[FRIAM] Wimsical silly question re: coffee making
Gillian Densmore
gil.densmore at gmail.com
Thu Sep 21 12:44:33 EDT 2017
So I repeated Nicks experiment on the Densmore Coffe Effect (the one where
some silly imp has some not the: run around the block or get inspired to do
fun things.)
I think Nich and steve are both right on this one. ^_^
Hmm so does adding water discourage sprites and dwarfs from creating a
quatum tunnel to socks where the coffe goes?
Or is it as Merdle and you suspect adding water to coffe grounds gets water
into the dry beans and also help the machine work? ^_^
As a follow up question: Being the good Norse+Iriish person I am I prefer
blends of Arabica+Esspresso+Robusto. Rubusto is weirdly hard to find but
doesn't taste like Freds Burnt What was that.?
Adding water to the grounds somehow gives Trader Joes Smooth Morning blend
a nice smooth flavor. Any guesses to Why? I joke their's some Quantom
effect going on. :P
Might it have to do with steam (in the basket?) and or the basket having a
extra cup or so somehow rounds out the flavors?
On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 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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> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
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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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