Coffee is served from a coffee pot into a cup, then the cup is placed on a saucer. Recorded with a zoom h4n portable recorder. Edited a bit in audacity to raise the level of the coffee pouring sound and lower the level of the saucer impact sound.
Erratic scraping of a wooden spoon around a quarter-full porcelain canister of sugar. Small and large strokes and scrapes. Recorded using a tascam dr-40x.
Prepare tea: open metal can, rustling tea leaves fall into a strainer, boiling water is poured in, the kettle is turned off again. Recording with tascam-dr05, post-processing in garageband and audacity.
The whole precedure: switch-on-klick. Heats up. Hisses with a few nice whistling melodies (from 00:27 on). Boils. Automatic switch off. Close stereo recording (10cm) with sony pcm-10. Pretty low background noise (kitchen ambience).
Rubbing my finger across a kitchen knife. The knife has a smooth part and a part with little indents, so there are sounds with each sample. Recorded with my lumix g7 camera with rode video micro attached to it.