Subj : A joke. Is it  understandable in English?
To   : Ardith Hinton
From : Anton Shepelev
Date : Sun Jul 03 2022 00:50:52

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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