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Coffee - do you and how do you consume it?
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Sounds more like a wife, that keeps you up late at night.Working on 5 hours of sleep. Coffee is my friend!
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LoL... No, I was awake till ~5am surfing, watching camping/fishing videos and commenting here while listening to music.
No, I mean the machine. There is no Linea Mini grinder, that's the Mazzer Mini.I think @dfuller means the Linea Mini Grinder not their espresso machine (w/same name?).
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I was confused too and took me time...
Not that I am a fan of much that is too "auto".
Apologies for my auto-phobia induced ignorance:
I thought you were talking about auto-measure the dose and not the yield.
Acaia Lunar?
Grind by weight is awesome too, it takes all the guesswork out. I don't have GbW though, just grind by time.
Yeah specifically the La Marzocco one that can talk to the machine over Bluetooth.
Having all of the automation dialed in and pulling good shots whenever I want is giving me the same feeling as discovering DSP for my speakers. I highly recommend this side.
That said, I think I'm understanding where the new trend in doing everything by hand is coming from. It feels like I've hired two quality coffee making assistants and they don't really need me at the shop anymore. All of the new techniques put personal effort to the forefront and gild the gear required.
That said, I think I'm understanding where the new trend in doing everything by hand is coming from. It feels like I've hired two quality coffee making assistants and they don't really need me at the shop anymore. All of the new techniques put personal effort to the forefront and gild the gear required.
That should send shivers down the spines of Baristas in the world over!
This statement sounds like that trick 'the-chicken-or-the-egg?' question about "pulling" shots.
Why? It literally only stops at the target weight. It's not grinding, prepping, or tamping. It just means I can something else for that 30ish seconds without watching like a hawk.
Evolution has very clearly defined that the egg had to come first. There was a time when the question was unanswered, but now that’s passed.
Without dwelling too hard on that analogy, I no longer need to use my technique to get quality shots like I did on my old lever, but rather I can apply my knowledge to the tools which automate my recipes. All the same control is there, but hands off. I find the change strange to adjust to, but very satisfying. Nothing about coffee has ever felt so fast and consistent.
Without dwelling too hard on that analogy, I no longer need to use my technique to get quality shots like I did on my old lever, but rather I can apply my knowledge to the tools which automate my recipes. All the same control is there, but hands off. I find the change strange to adjust to, but very satisfying. Nothing about coffee has ever felt so fast and consistent.
... then, you answered.
Automation usually does not end well for those who have been sidelined because of it.
A one-time $3,000USD hardware outlay for daily caffeine uptake - with an @home, single, one-button, built-in automation - surely makes for a more pleasurable, morning experience than the daily pilgrimage to a StarBucks, with the expectation that a Barista was not having a bad hair-day.
So you know, auto-volumetric (good auto-volumetric, too) and stop-at-weight are very common in commercial machines.
IIRC, the Acaia Orbit Grinder will talk with the Lunar scale, and I think I saw that Decent works with any BT scale to stop a shot at weight. Didn't know LM was offering such in their Mini, though... Very cool. Definitely intriguing possibilities with technology.
Beans showing the source, attitude and roast date is a good indicator of quality.
Does anyone really know the lo-down on why 'peaberries' fetch higher market prices?
I lucked into some medium-roast Guatemalan peaberries ($15/lbs) and the shots are turning out delightfully delicious, lacking much bitterness.
Yey!
I had to dial down the turbinado (5.2gm to 4.5gm) and grind a slight-bit finer, to retain ~25second/41gm yield from each 16.5gm (quad shots) dose.
I lucked into some medium-roast Guatemalan peaberries ($15/lbs) and the shots are turning out delightfully delicious, lacking much bitterness.
Yey!
I had to dial down the turbinado (5.2gm to 4.5gm) and grind a slight-bit finer, to retain ~25second/41gm yield from each 16.5gm (quad shots) dose.
I don’t think so. Starbucks started out at a ‘third place’ but has since evolved into something different: little princes/princesses can make the most unreasonable orders and for 60 seconds their court, I mean the baristas, have to bow to their wishes and their subjects, the line behind them, has to wait. If a machine could make any order in 30 seconds with no interaction, a huge demographic would lose interest. $7 to feel power for a minute is part of what they are selling.