto the block.
The vendor wares include gourmet grub and designer duds, neon signs and herbal cures. You can buy a Rolex watch, an 8-foot sculpture of a grizzly bear or a lamp made of rock salt that claims to heal wounds and relieve asthma symptoms.
Mandy Ballor, who sells imported women's clothing and accessories at Dolce Boutique at Gainey Village in Scottsdale, set up a miniversion of her shop in the Lifestyle Pavilion. The exclusive area requires an extra entry fee but keeps posh auctiongoers away from the massive crowds. Ballor said sales started out slow, but she is hoping the weekend's big spenders will spend time and money on her goods.
"People who come to the Lifestyle Pavilion can afford this," she said. "While the men are buying the cars, the wives are shopping, looking at clothes."
Joy Stephens of Paradise Valley Antiques & Furnishings also opted for a Lifestyle Pavilion slot. She filled it with big armoires, silver tea sets and pricey furniture and artworks.
So far, she has only sold a $200 African mask. But several people said they plan to come back during the weekend, and two are interested in her $82,500 petrified wood table, Stephens said Friday. "I think we'll sell that over the weekend," she said. "I'm hoping for a few big sales and a lot of future business."
In the humongous, flagdraped main tent where more people crowded into the side stores than into the auction area, several vendors said sales have been brisk since the show's start-up Sunday.
The Starabilias booth is regularly packed with people eyeing autographed goods. Craig Zetena, who has brought his collection of celebrity collectibles to Barrett-Jackson for four years, sold a Jimmy Buffet guitar for $11,500, the "Seinfeld" Soup Nazi Bowl signed by the cast for $9,000, and a Johnny Deppautographed Pirates of the Caribbean poster for $1,300.
And he has three parties bidding for a couple of flags that adorned the White House Oval Office during the Richard Nixon years — priced at $200,000 for the pair. Last year Zetena sold about $700,000 worth of memorabilia at Barrett-Jackson, he said. "And we're on a good pace to do as good or better this year," he said.
Sandy Peterson's California-based business Just for Fun restores and sells vintage items from gas pumps to strong boxes. She sold a pair of old barber chairs for $11,000, a Pepsi chest for $5,500 and several Sunkist juicers for $285.
Peterson also is a Barrett-Jackson regular. She has been carving out space at the auction for eight years. Last year she sold 80 percent of the items she brought along, she said.
Ruth McLeod has been selling her Patchwork Pig boutique wear at the auction for almost as long — seven years. "I have regular customers who come back every year," she said. "Lots of Canadians. We've become friends. Many are women tired of looking at the cars. If he's spending $100,000 on a car, she can spend $100 on a sweater."
Even the dedicated car buyers like to take a break and shop for other things. Registered bidder Yvette VanDer-Brink of Minnesota was on the prowl for sweaters.
"I'm looking to pick up something warm to wear," she said. "I'm freezing. I was anticipating it being in the 70s here."
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Here is a quick little Q&A with Doug around the virtualized, dynamic data center. To see the entire Infrastructure 2.0 panel discussion, check it out here.
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The Train Keeps Rolling…
So, a year ago, we kicked off a little party with the launch of the Nexus 7000 and NX-OS. As you can see, we have been busy year--we have fleshed out the Nexus portfolio with the Nexus 5000 and 1000V, established NX-OS as our pervasive data center OS and implemented some key technologies like DCE, FCoE and VN-Link.But we are not done yet, so……for you, our faithful followers, a little preview of some of the things we will announce a later today. Read More »
GbE or GE, that is the question…
Ok, quick opinion poll here… Feel free to comment of course…So Omar Sultan, our most prolific Data Center Blogger, just wrote an article using the acronym GE for 'Gigabit Ethernet'. I decided to comment back and question his use of acronyms. (I grew up associating GE with a venerable company 'General Electric' and was once chastised to use 'GbE' for Gigabit Ethernet.) Craig Huitema, who has the unenviable job of trying to manage Omar, thought he would try to win points with this challegning employee by sticking up for him called me out on being pedantic about GE versus GbE. I started writing this. Omar and Craig are trying to distract me by playing Aerosmith songs that Omar and I only know how to play on Rock Band and Guitar Hero, and finally I get to the actual polling question…. Read More »
The Unified Fabric Payoff
So, as I have mentioned before and chatted about with Sidney, we have the Nexus 5000 and unified fabric in production in our Mountain View data center. We are running the News@Cisco website over it as well as some back-office data base apps right now.So what have we learned? To net it out:
- Reduced cable count per rack from 72 to 18
- Reduced power consumption by 30%
- Extended useful life of data center by 12-18 months
You can watch the video of Mike Norman, Director of DC Design, dig into some of the details.
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Win XP SP2 support to cease in two months
Not Nonsense -- First-hand Experience
I say that because that's what happened the last few times I set up a virtual machine with XP. SP3 refused to install without SP1 or SP2 being present.
As for your issues with the Linux upgrade process, consider finding a different distribution. The one(s) I use have given me very few issues in this area.
Trying to push the upgrades
There will be some XP users who will have issues with this, since XP SP3 REQUIRES either SP1 or SP2 as a prerequisite for installation. When SP2 is no longer available for download, those who still want to install XP ( for whatever reason ) will be in trouble if they don't have a file copy of SP2 stashed locally.
And I don't even want to THINK about what's going to happen when this group starts hunting for SP2 in the unauthorized third-party download arena.
Fortunately for me, I'm a penguinista, and affected by this ridiculous dance only by how hard I laugh at it.
MS update gives some XP boxes the Blue Screen
re: AC @ 12th February 2010 14:20 GMT
No !!!
I will definitely NOT learn to live with it. The shoddy "products" that Micro$lop has been putting out for the past 15 - 20 years made me move to Linux to get some stability and reliability back in the Nineties.
I refuse to tolerate and/or pay for inferior quality workmanship ANYWHERE, including computers that I use and/or maintain. Therefore, since my most charitable interpretation of "MS" comes out as "Mediocre Software" I keep as far away from the Rubbish from Redmond as I possibly can.
Microsoft 'sorry' for volume licensing website cockup
Micro$lop is sorry
I agree.
Masses marvel at 'Most Useless Machine'
Missing the point
This is the prototype of Windoze 8 -- it SUCCESSFULLY executes a system shutdown.
Congrats to all of the M$ minions for achieving a major milestone !!
Microsoft grinches W7 Family Pack in US
Same silliness, different day
This sounds very close to "bait and switch" to me.
Bing dies (briefly) after Microsoft hits wrong button
Wishful thinking
BOFH: Made of win
Beer -- resource or goal ??
I suspect some clarification is needed here.
Beer is a resource.
FREE beer is an always-active goal ( or target, if you prefer ) of any self-respecting BOFH.
Microsoft Silverlight - now with hidden Windows bias
Phase 2 -> Phase 3 transition
Embrace, extend, extinguish.
Rocket science this is not -- for anyone with a hint of Mickey$lop's history.
Hackers in keyless Windows 7 entry
A couple of points to mention
First off, what took them so long? The way I remember it, most previous versions of The Rubbish from Redmond were cracked the first week they were on the street, or before.
Second, I get a good chuckle out of reading this article, then meditating on the Apple commercial where the PC guy gets run back through time repeating all the statements about the "new" version of Windoze being the most stable and secure OS Micro$lop has released to date, followed by the infamous statement, "Trust me", over and over.
Sooner or later, more of the sheeple will catch on, I hope.
Yes, I am a penguinista. Deal with it.
Corel receives bigger buyout offer
Corel Alternatives
Once upon a time, the Corel office suite was damn good, and Wordperfect was the program of choice if you wanted cross-platform compatibility -- nothing else I know of even came close.
Then came the Redmond beast with all the back-room marketing deals, and another excellent product was ( nearly ) extinguished. To this day I consider the Wordperfect user interface superior to anything out of Micro$lop --- by a LONG WAY.
Naked Win 7 still vulnerable to most viruses
Sarcasm time
"The most secure version of Windows yet."
Need anyone say more ??
Microsoft in Bing jingle kiddie vid outrage
Some outraged parents will take action against this school.
Mass web infections spike to 6 million pages
Now we know
@Steven Knox
THIS is what ol' Bill REALLY meant when he said, "640K should be enough for anybody".
Raytheon unveils Linux 'Insider Threat' rooter-out routers
Properly specified
Since this product claims the ability to handle the "bonehead users" category, it has to be Linux, since Windoze would most certainly collapse under the stress of that many incidents to flag and report.
Thousands of sites loaded with potent malware cocktail
@Sitaram Chamarty
Yes, you DO have to take them out before you shoot them -- otherwise you get blood on the carpet. ;^P
Microsoft's Hotmail 'blacklists' NHS email - again
Your assumption is not necessarily valid. While I live in the USA and cannot have an informed opinion of your NHS, I do know that Micro$lop uses some kind of proprietary e-mail filtering ( I don't recall the name of it right now ) that has a nasty habit of generating false positives. I have had my e-mail address blocked from sending to those few of my contacts who are silly enough to use Hotmail, and I've never been able to figure out why the stuff I send generates "complaints", since no such thing happens with any other recipient of the SAME message(s).
In my case, the block usually goes away after a few days, and in most cases the messages are not time critical, so after my first experience in trying to contact Micro$not to resolve the issue, now I just ignore it ( like I do with most products from the rain-soaked mental defectives in the Pacific Northwest ;).
MS plasters Ballmer's signature on Windows 7 special edition
Windows 7 branded napkins ??
I think that I would prefer "Windows 7 branded toilet paper", especially since it would be more appropriate to the occasion.
Also, I agree with others here who have spoken favorably about keeping the shrink wrap in pristine condition. The only way that *I* would break that package open would be in a Level-4 biohazard facility.
Windows 7 OEM prices revealed
Thank you for your kind permission
"(Linux folks may skip directly to the user comment section from this point to input snark)."
What I find most interesting in the comments here is that it seems that snark from Windows users is matching, if not exceeding, the snark from those of us who choose a different path from what the Overlords of Redmond ( sometimes known as the rain-soaked mental defectives in the Pacific Northwest ) would force upon us.
Occasionally, I think that there may yet be a few people in the Windoze user community capable of rational thought.
Microsoft's Office Web Apps - a long way from here
The term you're groping for
is probably "smoke and mirrors".
In this case, the mirrors are provided by the Web, and the smoke is generated by that wonderful fraternity party practice of lighting farts.
Sony snubs Microsoft in Google Chrome browser deal
Could this be a trend ??
While I share the opinion of many folks here that Sony is not to be trusted in recent times, I also think that this will be interesting to observe as a possible trend of OEMs becoming less confined to the mindset of doing whatever the Billy and Steve crowd tell them to.
We can only hope for this trend to grow and maybe even bear the fruit of real competition and true innovation in the computer industry.
Sorry, but I'm an incurable optimist. ;>
Microsoft denies "screw-Google" political lobbying
Well, DUH !!
It would appear that some folks have forgotten ( or ignored ) the relevant history. We only have to hearken back to the time of "DOS ain't done 'til Lotus won't run" to conclude that this behavior is entirely NORMAL for the rain-soaked mental defectives in the Pacific Northwest.
If you prefer a different platitude, maybe "a rose by any other name" might fit the situation.
Hotmail pulls Attach-Photo feature over security concerns
dodgy ActiveX
I don't understand. Isn't this a redundant statement ??
What about ActiveX is NOT dodgy ???
Microsoft assaults our senses with 'viral' Bing video
Missed the point
It should be obvious that this is the latest cost-cutting effort from the bean-counters at Micro$lop. After all, they got quality comparable to the Seinfeld ads for a tiny fraction of the price.
It's actually appropriate, since now the quality of Micro$not's advertising efforts matches the quality of their software offerings.
The evil Stevie icon here, for multiple reasons -- mostly for allowing this wreckage to see the light of day, as well as the "standard" ones.
Microsoft under threat from Linux - it's official
Well, maybe.
Or is the rounding error in his exposed cranium ?? ;^P
Google guns for MS Office with billboard campaign
@Jerome 0
I respectfully disagree with your view on this issue. While I'm not a marketing geek myself, I have seen enough statistics about the effects of advertising that I can offer an alternative opinion about Google's campaign. They are keeping their brand in front of the larger audience ( think "sheeple" here ) to maintain the perception ( maybe "revolutionary concept" fits better ) that there are CHOICES to be had in the computer arena.
Borrowing the penguin icon to signify my preference for having a choice.
Microsoft-Yahoo! pact hit with anti-trust question
@Ian Bonham
How DARE you say such a thing just because it's TRUE !!
Microsoft doubles quarterly revenue drop
The best part
"Of Microsoft's five business units, it was the core Windows client that
was the biggest drag on performance."
For once, the technical and financial arenas are in sync. ;^P
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Those of us who benefitted from vaccines - my friends whose mothers feared vaccines ended up with whooping cough, diphtheria, and faces permanently scarred by smallpox. My children benefitted from the increased knowledge and prevalence of vaccinations, and polio was no longer the dreadful epidemic that it had previously been.One rogue doctor in the UK brought much of this down with his phony science about the "dangers" of measles vaccine. Parents who couldn´t face the possibility - now probability - that their children´s autism was caused by their own genes fell into his voodoo like a feather bed.Even now when he and his lies have been exposed, parents still find blaming the measles vaccine to be more comfortable to accept. And like McCarthy and a few here, they carry the flag, trying to convince others.What folly. What absolutely dangerous folly.
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If we could get all the stupid leftists into their very own states, they´d die off within a decade. They´d have no military, almost zero human births, no food, no doctors or medicine, just affirmative action morons in charge, it would look a lot like the movie Idiocracy.
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My grandson will make a fortune in the job market since all the kids that did not get their shots will be dead.
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Anyone who was a child in the late forties/early fifties understands how Jonas Salk put a stop to parents´ panic about polio. No one knew how or where a child (or adult) could contract it and that was the most frightening aspect.Smallpox/diptheria/whooping cough/measles innoculations kept those plagues away. But someone such as Jenny McCarthy wields the power of the press and the microphone and gullible people believed she knew what she was saying and that there were facts to rely on. Tragic mistake.
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Not cancer, abortion causes death. One should always take medical advice from Playboy bunnies since they are so hot.
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Jenny, shut up and .... do whatever it is you do.
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I have not watched an episode of The View since Jenny McCarthy was announced as a co-host. I know most of you don´t like the show but it used to be light and interesting. She is dangerous.
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#5, not exactly true. Many of us had measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox, etc. and survived into adulthood just fine. Only rarely do these diseases cause death.
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1. http://www.hrsa.gov/vaccinecompensation/index.html Federal Government vaccine injury and compensation. If vaccines are so safe why did the Federal Government finally set up a compensation board pharmaceutical companies should be paying for?2. The real Dr. Andrew Wakefield report is something you will never see, because it excoriates Big Pharma and flips every lie you dearly believe3. What´s the link between Choicepoint, the Lancet, embattled Murdoch son James, Glaxo Kline and autism?4. You´ll never know because you are afraid to look for yourself. Here´s a hint - Reed ElsevierSimple answer - Autism is taught in medical schools to be an effect of early childhood leaky bowel syndromes. MMR Vaccines are known to cause irritable bowel in children. Wakefield said this linkage needs to be studied more closely. The MSM and pharma industry destroyed Wakefield for suggesting this additional research.
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The "leaky gut syndrome" found in autistic children is the subject of medical research. Here is one conclusion:Alterations of the intestinal barrier in patients with autism spectrum disorders and in their first-degree relatives.(Snip)CONCLUSIONS:The results obtained support the leaky gut hypothesis and indicate that measuring IPT could help to identify a subgroup of patients with autism who could benefit from a gluten-free diet. The IPT alterations found in first-degree relatives suggest the presence of an intestinal (tight-junction linked) hereditary factor in the families of subjects with autism.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20683204The leaky gut syndrome appears to be a feature of some persons with autism AND their first-degree relatives (parents). No mention of vaccines. Just heredity.
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My sister had a bad case of measles in the early 60s. I still remember my parents´ panic when she started hallucinating from fever. She recovered with no ill effects, but my parents would have gladly vaccinated her had the vaccine been available at the time.
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McCarthy´s a hypocrite. Decrying vaccines while shilling e-cigarettes....
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In our family in the 50s-60s, two of us got incredibly sick, one near death, from measles. Both times, a sibling who had never had measles or a vaccination (because it was not yet available) didn´t catch them.Apparently, there are some people who will either be immune or have only a mild case, and others who become seriously ill. Having seen how serious measles can be, I wouldn´t recommend skipping the vaccination.
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If one is supposed to call a hazmat team to clean up if one of the "new" light bulbs is broken, what would Mercury do to a person to have it injected. And, yes, Mercury is still used. One can not chelate 24/7-365 days a year for fear of depleting the body of needed minerals and creating an imbalance of the chemical make-up of the body.
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#13, nice try but some find it easier to bash and blame Jenny McCarthy and an English physician (who they know zip about thanks to a well-orchestrated smear campaign) for every case of measles than face some uncomfortable facts. I laugh because of how many docs I know who BEHIND THE SCENES certainly switch around the "recommended vaccination schedule" when it comes to their own children and grandchildren. Naturally, they will never breathe a word of it because of the professional consequences.
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I fully agree with the article that correlation does not mean causation. Far too many people will latch on a statistical correlation and then go to extremes alluding to the causation of the effect.A long time ago, I read an article (I didn´t save it) that claimed a correlation of autism in daughter´s offspring of very old (grand)fathers, though it does not necessarily mean there is causation involved.I don´t remember how much higher the autism rate was for the daughter´s children, nor how "old" the "older fathers" of those women were...but there does seem to be more autistic children at a time where more men are becoming fathers in their 60´s and 70´s...think of Mickey Rooney´s wife having children when he was over 75.I suppose one with the skills could research on the web how old JM´s father was when she was born, or if MR had autistic grandchildren. But even if both were true, it still would not prove that correlation equals causation.
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