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The Weber Looking Glass is exactly what you would expect: perfect and worth the money, but a luxury. I mean, espresso at home is. But this mirror is perfect for the purpose. The Flair mirror is merely adequate, and repurposed makeup mirrors I’ve tried don’t really work well.

Good stuff Bryan! I went to a couple roaster/cafes in Louisville, over the weekend. All I can really report back is that my coffee game at home is pretty strong. Of course, I’m just making for me. Easy to pull one great shot with this workflow.

I want that top one framed on my wall.

Weber Looking Glass on order. I find the Flair mirror to be irritating in exactly the way the Looking Glass seems to solve.

The Silk Next Milk was willing. I just wasn’t quite.

We aren’t doing great, either of us.

The Ode is my development grinder. I’m not sure I know what I’m developing, but it’s a good chalkboard.

I just noticed how adorable the CAFEC box is.

Silver sure loves this ribbon.

Blind shaker works as advertised. Fluffy, relatively well distributed grounds. I didn’t get it quite ready to immediately tamp, but it was also my first time. I also just like it. It reminds me of the Option-O Remi in design and build, and is just a pleasure to use.

It works perfectly with the Ode too, which is nice.

Blind shaker finally arrived.

If paper towels hadn’t worked okay my next try was going to be a thin handkerchief.

Rocking my original pour over today. It makes perfectly nice coffee, though I don’t recommend using the permanent filter in the basket only… at the beginning of the pandemic when I couldn’t get coffee filters I tried the permanent one. I used a paper towel the next day.

The Deeper Roots and Levercraft were pretty similar to each other, but the St. Frank Bolivian was radically different, in direct comparison. Very fruity and funky. They were all excellent, but that one…

All of my cupping bowls are heating in the sink. Gesha cupping coming up.

I won’t be making the equivalent of these of Silver, though.

New supervisor.

This is what I’m dealing with here. Dunhill’s job was to moderate this.

Silver and I are adjusting. She seems to have realized that she is Cat. I sound insane, I know, and I can’t really explain it. Silver is still Silver: the murder machine, the ball of energy, the skittish cuddle bug. But she knows she is Cat now. Things that used to get a swat, every time, haven’t today, for instance. She has performed outrage; for instance I replaced her collar today, but instead of being under the bed for hours after, she performed indigence and then was Cat. Also I have consistently outperformed my literature professor partner in Wordle, so maybe I’m just feeling good and reading too much into it.

I’ll take a look! Thanks Greg.

Can anybody recommend a good counter top knock box? I don’t like my really cheap one, and would like to get something a little more nice to use, if that makes sense.

Thanks everybody.

I pulled a truly wonderful shot. Last of an Ethiopian Guji I got in NC in the fall (remember I freeze beans). I can’t complain about it at all, which is rare for me. Bright, complex, sweet, smoky. 1:2 (19.5 in) peak 6, slow pressure draw down. I’m finally dialing in the Flair, I think.