Maybe this will be a new point of evolution and our eye shapes will change in a new (not better) way were we see worse... Who knows.... I don't know what I'm talking about . ✌️
Yes, there are a lot of decaf roasting options, but only a few ways to process the beans. Did you watch the tasting event that just took place ? I think they did decaf this year.
Isn't that what happened to the schools during COVID or something with one of the programs. I forget....
It is above most publicly accepted ratios. This is the one that works best with the water and process I use. I used to do like 21 to 360 or something, but this works out nice.
Made it as espresso. It definitely has a lot of crema. I'm still getting it dialed in. Tastes good, but I didn't think my palette is refined enough to say it taste different from other medium roasts. With that said, I didn't think I'll be getting another bag.
This is what brought the prequels back from the dead.
We just need more star trek memes to take over and we'll save star trek
Yeah, I'm going to espresso brew it tomorrow. I wasn't thinking of an Americano, just a straight shot. I have that ninja machine that's all the rage right now. It does the job. Will see.
I also noticed that the beans are shiny.
Lavazza Super Crema V60 Result
I ordered a bag of Lavazza Super Crema for playing with my espresso machine, but wanted to try it out in the V60 for kicks.
Set the ESP to 24 and ground 17g. Brewed with 320ml of water. Coming from mostly light roasts, this taste a bit on the dark side for me, but overall a good balanced cup of coffee. I may go corser on the next brew, maybe 26.
I did 50ml for bloom (30 seconds) Add 70ml wait ten seconds Add 100ml wait ten seconds Add final 100ml
Happy brewing.
I want physical media that is not sold on optical disks. Sell me content on SD cards for example.
You can test this issue with laptop sending large files to your NAS over Wi-Fi. Local device communication is crazy slow on my network over the eeros. I discovered this when I moved a TV that was on a wired connection to wireless and everything feel apart from there.
I'm using eero as my wifi and for whatever reason, the eero wifi only give me max 10 Mbps, while a wired connection is over 100 Mbps. Also, my tplink WAP gives me 50Mbps.
However, if I do a speed test to an outside server, it'll report over 300 Mbps... Something is messed up with local stream for me with my eeros. I'll likely be removing them soon.
However, in the short term I re-encoded a bunch of my 4k rips down to 1080 and this resolved all my bandwidth issues.
A few episodes is nearly half the number of episodes available
See like a pass for now, we watched the first episode and there was some interest, but have not been asked for since. Will try again in a few months and see what happens. I personally am curious about the show, but will wait to watch together.
I hope they survive this time. I love getting a nice copy of a book as a gift.
Still have my CD copy, but wonder if I can download the patches still... Maybe time to dust it off, just to find it has suffered rot... 😭
They are likely waiting for the cartographers to finish their jobs.... Unless they were asked to resign... Who knows how this government functions at this point.
Waiting for the presidential cars to be replaced with cyber trucks.
I think the plan is if your in the US the name will change. I think. Something about USA being classified as a sensitive nation when before names didn't hurt us.
Backbone lost.
Can we get some Star Trek I can watch with my kids around? I have to stick with classic trek (everything from Enterprise and earlier) as there isn't an option. Sure Prodigy does exist, but I don't know if I can get into that show myself.
Rant over...
They can make Section 31 content all they want, I don't care, just make it good enough to watch. Hell, just take the book series and make a mini series based on those stories.
YesPlz beans
The best and most fun coffee subscription service — a no corners cut bag of the best fresh roasted coffee delivered to your door.
Trying out their blend and just opened my first bag. It's their 295 mix. I like it, lite and easy to drink It tastes like coffee. Did an aeropress brew and will try V60 next time. I will say the beans gave off an interesting smell that made me nervous about how it would come out, but all is good.
I never heard of this place, but it was recommended in another post. I'll likely keep the subscription, at least for another few bags to see how it goes.
What's in your cup this week?
I'm doing a blend of Kona from a local store and whole food Kenya. It's a 70/30 of Kenya to Kona and taste great. The Kona alone I got taste and looks like really dark soil after a brew, so I picked a lite roast to see how it would go and I'm happy.
I haven't had too many Kenya coffees, but if you have a whole foods nearby this one tastes good to me.
(Solved) Unable to install 2.6.1 Google Play
I'm having trouble getting the latest update for the Android app 2.6.1. is it working ok for everyone else?
Stumptown Coffee Videos
I've been watching a bunch of the stumptown coffee brewing videos on YouTube. They are another great starting point for all of us. I tried their V60 and aeropress recipes and the coffee came out good. It tastes like coffee. Lol
Anyway wanted to share in case someone hasn't seen them. Enjoy
Media Skipping after recent releases
My Google TV picked up the latest versions of the jellyfin app and now a few of my 4k movies are no longer working as expected. I'm getting pauses and it looks almost like a buffering issue. I checked with my NAS and see network to the TV to be around 9MB/s which is fine for a wired connection. I used to be on wifi, but started having the same issue there after the update so I loved to a wired connection. Some 4k movies are good over wired, but some are in buffering hell.
Am I alone with this issue ? Idk. I ordered a 1gb USB adapter for the tv as a last attempt to validate it isn't the network connection. Will be here this weekend and will update with the results from that.
--- Got to tv on GB ethernet and I see it pulling the file at around 50MB/s which is great, but no difference. Maybe I did something wrong on the encode... Not sure. Let me try a re-encode of the movie... Idk
Hario Drip Kettle Air
This little kettle is perfect for beginners or travelers. It’s durable and heat resistant. Perfect for brewing small batches of coffee. The material is very lightweight and gives the user more control over the pour stream. This kettle is tiny and can fit in any cabinet, drawer or camping bag. ...
I recently picked up a V60 to take a stab at pour over at home. I was getting ok drinks out, but my pour control was all over the place. It was too fast and not very accurate as I was using my existing hot water kettle.
I hate replacing things that work and I didn't want to get a new kettle just for coffee making. I started looking for some small kettle options where I can put my hot water on and pour out. A lot of the products in this category are either too affordable where the handles come off or too costly. I was hesitant to get the Hario Air due to Hoffman's review, but it really seemed to check all my boxes.
After making a few cups, it is amazing. I can't get as close to the grinds as a normal kettle, but I'm not to far. Control is great, but the neck thickness causes me to bump the V60 sometimes, need more practice. At any rate, I love this and it's easy to store in the cabinet when not in use.
TLDR: Great product if you have an existing hot water kettle you don't want to replace just to make pour over.
Crooked finger print sensor
I was sitting in my car the other day and was able to tilt my phone just right under the sunlight to see the two sensors under the screen. This is a pixel 7. I noticed that the finger print sensor was crooked while the top sensor was pretty straight. It got me thinking for all the people with issues against the finger print sensor, I wonder if theirs is more mis aligned, or maybe this is unrelated.
I check the photos on iFixit and the sensor looks straight there, but it's getting the back. Anyway, would be interesting if others could take a look at their sensor to see if this is a common thing.
Took a photo with my flashlight and modified it on Snapseed to make it easier to see. It is possible this is normal, but never know. !
Starting Grind Settings Chart
I'm wondering if we should start a sticky post which contains everyone's collection of Bean/Grinder+Setting/Brew method information as a reference. It's always good to have a nice starting point.
I will update as comments come up.
| Bean | Grinder | Settings | Brew | |:----------:|:---------:|:---:|:---:| Speckled Ax - Early Bird | Encore ESP | 20 | Aeropress 11g - 200ml Speckled Ax - Bird Dog Espresso | Encore ESP | 23 | Aeropress 11g - 200ml Speckled Ax - Early Bird | Encore ESP | 21 | V60 15g - 280ml Light Roast | Fellow Opus | 4.5 | Moka Pot All | Encore | 16 | V60 Light Roast | Encore | 18 | Chemex - 1 cup Light Roast | Encore | 20 | Chemex 32g - 2 cups Light Roast | Encore | 22 | Chemex - 3 cups All | Jaffee J1 | 30 clicks | Switch 20g - 300ml
Aieve Silicone Coffee Hopper Bellow
When I placed the order for a new Baratza Encore ESP, I also picked up this bellow for the hopper to push the left over grinds out of the machine. I posted a picture of the grinder earlier this month.
After two weeks of use, I needed to clean the grinder since I'm switching from flavored beans to non, there were no grinds in the machine. Sure there are some fines on the burrs that need to be brushed off, but not much. I'm impressed with this product and recommend it for anyone that has this grinder.
You can actually see the left over grinds fall into the bin when you press the bellow. Works great especially if you do the water spritz to minimize static.
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Parent's Bitter Coffee
At visiting my parent's this holiday weekend I tired to gently tell my parents that their coffee brew is very bitter. The response I get back is something like, " I like it strong."
I wasn't too sure how to respond, but then they told me my coffee is to watery. 🤔 I told them it's not that is watery, but it's a light roast and not bitter tasting.
So my question is how do you convince someone that bitter coffee is not good coffee? I might bring my scale next time to help measure and perfect the coffee brew there. Maybe even see about cleaning their been grinder, which I think has never been cleaned.
Oh well.
Update: Thanks for all the tips and thoughts. I agree with basically everything posted here and sorry no butter (I fixed the title)
Brave using network when idle
I wanted to try out the desktop version of the Brave browser. Its setup according to the privacy guide directions and I have sendoff usage data disabled, but if I open the browser sitting on the home page, windows is reporting 100KB ofdataa going out every 5 or so seconds.
Running the same test with Edge, no network usage is reported.
The only extention on Brave is bitwarden, which is also installed on edge.
Any thoughts? This is the IP it is sending to: 104.18.12.33
Edit: on reboot of process, I see the hostname: ec2-35-163-26-5.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com