BYC Café

[LaFleche]

Good evening Café!

I brought a freshly brewed pot and will have a big cup myself after having cleaned out the coops today

 

[LaFleche]

Hey Cafe alive had my two cups .. Prices..

Yes! From 3,49 € skyrocketing to 7,49 Euro today for 500 grams of my favourite coffee.

 

[ronott1]

Yes! From 3,49 € skyrocketing to 7,49 Euro today for 500 grams of my favourite coffee.

I buy bulk un roasted coffee beans from Sweat Maria's. Their website recently posted:
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2022 Coffee Prices for us and you​

With a big chunk of our 2022 buying now behind us, we have a better idea how much of an effect the higher coffee market will have on the price you pay for coffee on our website. On average, we’ve seen an 20-30% increase on the FOB price of coffee in every single originSingle Origin refers to coffee from one location, in contrast to blended coffee. This term is particularly useful in discussing espresso, since most commercial espressos are made from blends. This is what the term "SO More. (FOB = Free on board, the cost of the coffee at the port of departure).

Coffee will be more expensive this year …there’s no two ways about it. That’s the reality for everyone, not just us.

So where does the extra $.75/Lb (more or less) you’ll pay for Ethiopian coffee go? Most importantly, it goes back to the farmers so they are able to cover the higher cost of production they are faced with and remain profitable. It’s the smallholders who are hit the hardest by inflation.

It also helps us cover the increased cost of logistics services who are operating with a shortage of materials and labor at a time of record fuel prices. In short, we aren’t “raising prices”, we are simply covering costs. Our prices are mostly fixed, so none of this increase is for us. When costs return to normal, our prices will trend downward too. Our margins are also mostly fixed too, which means you’ll never pay more for coffee simply because the market is up. We never price coffees on a differential basis that fluctuates in real time with market prices.

The reality for most of our Sweet Maria’s customers is that the price jump works out to about .02 cents more per cup of coffee. Really, just .02 cents!
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I buy 5 pounds of unroasted beans about once a month and save a lot of money that way!

 

[Sally PB]

unroasted beans

What does it take to roast the beans?

 

[ronott1]

What does it take to roast the beans?

You can roast them in a hot air popper. You can also roast them in a cast iron skillet. Years ago I bought a used roaster from ebay. several years ago I rebuilt it. I replaced the blower fan and the heating element.

It has paid for itself many times over! and the coffee beans are better than what you get in the stores.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Geeze I thought I was coffee snob ... @ronott1

 

[ronott1]

Geeze I thought I was coffee snob ... @ronott1

I started roasting coffee beans because I did not like the burnt beans I could find back then. I started roasting coffee beans in the mid 1980s. There was a place where I could buy green unroasted beans back then.

It has worked out well!

 

[Shadrach]

Good morning Cafe.
Coffee is made.
It's this time of year I do my wool washing. It's a mission. All of the wool jumpers I have are hand wash only if you want the end result to look anything like how it started off. They all need to be dried flat on a towel and that means on the bathroom floor here. I can understand why the fishermen who wear Arran jumpers like those I have don't wash them.

 

[DobieLover]

I'm sure it will though exhaust fans move air better than intake fans.

Not if they catch fire...

 

[Sally PB]

I can understand why the fishermen who wear Arran jumpers like those I have don't wash them.

History....

The wool for those Aran sweaters (jumpers) was usually spun "in the grease," ie, not washing the wool before spinning, so there was all the lanoline still in it. This helped make the sweaters waterproof.

The patterns used in Aran sweaters have meaning too. The cables signifies the rope used on the ships. One stitch called "trinity" had a religious meaning. Those are all I can remember right now.

Sometimes the pattern of the sweater was all they had to identify the sailor who died and washed up on shore.

Knitting Aran sweaters is one of my ideas of fun. Yeah, I'm that kind of weird.