So, is it now called “The Hoffman Effect”, or “The SUSD Effect”?
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He is the only coffee influencer I’ve ever heard of or watched any videos of (my partner is the video person, if not for him I wouldn’t know anything about anyone on youtube except for boardgames and the occasional channel about yoga, tiny houses or sewing–which I don’t even do I just like watching her go about making those fancy historical outfits every once in a while)
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I’ve got a fellow opus (love it). Some of the roasters may offer it pre ground. The one I ordered mine from in Aberdeen did.
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I am planning to brew it as a pour over, since I don’t have an espresso machine, because I do not like espresso. I don’t think it will matter much for my purposes, because the process isn’t as sensitve to small variations in grind behavior.
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If you’re planning on doing it as a cupping, there’s a handy video:
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Yeah, I’m just going to do what I normally do for my Hario Switch for light roasts (unless we’re cupping again, I think that needs a coarser grind).
Our big ECM machine needs to be brought to a repair shop because it isn’t heating up properly unless we run some water through it. The shop says they need two weeks for repairs. Maybe more depending on what is the root cause.
(The original shop we bought it from has been sold, then insolvent, then closed and reopened and I don’t trust that. So I found a new one close-by that is an official ECM partner and the shop looks pretty good. )
So if she says 2 weeks… that is really probably realistic and yet… we need something to feed our addiction in the meantime.
As the closest thing to “my coffee nerds” I am asking this thread: if we finally get a Bialetti what size do we get? We usually need 2 espressi at a time but sometimes 4. Do we get a bigger one? Can it make coffee for two? Do we get the original brand or is there another one we should look at? → https://www.bialetti.com/de_de/venus-rame.html
Watching: https://www.reddit.com/r/Coffee/comments/setb3c/the_ultimate_moka_pot_technique_episode_3_james/ ???
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We had to bring the machine to the repair shop today, but I’ve solved some of our coffee dilemma … reference pear included.
We’ll see how the coffee turns out. If all else fails we’ll use our old Jura automat which is just in the next room over (my dad’s office)
We got a coffee at the repair shop / store and judging by how good the espresso was our machine is in good hands.
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So…
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we have an induction stove (is that the word? I had no idea my active cooking English was so bad). I bought it specifically so it would work with that. But… even on our smallest cooking field this one is too small. It does not help that the bottom is not flat… it is magnetic so we tested my dad’s portable induction cooker and yay it works. It takes up as much space as our coffee machine would… not yay.
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This is the two cup thing. As you can see it is tiny and I assume that is part of the extra challenge. I have a hard time even getting the amount of coffee in there. I am already using half the amount we usually do. So I make a mess every time. Because of the tiny size it is really difficult as well to get the top screwed on. I am getting faster but… another meh.
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Following the recipe from the video… the results are mostly okay-ish. The taste has got better with every attempt but there is no crema and the mouthfeel is … meh. Today’s third one had some crema but it is not stable enough to make it to the cup.
If I would start over again, I would go with a larger 4 cup one and waste some liquid. It might work on our stove and it would be far easier to get the required amount of coffee into it.
Haven’t heard back from the shop even with the estimate -.-
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Hob. The bit on top, with the rings for cooking, is a hob.
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In ukian English. In America, no one will have any idea what a hob is. (Even I, who has spent a fair bit of time in the uk, work with ujkians, and read far too many English mysteries, would have a delay coming up with that one without being primed for a kitchen context.) fans of the great British baking show would probably get it…
In proper American English, they are burners (even when they don’t burn anything but food). The whole appliance is a stove, a stovetop (if hasn’t a built in oven), or a range (stovetop and oven in a single appliance). There are some additional synonyms, because every thing has to have many names.
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Due to having small children around, around here, it’s usually me or my partner yelling, “careful! Hot! Hot! No! No! NO! NO!” followed by the other one of us with a friendly reminder, “You’re not supposed to say ‘no’.”
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Ok, sounds like American English uses ‘stovetop’ where proper English uses ‘hob?’
The round bits where you put a saucepan on are rings or burners.
The bit in which you bake stuff is the oven.
There will be a grill somewhere inside as well.
The whole shebang is called a cooker.
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I’ve personally never had a problem with saying ‘no’ to children, or indeed frantically shouting it if they’re about to hurt themselves…
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The look I get from kids when I say no to them makes me feel like it doesn’t happen often.
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It’s called gentle parenting.
From what I can tell, it only works on gentle children– or, rather, would, if such a creature existed
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My youngest’s first word was no…
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