[FRIAM] Wimsical silly question re: coffee making

[Gillian Densmore]

Mmm and today's batch had more flavor

On Sep 20, 2017 1:52 PM, "Nick Thompson" <nickthompson at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Ok, so, I did the experiment.
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> 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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> *From:* Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Gillian
> Densmore
> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 19, 2017 10:22 PM
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> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Wimsical silly question re: coffee making
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> Hmmmm... well fortunatly Iike fun colorful socks... now if they show up
> full coffee been...
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> On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 7:57 PM, Steven A Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:
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> 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!
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> Gil -
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> 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!
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>  - Steve
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> 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!
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> On 9/19/17 3:50 PM, Merle Lefkoff wrote:
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> 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.
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> On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 9:55 AM, Gillian Densmore <gil.densmore at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> 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.
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> But then it only gives a bit over 4-5 cups.
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> Does some invisible dwarf drink a bit of it before it gets to the
> Kareff(sp)? oO
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> I am genuinly perplexed by this.^_^
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