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   Hello, Ardith Hinton - Anton Shepelev.   
   On 17/06/2022 01:48 you wrote:   
      
    > AS>  629 grams of coffee?  You strange Americans! 1)  I'm   
    > Canadian, actually, but I realize that to many folks from   
    > the other side of the pond everything in the western   
    > hemisphere is "American".  :-Q   
      
   Your coffee habits sounded so American that I plum(b) forgot the   
   location if Wits' End (-:   
      
    > 2)  I didn't specify the weight of the coffee.  I specified   
    > "a mug of home made coffee" because I wanted you to   
    > understand that I wasn't referring to a flimsy plastic or   
    > paper cup.  The example I chose weighs 370 grams when it is   
    > empty, and 629 grams when it's filled with tap water.  I   
    > suppose it might weigh a bit more when filled with coffee &   
    > whatever a person might prefer to add.  My point was that   
    > such items often weigh more than we consciously realize....   
    > :-)   
      
   They sure do, so your serving is just 259 grams, whereas should   
   expect a mug to accomodate at least 400 grams of water or 400   
   milliliters of empty space.   
      
    > AS>  140 grams is my daily portion. In wet or dry   
    > measurements?  If you mean the former, that's about the same   
    > amount I usually drink in a day... but (as with my   
    > briefcase) I don't lift it & put it down just once.  The   
    > preparation alone involves a bit of lifting... I take my   
    > time over anything containing alcohol or caffeine... and on   
    > occasions when I have a second cup within 24 hours I'll   
    > drink a smaller amount.   
      
   140 grams of dry coffee? No! I rather mean 140 grams of the   
   prepared beverage. It contains about 13 grams of coffee beans.   
      
    > As a teacher I worked with someone from the Netherlands who   
    > obviously preferred stronger coffee.  When it was her turn   
    > to make coffee, I would dilute it 50/50 with boiling water   
    > before drinking it.  I've heard the same applies in other   
    > European countries but don't know what the average Russian   
    > would do.  :-) AS>  I buy freshly roasted coffee beens,   
    > grind them myself AS>  immediately before brewing, and make   
    > my coffee in an AS>  electronically-contolled jezwe. My   
    > mother used a coffee percolator, which works with a campfire   
    > or an oil/wood/electric/gas stove or whatever other source   
    > of heat is available.   
      
   As far as I understand, the percolator tends to overheat and   
   overextract coffee, and is therefore uncapable of brewing a   
   sweet cup. I have never tried one, though...   
      
    > I'm not sure what a "jezwe" is   
      
   It is the traditional vessel for brewing coffee, made of a   
   material with high heat conductance and low heat capacity (for   
   finer control), slightly tapering towards a neck at the top,   
   which helps form a coffee "tablet"--a method of visual   
   temperature control.   
      
   The Jezwe is the oldest, simplest, and IMHO best method of   
   brewing coffee.   
      
    > .  But nowadays I generally prefer the Melitta filter   
    > system, which requires little of me except to add a cup of   
    > boiling water to the pre-ground beans & wait 60 seconds when   
    > I'm making coffee just for myself.  :-)   
      
   Sounds like the Vietnameese brewing method, whereby ground   
   coffee is deposited in a special vessel with a filter at bottom,   
   hot water is poured over the coffee, and the brew drips slowly   
   into the cup below.   
      
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