First off it works fine. Or maybe it doesn’t. My latte art is terrible. (“Look baby I made you a cloud”)
Second, you can just heat it with the valve open. When it starts steaming you’ll hear it. Close the valve then wait a little while. I usually wait until the safety valve goes then turn the heat down to medium but i dont see why you couldnt just sort of leave it on high and start using it straight away. Hasn’t failed me yet. I know at least one other person who does the same.
Using with a flair 58 by the way. If you start the bellman first, then a gooseneck kettle, then turn on the 58, usually (depending how much water you put in the bellman) you can pull your espresso just as the bellman is up to pressure and from there in just an extra few minutes between espresso and latte.
…And even though my latte art skills are lacking, the flavor and texture of the lattes I’m making are great.
Theres also something called URL cleaner. It just literally cleans the URL AFAIK (no virus total or anything). Ita available on f-droid and presumably the play store.
I will always recommend baratza. If you can spring for Encore ESP it will future proof you in case you want to go down the path of espresso. Otherwise the Encore will def serve you well.
Just to elaborate on why recommend Baratza products… they are good products to begin with but also easily user-serviceable / repairable / upgradable. Also their customer support is top notch. That’s not to say you should expect them to break, mind you.
I think you’ll see similar sentiment in almost any review of them that you see.
On the other hand if you want to go cheap, the Cuisinart burr grinder is probably the best you can do sub-$100. It will be good (but not great) for anything but espresso I think. www.cuisinart.com/shopping/appliances/…/DBM-8P1/
Edit: when it’s time for the drip maker I highly recommend the breville precision. It’s pricy but worth it. If it’s out of price range just try to get something that’s good cup certified… sca.coffee/certified-home-brewer
In many parts of Europe, it’s common for workers to take off weeks at a time, especially during the summer. Envious Americans say it’s time for the U.S. to follow suit....
Depending on how in depth you want your firewall, packet inspection, etc to be and your internet access speed, you may want a commercial grade router. You can also probably use an old PC and add a dual gigabit NIC to it and load up opnsense or pfsense or some other router/firewall distribution. From there, add a stand alone switch and a standalone wifi AP (or router in AP mode). The reason I bring up using a commercial device or an older desktop is because packet inspection, filtering, etc at line speed on a gigabit connection won’t be possible with a lot of low powered devices.
I used to do this (was using an old Intel core i5 second gen with added RAM and a dual port gigabit NIC) but it was a lot to keep up with. I have since moved on to an Asus router (RT-AX86U) with the AsusWRT-Merlin software package. The only functionality I really lost was suricata for IDS. The AsusWRT distro comes with some proprietary stuff (that I think you can turn off) but it’s also very “open” in terms of just running Linux underneath. This means you can set up things like VLANS, use iptables, etc.
AsusWRT-Merlin adds some niceties (including a nice add on system that will expand into web based interfaces for certain things you might usually do from command line, better/expanded firewalling, and even adguardhome installer for DNS-based malware/spyware/ad blocking… kinda like pihole but lots of people like it better). The maintainer of that package corresponds frequently with Asus (to the point that some of his stuff is merged back into the official AsusWRT at some points).
I can confirm that the model I mentioned above is able to do all the firewalling, QoS, adguard DNS filtering, etc at gigabit speeds. It also has some sort of IDS and a few other protections, but they are part of the proprietary bits (Asus licensed via TrendMicro I believe).
Came here to say that I have been using tutanota for years now and it works very well.
It does fit the use case of encrypted emails to people who don’t use tutanota. How it works is they will receive an unencrypted email letting them know they have an encrypted email waiting for them, along with a secure link to an https encrypted, password protected web interface with inbox and outbox.
Just wanted to point this out for anyone else evaluating privacy focused email providers.
I was on a light/extra light kick for a while but have started sliding back to the medium and even dark side of things. It’s a refreshing change.
I dont drink much (any) robusta though. I understand it’s less… approachable? Maybe try with cream and sugar. Or iced with cream and sugar. Maybe cold brew (although that’s a pretty polarizing topic). Or maybe try mixing it in 50/50 or less with Arabica blends with similar roast level.
I should have known better, I usually don’t like flavored coffee because (personally) I feel like it’s made to go with some kind of creamer or something. But I bought a bad of hazelnut vanilla beans, ground it up, and meh. I’ve tried mixing it with my wife’s creamer but it just gets so sweet and I like to drink it black....
Not to be a downer, but you’re gonna get a lot of smoke roasting beans in your electric oven (gas would have an exhaust to the outside). That smoke really isn’t good for you to breathe in either. Prolonged exposure will lead to “popcorn lung”. It’s also going to make your stove very dirty in the inside in short fashion. Also, you’re gonna melt some plastic colanders if you drop coffee beans into them right out of a 400-500 degree oven. Not to mention that plastic + heat = not good (even without the melting)
If you want to try roasting coffee beans at home once or twice on the cheap, you’re better off “pan roasting” them outside on a camp stove or something similar if you don’t have an exhaust fan right above your stove that connects to outside.
Specialized at-home electric roasters exist and aren’t that expensive. Certainly cheaper than smoke mitigation.
Yes I used to roast at home several times a week on a Behmor machine. There’s a reason all the at-home machines (and commercial machines for that matter) have smoke suppression…
Edit to add that I started with a popcorn popper (which is the usual entry into the hobby) then built a roaster out of a heat gun and a flour sifter before I went on to get the Behmor. All of my roasting was done outside or in the garage with fume hood and exhaust fan.
Do whatever you like but there’s a reason there are things like occupational safety regulations and the like.
During coffee production of both flavored and unflavored coffee, production employees become exposed to dangerous VOCs resulting in irreversible lung damage (Ref. 1). The most hazardous VOCs released from flavorings and naturally from roasting coffee beans are diacetyl and 2,3-pentanedione. Exposure to even small amounts over time or large concentrations over a short period of time can have drastic health effects (Ref. 2).
I remember the inventor of the Behmor machine saying that the smoke suppression was required by regulation of some sort… ao yeah they are kinda necessary in a sense.
Like I said, do whatever you like, but I advise against roasting coffee indoors without an exhaust fan that dumps the exhaust outside, at minimum.
Terraforming Mars is great. A lot more going on than with Catan, but it does have aspects of the same sort of tile/game piece placement. Aspects of engine building, drafting (optional), deck building, and resource management too.
Usually its a 1.5-3hr play through, depending on how experienced the players are and how many people are playing (1-5).
One big plus over Catan is it plays well with just 2 people.
It is super fun but you’re right it’s a time commitment.
FWIW there’s a pc/ios/android version that is a good way to get familiar with the game, although I can’t quite imagine conceptualizing the digital version if you haven’t already seen all the parts of the physical version.
Hi, this sounds like a dumb question, but how should I “get into” coffee? Most of the time, I just use a Keurig and whatever pods I find at Costco. I know there’s an entire world out there of people who know exactly what they’re doing, but it’s all quite confusing....
Pour over, aeropress, and French press are probably your go-to options. Pourover is probably the simplest, easiest, and cleanest… but any of the three is a great idea.
You’ll need a source of hot water. Can be electric kettle or stove top kettle.
Ideally you should buy whole beans and grind right before brewing. Blade grinder can work but burr grinder will be much better.
If possible, buy beans that were roasted no more than 2 weeks ago. Not all beans will have a “rosted on date” on the bag. Anything bought at a coffee shop/ Cafe or from a nicer grocery store (whole foods, etc) has a higher likelihood of having a roasted on date printed on the bag.
As black coffee vs with milk vs latte… thats up to you. Don’t be scared of black coffee based on old stale folders or something from a keurig machine though. Milk/cream/half-and-half in black coffee can bring out certain flavors in the cup. Latte is only made with espresso, and none of the methods I mention above make espresso (although aeropress can make something nearly as strong… but it won’t have all the characteristics of a true espresso).
The good thing is that for the price of a weeks worth of fancy drinks from Starbucks or dunkin you can get a decent bag of fresh roasted coffee beans and a pourover (maybe hario V60) / aeropress/ French press and start experimenting!
This is probably upscale 1080p where each logical pixel is actually 4 physical pixels. So the monitor gets a 4k signal that contains 1080p logical pixels.
It’s basically how retina displays work.
I think you can disable that by turning off display scaling or something.
I’ve been eyeing this machine for a while since my goal is to really control my press just like I have with the Aero Press. Still haven’t decided if this is a worthwhile investment.
If you mean “quick” as in “how much effort to figure out how to make a good shot” then I definitely agree.
If by “quick” you mean “how long from zero to espresso” I actually disagree. You can be pulling a shot in 8-10minutes with a flair. Most traditional (boiler, pump, push-button) espresso makers are still warming up in that time frame.
Honestly, I’ve been using a traditional espresso machine at work and it also has a lot of steps.
Esp with the 58 removing variables of a standard style portafilter and heated brew chamber, I prefer the workflow of the 58. The only extra step is pouring water into the brewing chamber.
By the time you buy a second portafilter and brew chamber you’ll be out almost as much as a 58.
I would add one thing to my write up though. It’s not nearly as portable as the pro2, signature, classic, neo, etc.
Aside from the size, preheating the chamber with hot water doesn’t really work well at all. It’s still possible to pull shots but they come out pretty under extracted.
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Hi, this sounds like a dumb question, but how should I “get into” coffee? Most of the time, I just use a Keurig and whatever pods I find at Costco. I know there’s an entire world out there of people who know exactly what they’re doing, but it’s all quite confusing....
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