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Well, there are a lot of ways to do it, depending on your budget. It's pretty simple if you buy the right equipment, but "the right equipment" is expensive and improvising is fiddly.

I'd recommend looking this site over some, they have a lot of introductory guides and such. /r/roasting is also an awesome sub in general.

The biggest issue with home roasting is that the beans need to move continuously, for the entire roast, or else they get burned. There are some ways to do this with improvised equipment though:

-Using an air (popcorn) popper. Assuming you have the right model, it does get hot enough to roast coffee, and the beans are light enough to blow around in the interior chamber nonstop. It gets pretty messy though, and you don't have much control. You also can't do huge batches of coffee all at once.

You should have a dedicated popper just for coffee, since you don't want the different oils mixing. Also, some poppers aren't powerful enough, and many modern ones have safety features that'll automatically shut off before it gets hot enough. Some people have fun with disabling those features and/or modding their poppers to give them more control.

"The Poppery II" is a commonly-suggested model for air roasting like this. They don't make them anymore, but they were made like tanks and so you can often find them in thrift stores.

This is a good, cheap, intro way to do it, though the lack of control is annoying. The flavor develops in part based on how long it's kept at each temperature point, and an air popper gives you very few options for adjusting temperature.

Alternatively,

-Using a stovetop popcorn roaster, like this. It has a handle that allows you to stir the coffee continuously, and it can work pretty well. The main drawback is monitoring/nailing the temperature, which is tricky. It's easier with a gas stove.

There are other methods as well, like using a heat gun, but I've never tried them and can't comment. I should also point out that everything I've just explained is a fire hazard, as is coffee roasting in general - the beans need to get quite hot, and they give off a thin, paperlike substance called chaff. I've never had a fire, but it's something you need to be aware of and plan for accordingly.

-If all of that sounds like too much of a hassle, you can just buy an actual coffee roaster. They make it way easier, and you can generally roast much larger batches at once. Sadly, they tend to be pretty expensive.

I'd recommend this one, which is actually on the very inexpensive end for a roaster. It's good quality though, and I've had one for over 1.5 years now without issue. Also note that the site I linked includes 8 pounds of free coffee when you buy from them, and (at least when I bought mine) they charge the same price for the unit as everyone else. So that's nice.

I really like roasting my own coffee. It can be a pain at times, but it means I always have fresh-roasted coffee available. Unless you buy from a local roaster, you've probably never had fresh coffee before. Whole bean coffee goes stale in like a week, and grocery store coffee is much older than a week. Pre-ground coffee goes stale in like minutes or hours.

They cover the stale taste up by burning the shit out of their beans, and so almost everything you see in a grocery store is only 1-2 stages removed from being charcoal. This page shows you what the beans look like at every stage, and you can see how "french roast" actually means "burnt to hell."

Man, long post! At any rate, roasting your own coffee can be quite nice. Green coffee beans run around $4-6/pound normally and you can sometimes find it for even cheaper. At least where I live, even burnt grocery store coffee is often much more expensive than that. So you're paying less for better quality -- as long as you don't mind improvising, or a big up-front investment.

Edited tl;dr: It's a good way to save money and get better coffee, though it can be either annoying or require a big upfront investment. This page has a lot of good introductory info on the whole process.

Not just some carbon, but a pretty high amount of it. Most steels you use in construction and basically everywhere else aren't even hardenable (<0.3 -0.4% carbon) whereas knife steels will be anywhere from 0.5% all the way up to 3%.

There are specific steels designed for knives that are practically stainless, but these cost a small fortune, i.e: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07F968G3K/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_da0nDbM6K1DHN

Steel becomes stainless once you add in chromium as an alloy. Some of the chromium binds with the carbon, but the rest is free to float around and suck up oxygen before the iron can react with it. The more carbon you have, the less free chromium is available. Stainless steel like 316l (food grade) is 0.08% carbon, 16-18% chromium, and 14% nickel. VG10 (high quality Japanese chef knife) is 1% carbon and 15% chromium. VG10 will absolutely rust if you leave it sitting in salty/acidic water for a long time, whereas 316l is basically rust proof.

Most razor blades are AEB-L, which is 1% carbon and only 13.5% chromium.

• All the steels I mentioned have more than just carbon and chromium in them, but I'm leaving it out for simplicity.

You can see the Banksy quote from the Amazon listing for the book:
http://www.amazon.com/Wall-Piece-Banksy/dp/1844137872/

I'm pretty sure an agent just called the MET, spoke to someone in their press department and then just printed whatever they said for comic effect.

I always have one of these:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OJ79UK6/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_Y9RqzbPX790BX

And a handful of charging cables for different devices.


People love me.

Haha, ‘tis a real thing! I have several of these!

charging condom

This is from "This is a Book" by Demetri Martin for anyone interested.

NO! I'm going to buy it from Amazon and choose 1 day shipping so I get it Friday, July 27th.

This is actually a completely serious academic book.

(The name comes from the original edition, long out of print now, which indeed was red.)

you can buy these on amazon

https://www.amazon.com/Activated-Stickers-Vigorously-Hilarious-Practical/dp/B01NAUCQIR

Here's some more recipies for you guys

Here you go. Be the anarchist you’ve always wanted to be!

Found it. It really is only 56 pages long.

I always carry these with me. https://www.amazon.com/Tripp-Lite-Outlet-Cabinet-PS4816/dp/B000051174

http://www.amazon.com/The-Red-Book-Varieties-Schemes/dp/354063293X

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sum-Tales-Afterlives-David-Eagleman/dp/1847674275

Link to book: http://www.amazon.com/Wall-Piece-Banksy/dp/1844137872

Wall and Piece by Banksy.

I googled it for you, it's a book about a graffiti artist. Amazon

You can use one of these:

https://www.amazon.com/PortaPow-Charge-Block-Adaptor-SmartCharge/dp/B00QRRZ2QM

It blocks data connections, you can only use it for recharging.

Carelman did it first. See his "masochists teapot", featured on the cover of "the design of everyday things": http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0465067107

Another redditor linked to this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Facts-Cant-Prove-Arent-True/dp/0990354830

but I have no idea if it's the actual book or not. Initial instinct was this was just some DIY prank.

My favorite Linux programming book has these pearls in the contents:

• 9.4.1 - Having Children
  
  
• 9.4.2 - Watching your Children Die
  
  

LPT:

Instead, carry one of these,

Some of these,

and a pair of pliers.

Lockpicks are a felony to possess in a lot of the US

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The clip on the pen becomes the tension wrench. The pin becomes the pick, and the pliers bend the two into the desired shape.

Ah, reminds me of all the stupids in Over the Edge: Death in the Grand Canyon.

While there's not much of a reason to worry given that such inefficient data theft is incredibly rare, it would be trivial to hide a malicious device in one of these.

Of course the bigger problem seems to be that you might burn the airport down.