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Coffee - do you and how do you consume it?
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Hard to know what you are aiming for with all this. But I see you don't like the food thread either.
Old Brown Java, a dark oily roast - none of those pale wimpy roasts for me. I also rate Vietnamese coffee, the last time I was there (unfortunately well over two years ago now) I came back with 5kg of buttah roasted single estate Arabicas from around Dalat.
I have, they're utterly useless. WDT tools (like the one @ryanosaur posted) are much more useful- grind - WDT- tamp - pull.
I'm expecting you to back this up with some naked portafilter porn and DBT tastings.There's a good reason the baristas don't use them. They're coffee focussed snake oil
It really doesn’t matter how the loose grind is distributed…ones you’ve put about 3lbs per sq inch into the tamp, it’ll be even.
I think you need to stop running around telling people who have shared an online community for years what is or isn't appropriate here.
Cheers.
The Baristas I talked to about it like it... they just never use it. The one with straight tines (not the little loops) makes a lot of sense. Not to the extent I would drop a Grant on one, but I get it.
As I said before, the theory behind it is sound. It would be interesting to know what somebody like Scott Rao thinks about them.
Yeah! Itz! Don't tell me what is appropriate, since I have been here for 13 exact months!
But... @ryanosaur can be a target of yours, since he is still an apprentice here (not a dinosaur yet)!
Just bought some new coffee toys, one of these
flairespresso.com
And one of these
1zpresso.coffee
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And one of these
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1zpresso.coffee
Ha.Yeah! Itz! Don't tell me what is appropriate, since I have been here for 13 exact months!
But... @ryanosaur can be a target of yours, since he is still an apprentice here (not a dinosaur yet)!
Well of course I would - but no one else will use my coffee machine, and it's difficult to DBT when you've pulled the shot yourself
I could sort out some naked portafilter porn though.
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Lovely, a topic of another interest of mine! My coffee 'bar':
Sounds like Baltimore...
Can't be that many places where crabs and old bay are staples like that.
Baltimore. It was, and possibly still is (haven't been back in many decades). Caveat: I never ate any of that stuff and still don't, but it was everywhere, and traditionally, people would buy bags and bags of crabs, crack them open, and eat them messily on piles of newspaper.
A common troll, nothing more to see here. Move along...
WDT is very much the realm of the home espresso types. It's so not useful for a cafe environment, it's too slow. Shops just buy commercial grade grinders that they can do a basic stockfleth with and call it good (see: Mazzer, Simonelli, Mahlkonig).The Baristas I talked to about it like it... they just never use it. The one with straight tines (not the little loops) makes a lot of sense. Not to the extent I would drop a Grant on one, but I get it.
Hoffman is a WDT-er, though.
This is something I read a few months ago. Seems worth posting now:
www.meticulist.net
I think if I were to try this, I would play around with a wine cork and some paperclips.
Similar to this:
This crafty person used cleaning tips for a 3d printer, drilled the cork and epoxy to hold them in place.
I would probably just use 5 paperclips straightened and cut to size, putting the cut end into the cork and the smooth end exposed.
Might be fun to play with just for kicks.
Improving Espresso - WDT - What is it and why — meticulist
WDT or the Weiss Distribution Technique to improve espresso extractions.
www.meticulist.net
I think if I were to try this, I would play around with a wine cork and some paperclips.
Similar to this:
This crafty person used cleaning tips for a 3d printer, drilled the cork and epoxy to hold them in place.
I would probably just use 5 paperclips straightened and cut to size, putting the cut end into the cork and the smooth end exposed.
Might be fun to play with just for kicks.