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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "Not even to thank the person? "
    In this case I wouldn't know the person. I would just be confused. Even now I don't get why people do it or why they get fired about it. I think I just wouldn't do it and wouldn't give it a second thought.
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  • Posted by TheRealBill 9 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I couldn't help thinking "green beans" instead of green coffee beans. The images in my head as a result were chuckle inducing. :)
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  • Posted by khalling 9 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Interesting. I have never roasted my own beans. Coffee is significantly cheaper where I am and I can go to his shop every two weeks or so. I am just a casual drinker of coffee.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 9 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Sounds delicious! I have roasted from green beans for years. Usually green beans are 30-50% lower cost, but you do lose about 10% weight in the roasting. It can be done in the oven at 400-500F for roughly 10 minutes (to the first 'crack'), but you have to watch them carefully or they can over-roast. Depends on your oven, too, since many ovens have hot spots. I roast one layer of beans covering the bottom of a large flat cake pan. I shake the pan every 2 minutes to get more even roasting.
    The easier way is to buy a hot air popcorn popper. About 100 grams roasts in about 10-15 minutes, and the 'cracking' points are obvious. There are 2 'cracks' that occur as the beans roast. The 'crack' is the sound the beans make as they respond to the heat by expansion. The first is usually at the med roast point, and the second at very dark roast. A popcorn popper can also be used to roast raw nuts (e.g., almonds) in about 2 minutes per 100 grams. The 100 gram weight (of coffee beans or nuts) is about how much will continue to be turned/rotated by the hot air so the roasting is very evenly done. I usually roast enough beans to last me for about a week as the flavor falls off over time.
    http://www.sweetmarias.com/airpop/airpop...
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  • Posted by DeadRight 9 years, 8 months ago
    What concerns me is the sheeple took ten hours to find one independent soul. We are lost.
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  • Posted by LetsShrug 9 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The intimidating names of these concoctions alone would keep me from going in there. Fashion statement or what? Sheesh...just give me a damn coffee and I'll pay cash for it MYSELF.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    He intentionally went specifically in order to break the chain - that's a dick move in my book.
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  • Posted by $ winterwind 9 years, 8 months ago
    This "pay it forward" nonsense [I just _really_ dislike the term as well as the action] is removing the weight from what used to be called a RAK [random act of kindness]. The whole point of that small movement was that it was RANDOM, and done whenever, wherever - and usually anonymously. There was no line of people drinking....what did someone call it....Starburnt and all feeling good about themselves together. The RAK - I hesitate to call it a "movement", since it was so loosely organized - was one individual doing something for another, by his own free choice. Different people, different Acts, different places, different times. fun!
    I wonder if it was the barista's idea to hold up the next person in line. Watch out, it'll become Starburnt's policy on Tuesdays. Like Nancy Reagan used to say "Just Say No".
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  • Posted by Fountainhead24 9 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I think he was more of a realist than a dick. "Paying it Forward" should be a stand alone transaction. Making it more like a chain letter cheapens it.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    As long as there are sufficient members in the queue, the ordering of those behind would take place before the payers were at the payment window. As CG states, though, as soon as there's a break, and the line behind you empties, then there's no way to establish that amount (unless you just leave a "seed" amount, say $5).
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Good for you, Neal. As a non-combat era vet (OK, actually, I was in during the build-up for the first Gulf war, but was in a non-deployable unit), I pick up the tab for military that I run across in the airports that I often travel through. I also just pay the tab and ask the wait staff not to tell the military member who did so. I don't need the thanks, but they do.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 8 months ago
    So, the guy intentionally went to the Starbucks to intentionally stop the pay it forward string. Sounds like a dick to me.
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  • Posted by $ jlc 9 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It is just a pity that we have constructed the term 'childlike joy'...because it accurately reflects the fact that most adults have lost it. (May you never loose yours!)

    Jan
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  • Posted by bassboat 9 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I agree, I make it a policy to not donate to the road blocks, I will donate to charities on my own accord and not from a guilt trip.
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  • Posted by khalling 9 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    They do! Those beans are burnt. Where I live I get my beans from a grower who coats his beans in honey for the second roasting. The honey burns away leaving the beans happily roasted. Mmmmmmm
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  • Posted by johnpe1 9 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Fred, could you check out my answer to CG? it was
    a unique opportunity, and there were no regrets,
    all-around.

    it was especially delicious because this guy had
    been hurt before this time because of his shy
    nature.

    helped to make up for the hurt. very intelligent,
    creative and shy fabrication supervisor.

    Thanks!!! -- j

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