new moon of July 2026
Words cannot express the turmoil in my heart. I hope for calm as the winds howl.
Dory in Finding Nemo said: “Just keep swimming, just keep swimming.”
snapshots
Recently I learnt
The below photos show a method of brewing coffee, known as siphon.
It relies on a combination of immersion and percolation techniques to extract flavour from the coffee.
The glow in the photos come from a halogen heating element.
Oh yes, I forgot to mention – there appears be a filter layer in the siphon set-up (not shown in the above photos), which resemble the filter layer in brewing devices known as Hario V60; this filter layer in the siphon mechanism has been made of cloth in earlier years, but has become paper recently.
Thanks to Elaine for the demonstration.
bookshelf
- “From nerd to pro: A coffee journey”, by Patrik Rolf.