{"id":1660,"date":"2011-05-05T17:58:55","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T05:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=1660"},"modified":"2011-05-05T17:58:55","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T05:58:55","slug":"cooking-with-gorse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=1660","title":{"rendered":"Cooking With Gorse!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember way back when <a href=\"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=523\">I got my little red thermette<\/a>? Well, today we were down the back doing a bit of general tidying up when I came across some of the gorse we chopped out a while ago. A random synaptic fit led me to link the dry gorse and thermette together, and a fun experiment was had.<\/p>\n<p align=center><a href=\"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/cookingwithgorse.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/cookingwithgorse.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"cooking with gorse\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It actually worked pretty well! Gorse seemed to burn pretty hot when it&#8217;s all the little leaves and spikes burning, but it didn&#8217;t really like to catch the larger stalk logs I&#8217;d sawed off. And it can give off a <em>lot<\/em> of smoke! But I got there with a bit of careful tendering. Boiling water for a coffee with a jug just isn&#8217;t the same!<\/p>\n<p>And yes, I did risk the water and drink a coffee made from the thermette. Tasted like any coffee made here so far. Maybe a small hint of smokiness coming through, but that might have just been off my clothes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember way back when I got my little red thermette? Well, today we were down the back doing a bit of general tidying up when I came across some of the gorse we chopped out a while ago. A random synaptic fit led me to link the dry gorse and thermette together, and a fun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1660"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1663,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions\/1663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}