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Holy smokes the Option-O Remi is nice. I’ve run through a few ounces of the cheap beans I tend to keep (purchasable in 2 pound bags from Amazon!) specifically for dialing in grind. I’ve used cafe Mahlkoenig’s that didn’t grind this consistently. They did grind with less effort, admittedly… From a fit-and-finish and human interface design perspective there are improvements I could suggest. It would make a rather expensive and very low production hand-grinder into a very, very expensive and exceptionally low production hand-grinder, so I understand why the “corners” that were cut were cut. I like it a lot and I honestly don’t care* if the Flair Royal is returned fixed. *A lie.

They are going to fix the grinder. It should not have required this much effort, but I’m also looking forward to the Option-O, so I suppose it all works out.

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I'm having a small issue with the Flair Royal: the shaft/crown interface is switching when the torque of beans happens. I have contacted Flair, and I have instructions on how to fix the issue, but between my fingers not working and not having the tools on hand to do so, it is just not something I can do at the moment. I bought an Option-O Remi with the contemporary burr set. Will be interesting to compare with the Flair Royal (when it worked correctly, and it was excellent).

New scale and newish mirror play well together.

I don’t know, I never weighed him.

This little scale makes me very happy.

That is a name I have not heard for a long time. A long time.

Maybe Mikhail has something to upgrade it with?

I broke my foot and sprained my ankle badly doing swing dancing in late May. I finally feel healthy and fit, so HEMA today and judo Tuesday, and maybe Jeet on Thursday. I’m sure I could have done this already but I can do push-ups without pain today. That was a sort of my threshold.

I smiled when I took the first sip of this cup. I coarsened up the grind slightly: that was surely the whatever that whatevered today. That’s what it’s about, right? That smile when you take a sip? That was a “nailed it.” Like the first time you played that Mozart Concerto from memory in public perfectly, or figured out how to tie your shoes right. Anyway: a good cup. Kubrick would understand that while he faked the footage.

19.8:299 in 4.5 minutes. Stanley Kubrick couldn’t fake this if he tried (helps that he’s dead, on that bet).

This was a little while ago, but something adequate that the bourbon bar had in their humidor for some inflated price. Same with the bourbon.

Rolex is not a for profit company (every Swiss Franc of excess revenue goes to the Hans Wildorf Foundation, which is a charity). They make as many watches as they can at the quality level they are willing to settle for. They seriously are operating at full capacity with their infrastructure and logistics. They have no particular pressure to expand, and it’s like semi-conductors: even if they wanted to they couldn’t do it tomorrow. They are like Beck: they don’t owe the fans a new album. Does it suck? Sure. Tudor is semi-autonomous but they are on the same facilities. There is a reason why my most recent Rolex was made in 2012. I wish it were otherwise, sure. But it’s not a case of false scarcity.

I had coffee this morning. It was good. I like coffee. Neil Armstrong presented me with my Eagle badge. I’m the fat kid, four to stage right, of Mr. Armstrong, with the pants that don’t fit. 10 years ago I would go into extreme detail about the nozzle trim system (the F-1 was, “by itself,” a monumental engineering achievement) on the Saturn V’s first stage, but you’ll have to excuse me: Stanley Kubrick is faking the footage of me changing my cat’s litter, as we speak.

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Edit: I had some dumb bullshit “point.” Not worth spending the time to read it that I spent typing.

I am sure HemiSam, who fucking races cars, doesn’t need a lecture from you on car maintenance.

Flair Royal. I have an old and cheap Bodum Bistro burr grinder that is perfectly acceptable for pour over, but I’ve just been using the Royal for espresso and pour over. It’s a very consistent and precise grinder. I’m not going to get a better counter top grinder until I move, as I just don’t have a lot of space in my kitchen. I don’t have it quite dialed in for pour over yet, hence the sudden draw down slowing this morning, but I have it dialed in pretty well for espresso. My coffee setup is unfortunately space constrained, and I also travel to see my partner pretty often, and she has a Mr. Coffee (well, she has a V60 and Encore that I bought her, but… she has a Mr. Coffee). We plan on putting a bar in her basement after I’m finally there, and I really do think a Lelit Mara X is going to be on the end of that bar, but I’m unsure of the grinder. I’m thinking Lagom P64, but they are as hard to get as a Niche, and the new Mignon single dose might end up being good, and I bet a Eureka will be a lot easier to actually buy. I have agreed to keep the espresso coffee setup (pour over coffee and kettle are fairly well sorted at this point!) to around $3,000 (I’ll probably cheat) as apparently there are “other things she would rather we spend money on.” *jerk off motion* That’s a serious setup!

Aiming for under 4, 20:300. Not gonna hit it. My draw down got real slow 250-300 How is this for a blast from the past?

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It mostly means it’s a pain in the ass until you get used to it. It was worth it to me to spend $270 on a scale that fits perfectly on my espresso drip tray and doesn’t encroach on my mirror and auto starts time and weight on the first drops (this is not as useful on an electric machine, but with a lever it makes sense to start on the pre-infusion), but everybody has different needs and wants. I haven’t used the apps much; maybe I will in the future.

The Pearl has impressed me so much that I ordered a Pyxis for espresso.

Got gas. Thanks hit and run brodozer.

I guess this is just telling me what I already knew: depending on grind I’m getting a 4-4:30 total on a 15:1 20 gram dose V60 (I forgot to adjust from the Chemex the other day, so this was long) with the method I use, which isn’t quite James Hoffman’s, but I came up with my method long before I learned his and they aren’t terribly different (some days I stir, some days I swirl). I guess that isn’t super useful. Having said that, I like the Acaia Pearl 2021 a lot. My hands don’t work very well until my Gabapentin kicks in, which I take in the morning before I have coffee, and not having to juggle starting timers while pouring is a luxury I’ll have a hard time going without.