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Portafilter: bottomless or spouted? in c/coffee

[–] owl_binoculars 2 points 1 year ago

I'm bottomless for the ease of cleaning, but much of my shots ended up squirting from what I presume to the too coarse grind sizes T_T

Another batch of Tinker Coffee in c/coffee

[–] owl_binoculars 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just wondering, what kind of process did you use? Did you do pour-over coffee?

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A Short Excursion into Kona Coffee (self.coffee)

submitted 1 year ago by owl_binoculars to c/coffee

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Heyo,

I've had a espresso machine for a couple of months now and wanted to info dump about my experience with Kona since I just got some of those beans.

For a bit of context, I'm going to compare Jose's organic french roast coffee since that's what I've been brew for the past couple of months.

When brewed as esspresso and made as a latte, Kona coffee has a more mellow bitterness due to its lighter roasting. Unlike the french roast I usually have every morning, Kona coffee doesn't give you the strong bitter bite. Additionally, frothing the milk correctly gives the drink a nice natural sweetness that makes the drink reminiscent of hot chocolate.

That being said, I've had an issue with Kona. Using the grind settings I use for my french roast was too fine for the Kona due to Kona's increased water content (as evidenced from the grinds sticking to my grinder more). As result, my first extraction of Kona was... constipated for lack of a better description. I barely got any coffee liqueur from my first Kona attempt due to the increased pressure. My second attempt with a courser grind was better but was still too fine, resulting in a coffee tasting slightly like dirt. It was only on my third attempt that it worked.

That's my mini-review of Kona coffee.

direct messages in jerboa? in c/nostupidquestions

[–] owl_binoculars 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Overwhelmingly on this page, the sentiment is that people do not want karma. I literally only have four bullets of pros while the cons fill up an entire page. Here are some changes the people have mentioned to have instead of karma. (Note that these are truncated and may not reflect their exact suggestion) Changes: Slashdot’s system: karma can only get +5 or -1 (@solstice) Awards! Still worth nothing, but sometimes a post deserves more than an upvote, hence stickers (@wwaxwork) Buy/Give awards as a way to support this (@penguinsAreRapists) Give users notifications if they reach upvote thresholds for upvotes or downvotes. Still gives dopamine (@[email protected]) Voting system nice, but no need for sitewide (@Duchess) Easily seen age and activity metrics. Helps to tell apart old account that regularly posts from young, spammy account (@Cybermass) A percentage/history graph/something that uses multiple metrics to produce the rating. Needs discussion to flesh out (@EtherWhack) Lemmy does not need to be an exact copy of Reddit (Dick Justice) No carry over, but hidden metric might be good (@WetBeardHairs) Flairs that the community can award (@Waitwuhtt) Negative scores on posts should be hidden except to moderators. Autoreport posts that go below 0. (@dreadedsemi) Get rid of visible up and downvotes (@joroo) Mastodon allows each instance to enable/disable these numbers but defaults to hidden (@dustyData) Lemmy can do this (Rozaŭtuno)

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