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Michael, given your love of coffee and your scientific background, I’m a little surprised you aren’t familiar with AeroPress or Chemex. Both are coffee makers with fine scientific pedigrees:-)
AeroPress – a retired engineer and tinkerer prototyped the perfect coffee maker:
https://backchannel.com/first-alan-adler-invented-the-aerobie-now-he-s-created-the-perfect-cup-of-coffee-c5e94ccc538e#.1qkoixdn8
Chemex – right out of a mid-century chemistry lab (and now at the Smithsonian):
https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-09-16/how-make-your-coffee-just-james-bond
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Thanks, Keith! I’ll check these out.
Michael, you mentioned that you spent a long time in Japan, and also that you have eclectic choices in music. Were there any Japanese music groups that you enjoyed? You could use them as hidden gems.
Tedley, there absolutely were. I will see if I can sneak one by Todd in the next couple weeks! Thanks for the suggestion.
Michael, I think the podcast would work better if you gave Todd more grief. I know Todd is doing the friendly banter thing, but it just feels like he’s always nailing you and you aren’t snarking back. (That starts to make him sound like a jerk) The GLoP and Ricochet crews are always going back and forth, and it seems natural.
Also, I’d appreciate it if you could consider the panic in research universities where Donald Trump is supposedly going to destroy grant funding and crush science. Where is this coming from?
Keith/Mike,
Just getting to this podcast and I came to make the same exact comment as Keith. The French Press is positively primitive compared to the AeroPress. I’ve used the AeroPress daily for many years and while traveling/camping where it really excells. It’s Fantastic!
My son, the Chemistry Grad, of course prefers the Chemex, but for me it’s purely due to the chachet of its lab equipment appearance. Its just a pour over.
The AeroPress removes the grounds mess of the French press, centralizes the waste into a compressed “puck”, allows the bloom that the pour overs don’t, passes the coffee through a filter, and offers the cup-to-cup consistency that Keurig promised but never seemed to deliver on.
I hope you try one!
Thanks,
Bill DeWeese