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Happy Gothenburg Day, abdy. :malt:
30th anniversary of Aberdeen's greatest triumph:
Attending a dinner tonight to mark the anniversary that most of the players will be at.
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The real point of that demonstration was to show how important golf is and that it should take up a lot of your life, with the other insignificant things in the world being fitted in around it.
30th anniversary of Aberdeen's greatest triumph:
Attending a dinner tonight to mark the anniversary that most of the players will be at.
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The real point of that demonstration was to show how important golf is and that it should take up a lot of your life, with the other insignificant things in the world being fitted in around it.
There is something of note that happend in Göteborg? Weird, have a great anniversary day Redster (btw, if I may ask, whats your name? I hope you say Attila).
And douchen, thats a nice anecdote and little story, just a shame he cheesed it up with the beer ending
And douchen, thats a nice anecdote and little story, just a shame he cheesed it up with the beer ending
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A Gaggia grinder? Your machine is now good enough that you'll notice the difference with a good grinder -- something with burrs preferably. Otherwise it can be like having a great amp but lame speakers.
You're going to have to play around with it. You know I own a Gaggia at home as my home espresso machine? Except it's a manual job.
The embarrassing true story is that the first couple of years I used it, the espresso was okay but my crema was coming out kind of weak. A Greek friend came over and pointed it out, so I decided to operate it outside my "normal limits". By doing so, I was finally applying enough pressure and have been making 10x better espresso with it ever since. Duh.
That's also fabricated. There's a lot of variants to this same story and plotline.
There's another yarn about the professor who tells his students to choose coffee cups and then goes on to tell them -- after they fight over the nicer cups -- that life is like coffee, and the cups don't matter.
Usually crappy sentiment like that is accompanied by cheesy music and some video of sunbursts through clouds on a quasi-religious YouTube video. So I always piss off those posters by pointing out actual academic research studies with published papers showing that the tactile sensations of different cups actually affects your taste and appreciation for the beverage -- using that very same wise old professor angle to refute the whole house of cards.
In yo face!!
I love that shit. :devil:
That's my boy!
Speaking of which, handing out cigars?
Pretty much.
You're going to have to play around with it. You know I own a Gaggia at home as my home espresso machine? Except it's a manual job.
The embarrassing true story is that the first couple of years I used it, the espresso was okay but my crema was coming out kind of weak. A Greek friend came over and pointed it out, so I decided to operate it outside my "normal limits". By doing so, I was finally applying enough pressure and have been making 10x better espresso with it ever since. Duh.
That's also fabricated. There's a lot of variants to this same story and plotline.
There's another yarn about the professor who tells his students to choose coffee cups and then goes on to tell them -- after they fight over the nicer cups -- that life is like coffee, and the cups don't matter.
Usually crappy sentiment like that is accompanied by cheesy music and some video of sunbursts through clouds on a quasi-religious YouTube video. So I always piss off those posters by pointing out actual academic research studies with published papers showing that the tactile sensations of different cups actually affects your taste and appreciation for the beverage -- using that very same wise old professor angle to refute the whole house of cards.
In yo face!!
I love that shit. :devil:
That's my boy!
Speaking of which, handing out cigars?
Pretty much.
Yeah, I got that machine as a wedding gift from a group of my best buds. Damn them.
Interesting on the Krups. The grinder itself doesn't look half-bad, though it isn't quite a full-on burr grinder (cheaper models in Europe include things like the Zassenhaus Heidelberg, etc.). That said, you still should be able to make a half-way decent attempt at it.
Note that a good burr grinder isn't just about the small grind size, but it's more about the consistency of the grind. You can pulverize coffee to a powder with enough time in a cheap blade grinder, but the problem is that it will be a shredded, irregular mess if you look at the grains under a magnifying glass.
The thing I've done when breaking in a new espresso machine is not to be shy about pushing it to its limits. That means putting as much coffee in the portafilter as you can, tamping down pretty hard with at least 100 Newtons/30 pounds force, and going with as fine a grain as you can get with your grinder. What you do is essentially try to "choke" the machine so that things are too compacted as to not get any coffee out of it. (Basically, in Greg poop joke parlance, you make your machine constipated.)
Once you find that spot, you dial back on one or more of those variables so that coffee can actually start flowing out of your machine properly. Once that happens, you should have a pretty solid pressure, etc., to make some of your best espresso.
Interesting on the Krups. The grinder itself doesn't look half-bad, though it isn't quite a full-on burr grinder (cheaper models in Europe include things like the Zassenhaus Heidelberg, etc.). That said, you still should be able to make a half-way decent attempt at it.
Note that a good burr grinder isn't just about the small grind size, but it's more about the consistency of the grind. You can pulverize coffee to a powder with enough time in a cheap blade grinder, but the problem is that it will be a shredded, irregular mess if you look at the grains under a magnifying glass.
The thing I've done when breaking in a new espresso machine is not to be shy about pushing it to its limits. That means putting as much coffee in the portafilter as you can, tamping down pretty hard with at least 100 Newtons/30 pounds force, and going with as fine a grain as you can get with your grinder. What you do is essentially try to "choke" the machine so that things are too compacted as to not get any coffee out of it. (Basically, in Greg poop joke parlance, you make your machine constipated.)
Once you find that spot, you dial back on one or more of those variables so that coffee can actually start flowing out of your machine properly. Once that happens, you should have a pretty solid pressure, etc., to make some of your best espresso.
