Coffee

Merry Christmas from Gaylords

Wednesday, December 24, 2014 

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Latte Art at Gaylord’s

Saturday, October 1, 2011 

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Gaylords coffee puppy

Wednesday, August 3, 2011 

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Science Experiments

Monday, April 11, 2011 

Home from Afghanistan to find some very interesting science experiments waiting for me.

Yogurt residue grew into a lovely pattern of furriness. Almost makes you want to pet it.

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Coffee beans should have been fairly sterile after making coffee, so perhaps the mold there was donor from the yogurt cup.

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Whatever was left over in the plastic container seemed to seed a variety of mold types.

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A strong dose of bleach and some scrubbing got everything sterile again.

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Luxury is Relative

Monday, February 14, 2011 

At the COB, Green Beans  is a real, but essential, luxury. We started our day with a triple cappuccino expertly served up by the unexpectedly named Robert Rodriquez (perhaps an homage) and felt pretty well taken care of.

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Coming straight to Dubai is a bit of a culture shock. Indoor palm trees? We had to go off base to see outdoor palm trees.

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We did have one bit of green on base…
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Turkish Coffee Achieved

Monday, January 31, 2011 

Mission Accomplished.

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Gaylords is the coolest!

Saturday, December 11, 2010 

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Update: Covid killed Gaylord’s Caffe in April of 2020. 😿
Gaylords opened in 1976, long before I was around, but I started going when I first moved to Oakland back in the early 1990s and stopped in pretty much every time I went by Piedmont until it closed. It is a sad transition and the loss of a classic piece of history, like the end of It’s Tops in SF. I’m going to miss the place, the people that worked there, the people who parked at the tables working, but most of all sitting on 41st street bench on a cool, sunny day, enjoying coffee and a lemon cake while reading the Guardian or the Weekly from the vending boxes.
Corona killed another of my favorites, Itaba, which had replace my previous favorite haunt, Kotobuki, in the same location (3920 Piedmont Ave.).  Thankfully, at least a few of my Piedmont favorites have survived so far: Cato’s Ale House, The Wolf, and Shimizu.
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Combinations Coffee at TXL

Thursday, December 31, 2009 

As airport coffee makers go, this one is mediocre. The milk handling is excellent and it produced light and even froth, but the coffee flavor is weak.

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Magnetically Stirred Coffee

Monday, March 9, 2009 

Tastes like science! Mmmmm. Good science! Next, instrument with a temp controller to monitor and shut off automatically.

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The theory is that too much heat makes coffee bitter, but extraction matters, so the stirring hotplate can extract all the coffee goodness without overheating it.  The results are definitely mild, yet full flavored.  I used a paper filter to seperate the coffee from the grounds.
Just some interesting AI renditions to go along…
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Red Brick Café, Guelph

Thursday, November 15, 2007 

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As I’m spending more time in Guelph lately than expected, it has been a very good thing to discover the Red Brick Cafe. They have good food items and excellent coffee. No overheated milk and they know the difference between a cappuccino and a latte. With the favorable (to the US) exchange rate, it is a great deal too.

Posted at 10:00:16 GMT-0700

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