[FRIAM] Wimsical silly question re: coffee making

Wed Sep 20 15:52:11 EDT 2017

Ok, so, I did the experiment.

In a ten cup coffee maker I took a cup of water and pre soaked the grounds, taking off what dribbled through and pouring it back through until I had saturated the grounds.  The the grounds required a little short of a cup to saturate.  Then I put ten cups of water in the coffeemaker and let it rip.  I got ten cups of coffee out of it. The Densmore effect is due to the grounds.  Qed. 

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Nicholas S. Thompson

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Clark University

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From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Gillian Densmore
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 10:22 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Wimsical silly question re: coffee making

Hmmmm... well fortunatly Iike fun colorful socks... now if they show up full coffee been... 

On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 7:57 PM, Steven A Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com <mailto:sasmyth at swcp.com> > wrote:

Ooops... the "reply-to" on the list reflector seems not to be the list by default, so this just went to Merle the first time!

Gil -

I don't use an automated coffee maker often, but when I do (e.g. motel or visiting a friend) I forget that the filling system is measured in 8 oz cups but my expectations are closer to a 12 ounce mugfull, so 4 cups of water in yields something closer to 2.5 mugs out and of course if I"m on the west coast, the mugs are 16 ouncers which REALLY aggravates the situation!

 - Steve

PS.  a more whimsical answer is that you can probably expect to find the extra coffee in your laundry from time to time and some mismatched socks in your coffeemaker somewhere down the line!

On 9/19/17 3:50 PM, Merle Lefkoff wrote:

Gillian, all of the initial water is boiled, so some of the steam escapes from the coffeemaker, and some of the rest is in the wet grounds in the filter basket.  There may well be something else happening, but this accounts for some of it.

On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 9:55 AM, Gillian Densmore <gil.densmore at gmail.com <mailto:gil.densmore at gmail.com> > wrote:

What on earth happens to some of the coffe when I make it drop style? I prepare 6-8 cups so as if someone stops by they can have a bit as well. 

But then it only gives a bit over 4-5 cups.

Does some invisible dwarf drink a bit of it before it gets to the Kareff(sp)? oO

I am genuinly perplexed by this.^_^ 

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