sorry to say i never came across a kona worth its price

yeah i cant figure how this dumb fucking project is still alive. money i guess

grassroots resistance to horseshit laws gives me hope for humanity

that one doesn’t bother me at all. “needs fixing”, “needs to be fixed”, same thing. but “needs fixed” can fuck right off.

my peeve is the chopped infinitive, like “it needs fixed” instead of “it needs to be fixed”

i havent seen bad results at least. i use one with a good rating/latency listed on searx.space

yes i also noticed google search is absolute trash lately. so i switched to searx and life is better. i only go to google for street view and reverse image search now.

looks like inscryption :D

for those curious like me, wikipedia says this was a coal/diesel plant

musculature is not solely masculine, but if that’s the association for you, it makes sense that you feel a woman with muscles “starts looking like a man”. a similar circular reasoning would be arrived at if you simply considered strength itself to be a masculine trait.

a woman can be physically strong without “turning into a man”.

strength of character? how about “nomadland” or “meek’s cutoff”?

the other great thing about the long steep is it cools off the coffee. overly hot coffee tastes worse.

might not be completely wet

mine’s just about the same except i tend to push the grind size down as much as i can, up to the point it tips toward bitter. and that seems to depend significantly on the particular coffee itself, i expect both for flavor/roast reasons and for innate properties of the variety. i start around 20 on the encore and if thats tasting fine, go 2 clicks finer each time until it doesn’t, then back off by one. and it’s grind one or two clicks finer with an aged bag vs a fresh one.

I did this for about a year. Argument was the hot bloom could pull out some parts of flavor that the cold brewing couldn’t. I recently switched back to cold-only and decided the brews were improved. I do 100gm:700gm ratio and let it steep 24 hours.

it wont ever be good for that and i wasn’t suggesting it

fwiw, it sounds to me like your encore may have an issue. at 0 the burrs should start making interference noise and the grinder should be making espresso-range powder/dust.

i feel that decentralized search is an extremely valuable thing to start thinking about. but the devil is in practically every one of the details.

i think you basically want some amount of agitation at some point relatively early in the process just to make sure all the grounds are getting wet. then you usually want less in the middle/late phases to avoid clogging as op mentioned, since the undisturbed bed slows/stops a percentage the fines from reaching the filter, and the reason you want to avoid clogging is that you cant get as good of a result if it winds up running too slow overall.

pouring technique can definitely have an effect on all this (e.g. pouring too hard in the middle to late phases with a shallow water level digs into the coffee bed and churns it up causing a lot of agitation).

buddy of mine rinses out his espresso cup dregs with cognac