Having both a moka and a cucumella, I like the brew from my cucumella more.

It’s strong, but not quite moka pot strong.

The brew tastes sweet, but not moka pot burnt, and it has a little viscosity to it, but doesn’t cling to the walls of my mug like a moka pot brew.

I also like having a little volume to my morning coffee. The volume from my little 1-2 cup moka pot just feels disappointing and over too quickly.

I also like brewing from my cucumella better. The moka pot just seems fussy, because it actually requires boiling the water in the moka pot itself, and if you use the James Hoffman/Wired Gourmet on-and-off burner technique to reduce the burned flavor, it’s just too much work.

Whereas I can just add pre-boiled water to my cucumella, flip it over, and it’s done dripping in about 1-2 minutes.

In the longer term, there are no gaskets to replace on cucumellas, so less operating costs and worries later too.

Cleaning my moka pot feels like a chore: Mainly trying to get that filter funnel out of the bottom is awfully fiddly. I’m working on pushing in the sides of the funnel so my fingers have someplace to lever it out.

Used to be, but not since smartphones were invented.

I couldn’t hear it in the video, but imagine if you’re working with this every day, and hearing the scraping sound and feeling it through your fingers.

I think a big part of the Aeropress’s appeal is how satisfying it is in both tactile and audio senses.

When you twist tight the cap on a AP classic, it feels satisfyingly tight, and you instinctively know that it’s sealed.

Which reminds me that James briefly commented on how hot the metal cap was after brewing.

Another un-satisfying thing about the AP Premium.

I guess it processes scraped data from whatever beans you ask it to brew.

I don’t own a Fellow Aiden, but I asked ChatGPT the following:

what’s the best way to brew 100% togolese washed

Which is a bag of grounds that I picked up at Grocery Outlet last week

and it came back with:

Here's a precision-engineered pour-over recipe tailored for 100% Togolese washed coffee, designed for the Fellow Aiden brewer. This profile emphasizes the coffee's bright acidity, floral and citrus notes, and medium body.

Title: Togolese Clarity

Core Brew Settings:

    Ratio: 16.5

    Bloom Ratio: 2.5

    Bloom Time: 45 seconds

    Bloom Temperature: 94°C
    THE KOPI LUWAK (LUWAK COFFEE)

Single Serve Pulse Settings:

    Number of Pulses: 3

    Time Between Pulses: 20 seconds

    Pulse Temperatures: 95°C, 93°C, 91°C

    Grind Settings:

        Ode Gen2: 4.2

        Opus: 5.2

        Ode+SSP: 3.2

        Microns: ~750μm
        acoffeeseoul.com+4Coffee Is My Fuel For The Day!+4THE KOPI LUWAK (LUWAK COFFEE)+4

Batch Brew Pulse Settings:

    Number of Pulses: 4

    Time Between Pulses: 30 seconds

    Pulse Temperatures: 94°C, 92°C, 90°C, 90°C

    Grind Settings:

        Ode Gen2: 6.2

        Opus: 7.2

        Ode+SSP: 6.0

        Microns: ~950μm
        acoffeeseoul.com+11Wikipedia+11Coffee Is My Fuel For The Day!+11

Explanation:

    Ratio & Bloom: A 16.5:1 ratio balances strength and clarity, while a 2.5 bloom ratio with a 45-second bloom time at 94°C helps highlight the coffee's bright acidity and floral notes.

    Pulse Strategy: The step-down pulse temperatures (95°C to 91°C) in single serve and (94°C to 90°C) in batch brew prevent over-extraction, preserving the coffee's delicate flavors.

    Grind Settings: Medium-fine grind sizes (~750μm for single serve and ~950μm for batch) are optimal for washed coffees, ensuring even extraction and clarity.

Would you like to generate a brew.link for this recipe?

Of course, I said yes, and it asked to be connected to a pre-created ChatGPT prompt, “brew-link-generator” which must be the coding part to generate instructions for the brewer’s API.

However that works, because as I said before I don’t have a Fellow Aiden.

…and heavier, and less durable, and again much, much more expensive.

And a grating metal-on-glass sound when putting the cap on.

I do recognize that my classic plastic Aeropress loses a lot of temperature in its brewing process, and that is what got me started on pre-warming my mug.

I don’t like a lukewarm cup of coffee. About 160F at serving time is good for me.

About 65F to start with, then just before I get into bed, I turn off the heater, because supposedly you sleep better when reasonably cool.

The other comment is right, hot nights are the worst.

How insects see flowers

24th Century medicine has cured snoring, cancer, and the common cold, but not baldness.

The article does talk about why labor overseas is cheaper. Twice, in fact:

Labor costs in countries where the government pays for health care are often far lower than anywhere in the United States, particularly in California.

One budget document viewed by The New York Times showed the cost of a seven-person set operations team — positions known as “grips” — to be roughly $59,000 for a 30-day shoot in Budapest.

Because of health care, pension and other expenses, it costs about $53,000 to employ just one senior-level grip in Los Angeles for the same time frame,

I was just copying the text that the OP had posted, but you’re right that is a “G”

Hail Brigadier General Tarnavskyi!

His appointment seems to have made a real difference in the sector.

When the weather turns cold, it’s time to kick the drones out…

Remember newspapers?

Back in the day, daily editions would have a page of comic strips. with extra large strips in color on Sundays.

When I read newspapers in the 80s, most of the strips nationally syndicated

In my local paper, the SF Chronicle, we had a national-turned-local strip Travels With Farley, then later just Farley

Today’s strip parodies several syndicated strips that were popular at that time:

• Deathnuts / !Peanuts@midwest.social
• Dunesburied / Doonesbury
• Blondie and Deadwood / Blondie (and Dagwood)
• Ricky the Roadkilled Squirrel / (not entirely sure what this was parodying, although there was a daily Bullwinkle comic strip based on the popular Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon, featuring Rocky The Flying Squirrel that ran from 1962-1965)
• Barstuffed / !garfield@lemmy.world (?)
• The Other Side / The Far Side (self reference, You Are Here)
• Marmadead / Marmaduke
• For Deader or Even Worse / For Better Or For Worse
• Family Disasters / Family Circus
• The Deadhorns / The Lockhorns

A lot of these were just unfunny, particularly IMO Blondie, Marmaduke, Family Circus, Lockhorns. And much of Garfield.

They are worthy of much deserved parody !garfieldism@lemmy.blahaj.zone Dysfunctional Family Circus and so forth…

I hear a lot of those long-running strips had some merit when they first came out, but became shit over the decades of publication, changing artists, etc. You can read about these in their respective Wikipedia entries.

Not sure. The caption in the 2022 article I cribbed this from says it’s from the Grouse Mountain Resort org.

I grind a week’s worth of grounds at a time in my Baratza Encore.

I have a small disposable brush whose handle I have bent to reach into the chute and sweep out the clinging clumps of grounds.

Spritzing the beans, or at least dipping my fingers into water and swirling them around in the whole beans before grinding doesn’t seem to help.

San Francisco opened one of these last year

https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/health/why-sf-opened-free-grocery-store-in-bayview-hunters-point/article_59742e12-22ca-11ef-a58d-23f1ed91f168.html

The older Blue Skyride was replaced by little gondola in 2024

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/grouse-mountain-skyride-aerial-tramway-history-vancouver

You know, I swear “Possible” wasn’t in the article title when I auto populated the title in my post…

On Earth, the only known source of dimethyl sulfide is life.