Stop in for a cup of coffee

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Happy Easter, everyone. It was the luck of the draw that I didn't get the day off. Some of us will bring in food, when in doubt I make biscuits, bake 'em there, crowd pleaser.
 
After careful measurements, the milk for the latte is 198* when it's ready to be combined with the espresso. I don't think I need an altitude correction for 150' above sea level. With a lid on the coffee mug, the alcohol should condense and reenter the latte. I'll need to make a volume adjustment. The standard ingredients fill the container to maximum, leaving no room for the Bailey's. Bailey's has a milk like ingredient. I'll reduce the milk volume by 50% and add Bailey's to compensate. :rolleyes:
Because of the steep vapor pressure curve of ethanol, you will only recover half of the alcohol that is volatilized at 198* when it condenses back into a 135* cup of coffee. In order to keep even that much, the heated milk has to remain covered and then transferred to the coffee without uncovering.

The best way to retain the most alcohol is to add it to the coffee last, after everything else is added.
 
I will have to measure the temperature of the combined product. Just guessing 185+. It's only been 40sumthin years since college chemistry :rolleyes:. I do however remember how to combine a common household cleaner with a liquid commonly found in medicine chests to produce a volatile sediment :rolleyes:.
 
From a distilling standpoint, this is what you get and at what temps. If the alcohol was pure ethanol in the Bailey's you wouldn't have any of the other liquids in the mix but there are parts of the other's that distill close to the ethanol vaporization temperatures.(both on the low and high sides). By heating the Bailey's, depending on the temperatures, you may loose some of the ethanol (bad thing) and some of the other stuff (which does provide flavors).

  • Acetone 56.5C (134F)
  • Methanol (wood alcohol) 64C (147F)
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  • Ethyl acetate 77.1C (171F)
  • Ethanol 78C (172F)
  • 2-Propanol (rubbing alcohol) 82C (180F)
  • 1-Propanol 97C (207F)
  • Water 100C (212F)
  • Butanol 116C (241F)
  • Amyl alcohol 137.8C (280F)
  • Furfural 161C (322F)
 
WooHoo .. The sun's coming out. I was beginning to wonder if it would. So long as the wind doesn't do it's 30mph Spring usual thing, it will be a good day. Ciao y'all. Happy Easter.
 
Son's GF is a completely 'from scratch' cook. What I know of today's menu: Crown roast with sausage stuffing, plank grilled salmon, a bread basket- dough is rising now. She is going to weave dough into a basket and have rolls in it...

Time to sit him and down tell him to MARRY HER! Those girls hardly exist anymore.
 
Looks like Pismo on Easter Morning :D Happy Easter y'all.

Pretty rare to have rough surf and fog here. You are right! It did look like Pismo... and felt like it too at 62 degrees lol. I used to walk Pismo from the cliffs all the way to Oceano early in the mornings picking up shells with my Grandmother.
 
WooHoo .. The sun's coming out. I was beginning to wonder if it would. So long as the wind doesn't do it's 30mph Spring usual thing, it will be a good day. Ciao y'all. Happy Easter.

That's nothing, we had 50 MPH gusts here yesterday....

(That's why they call us the windy city....)
 
I just had a HUGE sub sandwich for lunch. The little woman looked at me like I was nutz...
Gonna slap a couple filet mignons on the grill this evening.. with a baked potato and steamed broccoli.. Not exactly traditional Easter, but damn tasty..
 

Just got back from the marine room, la jolla. Good food but damn, the price!!!!!! :BangHead:
 
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