1 Fun Thing
Most store-bought wasabi isn’t actually wasabi — it’s horseradish! Horseradish root is often used as a substitute for the wasabi stem paste, because real wasabi is exceptionally hard to grow making it very expensive, costing between $160 - $300 per kilo.
3 Coffee Facts
The San Remo You is a really cool single group head, dual boiler espresso machine with a big touch screen on the top. It is a feature-packed machine that gives you full control over temperature, pressure and flow, allowing you to craft endless profiles.
The NextLevel Brewer Company collaborated with Jonathan Gagné to develop the Pulsar brewer. It is similar to their original LVL-10 with some important modifications — a smaller diameter achieves a taller bed depth for the same dose, and most importantly the addition of a valve that allows for steep and release type brews opens up a world of possibilities.
Did you know that it’s way more important to have the one way valve on the bags of ground coffee than it is for whole beans? The former gasses so rapidly that the bag would burst if not for the valve!