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How to train your ABID

How to train your ABID

Using your new ABID: Take freshly ground coffee, ground on a filter setting. Leave the ABID on the counter on it’s coaster. It shouldn’t leak Use about 18g of coffee this is around 60mls or two heaped tablespoons. The size of filter paper is not that important, but for best results, insert filter paper and [...]

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Abid Clever Coffee Dripper

Abid Clever Coffee Dripper

We always get asked on the best coffee machine to buy for home/work. If you want an espresso machine you need to spend BIG money, so what are the alternatives? Filter coffee machine? pity about the heating element ruining the coffee as it drips through, and with a very few exceptions, little control of brew strength. Cheap [...]

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A fourth coffee wave brewing? Hmmm…

As any geek in a field, I subscribe to several of the better RSS blog feeds regarding all things coffee[1.from baristas' thoughts, to espresso machine companies, to enthusiasts, to...you get the picture] and finally got around to some of the latest unread ones. After a brief skim-read through the titles I instantly had my attention [...]

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“You don’t purposefully buy Fair Trade coffee?!”

No we don’t purposefully buy Fair Trade coffee. We might have some, I don’t really know or mind1. “But why Zane? How could you? You keep going on about caring etc etc but now you tell us this.” as long as the farmer is getting a good price for a good product, I don’t personally [...]

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"You don't purposefully buy Fair Trade coffee?!"

No we don’t purposefully buy Fair Trade coffee. We might have some, I don’t really know or mind1. “But why Zane? How could you? You keep going on about caring etc etc but now you tell us this.” as long as the farmer is getting a good price for a good product, I don’t personally [...]

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Of things like green water

Of things like green water

I went to a lecture on greening our pastures at the Graduate School of Business last year. The talking head said that one of the easiest and biggest green things we can do is stop buying little plastic bottles of water. Then there is “the plastic bottle in the sun will kill you scare” and [...]

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Salvation @ TRUTH. coffeecult by jon_maliepaard

Salvation @ TRUTH. coffeecult by jon_maliepaard

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