My first roast was in December, 2017 and I roast (usually) once a week, lots of beans have gotten hot in that bowl. My bamboo spoon is well blackened, so are the 1X mahogany boards that the bowl sits on inside a cardboard box.
I don't know about the difference between dry process and wet process (and I had to look up quaker beans) but I do like the patina on my roasting pan:
(Ethiopian beans)
I really like Japanese eggplant (they look like Paluch's emoji) sliced about 5 mm thick, pan seared with a little sesame oil, a touch of soy, grated garlic and lots of fresh grated ginger root. Damned tasty if I do say (so). That thing Evan shows...... I'll pass on. ;-)
@clarkman got something heavy going ----^ Driving up to the lake this morning, my feed played something at the other end of the spectrum? ---↓
If classical isn't your thing, ignore Elgar's cello concerto.
You have a bit of thread drift with your story so I'll follow ;-) I love the F-18's that suddenly blast over the top of coulee I'm bobbing around in my pram or float tube; once the initial "what the hell is this" is over, it's fun to watch them roll around the next bend of the coulee and...
I've been hearing some good fishing reports from "another Basin lake", this one is a general regulation lake popular with the powerbait anglers and Ford fender trollers. Now that it's fall, the crowds are elsewhere. Late yesterday afternoon I decided to give the lake a shot only to get down...