Brewing Coffee Manually

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Year: 2015 (Page 11 of 13)

Pour over coffee maker vs. drip

Manual Brewing Challenge- Pour Over Coffee Maker Vs. Drip

March 16, 2015 / / 1 Comment

Ok I’ll admit it. I have a coffee blog titled “Brewing Coffee Manually” and I use my automatic drip coffeemaker at least three times a week. The other day when I was driving to work and sipping on my automatic brew, a thought occurred to me. I have never actually directly compared a pour over coffee maker vs. drip coffee maker scenario.

I generally have a cup of coffee 2-3 times a day so granted that is a smaller percentage of my actual coffee consumed (less than 20%) but I wanted to get it off my chest. Sometimes I take the easy road and use the automatic coffeemaker.

I generally use my coffeemaker when I have early morning shifts (we are talking before some McDonald’s are even open earliness). The automatic timer function ensures that I can get up at the last possible moment and everything that I do is essential to me getting to work on time (of course you will notice this means I pre-grind my coffee the night before… strike 2?).

Why not see exactly what I am actually missing out on?

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Kalitta wave and pennies

The Brewing Coffee Manually Blog’s Guide to Blowing Your Tax Refund

March 10, 2015 / / 0 Comments

March is in full swing which means our strip malls are once again inhabited by college kids dressed up as the Statue of Liberty twirling eye-catching signs, H and R Blocks are springing up in abandon office spaces everywhere, and Turbo Tax is prominently on display at the entrance of every store. In case you have neglected to notice or have somehow forgotten, tax day is fast approaching. For millions of Americans, this means an influx of cash in the form of The Tax Refund.

There will, of course, be all sorts of articles being published in the next month or so talking about why you shouldn’t want a tax refund and what you should do with your money if you are “tragically” going to be receiving one. I’m all for it. Read those articles (with a manually brewed cup of coffee of course) and ponder the deep intricacies of your personal finances.

If after several brooding sessions and several cups of coffee, you decide to throw all that good advice out the window and blow it. Why not spend at least a little bit on coffee?

Here is it is: The Brewing Coffee Manually Blog’s official guide to blowing your tax refund on coffee

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how to descale an electric kettle

How to descale an Electric Kettle

March 3, 2015 / / 0 Comments

An electric kettle is a nonessential yet very useful piece of equipment to the manual coffee brewer. It boils water much quicker than a stove top and tea kettle combination. It is also handy in situations where a stove top is not an option, such as college dorm rooms and small offices. With the added bonus of the existence of gooseneck electric kettles, it is a convenient piece of brewing equipment I recommend. It will make you more likely to brew your coffee manually and will probably make brewing it more enjoyable.

An issue you most likely will have when using an electric kettle is mineral build up. This mineral build up, also known as scaling, makes your kettle less efficient and can shorten a kettle’s lifespan. With a little routine maintenance, you can keep your kettle looking shiny, new and build up free.

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