Gone Squatchin

Coffee Roasting, Exploring the outdoors, working towards sustainable living fiscally and functionally.

[The Food Manufacturing Guy @TipOfTheBanana]

Flavored coffee is sprayed with flavoring after roasting. The solvent that carries the flavor is not listed on the ingredient statement.

Dunkin' French Vanilla reads coffee, natural and artificial flavor. New England Hazelnut Creme reads 100% Arabica coffee, natural and artificial flavors. Community Pecan Praline, same two lines. What those lines leave out is the spray. The roasted beans tumble in a mixer while liquid flavor gets sprayed on, about 3 pounds of flavor for every 100 pounds of coffee, and that liquid is mostly propylene glycol, a synthetic solvent that carries the flavor oils on to the bean. A supplier's spec sheet for a pecan coffee flavor reads propylene glycol and natural and artificial flavor, use at 3%.

It stays off the bag because FDA treats the solvent inside a flavor as part of the flavor. Food grade propylene glycol is allowed in flavorings up to 97%, FDA lists it as safe, and a small amount is used.

A few roasters flavor with alcohol or glycerin instead and print no propylene glycol on the bag.

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@BoozebagFitness 100%hurt back from arching on the bench

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Cruising the garden

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Good use of old pallets and wire

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@OwenShroyer1776 Used to work in aero designing and building many of those seats. That side of things is even more of clownshow AMA

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@REPTHEHALOA @HalosAnonymous Lol I know a 4.23 career era for a reliever isn’t good

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@HalosAnonymous The other team could hit a grand slam and Arte would have a sponsor

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@amanonhisown Huell is legendary

[Cartel California @Cartel_Cal]

How many Californians know who this man is? 🤨

[The Angels Suck @HalosAnonymous]

May 2nd… first 25,000 fans take home Moreno the Rat 🐀🔥 #RepTheHalo

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@Friscokid49 @NWTomLee Too much saturation… every rich surgeon tried to buy his wife a winery 10 years ago, now the bubble is popping. It’s healthy and needed.

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING

It is now legal to distill your own vodka or whiskey at home !!!

A U.S. appeals court on Friday declared unconstitutional a nearly 158-year-old federal ban on home distilling, calling it an unnecessary and improper means for ​Congress to exercise its power to tax.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of ‌Appeals in New Orleans ruled in favor of the nonprofit Hobby Distillers Association and four of its 1,300 members.

They argued that people should be free to distill spirits at home, whether as ​a hobby or for personal consumption including, in one instance, to create ​an apple-pie-vodka recipe.

The ban was part of a law passed during ⁠Reconstruction in July 1868, in part to thwart liquor tax evasion, and subjected violators ​to up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

Writing for a three-judge panel, ​Circuit Judge Edith Hollan Jones said the ban actually reduced tax revenue by preventing distilling in the first place, unlike laws that regulated the manufacture and labeling of distilled spirits on which ​the government could collect taxes.

She also said that under the government's logic, Congress could ​criminalize virtually any in-home activity that might escape notice from tax collectors, including remote work and ‌home-based ⁠businesses.

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@achillghost @yeetyah345 Frankly the softener is more important to the longevity of the machine though. As long as standard portafilter and backflush is being done, it should be pretty sanitary. Is the mineral building up that does the real damage.

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@achillghost @yeetyah345 Any shop of decent volume should be swapping that out probably a max of every six months. They are rated by the volume of water going through.

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@jacksettleman Ha that swing was almost as bad

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@BaseballBros 100%

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@royalserf Seagal 3 part series on the dollop podcast is one of the greatest pieces of entertainment out there.

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@quinncoherent There’s some tricks to avoid having to hand pollinate