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Coffee - do you and how do you consume it?
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Most milk sold here is homogenised at the factory, and it's not reversible so doesn't separate/settle. You can shake up non-homogenised, but the cream will separate again. In the old days my parents recall milk delivery in glass bottles with foil tops (left next to the mail box in the street by the milkman) homogenised vs non had a different colour foil lid. Magpies loved it and would puncture the foil and eat the cream. Or you could wait for the sound of clinking glass and beat them to it.
Yes milk of the poppy was a GoT reference. But I have discovered poppy milk as a Latvian tradition.
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What do you mean "in the old days" How old are you?
That is one of my childhood memories, except the milkman left it by the back door. We had a six bottle crate that was left out - it had a plastic rotatable arrow on it that was moved against the numbers 1 to 6 to tell the milkman how many bottles to leave. The different coloured tops (red/silver/gold) didn't indicate homogenised or not, but the cream content - red lowest - gold, a little like butter. My brother and I used to fight to get the cream off the top onto our cereal. Birds would peck holes in the foil tops if it was left out too long.
Collecting milk bottle tops for charity fundraising was a common thing (the foil was recycled for money)
In fact, in the UK, some people still have milk delivered this way.
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Mmm… raw opium…
*drools
Back in 2001 i collected enough of the stuff whilst up in Kashmir to have a nice sticky black lump of rolled opium, I then spent a few hours rolling and mixing it into my ball of sticky charas and made my own “sorta” temple ball……lovely lovely stuff indeed and with the way I currently feel and live with my spms and hellish muscle spasms/contractions i sooooo wish I had a nice tennis ball size of the stuff to drift off with
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I still get my milk by the bottle from my local ethical dairy, my mate works there and drops in with a few bottles each week for me, i only use it for my cappuccino
Welcome to The Ethical Dairy | The Ethical Dairy
As a private chef, my first full time job was with a family whose husband was from Eastern Europe. He had brought his parents over at some point and had them in a house not too far away from where they lived. Anyway, the parents were over for dinner, and my clients first baby was teething…
Dude’s mother says, “back home, the gypsies would rub milk of poppy on their gums to ease their pain.”
The nanny and I were both in agreement: “yes! Turn this kid into a junkie!” The wife, on the other hand, had this look of abject terror at the thought.
Dude’s eyes popped open and asked, “hey, you guys weren’t giving me heroin, were you?”
“Only a little”
Dude’s mother says, “back home, the gypsies would rub milk of poppy on their gums to ease their pain.”
The nanny and I were both in agreement: “yes! Turn this kid into a junkie!” The wife, on the other hand, had this look of abject terror at the thought.
Dude’s eyes popped open and asked, “hey, you guys weren’t giving me heroin, were you?”
“Only a little”
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In Scotland we got Whisky in our bottles, in Ireland they get poitin, in England they got a nice cup of tea
What do you mean "in the old days" How old are you?
That is one of my childhood memories, except the milkman left it by the back door. We had a six bottle crate that was left out - it had a plastic rotatable arrow on it that was moved against the numbers 1 to 6 to tell the milkman how many bottles to leave. The different coloured tops (red/silver/gold) didn't indicate homogenised or not, but the cream content - red lowest - gold, a little like butter. My brother and I used to fight to get the cream off the top onto our cereal. Birds would peck holes in the foil tops if it was left out too long.
Collecting milk bottle tops for charity fundraising was a common thing (the foil was recycled for money)
In fact, in the UK, some people still have milk delivered this way.
Haha, you can calculate my age from my username. I'm relating magpie legends told by my ancestors (well, immediate progenitors). Magpies were there waiting, they are clever corvids. I still have magpie shenanigans hence the story-sharing. But in my case they come in and peck/lick the grease off the breakfast frypans, scour the floor for crumbs, steal the cat's food (until I finally got a microchip-sensing gadget to stop that) and so on.
You may be right about the meaning of the foil colours. Homogenised may have been a supermarket thing. I don't know when bottle delivery ceased in NSW, I grew up in a water access only place that had no deliveries of that sort basically, so no real memories of milkmen like on the mainland.
But I do get my glass milk bottle fix from the local Harris Farm shop (bigger bottles though).
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We had the milk delivery (eggs [from the farm 2 blocks away], Orange Juice doughnuts and a number of other things] that the (local farm, Coburg Dairy) milk truck would deliver twice a week.
Just leave a note with your order (for anything that they normally delivered) and it would come the next order.
Coburg stopped delivery services to homes in 1976-1977, when I was 19.
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The only thing that came from plants was orange juice and doughnuts. Somehow, I doubt anyone got high enough to pair those 2 together during a single consumption of edible products.But was opium a common, or special, order?
That would have been likely as much fun as getting someone laughing while they are eating a cheese sandwich and drinking milk, thus causing the partially eaten cheese sandwich AND milk to come gushing out of their nostrils.
After all that excitement, a nice espresso would be great to settle down with.
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Uh, anyone here want a cup of coffee. Anyone?
Made 4 espressos before leaving for work today. 2 for me bringing in my trusted Zojirushi so I can drink in the office. 2 for my soon to be ex wife. Will keep doing that until she moves out
Made 4 espressos before leaving for work today. 2 for me bringing in my trusted Zojirushi so I can drink in the office. 2 for my soon to be ex wife. Will keep doing that until she moves out
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https://subminimal.com/products/subscale
https://www.amazon.com/Subminimal-SUB-SS-01-BL-Subscale-Black/dp/B0DGLWFX7Q (20% off if you are not shunned away by AMZ)
So I bought this Bookoo Themis ultra to use with my Decent. It's one of the cheapest bluetooth-supported scales which can be used for stop-by-weight. Well built, very sensitive, works well with DE1, happy with it
A month ago I noticed it sometimes (probably 1 out of 3) it is stuck at boot. Just display its name and never boot fully. The only option is to turn it off and back on, this time it usually working. I took a video and sent it to bookoo. After a few days, they got back and told me they will send a replacement. Good service I guess although I am not quite sure what to do with a perfectly fine - works most of the time scale. After 2 weeks got the shipment tracking, it's on the way and will arrive this Friday.
Yesterday when I was drinking coffee it struck me, maybe it was the bluetooth connection that stops the booting. So without turning my DE1 on, I tried to boot it. 10 out of 10, it worked!
still not definitive but quite sure that was the issue. now I'm going have two scales. in addition of 2 Timemore Blackmirror basic 2 that I got ...
Home roasted coffee. Been doing it for more than 2 years but it is even more fun with a 1.2kg drum roaster. Now I have enough to share to friends and colleagues
Pick up this bad boy today and now I am a believer.
Bentwood H75. Grind by weight. Super fast and fluffy grind. I only need to tap, tamp and pull. Perfect flow from a bottomless portafilter.
Too bad this will not be my daily driver but a grinder for my coffee cart.
Bentwood H75. Grind by weight. Super fast and fluffy grind. I only need to tap, tamp and pull. Perfect flow from a bottomless portafilter.
Too bad this will not be my daily driver but a grinder for my coffee cart.
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Thanks for that tip. I just snagged one of these on 'spring sale' (~$40).
It takes the place of two larger scales I had been using, so really helps with decluttering.
The reviews are worth reading.
It is limited in weight capacity compared to the bigger scales, partly by the smallish size of the cup, and the beans cover the display over about 45-50g.
I also found the smooth/slippery outer finish 'conflicts' with the very rubbery base, causing it to 'trip' when moving it to the grinder, thus dumping beans all over the floor.
Neither of these (or other complaints from reviews) bothers me, and saving, say, half a cubic foot of cabinet space taken up by the larger scales, is well worth it.
Very cool, too - always appreciated.
Made about 8 shots with this today, really enjoyed it (the making of espressos, not the espressos themselves as the hopper is still full of old coffee beans the seller used to demo the machine).
I have been strictly single dosing for more than 2 years now but now I understand why people paid a lot more for a professional grinder. No fuss approach essentially. Quick, precise, to the point. Grind, tap, tamp, pull. 4-5s of active working. The shots are almost perfect, visually. All the RDT, WDT, distributor things can go straight out of window!