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Lasar Coffee

Found this pretty cool video on YouTube.com ...

... but we here at Earth Food Ghetto Labs have - as both profession coffee preparation experts and as a lab rats - some minor critique of the process as shown in the video.

  1. Instant coffee? Questionable even as a "proof of concept" exercise. Should be latte, or at least a decent cone process.
  2. The programming of the laser seems to have a problem in common with the programming problems many people have with microwave ovens - the laser is applied to at least two of the cups of liquid for too long, over-heating the contents, and causing coffee to boil out of the cups, creating a mess in the heating chamber. Also, those two cups clearly have less liquid in them after the laser is switched off than they did before it was switched on.

No wonder the perpetrators don't try to claim credit for this one - they bolixed it all up. We here at Earth Food promise you, our readers, that we will not be so careless should such a choice piece of food preparation equipment as the laser (shown in the video above) fall into our trained and cooly professional hands...

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